<p>I've posted numerous times on here and received mixed responses. Hopefully this will be my last chances post for a while. Thanks to everyone who's offered advice before.</p>
<p>And to clear up any possible confusion. No, I do not inflate or exaggerate anything I put here. As you will see, there's a clear reason I'm asking about my chances.</p>
<p>-Weighted:4.41, UW:3.56(after first semester), 3.39 for EA purposes
-Rank: Top 15% of 780
-9 AP classes taken by end of Junior year; 17 by end of Senior year
-14 AP tests taken(USH-5, WHS-5, Music Theory-5)-will be Nat'l AP Scholar
^Self studied:Govt, Geog, EnvSci, EuroHist, Lit, Psych</p>
<p>SAT:1600
SATII:Bio-800, Wri-800, Lit-800, US-800, WHS-800, Chem-790
PSAT: 236-National Merit SemiFinalist//Probably Finalist</p>
<p>Status: Indian American Male</p>
<p>Top ECs:
Piano: Performed in Carnegie Hall(thru winning National Association Competition), solo performances at Rice University and with the Univ. of Houston's Symphony Orchestra: Invited for guild performances in California, Tampa and Columbia University</p>
<p>Research: Published twice in medical journals and received limited grant from Texas Heart for studying heart disease vs. ethno-genetic identity. Was admitted to RSI at MIT this summer. I'm also continuing my research this summer with a noted statistician in the hospital. Freshman year summer I was working alongside a group trying to assemble a new HIV drug combination.</p>
<p>Student Government: Elected as Vice President and work(as will be noted in all my recommendation forms) extensively with the administration, students and teachers in school reform processes.</p>
<p>Volunteering/Foundation: While in India my freshman year, I founded a program-Chennai Children Literacy-in which I taught students who weren't allowed into public schools basic language skills. Now, the amount of children we help is over 70-80, and I regularly send books over to India, every 2-3 months. This is also an activity my teachers and GC will note, as they help me with my book collecting. Additionally, I have been honored at my temple, and been mentioned in the city newspaper for this.</p>
<p>Website development: I worked with an international team(5 ppl including), and we won the Oracle sponsored Thinkquest design competition. This entails a free trip to San Fran, and scholarship money, empirically ranging in the $25k /person range.</p>
<p>So those are the stats. I'll be taking 7 AP classes senior year, and have vowed to commit all my time to ensuring those grades are perfect. I think that colleges will see my intellectual capacity and aptitude through my SATs and AP scores, but how can I explain my Junior year slump better than [I got into two top schools and thought I was going to attend, before my parents told me I was going to finish up school and didn't understand that I had stopped caring]. I know the GPA/SAT thing is weird. Would a strong senior year prove to them that I'm legit?</p>
<p>What do my chances at Chicago EA look like? Any information is really appreciated, but please don't comment on Penn/Caltech on this thread-PM me. Thanks, so much for reading this. Truly appreciate it.
thatindiandude is online now</p>