<p>Hiya! Hope everyone is stuffing their bellies while watching the Philly Eagles get murdered by the Pats. Hopefully you guys can help me out before I send out my last chances. Thanks a million!</p>
<p>Hiya.</p>
<p>Senior attending semi-competitive HS in South-Central Jersey (sends one/two to Ivies, few to top schools)</p>
<p>Plan to major in Civil/Arch Engineering, if that doesn't work, it'll be architecture, and if not that, finance/business</p>
<p>SAT: Superscore 2060 (700M 660CR 700W 10 Essay)
ACT (good s**t): Composite 33 - 34 English, 33 Math, 31 Reading, 34 Science, 32 Writing
(Are some colleges on my list biased on which test to accept? If I only give 'em my ACT and they don't need SATII's, will chances be hampered?)
SAT II's: Physics 650
Math IIC 690
(Unrealistic because I realized I had to take them a week before the test date, don't think they accurately measure my skills and should I mention this in Addt'l. Info?)</p>
<p>GPA: Right around a 4 weighted, 3.8 unweighted.
Classes: Most rigorous curriculum: All honors and AP classes.
APs: Soph: AP Macroeconomics-4
Junior: AP Spanish Language-(Couldn't take test)
Senior: AP Physics (Well, it's not AP, but its the same coursework/load)
AP Calculus AB
AP USH
AP Microeconomics
Maybe AP Psych</p>
<p>EC's- National Honor Society
Spanish Honor Society
F.I.R.S.T. Robotics Team, member of founding team as senior
designer/engineer. We won the NJ regionals and won a Rookie
all-star award, after which we went to the world champs in Atlanta.
Morning TV show, I created a lot of attractive, professional grade Flash
Intros which really got everyone talking!
Habitat for Humanity
Perhaps one or two more as the year goes by.</p>
<p>Work experience(significant!)</p>
<pre><code> Worked in a construction company all four years of high school. I started as skilled labor(electrics, plumbing, carpentry) and moved up to more professional jobs. I am now a project manager, sales consultant, in marketing, and I've created a website for our firm (G4S Construction, let me know how it looks!) It's a serious job in which I've used a lot of stuff I learned in school. I'm also given full-scale responsibilities, like some sales presentations and crew management, no easy stuff. I can run most machinery, including excavators and large tractors, and tools. I hope colleges look at this as a much more involved employment as opposed to something like working in a supermarket (nothing wrong with that, but my job's way more intensive!)
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<p>Special considerations, if any:</p>
<p>Come from a low-income family for where we live, I think. I'll do the EFC thing today with my folks, but I expect it to be at most $2,500. I work very hard to support it. I used to work around 30-35 hours a week before, now due to the housing slump, that has increased to near 35-40 hours, taking away some time I could've used to study, etc. for better grades. I heard the Ivies+top schools have a hard time attracting lower income kids, so I'm hoping mentioning this will help me. Where could I put it? The extra info sention on the common app? Do adcoms even read them?!?!? I really need to get this across, and might only mention a snippet in my essay. I'll tell my GC to write about it, but I don't know the order the colleges look at each piece of the app.</p>
<p>Colleges I plan on applying to:</p>
<p>ED Cornell (Already Applied, hope for the best)
Princeton
University of Texas at Austin
Stanford
Georgia Tech
Columbia Fu Foundation
University of California at Berkeley
Penn State
Rutgers
University of Maryland-College Park
NJIT</p>
<p>Any other schools you guys can think of would be appreciated. I want to apply to some other NE engineering schools that are tops. But I've already ruled out RPI,WPI, RIT and Rochester. Not happening. Kindly take a second to answer the questions I asked; I'm working till 10-11 ish nowadays and haven't had time to talk to guidance, etc.</p>
<p>Thank you very much!!!!! And fill up on turkey!</p>