<p>I've applied EA to MIT
I'm also applying to Davidson College (does anyone know how hard it is to get a merit scholarship there?), Georgia Tech, Furman, and USC Honors</p>
<p>I go to a pretty good public high school in South Carolina with alums at all five of these schools</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA (Using Princeton Review System where 95-100=4, 94=3.9, 93=3.8, etc:
Freshman-3.95
Sophomore-4.0
Junior-3.94
Overall-3.97</p>
<p>I've taken four AP classes so far
Sophomore: Statistics-5
Junior: US History-5, Language/Comp-5, Chemistry-5
I'm taking four this year: US Gov, Bio, Lit/Comp, Cal BC and then Euro as Independent Study </p>
<p>SAT I: 1460 (M-740 and V-720)
SAT II: US History-800, Chemistry-800, Math IIC-780, Writing-780</p>
<p>ECs:
Academic Quiz Team-1st place in nationals freshman year, attended five national tournaments, JV captain Freshman year, Varsity Captain Sophomore-Seniors Year, numerous awards</p>
<p>Science Team-Varsity Science Olympiad Member Junior-Senior Year, won states Junior year including three first places of mine, placed top ten in two events at Olympiad Nationals, Olympiad Captain Senior Year, Science Bowl Captain Junior-Senior Year, numerous awards</p>
<p>MUN-helped found club Freshman year, Vice President Sophomore Year (then lost sponsor and couldn't replace), head delegate to DISEC conference (Duke) twice, honorable mention as Italy</p>
<p>Debate-Junior Year did Ted Turner/Public Forum and won award</p>
<p>Political-Volunteered at Local Election Commission Office for few months, campaigned for US Senatorial Candidate including canvassing and attending rallies, campaigned for State Rep at festival, ran voter registration tables</p>
<p>Awards:
SAT Team-statewide SAT competition with school team; won State Runner-up
Woodmen of America US History Student of Year
1st Place in SC on ACS Chem Olympiad Regionals Exam (unable to compete nationally)
AP Scholar with Honor
Random Club Crap</p>
<p>Work:
Well over 500 hours in Chem Lab at USC researching a novel method for the assemblage of gold nanorods in solution</p>
<p>Other:
My Essay was pretty good. It was on previous realization that the much stressed childhood concept of equality was false.
Optional Response on object of creation/idea was a paper submitted to my research advisor as a summary of my work</p>
<p>Had my MIT Interview-I think the interviewer really liked me and he was really interested in all of the activities I am involved with</p>
<p>Sorry for the excess of information and any other colleges I should consider for chemistry major that will be a pretty good match/slight reach and similar to my list of schools</p>