<p>Hey guys. First off, I just want to thank you for your time and I’m very grateful for the wonderful and helpful community here. </p>
<p>Background: U.S. and CA-Resident, Caucasian male. I attend a competitive private Catholic School in SoCal. Since 8th grade, I knew my passion was for chemistry, and taking Chem soph. and AP Chem junior year reaffirmed it. Not much of a sports guy, I enjoy building computers, keeping up with tech news, indulging in video games on the weekends. A nasty anxiety disorder has previously kept me out of some sports so I opt for running on my own after school.</p>
<p>GPA:
9-12: UW: 3.95 W: 4.25
10-12 (not sure which Vandy uses): UW: 3.96 W: 4.42
Rank: (23/412) will hopefully pull up
SAT: 2080, probably not sending
ACT: 34 Cumulative, 36 science
SAT II
Math 2: 770 (signed up to retake, it’s personal)
Chem: 800</p>
<p>Fresh
After School Band: A/A
Bio: A+/B+ (teacher screwed up on test, took it to principal, no avail)
Catholic Faith: A/A
English 1(Adv.): A/A
Geometry 1(Adv.): A/A
Spanish 1: A/A
Speech: A/A</p>
<p>Soph: Let’s make this simpler…
Notable Classes: AP Euro (got a 3, cute), Alg. 2 Trig/H, English 2(H).
B’s: 1st semester English 2H. I’m a math guy.</p>
<p>Junior:
Notable: AP Chem (5), AP Enviro (5), PreCalc (H)
No Bs</p>
<p>Senior: not yet completed
AP Calc BC, AP Physics, AP Macro Econ, AP Statistics, Advanced Brit Lit.</p>
<p>Awards:
Baush and Lomb Science Award (11)
AP Scholar Award (11)
Academic Letter (for GPA, 11)
All 3 of them, yep</p>
<p>Activities:
- Patent Drawing Draftsman Intern at a local firm last summer. Great experience, paid, I plan to eventually become a lawyer so career oriented. 40hrs/week from mid June to mid August. Great work experience, plan on doing the CommonApp’s ex-curric. essay on this one.
- JV Tennis Junior Year. Look, I played a sport, kinda
- 2011 Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS) Participant
- 2011 ACS Chemistry Competition, connected with the Olympiad, will have to do some more research on it. We just were given materials and a question to answer.
- Member of Science and Engineering Club, 10th-12th grade. Currently Treasurer.
- 25~hrs/summer for supporting my local parish in Vacation Bible School, 9th and 10th grade summers. Didn’t last summer b/c of 1)
- Co-founder of a start-up company. We buy parts cheap, make computers, sell them per-customer spec. I’m looking at you, Stanford.</p>
<p>Teacher reccs should be great, not so sure about counselor.
I’m sure I can churn out some decent essays, not the best writer, however. I’ve already completed my 1 of 6 topics essay on the CommonApp about my anxiety disorder. Very hopeful, received positive feedback from English teachers.</p>
<p>If you’ve went through all this, thank you very much for your time, it means the world to me. Can’t wait till this whole process is over and things get a might simpler.</p>