<p>GPA 3.75/4.29 (10+11) -- I had surgery junior year first semester
and that brought down several grades (4 Bs that semester)
SAT: 2120, 2240 (2260 with best scores)
SAT IIs: math 800 physics 800 ush 750
APs: physicsb 5 stat 5 ush 4
AMC 12: 144
AIME, USAMO Qualifier
Highly competitive public high school
Track & Field, Cross Country
Website Design
2 Summer Internships
250 Hours Summer Volunteer Internship
National Merit Commendation Letter
AP Scholar with Distinction</p>
<p>Great recs from math and foreign language</p>
<p>Assume OKish essays</p>
<p>ECs: not really any clubs except quiz club for 9+10</p>
<p>Interests: math, CS, econ</p>
<p>Quarter grades (do they count?): A A- A B B+ A- (6 APs</p>
<p>No ECs? What do you do in the summer? Can you sell yourself as a budding mathematician - so that is your main EC? It’s okay to do things on your own. My son got in as a computer nerd - he did Academic team and Science Olympiad and nothing else at school. But he had a lot to show outside school. Paid employment both summers and part time during the school year doing computer programming, volunteer work at the senior center helping in their computer center, various programming projects that he could describe (mods for games, volunteer projects for professors). You need more than just good grades and good scores.</p>
<p>Well, decent, not stellar, grades an scores, no real EC’s… You have a change, but you have to find yourself some sort of hook or tipping point… AIME and USAMO is really good though! And a decent amount of volunteer-hours. </p>
<p>Don’t you have a passion for something? Maybe you can focus on that in your apps?</p>
<p>During summer of 2006 I did an internship at a startup (they had 5 employees at the time) and worked on a social networking website that today has 1.4 Million members. I by no means claim that I made the site, I just helped the development team with some coding, helped come up with UI, set up servers. I did create something that was up for consideration but it has not been implemented on the site.</p>
<p>During summer 2007: I did an internship with a nonprofit for which I created powerpoints, brochures, program literature, and worked on the website. Hours: 250.</p>
<p>During summer 2008: I did an internship at a software startup (well, 200 employees, founded in 2000). I worked 40 hours a week 9 weeks during the summer with the development team as I helped create, code, and put together a new software application that the company is marketing to fortune 500 companies. The application is related to green IT.</p>
<p>I was not paid for any internships as I was at the time not a Green Card holder, therefore not authorized to work. My family got our greencard recently, so that is no longer a problem.</p>
<p>GPA on the low side, but I think they’ll discount that due to the surgery
Frankly, I see you getting into both of the schools due to your high AMC scores and USAMO qualification (multiple times?)</p>
<p>stanford imo is your best bet…stanford is techy and loves comp science…plus harvard will have many high scoring AIME applicants, where your from may have an effect</p>
<p>Or not. My mathy comp sci major son got into Harvard, rejected by Stanford. It’s really hard to predict admissions at the top schools.</p>
<p>prozeta, your internships sound fine, it doesn’t matter whether you got paid or not. Be sure to highlight them. You might also want a supplemental recommendation from one or more of them.</p>