<p>guys, help, I'm seriously freaking out. I'm considering applying to Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Columbia, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Brown, UPenn, Dartmouth, UChicago, Oxford, and Johns Hopkins but I just realized I literally have no chance at all. chance me if you want but it'll be useless because I'm going to get rejected from all these schools anyway</p>
<p>Caucasian male, Income of $245,000 per year, from Stuyvesant High School (i have no idea how i got in), alumni of Bronx High School of Science
My dad graduated early from Stuyvesant and went to Princeton for undergrad and Harvard for law school, although I doubt that'll help much. My mom also got into Cornell but transferred to MIT her junior year so I think that's looked down upon.
GPA: 4.59 unweighted, 5.12 weighted
SAT: 2320 (one sitting, but my math score was horrific- 750)
ACT: 34 (horrible, retaking it next month)
SAT II's: very unimpressive. 760's on Chem, Math II, English Literature, Spanish, and Chinese, but only a 740 on Physics and a 730 on Hebrew :/
I'm in the top 0.006% in my school, can't believe there's 0.006 people smarter than me, but its probably just a glitch in the system
AP's: Unfortunately I could only fit a few into my schedule every year but here it is in a nutshell:</p>
<p>9th grade:
AP World History (5)
AP Studio Art (5)
AP Human Geography (5)- I only took this class because my mom made me
AP Chemistry (only got a 4 :/ )</p>
<p>10th grade:
AP Macroeconomics (my dad works on wall street) - 5
AP Art History - 5
AP Psychology - 5- but only because I took a psychology course at Duke University in 7th grade
AP Physics B - 4 (how could I let that happen....)
AP Statistics - 3 (I don't like talking about it.)</p>
<p>11th grade:
APUSH - 5
AP Calculus AB - my school let me take it junior year- got a 4, unfortunately :/
AP English Language - 5 (got only a 97 in the class though, the teacher sucked :/ )
AP Environmental Science - 5
AP Latin - 4 (I only studied for like an hour though lol)
AP Microeconomics - 5 (my dad works on wall street, as aforementioned)</p>
<p>12th grade:
Taking AP Calculus BC, AP English Literature, AP Biology, AP Physics C, AP Chinese, AP European History, and AP Physics and Metaphysics (I am trying to change my schedule so I can fit in AP Computer Science and AP Italian, meeting with my guidance counselor next week)</p>
<p>I already have 86 credits and theoretically could have graduated high school in 6th grade but I had to stick around until senior year because I am the director of my school's prom and graduation committees (which I started)</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
1300 hours of community service at my local Children's Leukemia Hospital, which I helped build in 6th grade
Researched microbiology and epigenetics at Harvard Medical School, won Siemens finalist, Intel finalist, and 1st place winner at ISEF
Secretary, Treasurer, Vice President, and President of my grade and every other grade in the school at the same time all four years
Started a fundraiser for breast cancer and earned $40,000 from one bake sale
President of NHS, President of Black NHS (I invented it), and in 9th grade I also ran for president of Spanish NHS but unfortunately I only got vice president instead (the election was rigged though and I've been trying to work something out with the principal)
I babysit a paralyzed Down Syndrome girl on the weekends, and tutor economically disadvantaged Hispanics every schoolday from 3-5pm
Captain of the varsity swim and dive team (both boys and girls, I broke 34 world records on my boys swim team so they let me join the girls one too), captain of the ice hockey team, unfortunately only co-captain of the varsity football and basketball teams. last year I broke the record for most three-pointers in one single season, and tomorrow I have a track meet against Usain Bolt.
I started a Biology Bowl and Physics Olympiad team in 9th grade and I have led the teams to nationals 4 times. This is probably the weakest part of my application though because we've only gotten 2nd place in the entire world 3 times :/
This year I am running for editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, a club which I started before I even got to high school, and just last year me and my friends (but mostly me) started an A/V club with which I am going to produce my own documentary about our high school and show at an international film festival later this year.
I've published 3 novels and two short stories; unfortunately they have not made the New York Times' best books list yet.
Two summers ago, I built a computer from scratch and sold it to Bill Gates, and last summer, I built a city.</p>
<p>Awards:
Valedictorian in a class of 3,901
Super High Honor Roll 9th-12th grade (idk why they call it super lol)
Most Valuable Player for Varsity Track and Field, Basketball, Football, Swimming (boys and girls), and Tennis (i petitioned to start a tennis team in 10th grade and got 12,000 people and the mayors of Indianapolis and Cincinatti to sign it, check it out they covered it on Fox and Friends)
Scholar Athlete for maintaining a 98+ GPA since 4th grade
Won 32 Senior Superlatives, including Most Flirtatious, Nicest Dimples, Most Friendly, and Most Likely to Change Your Life
One time I rescued a girl with tubercoliosis from getting hit by a bus, and I got a bench in the park named after me
NASA awarded me with my own Hubble telescope after I finished my research on astrophysics and discovered a new galaxy in the universe.</p>
<p>Teacher reccomendations:
I am asking my AP chemistry teacher, even though I was the worst student in her class (ended the year with a 96.2 average, horrid) but she won the Nobel Peace Prize for discovering nanomaterial so hopefully she'll say yes to writing me a letter! I am also going to ask my AP Physics teacher, who is distantly related to Isaac Newton, although I doubt he'll write me a very good letter as physics is my worst subject, got a 4 on a practice AP last week :/</p>
<p>I will be writing essays about how being blind in both eyes and deaf in one ear has impacted my life, and my supplemental essays will most likely be about the day I came out as a pansexual transgendered bi-lesbian in my heavily conservative hometown.
So do you think I have any chances at any of those schools? My chances seem slim but I guess I might as well apply because between caring for my disabled step-step-mother and working toward a cure for muscular distrophy, I have a lot of time on my hands.</p>
