Hello everyone! It is stupendous to think that my entire high school career has reached its apex. However, I can not stop thinking about the future. Would anyone be able to help me determine my rough chances of getting into these colleges?
Harvard
MIT
Yale
Columbia
UPenn
Duke
Georgetown
UC Berkeley
USC
UC Irvine
UC San Diego
Objective Data:
1540 SAT
780 SAT II World History
790 SAT II Biology
4.0 Unweighted GPA
5.09 Weighted GPA
3/500 Class Rank
5 - AP World, AP Calc, APUPSH, AP Bio
4- AP Seminar, AP Lang
Courses this year: AP Capstone, APES, AP Lit, AP Spanish, AP Calc BC, AP Govt/Econ
Major Awards:
Internationally Distinguished Roboticist
AP Scholar
AP Capstone Diploma
Academic World Quest Regional Competition 1st place (2 years in a row, we actually got the highest score ever recorded at the competition)
There are two days named after me in my city?
Subjective Data:
Robotics- Participated for 10 years in various programs. Internationally recognized dozens of times. Last year, our team actually took home the first place trophy at an international competition. I’m president of the robotics club at our school, and helped raise thousands of dollars to send every single member to the competition. Hundreds of hours volunteering at different events to encourage STEM.
Youth and Government- Participated all 4 years of high school. Chaplain for junior and senior years. I also ran a state-wide campaign in front of thousands of people for an officer position and won! 
I have also had a large impact on my delegation, working extremely hard to change the dynamics of the program.
National Honor Society- I really like this story. Sophomore year, I was in NHS. We had one meeting the entire year. Junior year, I found out that the club advisor was dropping it. NHS almost died before it even hatched. I decided to take it over and see what I could do with the club. Without any precedent to follow, I recreated the club on an idea- to spark a passion for volunteering in the members. So I created two divisions- an individual project and a team project. For the individual project, I wanted people to finally have a motivation to pursue something that they might love to volunteer. I am happy to say that even during the summer, many members continued to volunteer with things varying from teaching programming to creating disabled sports leagues. For the group service project, we focus on the broad term of “helping people.” Weekly, I contact different organizations around the valley and bring NHS members to different events that they might never have even thought of. As the president/founder for 2 years, I am proud to say that our school’s NHS contains more than 60 members and continues to encourage true service in our city.
International Business Alliance Program- We work on solutions to help a small business owner in Nigeria. We’ve raised thousands of dollars and implemented many different solutions that have drastically improved the well being of our friend.
Youth Committee- Member since Sophomore year. Served as chair during my senior year while we worked on a project to establish No-Idling Zones in schools throughout the city.
Piano- Played for 10 years. Sadly to say, I am an average player because I have so many other commitments that do not allow me to practice as much as I can. I did receive a full scholarship to a very prestigious piano camp one summer.
Working- I work unpaid to help my family’s business. It’s almost every day in summer and on occasional weekends during the school year.
Volunteering at a Local Hospital- I’ve volunteered for two summers, and I plan to volunteer next summer. I love it.
My summers are spent working, volunteering, being a camp counselor, and attending different conferences.
Main Essays- All were very strong and centered around my very crazy, harsh, and interesting background. I don’t want to give too many details, and I also do not want to flatter myself, but my essay strongly depicts a background and passion similar to that of Malala Yousafzai. 10/10
Supplements- I wrote about different things such as my passion for change, my Y&G campaign, my failure to start a boy’s volleyball program in my school, and NHS. I am not sure about the execution of the essays, but I think they were mostly interesting. 7/10
Teacher Rec #1: 9/10
Teacher Rec #2: 7/10
Counselor Rec #1: 10/10
Additional Rec #1: 9/10
Interview(s): I did have interviews for every Ivy and UC Berkeley. Most interviewers seemed thoroughly impressed. If anywhere, this is where my passion for the brain really shone through. I expect to do huge things in Cognitive Neuroscience. Two of my interviewers stated that they could see me winning a Nobel Prize.
Financial Aid? Yes
Income Bracket? 80K
State? CA
Ethnicity? Asian
Gender? Male
Hooks? Single mother with two jobs. Also, a quote from one of my interviewer strongly encapsulates how I feel about my accomplishments: “You see a problem, and you fix it.”
Thank you.