<p>Saw my closest friends get deferred today. Admissions suck, and I'm paranoid now. Could use some honesty. Good luck for Monday everyone :/</p>
<p>Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
School: NJ, Top 10 in nation
GPA: 93/100 UW
Rank: School doesn't rank
SAT I (1 Sitting): 2400
SAT II: Math II: 800 Biology E: 800
Courseload: Engineering and math heavy curriculum, school offers only 3-4 AP's. Self studied for a lot but didn't do well enough to send those scores.
Awards: Placed Internationally for Robotics, 1st Place at Technology Student Association Nationals, Math Team playing for Interstellar Math Madness National Championship (I sent an update about this), pretty good AIME score and an AP award</p>
<p>Main Activities:
Junior State of America: Mid Atlantic State position, chapter vp, state assembly rep, lots of best speaker awards, this was my big time investment
Co-President of School Robotics Team
Co-President of School's Model UN Team (just came back from an awesome time at PMUNC)
Section leader of my State's Youth Symphonic Orchestra
Tutored privately and spent 300+ hours working for STEM education in inner cities (Newark and Orange are as scary as you've heard)
I trained and worked for my town's First Aid Response Team
Presented Research project at Liberty Science Center
A dull internship, NHS, and NMSF
Founded the Angry Dinosaurs b-boy group </p>
<p>Essays:
Common App: I think I got my voice through pretty well
Penn Essay: So much to say about Penn... would've preferred a 1000 word limit
M&T Essay: Wrote about the role business and technology integration has on global societies. That stuff really interests me.</p>
<p>Recommendation Letters:
Teachers: Received the "Better than Sparknotes" Award from my English Teacher. Was my best class so it should be really awesome. The other one should be standard from my AP Stat/Math teacher.
Guidance: Small school so she knows me very well.</p>
<p>Hooks: I wish</p>