Rank: 17/421
GPA: 4.4 weighted, 3.85 unweighted (my school does +0.5 for honors classes and a +1.0 in AP’s and averages them)
4.0 = A, 3.7 A-, 3.3 B+ and so forth
New SAT: CR-750, M-740, Essay-20/24
ACT: 34
EC’s:
- Math Honors Society
- Spanish Honors Society
- Debate Team Secretary
- Model UN Historian (won Outstanding delegate at high school conferences, Honorable mention at a college conference)
- Secretary of my schools debate team, attended numerous competitions
- Member of my school’s student congress (representing my school at school board meetings)
- Volunteer at Bon Secours Hospitals (~150 hrs)
- Volunteered at a Boston STEM workshop for underprivileged kids (~80 hrs)
- Fluent (and literate) in five languages: English, Spanish, Hindi, Tamil, Sanksrit
- Varsity track and field (JV freshman and sophomore year, varsity junior and senior year)
- DERI (Deans Early Research Initiative) Fellow 2015-16: Performed research with a doctor and PhD student at VCU and
assisted them in writing their paper - Been playing the guitar for about 8 years, just a hobby
- Worked (paid) at a local Kumon for about a year
- Have given speeches at many cultural (Hindu) events
Student in a Math and Science Specialty Center
Taken 6 AP’s: AP Bio (5), AP Comp. Sci (3), AP Chemistry (4), AP Calculus AB (5), AP Physics (3), AP English Lang. (5)
Mostly A’s, some A-'s, 2 B+'s
SAT II: 730 Math II, 780 Bio, 730 Chem. Only sending Bio.
Senior year courseload (predicted first sem. grades in parentheses)
AP Psychology (A)
AP Calculus BC (A-/B+)
AP Spanish Language and Culture (A)
AP Statistics (A-/B+)
AP English Lit. (A/A-)
Honors Anatomy and Physiology (A/A-)
AP Physics (A/A-)
CommonApp Essay: Wrote about how a cultural ritual was my transition from childhood to adulthood. Got it edited by my English teacher, would rate 7.5-8/10
Supplementals: Both edited pretty well, 8/10 average between both
I’m an Indian (with a British citizenship) living in Virginia, applied EA to UVA’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
How am I looking?
P.S. I’m also applying RD to Northwestern, Duke, Vandy, Georgia Tech., UMich Ann Arbor, Johns Hopkins, UPitt, University of Washington (Seattle), Rice, and Carnegie Mellon. Feel free to chance me on any of those too, if you want to.
Any feedback is much appreciated, thank you so much!