Hi, this fall I’ll be applying as an Electrical Engineering/EECS major. Please let me know if there is anything below you would like me to go into more detail about. Thanks.
SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 2300 (780/740/780/9)
SAT II (subject, score): Math II 800, Biology 770
PSAT (breakdown M/E): 1500/1520 (760,740)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
AP (place score in parentheses): Biology (5), European History (4), Calculus AB (5), Chemistry(5), English Literature. (5), US History (4)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C, AP US Govt., AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics, Honors English(No AP Lang offered)
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.):
National Merit Semi-Finalist, AP Scholar with Distinction, School 2nd place Science Fair Winner and Honorable Mention at County Fair, National Honors Society, SciOly awards, Honor Roll 4 years
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description):
Robotics Team: 11-12, Founder + Team Captain, Spearheaded first ever competitive Robotics initiative at school, leading a team of half a dozen students in First Tech Challenge competition, work for 8 hours/week in preparation for tournaments, Placed in top 10 out of 30 teams in first ever tournament as the only Rookie team present and won Judge’s Award
MIT Kitcube Project: 10-12, Navigations Officer & Web Developer, One of the only high school researchers participating in MIT’s graduate-level team working on a nano-satellite for NASA’s Cubequest Challenge, plotted trajectory of a cubesat using MATLAB and NASA’s General Mission Analysis Tool, achieved 2nd place in Ground Tournament 2, satellite launch planned for 2017 via Exploration Mission 1, also built http://kitcube.mit.edu
Student Senate: Class President(10), Commissioner(11-12), Planned and organized Homecoming and Winter Formal Dances, Prom, fundraisers, and other class events. Carried out a student innovation initiative to promote out-of-the-box thinking with “Project Lightbulb”, where students can receive funding from the school for their ideas and pursuits
Eagle Scout: Assistant Senior Patrol Leader, Led 50 scouts on over two dozen outings, completed Eagle Scout in Summer 2015
Speech and Debate: 9-12, Co-Captain(10), Led team to regional quals in Public Forum and Lincoln-Douglass Debate
Programming Club: 10-12, Founder and Co-President, Teach coding workshops to students weekly, organize annual coding competition at school to expand programming mindset to student body
Hackathon Experience: 9-12, Participant and Mentor, Attendee at national collegiate-level programming competitions dubbed “hackathons” held at universities such as UPenn, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and MIT, Grand Prize winner at Hack for LA(civic coding competition hosted by Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti)
Award-Winning iPhone Applications: 9-12, Developer and Programmer, Wrote, programmed, and designed an original iOS application called “BioPrep” to help students prepare for the AP Biology that received over 3,000 downloads on the App Store
Science Olympiad: 10-12, Team Captain(12), Placed in every single regional tournament, expanded the school SciOly team from a few people to over a dozen
Varsity Tennis: 9-12, Co-Captain(12), Avid doubles player on school’s Varsity team since 9th grade
Job/Work Experience:
Paid Internship at an Industrial Electrical Engineering Company
Volunteer/Community Service:
ShelterConnect: Co-Founder and CEO of a nonprofit organization aimed at connecting homeless shelters with the resources they need. Originally developed as a website at Hack for LA 2014 where it won 1st place, ShelterConnect is now a web and mobile app that has partnered with several shelters in the Los Angles area to help reduce food waste and organize volunteers to optimize the food distribution process
Summer Robotics Workshop: Mentor, Taught over a dozen middle schoolers how to create robots using a programmable microcontroller called Arduino(100 hours)
ShelterHacks: Mentor/Volunteer, Teach web development to half dozen disadvantaged students at Salvation Army Westwood once a week for 3 hrs
Summer Experience:
2016 - Yale Summer Program in Astrophysics, Paid internship at industrial data systems laboratory
2015 - Boy Scout outing at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico
2014 UCLA HSSEAS Tech Camp Internship, Claremont McKenna Speech & Debate/Leadership Institutes