<p>Stats:[ul][<em>]SAT: 800 Math, 750 Writing, 680 Reading - Composite 2230 (1480/1600)[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Physics, have not taken third but I might do Literature (get 700)[<em>]ACT: not taking[</em>]GPA: School does not give out GPA but mine is definitely 4.0 UW and about 4.8W[<em>]Rank: School does not rank but probably 1st or 2nd out of 200[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Predicted 44/45 for IB[/ul]Subjective[ul][<em>]Essays: Excellent[</em>]Recs: Excellent[<em>]Supplementary Material: I might send in my abstract for my Extended Essay on Economics[</em>]Summer Activities: Shadowed multi-millionaire CEO for 3 weeks, single-handedly taught English as a second language to 10 young children for about 8 weeks [400 hours][<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Started a business? Built a cloud chamber and particle accelerator?[/ul]Personal[ul][</em>]Location: Hong Kong[<em>]High School Type: Private - International[</em>]Ethnicity: Indian[<em>]Gender:Male[/ul]Extracurriculars[ul][</em>]Founder/President of Revision Club - 2 years - [Head of Class said that it was the first time she had seen initiative of this sort in all her years at the school][<em>]Founder/President of Guitar Club - 2 years - [The most popular student founded/led club at the school with over 30 students signing up within a day][li]Represented school in golf tournaments after playing for only 3 months - been playing for 2 years now - [ESSAY TOPIC - talked about the effort I put in and how I ended up playing with kids who had 9 years of experience][]Started a proper business - 2 years - [Take glass and make furniture because there are no mainstream glass recyclers in Hong Kong - short answer topic][*]Leader of group project - building a cloud chamber observing muon decay and cosmic ray collisions [Use of technical jargon to impress adcoms][*]Leader of group project - building a particle accelerator[</em>]600 hours of community service in the span of 1 year[<em>]Travelled to rural China to teach young kids English for a week, was the group leader [these kids have never had contact with the language in the past][*]Worked with a group of 30 to earn USD1500 - 5 years - do it every year at least once[</em>]Member of debating and Model United Nations[/ul]Awards:[ul][<em>]UKMT Gold Medal [INTERNATIONAL][*]AMC12, top 10% internationally [INTERNATIONAL] or 4th in school [SCHOOL][*]Sunlife Mathematics Scholarship Competition [INTERNATIONAL] - top 30% internationally[</em>]Euclid Scholarship Mathematics Competition Distinction [INTERNATIONAL] - top 15%[<em>]Student council - 2 consecutive years [SCHOOL][*]Member of Mensa International [INTERNATIONAL][/ul]Applying to:*[ul][</em>]Wharton[<em>]Columbia[</em>]Dartmouth[<em>]Cornell[</em>]Brown[<em>]MIT Sloan[</em>]Carnegie Mellon[<em>]NYU Stern[</em>]John Hopkins[<em>]University of Chicago[</em>]University of Michigan[/ul][/li]Thanks for taking the time to chance me!</p>
<p>The stats and EC’s are all there, now its all about getting the right people to write your rec’s and working your tail off on the essays which I have no doubt you’ll do, you stand a great chance at all your schools but you have to go in understanding that it is a crapshoot after all so don’t have unreasonable expectations even though you have quite an impressive resume</p>
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<p>I know you are probably joking here–or at least I hope so–but when you do sit down to write this up remember that being able to explain something complex and/or technical in a clear way that can be grasped by the lay person is a great skill. Demonstrating that skill would do you much more good than deliberately trying to snow people with jargon. Your SATs show that you can do math–this is your opportunity to show that you can write and communicate effectively, too.</p>
<p>By technical jargon, if I were to say, ‘Organized and led a group of fellow students in the assembly of a diffusion cloud chamber. Wrote up observations - muon decay and cosmic ray collisions.’ Would that be appropriate for the application?</p>
<p>Remember your audience. How is an adcom, who might have been an English major, going to know what a “diffusion cloud chamber” is, what it does, or why it’s an accomplishment to build one? </p>
<p>Be real careful with the shadowing of the multi millionaire. It reads a little too much like “I used my parents’ contacts to follow around someone important.”</p>