atillazehun

I would very much appreciate it if you could rate me for:
Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Harvey Mudd, U Penn, UCLA, and Berkeley.

GPA's Unweighted/Weighted

Freshman: 3.86/3.86
Sophomore: 3.92/4.42 (Orchestra teacher gave me a B for taking an AP test and being late for a concert... lame)
Junior: 4.00/5.00
Predicted 1rst Semester Senior GPA: 4.00/5.00


SAT1 (will take again in October)

Math: 760 Writing: 750 Reading: 720


SAT2's

MathIIC: 800 Chemistry: 780 USHistory: 760


Courses, by year

Freshman: Physical Ed., Geography, Health, Accelerated Biology, Algebra 2 Adv., Orchestra, English, Spanish 2

Sophomore: Honors Trigonometry, Honors Chemistry, AP European History, Orchestra, Adv. English, Spanish 3

Junior: AP Calculus AB, AP United States History, AP Physics B, AP Chemistry B, AP English Language and Composition, Honors Spanish 4

Junior Summer: Math 193 (Equivalent of Calculus BC)

Senior Year (as planned): AP Biology, AP Government, AP Economics (micro/macro), AP English Literature, Math 242 (Vector Calculus), Math 244 (Differential Equations), Teacher's Aide, Weights


AP Scores To Date
AP European History 4, AP Calculus AB 5, AP Chemistry 5, AP Physics B 5, AP English Language 5, AP United States History 5.


Paid Jobs

Tutoring: 4 years
Intern for a Geological Consulting company: 1 summer


Significant Extra-Curriculars

• Odyssey of the Mind/Destination Imagination: 8 years participation.
  Honors held:
  Regional 2nd Place (x7)
  Regional 1rst place
  State Second place (x3)
  State 1rst place
  World 23rd Place
  World 8th Place
  World 7th Place
  World 4th place
  Regional Ranatra Fusca (tournament-wide creativity award) (x2)
  State Ranatra Fusca (x3).
  
• Boy Scouts/Cub Scouts: 12 years participation and hopefully Eagle Scout.
  
• Speech and Debate: Participated through highschool
  Honors held:
  None. I was never great at speech and debate.
  
• High School Wrestling: 2 Years (maybe 3)
  Honors held:
  League 2nd place
  Varsity Letter
  
• Violin: 7 years in school orchestra.
  
• Middle School Wrestling Assistant Coach: 1 year
  
• Elementary School Odyssey of the Mind Team Assistant Coach: 1 year (maybe 2)

Notable Academic Honors
NONE

Not So Notable Academic Honors/

• Science Fair 2nd Place/ Air Force Special Award (9th grade)
• Renaissance Award for (3.5 gpa with a sport, or 4.0 without one) (x99999)
• National Honor Society Member
• California Scholarship Federation Member
• Academic Letter (for gpa over 3.5) (x9999)
• DJ training at a DJ company

bartleby

In at Berkeley, UCLA, and Harvey Mudd.
HYPSP look like reaches due to your lack of "leadership", but you have the numbers for them, so apply, write kickass essays and maybe you'll get in.

kwaldner

Harvard - very high reach
Princeton - very high reach
Yale - high reach
Stanford - high reach
Harvey Mudd - In
U Penn - reach
UCLA - In
Berkeley - low reach

Frankly speaking your ECs are so-so, SAT I and II rather impressive. Just one question though, why did you join the Odyssey of the Mind so many times? haha. mm right now your best chances lies in ucla and harvey mudd, but i wouldn't be surprise if you manage to make it to berkeley or upenn. gd luck!

atomicfusion

It's actually more like...

Harvard - huge reach
Princeton - huge reach
Yale - huge reach
Stanford - huge reach
Harvey Mudd - reach
U Penn - reach
UCLA - match (out of state)
Berkeley - low reach (out of state)

HMC is ranked as the most selective LAC by USNWR..

Seiken

Since he is in CSF I would guess he is instate for both UCLA and UCB. If so, I'd say he has a high probability of getting into both. As for the others, I would say he has the ECs and the SATs to at least qualify for all of them; he seems to have about the average total SAT score for the top schools, and a decent amount of ECs (no hooks really though), as well as a rigorous course load. I would say then:

Harvard - reach
Princeton - reach
Yale - reach
Stanford - reach
Harvey Mudd - reach
U Penn - reach
UCLA - match
Berkeley - match

but this is assuming you right solid essays and have great letters of recommendation. Anyways, get some safeties - its just an extra click on the UC application page.

atillazehun

What would count as good leadership? I assumed that becoming an eagle scout would, and so would coaching a wrestling team and Odyssey of the Mind team.

atillazehun

And in terms of stopping a lot of EC's after 10th grade, it's because I had issues with having to help with a sick family member.

atillazehun

Bump. Oh, and for those of you that don't know what Odyssey of the Mind entails. It is 3/4ths of the year, and the hours per week range from 4 to 50+ (not an exaggeration)

rocketDA

actually, i'd say hmc is more of a match/reach.

keenonkeane

Yes the hours for Odyssey of the Mind isn't an exaggeration. I've been doing OotM for 9 years. And It is my one main EC that sometimes takes over my life. My team and I average 15 hours a week (sometimes more closer to the competitions).

keenonkeane

And also for most of the school year as well, especially if your team advances to World Finals.