rhodium

@ polar8: http://decisions.mit.edu, and use your MyMIT login.

Accepted OH MY GOD

Stats:

• SAT I (by section): 2260 (740CR 800M 720W)
• SAT IIs: 800 Math2C / 780 Chem
• ACT: n/a
• GPA: 4.16 weighted
• Rank: school doesn't rank
• APs: Calc AB, Calc BC, Chemistry, Comp Sci AB, US History, Physics C E&M (4 here, all the rest were 5's), Physics C Mech. Currently taking: English Lit, Psychology, Microeconomics
• AMC10 143, AMC12 112.5, AIME 5

Subjective

• Essays: counselor/peers/alums have deemed them excellent
• Teacher Recs: An awesome rec from my physics teacher/robotics mentor, and an ok one from a humanities teacher whom I haven't had since 10th grade (but my English teacher of 3 years passed away last summer)
• Counselor Rec: good, I think?
• Additional Rec: one from my internship mentor
• Interview: ~35 min, very late evening after interviewer had had about 4 people in a row. We were both tired.
• Art portfolio: I think it was ok. Never had art classes, but the art teacher at my school liked it.
• Hooks: n/a
• Strengths: essays, robotics, general compsci-ness
• Weaknesses: GPA/courseload, and some of my ECs and awards

Personal

• Location: bay area, CA
• High School Type: private school, class size ~150. (I know of about 12-16 who applied EA, there may be more)
• Ethnicity: chinese
• Gender: F
• Applied for Financial Aid: Y

Other

• Extracurriculars on app: FIRST Robotics (co-pres), USACO (gold), WiSTEM (co-pres), speedcubing (21.60 sec), piano (12 yrs)
• Awards: USAMTS, FIRST, Latin, Cum Laude, JETS
• Summer 2007: internship @ Stanford, programmed a virtual surgical trainer
• Summer 2006: Canada/USA Mathcamp and designing/machining some cute mecanum wheels
• Complaints: My internship partner got Siemens semifinalist with our project, so technically I could have =/
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I've done less than half of my regular action essays. WHO CARES

1.5 hours to calm down before quizbowl haha