Demographics:
Gender: Male
Race: Asian/Indian-American
State: NY
Income (USD): $75k < x < $100k
School: Suburban Public; 494 ppl in senior class
Major: Physics (possible minor or dual major in Mathematics)
Academics:
GPA: 98.36/100 (basically 4.0 UW); school doesn’t use weighted
SAT: 1530 (730 R/800 M)
ACT: 34 (35 E 36 M 31 R 32 S 11 W)
Class Rank: School does not offer, but predicting 4 or 5 / 494
AP: WH, USH, BC Calc, Lang, Stats (all 5); currently taking Chem, Phys CM, Gov, Lit
EC’s:
-4 years of varsity tennis (always played singles)
-Captain of varsity tennis team (1 year)
-1 year of JV tennis (also singles)
-4 years of orchestra
-2 years of chorus
-2 years of Tri-M Music Honors Society (nominated sophomore year)
-Boys State NY 2023; elected for some “city” roles. Week-long program at a SUNY; was one of 6 boys in my junior class to be accepted for the program (around 700 kids across NYS).
-Tutoring SAT Math (for Aug 2023 SAT) and high school physics through virtual platform Schoolhouse.world. Class sizes averaged 15 ppl but sometimes went to 25. 45 hrs tutoring
-Piano accompanist for school chorus and orchestra groups in winter/spring concerts for 2 yrs.
-Leader of a musician group performing at local senior centers (mostly orchestra kids from my high school, some of which play piano as well.)
-Volunteering at city hospital (offering care materials and having conversations with patients that had undergone open-heart or spinal cord surgery. 70 hrs)
-Internship for ovarian cancer at that same hospital (170 hours); 3 years. Presented research posters at my high school’s science research symposium for 2 years.
-Coaching/giving tennis lessons to a JV-level tennis player (20 hours)
-Science Olympiad (1 year)
-2 years of my school’s Select Orchestra (regularly scores very high [gold with distinction] at NYSSMA majors and wins out-of-state regional competitions)
-Private piano lessons for 9 years, viola lessons for 1 year, tennis lessons for 6 years
-Participated in local piano competition in its most advanced division (had to prepare 2 Chopin pieces).
-Gave piano performances at local events for my Indian community
-learned from MIT OCW physics lectures
-submitted over 120 physics jokes in my college apps…
Awards:
-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Medal and Scholarship for $160K (given to one student in the junior class in every participating high school that is outstanding in math and science)
-Boys State completion
-AP scholar with distinction
-NYS Seal of Civic Readiness
-NYS Scholarship for Academic Excellence (~8k NY seniors receive per year)
-NMSQT commended scholar
-NYSPHSAA sectionals final (2022), then sectionals win, regionals win, and states berth on the US Open courts (all 2023). All for tennis.
1 section = 1/12 of the state by population. 1 region = 2 sections.
-Kumon North America Math Program completion, once ranked 78/4498 in the continent among 9th graders in the program
-MVP of tennis team (freshman year)
-Regional Science Olympiad medal
-Received a handful of NYSSMA scores in the mid-upper 90s (piano and viola) for levels 5/6.
LOR/Other:
LORs were from my physics, AP lang, and Precalc/AP Calc BC teachers.
Physics: 9.5/10. Only had her for 1 year but I got a high A in the class + made over 40 physics jokes in the class…
AP lang: 9/10. Also had for 1 year. Got an A- in the first 2 quarters, but high A+ for the last two + 5 on the exam, so that’ll make for a good rags-to-riches story.
BC calc: 9/10. Had for 2 years. Finished precalc honors with 100 as well as BC Calc, and was the only person in her class ever to have gotten a 100 on all her tests. However, she is not as personal as the other two teachers.
Schools applied to:
MIT, UMich, Northeastern (deferred)
Stony Brook, Georgia Tech, RPI (accepted)
Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Cornell, UPenn, URochester (pending)
What do y’all think?