<p>East Coast Male
Unweighted GPA: 3.85
SAT I: 660 CR 700 W 770 M (2130 total)
SAT II: 800 Math IIC 770 Physics
AP US: 3
AP Eng Lang; 4
AP Macro: 4
AP Micro: 5
AP Stat: 5
AP World: 5
Taking AP's Calc BC, French, English Composition, Gov, Physics C this year</p>
<p>AP scholar with distinction
French Achievement Awards
2008 3rd place teams for ISEF
Entered in Siemens with a theoretical physics project (and rejected- though I will submit this to Caltech)
JV Indoor and outdoor track
Cross Country
Numerous Model UN awards
NHS, Science Honor society, french honor society
quantum mechanics course at brown university</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>great EC and strong AP test scores..your SAT I CR score could be higher but other than that I'd say your in.</p>
<p>Your stats are good enough for you to have a decent chance, but I would definitely not echo omgnotdeferred's comment above. Short of someone who cured cancer in high school I wouldn't say that anyone is "in". Recs, essays, transcript all matter.</p>
<p>I noticed the quantum mechanics course at Brown, and then I noticed that you are currently taking Calc BC and Physics C. Did you already teach yourself the content of these courses? If not, what was covered in the quantum mechanics course?</p>
<p>Physics research is good, but I just realized how abysmal those CR/W scores are if English is your only language.</p>
<p>Which is probably ok, considering Caltech doesn't really give a darn about your Cr/W scores.</p>
<p>Its not my first language. I just didn't put my race because I don't think Caltech lets people in based on race. QuantMech, there was little to no classical physics involved at all. Calculus was only sightly useful, that that was only for summations, integrals and logarithms. It covered calculations of eigenvalues and wave functions to describe quantum states.</p>
<p>Could you say a little more about how you calculated wave functions and eigenvalues, in the course at Brown? What systems did you cover?</p>