Here's me, rolled up into a single page. Woohoo.

[Fermion]

<p>Well.. I loathe chances threads, but several people have asked me for my stats, so here they are. Discuss if you like - School of computer science, mostly.</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 on 4.0 scale
Rank 1 in an uncompetitive public high school.</p>

<p>SAT IIs:
Physics 800
Math II 790
US History 720</p>

<p>ACT:
34 composite: 36 math, 35 science, 32 reading, 33 english</p>

<p>SAT: Took it once in 9th grade. Never took it again. :-)</p>

<p>Clubs:
Editor in Chief of my school's newspaper
President of my school's science club
Captain of my school's math team
Part-founder of my school's chess club
O'Neil NHS member.</p>

<p>Classes this year:
Physics 109 & 110 (Mechanics and Electromagnetism with Calc)
Calc III (Multivariate) and Linear Algebra
Computer programming independent study
Economics
Journalism 2
English 4</p>

<p>Here's where the good stuff starts!</p>

<p>Taught myself to computer program over the last 8 years (QBASIC->Java->C++, then learned (in some random order) Assembly(x86), HTML, JavaScript, Perl, PHP) all fairly proficiently.</p>

<p>Participated in the Battlecode</a> competition this year. Basically it's an Artificial Intelligence competition against teams of students from MIT. I wasn't able to officially compete, but I was able to defeat 5 of the 8 teams that made it to the final tournament (out of roughly 150 teams) in scrimmages. Those 5 teams each won at least $1000 and lots of job offers (Google, Intel, etc..) I'm a bit jealous. :-)</p>

<p>Gold division competitor in the USA Computing Olympiad</p>

<p>Wrote a program to do and show cellular automata in 3d. Here's</a> a few screenshots of some of the states. Very interesting stuff!</p>

<p>Various other fairly minor awards, etc. in math, science, computer science, and journalism.</p>

<p>Applying to MIT (deferred), Caltech (deferred), CMU (SCS), Rensselaer, UW-Madison (accepted)</p>

[cmonyuk]

<p>Well, you're like kind of like me except my ACT was higher and my GPA was lower. I played a sport. Are you taking AP classes? Also, your non-competative public high school offers Linear Algebra ?!?</p>

<p>The best my non-competative public high school could do was Calc BC.</p>

<p>So if you want a glimpse into the future: I was deferred from both MIT and Caltech and then ultimately denied from both. I go to CMU, so I was admitted. I was also admitted to Cornell, Chicago, Michigan, and UIUC.</p>