<p>Background: Asian male at public high school; income bracket $160K; looking to major in Engineering (most likely Computer Engineering)
Applying RD to: Boston University, Carnegie Mellon, NYU, Northwestern, SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Stony Brook, Vanderbilt, University of Pittsburgh, SUNY New Paltz if not satisfied with what I am accepted to
Applying EA to: SUNY Binghamton, SUNY Albany, Northeastern, GA Tech</p>
<p>Stats: 3.62 GPA on 4.0 scale; my school uses a 4.3 scale, where my GPA is a 3.89
Class rank: projected to be within top 15%, hopefully I make first decile
SATII: Math II 760, Physics 650, Chemistry 600 (will retake Physics in fall)
ACT: 32 (will retake in fall)</p>
<p>Honors/AP: 9th: Honors Geometry (A)
10th: Honors Chemistry (A), Honors Trig/Alg2 (A)
11th: Honors English 11 (B), Honors Physics (B+), Honors Pre-Calc BC (B), self-studied APUSH (5)
12th: AP Chemistry, AP Physics C Mech, AP Calc BC, AP Lit, AP Macroeconomics</p>
<p>EC's/Work:
-4 year member of school band program (including 3 years Jazz band, 2 years school Full/Symphonic orchestra)
-2 year member of school math team
-2 year member of school theatre tech crew
-4 month cashier at supermarket during junior year
-3 year member of science research program; participant at local science fairs</p>