Chance me and I will chance you back.

terrapinsfan
Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:57:55 +0000

Hey guys!
I want you all to chance me UMD College Park. Below listed are my stats:
SAT Reasoning:
CR-470
Math-630
Writing-560 essay 8
Here is my resume:
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCES:


Volunteered at the USA Science and Engineering Festival 2014
Mentored elementary school children for robotics at 2014
Magnolia Elementary and Old Greenbelt
Volunteered at the Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
on Maryland Day at the Mechanical Engineering booth on 2014
the impact of energy localisations on non-Newtonian fluids.
Spent half a day and impacted about 150 kids.
Mentored middle school children think out of the box with 2014
with the help of Destination Imagination.
Volunteered at the Greenbelt Labor Day parade. Autonomous
robots, a quad copter, a plane and a 120 pound FRC robot were 2014
showcased.
Taught kids of all age groups the basic functioning of a FRC 2014
robot at the DC United soccer match.
Will be demonstrating a FRC robot at the Smithsonian during 2014
the screening of the movie ‘Slingshot’.
Promoted an all girls FRC team at the Barrie School with
Ms. Anna Hopkins, who teaches Science. Contacted my cousin 2014
Vasudha Kowtha, a senior at UMD and a Barrie alumnus in this
process.


MY RESEARCH:


Working on a new wind turbine blade design to improve power 2014
efficiency and output on a scale model. Will start using Computational
Fluid Dynamics to model the airflow through the turbine blades.
Working on a paper based on Computational Geometry with
Prof. Michael Mascagni, aided by Mr. Roberto Vilarrubi, an alumnus 2014
of UMD.
Learning Solid Works, to help my team members in sketching the 2014
design of a FRC robot.
Doing a research practicum on improvising the drivetrain of 2014
FRC robots.


COURSES DONE:

COURSES COMPLETED:



Wave & Ray Optics
Thermal Physics
Mechanics
Differential and Integral Calculus
Ordinary Differential Equations
Electricity and Magnetism
COURSES WORKING ON:
Multivariable Calculus
Computational Geometry
Probability


EXTRA-CURRICULARS:


Elected President of the School Council 2013
Represented the city of Surat at IIT-Gandhinagar 2012
Represented the state of Gujarat at IIT-Kanpur 2013
Won the Scientific Inclination Award from the school 2012
Represented the school at Model United Nations – New Delhi 2013
Co-founder of FRC Team Illusion 4464 2012
President of the Engineering Club at Barrie School


I know that my SAT scores are low, I am retaking them in November. I do not know whether the Nov. scores will be accepted or not, but I believe that with a strong resume and excellent letters of recommendations and a good essay, I should be able to overpower the SAT scores. What do you guys think?