<p>I’m an upcoming junior, and plan to apply to MIT and Stanford early.</p>
<p>Academics</p>
<p>SAT: 2300
SAT Chem: 770
SAT Math 2: 800
ACT: 35
GPA: 4.4
Class Rank: 1
AP European History:5
AP Art History : 4</p>
<p>Freshman Schedule:
Advanced Algebra 2/Trig
PE
Health/Computer Graphics
Biology
English 2 Accelerated
Spanish 1</p>
<p>Sophmore:
AP Art History
Honors Chemistry
Spanish 2
Honors Precalculus
English 2 Accelerated
AP European History</p>
<p>Junior: (this is 100% sure)
AP English Literature
AP Physics C
AP Calculus BC
AP US History
Spanish 3
AP Chemistry</p>
<p>Activities</p>
<p>Varsity Water Polo- 2 years
Varsity Swimming- 2 years ( plan to swim in college)
Engineering Club- 2 years and officer for 2 years
Model United Nations - 2 years and officer for 1 year
Chemistry Club - 1 year and helped start it
Go Club- 1 year, helped found it, president
Aquatics Club - 1 year, and an officer
Junior class officer (elections were already held)
Community Service done at a local school, tutored kids during summer school</p>
<p>COSMOS Summer program for 2 years:
Particle Physics at UCSC
Game theory and programming at UCI</p>
<p>Work:
Help little kids learn to swim.
various lifeguarding jobs</p>
<p>Chance me, and I’ll chance you back. I promise!</p>
<p>How do you know you got a 5 on that Euro test already? I wouldn’t be too cocky if I were you…! Just kidding, you did awesome probably
Your stats are much much much more better than mine (I’m a rising junior as well). Just keep up the good work and you’ll be right on track to Stanford…idk about early, though. But you’ll still get in, I’m sure :] </p>
<p>You’re obviously good stats-wise. Consider taking a non-math/sci SAT 2 for the sake of well-roundedness.</p>
<p>How good are you at swimming? You have to be amazing to swim at a D1 school like Stanford but I’m sure you’re at least decent for DIII (MIT) if you already plan on swimming in college. I think sports will be the tipping factor in your application.</p>
<p>@Jamesford- I’ll be taking the Korean SAT with listening. My swimming and water polo skills are pretty good. I was able to make it to my section championships.</p>
<p>My SAT breakdown is CR-750. M- 800, W-750.</p>
<p>Also do you think MIT/Stanford would frown or praise that I’m applying as a junior?</p>
<p>Make sure your essays are DIFFERENT from all the Asian science geniuses out there. I actually know an Asian male, similar stats/EC level, who applied only to MIT and Stanford (EA and RD respectively) AS A JUNIOR; he was deferred/rejected from MIT and accepted early write to Stanford. Good luck.</p>
<p>I don’t think the age thing will make much difference, except that you should be prepared to explain why you’re “done” with your high school’s academic offerings and why you’re mature enough for college. Also, you will be competing against students who had an extra year to polish their resumes.</p>
<p>Oh, I was under the impression that you would apply early your senior year. Applying as a junior will make things much more difficult for you. You will have to compete against kids who have 1 more year of classes, 1 more year of ECs, etc</p>
<p>Unless your senior year would basically be a waste (e.g. you exhausted the HS curriculum and can’t take college classes), don’t apply as a junior.</p>
