<p>I’m a junior, and my preferences are LBW, Launch, and SSTP</p>
<p>Ethnicity: Asian
Household Income: 200,000+
State: Ohio</p>
<p>Standardized Tests:
SAT: Taking on January 24 (Expecting somewhere between 2200 - 2300)
ACT: Took last week (Expecting 34-35)
SAT 2: Math 2 (760,)</p>
<p>AP/IBs:
Took:Chemistry, Statistics, US History
Taking: IB Math HL Yr 2, AP Physics C, IB Psychology, AP Gov, AP Lang (Self-Studying AP Human Geo and AP Psych, but I don’t think matters)</p>
<p>GPA:
Weighted: ~ 4.4
UW: 3.9</p>
<p>EC:
Volleyball (2 years) - Varsity Libero
Speech and Debate (3 years) - Debate Captain
Model UN (3 years) - President
Science Olympiad (3 years) - Team Captain
Math Team (3 years)
Quiz Team (3 years) - “On the Bubble” Varsity
Community Service: Volunteering at Temple and Local Food Pantry</p>
<p>Work:
Planning to get an internship soon at a local Supply Chain and Logistics Business (talking with CEO/family friend)</p>
<p>It would be awesome if you guys could chance me. I really, really want to get into these programs</p>
<p>I only know for LBW and Launch, not familiar with the other programs. I was accepted at both and went to Launch. At launch there seemed to be two main categories of students - engineers and entrepreneurs. The engineers had already made “stuff” which they could point to (software or apps on the App store or physical products), and the entrepreneurs had either founded charities or their own businesses. Other than that, there were a few people who didn’t fall into either of these two categories, but they seemed to have really good connections - like being relatives with a CEO or Angel Investor.</p>
I attended SRAP in the summer after my junior year (2013), and, I must say, it was one of the best experiences of my life (not exaggerating). I believe application process involved test scores, an essay, and letters of rec. When/if you got in, you have to fill out quite a bit of paperwork, but it was all worth it. They paid for room and board, and I made $2000 (!!!). Plus there were weekend excursions to Denver (we stayed at a hotel overnight and went to the zoo and aquarium at no cost to us; they handled food too!) and a hiking trip in the mountains (got to see snow in summer). Evenings and weekends are your free time (I suggest exploring Laramie), and I still remain good/great friends with my fellow SRAPers to this day (they also went to some of the best schools in the nation, such as Yale, MIT, and Stanford; I attend UF on a full scholarship). You work/research 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, but the strenuousness of that schedule really depends on your research mentor. In the end, I wrote a 15-page paper and gave a presentation in front of fifty people. A great, relatively obscure program that pays both financially, academically, socially, and experientially!
I’m East Asian (so not an academic minority lol), second-generation college, 2240 SAT, 3.80 unweighted (not going to give weighted because my school does it weirdly), and a lot fewer ECs than you.
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