Major: Computer Science
Country: USA
Gender: Male
Race: White
GPA:
Unweighted: 3.78
Weighted: 4.78
ACT:
Composite: 33
English: 34
Math: 35
Reading: 30
Science: 32
ACT Writing: 8 (E/W Composite: 31)
SAT Subject Tests:
Math II: 730 (Probably will retake it)
Chemistry: 740
U.S History: 650
AP Classes I took:
Chemistry
Physics 1
U.S History
AP Classes I will take Senior year:
Calculus BC
Biology
Government and Politics
Statistics
I’ve taken all Honor classes throughout high school
Extracurriculars:
- Play the violin for the school orchestra (9-11 Grade)
- Play the violin for Show Orchestra (10-11 Grade)
Played 9th grade baseball - Played Ultimate Frisbee (11 Grade)
Interact Club (10th Grade) - Speak Up (11th Grade)
- Debate Club (11th Grade)
- Robotics (11th Grade)
Asian Culture Club (9-10 Grade)
Learning various programming languages through Codecademy
*Learned C# programming language on my own; I use it to create small games
- Extracurriculars that I will probably do in senior year
Extracurriculars that I’m doing this summer:
Learning to play piano
Learning to make games with Python through Coursera
Work Experience:
Making English tests for Chinese kids (9-11 Grade)
Working at USDA as an intern this summer? (I didn’t technically get hired yet; most likely working starting mid-July)
Recommendation letters: One from my 11th grade math teacher and one from my 11th grade English teacher
Languages:
English (1st language)
French (9th-10th grade; stopped taking it)
Japanese (11th-12 grade, but I taught myself a LOT of Japanese on my own time starting in 10th grade)
Can read Korean, Russian, Hebrew, and Arabic alphabet (not sure if this is really an accomplishment, but there it is)
Colleges that I plan to apply to:
University of Pennsylvania (Mainly for financial reasons; my mother works there)
Cornell University
University of California Los Angeles
University of California Berkeley
New York University
University of Edinburgh
University of Toronto
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Penn State University (MAIN Back up college)
University of Pittsburgh? (Another back up, but probably will not use it eventually; Only listing this because I hurriedly chose this college to send my ACT scores to when I was trying to think of a backup college quickly)
Additional question: My mother told me to do ED for University of Pennsylvania because it would basically be free for me to attend it. However, according to my research, it doesn’t have the BEST Computer Science courses there. Should I still do ED for it, or should I go for a different college? (FYI my family’s yearly income is about $70,000)