Chance / Advice for UPenn M&T / Berkeley M.E.T? / reverse chance for EECS / Bus Programs!

LilPaloAlto
Fri, 10 Apr 2020 07:14:09 +0000

Demographics: East Asian Male, Upper Middle-Class ~250k, Bay Area, VERY Competitive Public High School

Academics:

3.94 UW GPA 4.2 WGPA (4.41 if you count this semester as all As, but my school made this semester pass/fail) (This is top 10 maybe 5% for my school ~ no class rank due to pressure)

Have taken 5 APs thus far (including this year), planning on taking 5 more next year

1540 SAT (800M 740 r/W 17 on Essay)

Subject Tests: 780 Math II, planning on taking physics if more SATs get administrated

hope my AIME qualification makes up for this low Math 2 Score

PSAT: 1480 (223 Selection Score)

Relevant Coursework:

9 - Honors Bio, Honors Geo
10 - Honors Trig/Alg2, AP Computer Science (5)
11 - Honors Pre-Calc, AP Statistics, AP Chinese, AP US History, AP Physics 1
12 (planning to take) - AP Calculus BC, AP Physics C (Mech / E&M), AP Economics (Micro/Macro), AP Literature, AP Music Theory

Extracurriculars:

Founder and president of Entrepreneurship Club

Vice President of Business Club (Compete in DECA / FBLA)

Vice President of TSA TEAMS club

Secretary of Nutrition / Fitness Club

Founder of Startup (No profits, but developed software/hardware and testing in school, getting rec from the teacher who I'm testing in) - plan to talk about this on common app

Produce 'Beats', have coded a website for myself to sell beats on, generated around 4 figures.

Developing Passion Projects using R, Java, Python revolving around Economics / - Business Analytics

Powerlifting (Haven't competed yet but planning to, I have a total/score that can qualify me for nationals)

Summer Activities
9th - Not much, attended google ‘internship’ where we learned about various engineering topics - also attended non-well-known math program
10th - Used connections with google ‘internship’ to develop startup / product with friend mentioned above that I am now testing as a TA in my classes

Also attended COSMOS for EE
11th - Accepted into UCSC SIP for EE, I don’t know if it’s going to run though.

Awards and Honors:

United States Computing Olympiad (USACO) Gold Division Competitor

American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) Qualifier

TSA Teams National QUalifier

DECA State Finalist

National Merit Semifinalist (Projected at least but I think 223 should get me there)

Is there anything else that can be done (especially with this corona situation) that can help my chances at M&T ED / M.E.T or Business / EECS at T5 Schools?

Thanks for the help!