<p>I got deferred from MIT EA, the others are all RD. (CMU = Carnegie Mellon) I also applied to Case Western and got accepted.</p>
<p>Half American, half Japanese male. Currently living in Belgium, since 1992.
SAT I: 1490; M 770 V 720
SAT II: Math IIc, Physics, Writing: all 800
2nd in class of ~130
Weighted GPA: 4.3</p>
<p>-Lighting crew chief in school's theatre
-Started my own small software company in 1998 (Domain Softworx). It's a one-man show. I make money off it.
-Columnist for RB Developer (magazine for programmers) since November 2003.
-Junior math team for 2 years. 13th individual (out of 180) and 2nd team (out of 60) first year, then 11th individual (out of 180) and 6th team (out of 60) second year. On senior team this year, not gone to competition yet.
-Regular writer for Wikipedia (online free-content encyclopedia).
-Honor Society.
-Nominee for Global Youth Leadership Conference, which I will be attending.</p>
<p>My math teacher and economics teacher did my evaluations. My econ teacher actually let me see his, and he had some pretty high praise. I'm sure my math teacher's was good as well.</p>
<p>MIT is my first choice. I know Caltech is a reach, and I wouldn't be disappointed at all if I didn't get in. I know the question is kind of moot now that all my apps are in and I'm just waiting to hear, but I'd still like to hear what some of you think.</p>
<p>Edit: forgot a couple things. First, I'm a candidate for the Duke of Edinburgh Award. Also, I took the SAT I only once and the SAT II's only once.</p>
<p>Let's say you are 18, you started a company in 1998? 11 years old?</p>
<p>oh man that's amazing. when did you start to program?? (what language?)</p>
<p>I started programming in 1998 in REALbasic (I'm a Mac user). I offered some stuff as shareware. Since then I've changed my focus to developer tools for other REALbasic users, plus writing the column for RB Developer magazine. Currently I'm learning C and C++.</p>
<p>Yeah, it seems kind of amazing that I've been doing it for 7 years now.</p>
<p>Also, I forgot to mention in my original post: I'm a full IB candidate. I'm doing IB Further Math in addition to the normal 6 IB courses.</p>
<p>um.. was it actually launched as a company?? (other words, was it incorporated?)</p>
<p>to be honest, (i have been programing for pretty long time in both PC and Mac) it seems to be .. ackward to saying you STARTED to program 1998 and right away you incorporated a company and providing much stuffs.. and all that.</p>
<p>anyway good job and hope you make lots of money :)</p>
<p>No, it wasn't incorporated. It started as a hobby, then I got more serious about it. It was never a full-fledged company. I've always been the only employee.</p>
<p>I'd actually had a bit of programming experience before that, and RB is very easy to get started in, so I did actually start making functional, useful programs before long.</p>
<p>Also, nobody's said anything about my chances so far. Any opinion?</p>
<p>i'd say, MIT/Catech are reaches as you know too.
and CMU is a match. I think if you had good recs and essays, you'd probably in.. (it's just my opinion)</p>
<p>oh.. congrats on Case, very good engineering school (what engineering do you wanna do?)</p>