QuantumArbiter

RD Caltech
Asian male (Indian)
GPA (unweighted): 3.95/4.0
GPA (weighted): 4.34
RANKING: 4 out of 470

SATII's:
Physics:720
Math II:790
SATI (best single): CR: 690 Writing:750 Math: 750 total: 2190
SATI (superscore): CR: 690 Writing:750 Math: 800 total: 2240

APs I have taken (I don't want to report scores, though I have passed them all)

AP Biology
AP European History
AP Stats
AP Calc AB
AP Physics B
AP English Language

Scholastic Awards/ Recognition

----- Caltech Signature Award 2009
----- Bausch and Lomb Honorary Science Award 2009
----- Betchel Science Challenge Competition Semifinalists (First ever team to qualify to semi-finalist)
----- Regional Science Bowl (Just competed for first time..no award)
-----Tech Challenge Competition hosted by the Tech Museum of Innovation of San Jose (1st place for "Best Engineering Journal" Award)
----- Rensselaer Medal for Achievement in Mathematics
----- National Merit Commended
----- AP Scholar with Honors
----- COSMOS Dimploma of Excellence in Science and Mathematics

Non-scholastic Awards/ Recognition/ EC
-----Peninsula Chess Center 1st place Trophy
-----Kids Rules! Chess Tournament 3rd place, 2nd place, and another 2nd place

ECs:
----- Livermore Hindu Temple priest (Yes, I'm a priest...the same stereotypes for Catholic priests don't apply ;] ) for 4 years. I learn Sanskrit through Y! Messenger from teacher in India
----- Creator of chess club in school. Member of Peninsula Chess Center and Kolty Chess Center. Member of United States Chess Fed...chess has inspired me to make new board games...I invent new board games for fun.
----- President of Math Club in school. Last year when I was only VP, I got second highest AMC 12 score in school (though I missed the AIME qualifying score by a question ...)
----- Vice President of the newly created Science Bowl team

Additional info?
One additional rec from a professor I worked with in COSMOS..He's a Princeton grad
My two teachers have good stuff to say on rec letters. We know each other really well.

Our school is complete CRAP...no joke...around 6 people break a 2000 on the SAT each year...teachers have below a 40% passing rate for AP classes....we send about 5 people to UC Berkeley each year...no one's gotten into MIT and Yale for the past 10 years...maybe one person into Stanford each year....
Just this year, one of our school's teacher was arrested in charge of sexually assaulting a minor...and our Chief custodian is forced to quit his job for sexual charged against model minors...

I studied ALL my elementary years back in India. I came to America in middle school, so I guess that's a plus? That's why my CR score kinda sucks...

Djokovic

urgh, I'm sorry abotu your conditions in your HS. Maybe that could be a focus of your essay?

You've done quite a lot of science/engineering stuff! That is very good

Yea CR score is a bit low, (mine was 680 until I luckily boosted it to 750).

Chances are solid, does Caltech Superscore?

QuantumArbiter

Yeah haha thanks Djokovic.
I saw your chances too. Hella legit I must say.

As for the essays, nah, I'll focus on something more important to me. I don't wanna whine. at least I got the education a lot of people in say Africa would kill for.