<p>I'm trying to finalize my list of colleges to apply to, before I give my GC and teachers the materials to send. It would be great if people could suggest any necessary changes to the list that they think would be wise.</p>
<p>UMich Ann Arbor (Early Response) - In here! happy as heck/relieved
UChicago (EA)
MIT (EA)</p>
<p>Regular:
UC Berkeley, the college of arts and sciences (OOS)
Carnegie Mellon (college of sciences and the CS one)
Cornell (the arts and sciences college)
UPenn (ditto above)
Princeton
Stanford
Harvard
Yale</p>
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<p>Stats and stuff:</p>
<p>Asian Male - decent public school
GPA: 4.07 out of 4.3 UW
Rank: I don't think school ranks, but def top 10%, I'd guess approx 10/~350
SAT: 2280 single, 2300 superscored, took twice CR (760/800<em>) M (800</em>/780) W (690/700*)
SAT IIs: 800 MathIIC, 770 Physics, 760 Bio-M, 720 USH
APs: 5 Calc BC, 5 Micro, 4 USH</p>
<p>Senior year schedule: AP courses in Micro, English Lit, Chem, Physics C Mech, Comp Sci A, Stat</p>
<p>Random Awards:
- American Invitational Mathematics Exam (AIME) qualifier 3 times, I got a score of 4 each time, AMC 10 scores: 125, 123 (School Winner both times), AMC 12 score: 112.5
- Captain of 8th place team in 2007 iTest
- 5th place individual in County Math League
- score of 99/100 on New York State School Music Association (NYSSMA) Level 6 (highest) Piano Solo
- National Merit Semi</p>
<p>Activities:
Math Team - currently co-president, team placed 2nd and 3rd in county past two years, placed 25th in the nation in the 2005 National Assessment & Testing Fall Startup (was team high scorer)</p>
<p>Some other random math stuff: attended Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics (HCSSiM) this past summer, took some online courses at ArtofProblemSolving.com, currently taking multivar calc through EPGY, member of 6th place team in 2007 Princeton University Mathematics Competition (PUMaC)</p>
<p>Programming: took course in Java at the Columbia Science Honors Program (SHP) in 10th grade, currently compete in USACO Bronze Division, have an internship where I'm learning to use PHP and MySQL</p>
<p>Science Olympiad: I don't really have any awards here... I just go and compete for fun, lol, not sure if to include this, my school hasn't gone to state in a while...</p>
<p>Piano: started when I was 9, lessons for about 7 years, participate in the NYSSMA festival every year, have played the piano part of some pieces with the school orchestra and concert band (NOT concerto movements)</p>
<p>Violin/Clarinet: played in the school concert band and orchestra</p>
<h2>Racquetball/Tennis: played racquetball starting when I was about 10, won some local tournaments/leagues, switched to tennis in 11th grade, JV Tennis Team that year</h2>
<p>I like math. I want to study math in college (not necessarily major, wouldn't be able to hack it at some places), and hopefully find a job in quantitative finance. In looking for schools, I ruled out (at least for the moment) Caltech (too hardcore), Columbia (didn't like campus/location), and Duke (Durham??). But looking at my current list, I'm not sure if it's not too unrealistic. I don't mind receiving rejection letters from all of HYPSM (at least give it a shot), but I'm hoping I'll have choices from the remaining ones on my list. If anyone doesn't think so, or has any other input, please share!</p>