<p>Hey guys, I'm a high school sophomore and i just recently joined CC. I am looking to for some guidance on what to do to get into highly competitive schools. I'm looking to go into either computer science or biomedical engineering. Below is my resume. Please comment with any comments, suggestions, or tips! Thanks!</p>
<p>Just for reference, my currents schools of interest are the following (in order of interest):</p>
<ul>
<li>Stanford
-MIT
-Johns Hopkins (if I choose Biomedical engineering)
-Harvard
-Caltech</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Georgia Tech</li>
<li>Yale
And on and on</li>
</ul>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2080 superscore (Ill obviously be improving this; this was from a day I was having a particularly bad headache (see below) in 8th grade so it doesn't count anyways and I've improved a lot since then)</p>
<p>Sophomore PSAT score: 220</p>
<p>SAT II: Math 1: 800, Bio: 740, World History: 680</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.75 (as of freshman year)
Predicted for after sophomore year: 3.875</p>
<p>Weighted GPA: 4.2 (Freshman year)</p>
<p>Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Probably top 10%</p>
<p>Freshman Year Course Load: Economics, Photo Editing and Web Design, Biology Honours, Media communications 1, Computer Repair, World History, Spanish 1 (I took Latin in middle school), Algebra 2 Honours, English 1 Honours, Geometry Honors</p>
<p>Sophomore Year Course Load: Spanish 2 Honours, chemistry Honours, advanced photo editing, media communications 2, precalc and trig Honours, AP us history 1 (my school splits it into two years) English 2 Honours, AP comp sci</p>
<p>Predicted Junior Year Course Load: Spanish 3 Honours, AP US History 2, AP calc BC, AP Physics, Ap English language, don't know about electives yet</p>
<p>Awards: NHS (most likely), Third Place at International Robotics competition RoboCup Jr., semi finalist in zero robotics competition (we program satellites on the ISS!)</p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Boy Scouts (Soon to be Eagle Scout, Patrol Leader, Scribe, Assistant Patrol Leader, Senior Patrol Leader), FIRST Robotics Team (Subteam leader and member of student leadership council), Forensics Team, BRHS RoboSoccer Club (Founder and President), Yearbook Club, Geography Club (Co-VP), Advanced Open Water Diver, Storming Robots an outside of school robotics club, FBLA</p>
<p>Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community service: 65 Hours at local temple, about 20 hours at Boy Scouts events, About 50 hours at Newark hospital, eagle project will be a big one</p>
<p>Jobs: created my own company called PocketApps which creates mobile apps
Hoping to get an internship at Bell Labs (Alcatel Lucent) heads quarters over the summer</p>
<p>Other:
State: NJ
Race: Indian
School Type: Large Competitive Public (750 students per grade)
Gender: M
Income Range: Well off</p>
<p>Some thing I'd like to point out, I have a rare and relatively unknown medical condition called PANDAS. It basically gives me movement and vocal tics kinda like tourettes, but unlike Tourettes, it also gives me really painful headaches. While the symptoms are present all year round, I have noticed that they follow a sinosodial pattern every six months. And as my health fluctuates, so do my grades... In quarters 1&3 , my grades are significantly lower than those in quarters 1&4. Doctors say that the disorder usually wanes away but due to the rare and pun known nature of the disorder, they don't know how long it will take(keeping my fingers crossed!). But yeah I thought that it was kinda important in understanding my grades and my relatively low GPA... Also does any one know if colleges take this kinda stuff into consideration?</p>
<p>Thanks a lot!!!</p>
<p>Sent from my Nexus 7 using CC</p>