Motorola123

State: Illinois
Gender: Male
Race: Asian (Indian)

interested in Electrical/Communications Engineering

Objective:
ACT: 35 (10 essay)
Thinking of taking SAT I
SAT II: 750 Physics, 800 Math II, 780 Bio M
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
Weighted GPA - 4.48
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 10%...will get into top 5% once WGPA reaches 4.5
AP (place score in parenthesis):
-4 US History;
- 5 Physics B
-5 AP Engilsh Lang
- 5 Calc BC
- 5 Bio
- 5 Macro

Senior Year Course Load:
- AP English Lit
- Calc 3/ Lin Alg
- AP Stats
- AP Physics C
- AP Gov
- AP Micro

Major Awards
- Possibly AP Scholar
- Consistent School Gold Honor Roll

Subjective:
Extracurriculars :
- Model UN - represented school at prestigious universities like Brown, Harvard
got Honorable Mention
- TEAMS (Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Math and Science) - placed first state and third nationally last year for JV
placed 4rth state and 28 nationally this year for Varsity
now member of executive board
- run an educational contests chapter that raises money for underprivileged children in India for last two years - over 150 hours from herer
- Service activity leader at school
- Scripps National Spelling Bee finalist in 2009 (placed 42/350)
- NHS member
- around 350 hours of volunteer service from local activities, old age homes, and the chapter my family runs
- job at Kumon
- Illinois State Science Fairs - regional (gold), state (silver) on Pesticide Residues
research was later published in Journal of Ecotoxicology and Environmental Chemistry
paper was so good, African journal of Chemistry wanted my mentor to review submissions on Pesticides
- currently working on another project with Herbal Dyes with same mentor
probably going to be published as well

Summer Activities:
- Internship at local university on Hydrogen Fuel Cells - going to submit to siemens, and publish research


Not looking at Financial aid.

Schools I'm applying to-
MIT
Stanford
Berkley
CalTech
Cornell
Carnegie Mellon
Northwestern
Georgia Tech
UMich
UIUC
Purdue
UT Austin

Top school of choice would be MIT...good chance?


Thank you so much!

lonelyfootsteps

Solid ECs-

Caltech, CMU, Stanford + MIT should be reach; everything else should be fine.

grav123

Some of your ECs are random, but with your ACT score you have good shot in MIT, but what's your leadership?

Motorola123

Which ECs do you think are random? MUN, spelling bee?

Also I know that my research projects on Pestice Residues and herbal dyes are kind of focused on Biology and Chemistry and not directed towards my Electrical Eng. passion, but I don't think that matters as long as I did research for 3 continuous years.

Also, as per leadership... I run many function of the chapter that my family runs to help underprivilged in India. Over 150 hours I have spent through that organization would count as service, but I took leadership roles in that, so it would also be leadership.

Do you think taking SAT I is necessary?

Something I forgot to add...I was also the lead Alto-Sax player in my band for three years.

grav123

Yeah I thought spelling,MUN was random and secure a leadership position for TEAMS, you will be fine then... And since you got a really high ACT score I don't think it matters to take the SAT