<p>Hi,</p>
<p>So I am going to apply to colleges of engineering for all of my schools (specifically biomedical engineering):</p>
<p>Boston University (sister attended..not sure if it helps)
Northwestern University
Rice University
University of Texas: Austin
University of Michigan
UPenn
MIT
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Case Western Reserve University</p>
<p>Asian Male Resident of Westwood, MA
GPA: 3.27 UW, 5.27 W (out of 6.0) - school does not weight AP's and honors differently
Rank: School doesnt rank
Competitive school (we send about 5 students to Ivy's every year)
Class size: 220
Most rigorous course load
- 9th grade - All honors classes
- 10th grade - AP Chem and the rest honors
- 11th grade - AP US History and AP Physics B and the rest honors
- 12th grade - Taking AP Stat, AP Calc, AP Physics C, AP Lang and Comp, Honors Spanish, Honors Psychology</p>
<p>First semester grades Senior Year:
AP Stat: A/A-
AP Calc: B/A-
AP Physics C: B+/B+
AP Lang and Comp: B/B
Honors Spanish: A/B+
Honors Psychology: A/A</p>
<p>AP Chem - 4, AP US - 3, AP Physics B - 4</p>
<p>ACT: 33 (34 M, 34 S, 34 E, 31 R, 9 essay)
SAT: 2080 (750 M, 680 W (8 essay) , 650 CR)
SAT II Chem: 720
SAT II Math I: 720
SAT II Math II: 760
SAT II Physics: 640 (screwed this one up...)</p>
<p>EC/Volunteer:
-Internship for two summers at Harvard Medical School in the New Research Building (Summer of 11th,12th)- Did mostly computer stuff (installed servers, software, hardware, etc.) to help in research for the Humane Genome Project
-Began a branch of Akshaya Patra in Massachusetts (11th, 12th) - Akshaya Patra is an organization which gives free food to underprivileged kids in India
-National Honor Society (11th, 12th)
-Academic Decathlon (10th, 11th, 12th) - won award for speech in statewide competition
-Science Team (10th, 11th, 12th)
-Key Club (9th,10th,11th,12th) - Recently elected as Vice President
-Percussion (9th, 10th)
-Religious (Jain - props to anyone who's heard of Jainism) Education (9th,10th,11th,12th)
-Created advertisements for nationwide Jain phonebook (summer - 9th)
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (9th) Educational Studies Program - I went to MIT every Saturday for 10 weeks and took classes in Economics, Debate, and How to start a high tech business
-Selected for and attended Boys State (11th)
-Leadership Development Program (summer - 9th) - I helped organize games and take care of little kids
-Minuteman Press School (Summer of 12th) - I learned about printing and marketing (my parents started a printing business and Minuteman Press is a franchise, so we all went to this school for 2.5 weeks and learned about how to start the business, how to price jobs, how to print on a press, etc.)
-National Honor Society (11th, 12th)</p>
<p>Sports:
9th - Soccer, Ski Team, Outdoor Track
10th - XC, Indoor Track, Outdoor Track (letter)
11th - XC, Indoor Track, Outdoor Track
12th - XC (letter), Indoor Track, Outdoor Track</p>
<p>Recommendations:
I'm definitely going to get good ones from my GC, my math/computer science/engineering teacher, and my english teacher</p>
<p>My predictions:</p>
<p>Boston University (sister attended..not sure if it helps) - Accepted
Northwestern University - Rejected
Rice University - Rejected
University of Texas: Austin - Deferred
University of Michigan - (I just got deferred)
UPenn - Rejected
MIT - Rejected
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Deferred/Accept
Case Western Reserve University - Rejected</p>
<p>Thanks for helping me out!</p>