<p>Hey Guys. Thanks for helping me out. I'm looking to go into engineering (Electrical or Computer Science) and your help will be much appreciated.</p>
<p>Grade: Junior
Sex: M
State: NJ (Private)
Race: Asian (Indian)
Financial Aid: Probably
Annual Income: 350,000 - 400,000</p>
<p>School: Private Prep School- extremely competitive school... had kids go to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, U Penn (like 4-5 every year), Cornell, and Columbia last year alone... Stanford, West Point, and Brown as well in the last 5 years. </p>
<p>Class Rank: Top 10% if not top 5% (school doesn't "believe" in ranks... but they nominated me for Governors School of NJ so means I am top math/science student or something?)</p>
<p>Scores:</p>
<p>SAT (as a Junior, I haven't taken the official ones yet, but I have taken a Kaplan course and here are the highest scores from each section I have gotten so far):</p>
<p>Reading: 750
Math: 750 (I feel like I can do much better)
Writing: 720</p>
<p>SAT II's
Physics: 710 ( :( )</p>
<p>ACT: plan to take? good idea? I'm a strong math/science student...</p>
<p>Classes: school only does weighted gpa which is 4.1 including 1st semester junior year. 2nd semester is going much better... A+ in Calc AB :)</p>
<p>Freshman Year:
Alg. II Honors- A+
French II Honors- A
Biology I Honors- A-
Modern History- A
9th English- A</p>
<p>Freshman Year Summer
Precalculus Honors- A
Chemistry I Honors- A
Physics I- pass (just had to take previous year's final)</p>
<p>Sophomore Year
Geometry Honors- A
AP Physics B- A-... got a 4
French III Honors- B+
US History- A
10th Grade English- A-</p>
<p>Sophomore Year Summer:
Participated in an 8 week long internship with the Office of Naval Research (ONR) called the Science and Engineering Apprenticeship Program. This paid internship was at the Naval Air Research Center in Lakehurst, NJ. I had to apply for this program and was told it was highly competitive. I may return to this program this summer. </p>
<p>Junior Year (so far... 1st Semester):
AP Calculus AB- A
French IV Honors- A-
AP Chemistry- A-
Honors English- A-
AP US History- A-</p>
<p>Junior Year Summer plans:
I was nominated for the Governors School in Engineering and Technology for NJ by my school and hope to attend, if accepted. I also hope to work out a plan so that I can also re-attend the internship that I attended last summer. This will provide me with a bit of extra cash ($3750 :) ) and a great experience.</p>
<p>EC:
- Captain of schools FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics Team for 2 years, member for 3 years- lead programmer and builder for all 3 years
- Winner of many awards through robotics
- Attended FTC World Challenge in 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia
- Played piano for 11 years now, winner of numerous awards through NJ Music Teachers Association, Greater Philadelphia Suzuki Teachers Association, and my music school's own private competition
- Member of school's science olympiad team, attended state competiton 3 years in a row
- Member of school's quiz bowl team
- Member of school's Model United Nations Team, won best delegate award at The College of New Jersey Conference (only one my schedule has allowed me to attend so far)
- Participant in Office of Naval Research Science and Engineering Apprenticeship Program during 2010 summer (ONR SEAP 2010 at Lakehurst, NJ... see Sophomore year summer for quick blurb)
- French National Contest ranked winner: (also ranked in middle school, but that doesn't really matter)
- 9th: 4th regional, 6th national
- 10th: 4th regional, 6th national</p>
<p>School List: Really long so far, and imo filled with too many schools that are reaches:
-Boston University
-UC Berkely
-CalTech
-Carnegie Mellon
-Columbia Univ.
-Cornell Univ.
-Duke
-George Washington Univ.
-Georgia Institute of Technology
-Harvey Mudd College
-Johns Hopkins Univ.
-Lehigh Univ.
-MIT
-University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
-Northwestern Univ.
-Notre Dame
-Univ. of Pennsylvania (looking at dual Wharton-Engineering program... if anyone knows about that)
-RPI
-Rice
-Stanford Univ.- TOP TOP TOP CHOICE- IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME
-Tufts
-U. of Virginia
-Washington Univ. of St. Louis</p>
<p>Yes this list is way too long but I haven't visited half of these schools yet and that will let me cross some off. If you have any suggestions for safety/relatively easy schools or any schools to take off please let me know.</p>
<p>Thank you so much in advance!</p>
<p>oops forgot:
- ~230 hours of service (changes every week) so far from:
- Robotics education
- Science Olympiad education
- Tutoring (still have about 70+ hours to report here)
- President of Math Club and Computer Club
- Member of School's Honors Program: competitive program which requires student to complete certain number of course, gpa, and ec. requirements and requires a capstone project to be completed by end of 1st semester Senior year. currently working on mine which is a robotics education and outreach program involving LEGO NXT Robotics systems and students from numerous schools near my school, esp. in Camden, NJ (impoverished area).... should make a good essay
- recs:
- robotics coach/ physics teacher: teacher i am extremely close with, he has been an amazing mentor for me
- science department head/chemistry teacher: my other mentor, recommended me for both SEAP program and Governors School. Thinks very highly of me
- math department head/ calculus teacher: another teacher i am very close with... involved with robotics program and very good mentor to me.</p>