*Chance Me - ENG*

gingersteak
Sat, 24 May 2008 21:58:53 +0000

As a stereotypically white male who would like to study Engineering at Cornell, what do you think my chances are?

ACT - 32
SAT II: Math II - 800; BioM - 800

Currently 18/352 in class
3.97 Unweighted GPA / 4.4 Weighted

First Robotics Team - I commit six weeks starting in January to this mammoth of a project. First year offered was Sophomore year, that year I helped start the team. Most people are unfamiliar with FIRST so I encourage you to google it. In other words I commit well over 150 hours in six weeks, which also inhibited me on continuing other activities like Mock Trial (below) So, J

Jazz Band - Alto Saxophone - F, So, J

Marching Band - A rigorous program during September and October every year. Our band prepares for parades and Homecoming halftime show. - Alto Saxophone - F, So, J

S.M.A.R.T. Team - Along with the Milwaukee School of Engineering, our team works with a professor (usually someone who teaches at the Medical College of Wisconsin) and models a protein that the professor has been studying. I wasn’t aware of this program until I took AP Biology Junior year, and since it has become my passion! - J

JV Volleyball - AP classes and a rigorous marching band schedule forced me to discontinue this junior year. F, So.

Outside School -
Philmont Expedition - I led a group (crew leader) of three fellow eagle scouts and three adults through the New Mexican rockies.

Eagle Scout - Boy Scouts of America
Assistant Senior Patrol Leader - Boy Scouts of America
Crew Leader - Philmont Scout Ranch

In my robotics team - Electronics and Programming team leader for two years

Private Saxophone Lessons for five years

Lead Alto Saxophone in Jazz for two years
1st Award - State Saxophone Solo two years in a row.
Junior year, received even higher award of ‘Exemplary’ - only awarded to thirty saxophone players in the state.

Dick Ohm Merit award recipient (model student award)