Hello! I’m a high-school student from Romania.
First of all, I applied to some US universities and colleges, but I was rejected from all of them.
Now, my only options are within Europe. So, I have decisions from the following universities:
- University of Sheffield - Computer Systems Engineering
- University of Twente - Electrical Engineering
- TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering
I’m still waiting for a decision from these
- University of Manchester - Computer Systems Engineering with Industrial Experience
- Jacobs University - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Which of these would be a good choice?
I will talk a bit about my background and career goals: I’m keen on computer and electronics, but also aviation is one of my hobbies. I’d like to merge them in my future career.
Testing:
SAT(new): 1290 (650 math, 630 reading and writing)
SAT Subjects: 720 Math II, 690 Physics
TOEFL: 99
Also, I’m going to take the national secondary education leaving exam
Results in various contests:
9th Place in the Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship - Word 2010 International stage
Gold Medal in the National Information Technology Olympiad - National stage
First Prize in the National Informatics Contest “Acadnet”,Computers category - National stage
First Prize in my class - School stage
Third Prize in County Computer Science Olympiad - State/Regional stage
Activities:
Guitarist: I play the guitar in my free time,for fun.But,I also played in a collective concert called “Sibiu Guitar Meeting”,where there were over 300 guitarists
Volunteering :
Stand Coordinator at SCIKIDS Science Festival : I was in charge with supervising a stand with gaming activities: a flight simulator, the first year and a VR equipment for computers, the second year.
Cyclist at San Montan : We were a group of cyclist dressed as Santa Claus who brought gifts to some orphanages and we gave sweets to children we met on the street
Contributor at DeviceHub.net: I built programming libraries in two programming languages: PHP and JavaScript. For building these, I was declared Contributor of the month June,2015 *Work:
PHP Developer: I worked on a business-related Web platform project from home and this helped me a lot because I learned new things and improved my programming skills. Moreover, I worked as a freelancer during the summer break.
Intern at BCR: BCR is a bank from Romania,which has an internship program for high school students.I worked in a bank agency and there we were given weekly tasks
Overclocking: I won a live overclocking contest and I upload my results on HWBot.org where there is a ranking system and various contests.
Member of Robotics Team: Last year, some students and I built a line-follower robot and competed in a local competition and got the 3th prize.
Embedded Systems Programming: I like to make various projects using microcontrollers.One of them is a remote weather station and I got the 1st Prize in a scientific session.
Flight simulation: I like to simulate flights on my computer
Lastly, money is an important matter for me.