<p>hey everyone should join the facebook group caltech class of 2012</p>
<p>Caltech and MIT were what caused me to get out of the match process. I would love to go to Chicago or Columbia, but I didn't want to be bounded to those colleges and not have a chance to go to my dream colleges. I also didn't have time to finish the Stanford app for Questbridge and I didn't want to rush it and make it look like crap. Oh well, I better get back to work on that lol.</p>
<p>:)ACCEPTED!:)</p>
<p>College Class Year: 2012</p>
<p>ACADEMICS
High School: Top 100 US Public High Schools<br>
GPA: UW: 4.00 W: 4.80
Class Rank: top 5 students
AP [5's]: CALC BC, CHEM, PHY C MECH, ENG LANG, USH
SR YR AP: BIO, ENG LIT, FR LANG, PHY C E&M, G&P, STAT
SAT I: 2340 (CR 740)
SAT IIs: IIC: 800 CHEM: 760 BIO/M:760 USH: 790
OTHER: EPGY Computer Science, Math, Physics, English Courses</p>
<p>EC
Key ECs:Research, Running, Ultimate, Publishing; Author of Science Puzzle Book</p>
<p>Leadership positions: President Math Club, Editor-in-chief School
Magazine, President Chess club</p>
<p>Athletic Status: Non-varsity, 5K average 6:25 mile running pace </p>
<p>Volunteer/Service Work: Fund raising (~ 80 hours) through performances</p>
<p>HONORS AND AWARDS
Siemens, Bausch & Lomb, Intel ISEF *
*finalist & State Rep ($3,000), Multi-time AIME qualifier and school
top scorer, AP Scholar with Distinction, Numerous[5] State/Reg Science Fair Awards,
National Chess Championship (2nd Place), Numerous [12+] top student Course Awards </p>
<p>APP </p>
<p>Essays: Light tone+self depreciative humor (essentially my voice)
followed Geraldine Woods' and Harry Bauld's advice for college essay writing</p>
<p>Reccs: Probably one outstanding, one somewhat critical; The GCs recc would
have been decent</p>
<p>Hooks: Self-driven Research and associated awards ....?</p>
<p>OTHER: Supplementary material of my performance on stage sent on DVD</p>
<p>arwen15, what kind of musical instrument do you play?</p>
<p>I've posted before but I'll have another go with the new more comprehensive format on this board.</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>College class year of 2012</p>
<p>Acedemics:
Highschool: International in Berlin, Germany tiny grad class of 36 but has a good reputation for its size
GPA: school does not publish but in and around 4.0
Class rank: also not published but in top 3 if not first
IB's: 4HL's Chemistry, Physics, Math, History 2SL's English and German ab initio and TOK (did EE in history)
SR year: 2nd year of my IB
SATI: Math 780, Verbal 760, Writing 650
SATII: MathII 800, Chemistry 710, Physics 790</p>
<p>ECs: Math Team, Chem Tutoring, various sports (as available), when I was at a larger school also had Astronomy club, music, and scouting</p>
<p>Honors and Awards: Science and math awards at my old school, placed high in math competitions</p>
<p>Essays: Started at the beginning of app process so they were fresh and well proof-read my "piddling around essay" was commented on and my common app about living overseas and never being truly at home was quite good too in my opinion</p>
<p>Recs: asked all three current math and science teachers to write one then selected best; my chem teacher has a reputation for writing successful ones and I was glowing, my history teacher likes me a lot but I have no idea what he wrote</p>
<p>Hooks: extreme passion for math and science, lived overseas, well rounded, </p>
<p>As a few final comments on applying in general from a high schooler's perspective: play yourself up (even if it feels a bit like bragging); don't assume addmisions officers know everything or can find it (its safer to tell them just in case); and finally chances are something does set you apart, you might not know what it is so ask others ot find out, it should be one focus of your application.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone especially deferees</p>
<p>syntaxers: My DVD featured a self-choreographed dance performance;
I play the violin.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>ACADEMICS
High School: Catalina Foothills
GPA: UW:4.0 W:4.2
Class Rank: none
AP/IB [5]: Ap calc AB-5, AP euro-5, AP chinese-5, AP us-4, AP chem-5, AP bio-5
SR YR AP/IB: Ap Spanish lang, AP calc bc, AP english lang, AP gov/ econ, AP physics C
SAT I: 800 R, 760 M, 750 W
SAT IIs: IIC: 800 CHEM: 800 </p>
<p>EC
Research: a year and a half at the University, summer science research program at Baylor University (HSSSRP)</p>
<p>Leadership positions: science olympiad team captain, community service club president, spanish national honors society vp last year</p>
<p>Athletic Status: cross country 4 years, varsity 2 years</p>
<p>Volunteer/Service Work: community service club, national honors society</p>
<p>HONORS AND AWARDS
......honors..... AP Scholar, National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist
.....awards...... Scholar/ Athlete award, science olympiad medals</p>
<p>APP
Essays: commented on my main commonapp essay where I talked about my world and how I was like a compound created from a reaction. I talked about my experience interacting with the community, my parents, my childhood, my friends, my research, etc.
For the piddling around essay I just listed ways that I interacted with science in everyday life</p>
<p>Reccs: math teacher from 10 and 11, my euro history teacher from 10, as well as one from the prof I work for at the lab</p>
<p>OTHER: Submitted a revised version of the research paper I wrote for HSSSRP</p>
<p>ACCEPTED!</p>
<p>College Class Year: 2012</p>
<p>ACADEMICS
High School: Probably the best HS in NJ.
GPA: 3.91
Class Rank: not given ranks, and I have no idea.
AP/IB [5]: AP Calc BC (sophomore year) 5, AP Calc Chemistry: 5, Physics this year, but its all so easy..
SR YR AP/IB: Honors everything, AP Physics, 2nd year college math (abstract algebra now).
SAT I: CR: 650, M: 800, W: 800
SAT IIs: MathIIC: 800 Chem: 800 Physics: 800....
OTHER:</p>
<p>EC
Key ECs: Research at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab (currently I have my own lab there), Math team (on the high school math team since 5th grade), Science Team, Martial arts, Soccer, </p>
<p>Leadership positions: Captain of Math and Science Teams. (1 of 3 captains for the math team, so i suppose a "co-captain")</p>
<p>Athletic Status: Martial Arts regularly, Soccer in an indoor league, not for the school.</p>
<p>Volunteer/Service Work: Helped with the school math competition for 4th~8th graders plenty of times (~24 hours?), Volunteered over the summer for a math camp (~150 hours)</p>
<p>HONORS AND AWARDS
There are a lot I could put here (~50 for math, ~10 for science?)
here are a few:
USAPhO Semi-Finalist
CalTech Signature Award (and in a VERY competitive school, one person had to choose between US Math Camp and US Chem Camp)
My internship and research, which will hopefully be done by the time the science fair comes along..</p>
<p>APP
INTERVIEW: they have interviews?</p>
<p>Essays:
I liked it a lot - it was about martial arts (and of course physics too). </p>
<p>Recs:
From my math teacher and coach - I'm sure that was great. One from a Spanish teacher, which I also think was great. </p>
<p>Hooks:
I love physics? I self-taught myself most of the advanced physics I know? My essay (I liked it, idk how much they did)?
OTHER:
See the post by Michael Woods. I thought Caltech was a great fit for me because I fit those points he made.</p>
<p>you guys are awesome! 
i’m sure all of you are having the time of your lives at caltech!</p>