Please keep in mind that I am an international student from India (highly competitive applicant pool) that has taken a gap year.
[ul]Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2060
SAT II: 730,730,730 (Math II C, Physics, Chemistry) (tests taken the same day)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 1%
Predicted A-Level Grades: Three A*s, Three As
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
Award from ex-president of India for Invention
National Innovation Foundation Award for Invention
ISEF Semifinalist Awards
Selected as ISEF 2015 Finalist (scheduled for May 2015)
Top 10 out of over 1000 Students in Inter-District Art Competition
Gold Medal - 1st out of 250 Students in Institute Art Exam
1st Prize in Local Club Tennis Tournaments
Have a provisional patent
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
School Art Club ( Founder and President);
7 Years from Private Art Institute with distinctions and awards and participation in exhibitions;
Student Government ( Vice President);
Student Government (House Captain);
Varsity Tennis (Vice Captain);
Local Club Tennis (Captain);
Debate Club (Moderator);
Varsity Cricket (Captain);
School STEM Club (Founder and President);
[li] Special Projects and Activities during school years:[/li]Student Exchange Program where we worked on sustainable development;
Conducted and organised city’s first Inter School Coding Competition (Hackathon);
Built a social network for artists that was crowdfunded;
Project on car chassis that can be easily be recovered after collision;
Cleared Zonal Computing Olympiad;
Representing state in Indian National Olympiad in Informatics;
[li] Special Projects and Activities during Gap Year:[/li]Research on graphene supercapacitors that can charge a cell phone in 12s (successfully achieved). Novelty of the research lies in materials science ( the subject I have applied to most of the colleges for). Patent expenses payed by National Innovation Foundation. Getting funding for further development of invention from Boston Based venture fund.
Set up Self Organised Learning Environments in and around city (based on Suagata Mitras Ted Talk) basically uses computers and internet to help promote creativity and encourage curiosity in children. Catering to about 1000 children in total from 5 schools;
Interned in a farm and carried out successful affordable vertical multilevel farming research;
Also carried out hydroponics based vertical farming research - can increase crop yield by 40 times;
Essays: Pretty decent.
[/ul]Other
Country: India
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: -
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Applied without aid
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
Reflection
Strengths: Researchwork, Awards, ECs
Weaknesses: Testing Scores
Colleges Applied to : 8 Ivies; Duke, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, Harvey Mudd, Rice, Northwestern, Washington Uni in St.Louis, Michigan, GeorgiaTech,