Hi everyone, please take a moment and chance me. I will chance back!
Please chance me on direct admissions into Computer science/Electrical engineering as well.
Rank: 13/227 Rank 1/227 if freshmen year didn’t count.
GPA: UC GPA:4.17 Regular: 3.875 unweighted 4.1 weighted (really GOOD upward bound, 3.6-3.7 freshmen year then 4.0 soph and junior yr)
Courses:Not many ap classes offered at my school, but I am definite that I have an extremely rigorous course load compared to my peers. AP Comp Sci(4), Ap Calc AB(5) and AP enviro sci(4).
Dual enrollment senior year: English 101, Calculus based Physics 1-2, Calc 3 and Linear algebra. Basically 90% of the pre reqs for engineering at Univ of Washington.
SAT:1690 (1st) (640 m 510 w 530 cr) 1980(2nd) (800 m 620 w 560 cr) Retaking it october hoping for 2000+
ACT: Not taking
Planning to take SAT II’s (Math 2, physics and chinese(native speaker))in June
Ethnicity: Asian
ECs:
President of compost team
National Honor Society
National Math Honor Society
200+ hours of community service
Worked a job for 2+ year to support my family(I heard this was huge from my counselor)
I have been working since the moment I turned 16.
Computer science club
University of Washington Mathematics Academy
University of Washington Math and Science Upward Bound
Key club
Jv and Varsity tennis
Programmer for my FTC/FRC team. (FIRST Robotics)
University of Washington Math euler’s award
Local Startup weekend 2nd place
Internship at a local software company for 2 week
Family:30k income
Essay: I will talk about my father’s battle with cancer during my high school years and how it affected my family in a way that caused me to find a job during sophomore year to alleviate the financial burdens that my mother had to go through. I worked during the school year/summer while having to upkeep my academics and extracurriculars.
Hook:first generation college student, tough upbringing/perseverance(?)