Chance me fam

LookAtThisNet
Sun, 04 Dec 2016 08:28:54 +0000

Chance for: Boston Univ, Cal Poly Slo and Pomona, UC Berkeley, Los Angeles, Irvine, and San Diego, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Georgia Tech, Loyola Chicago, MIT, UMass Amherst

Objective:
SAT I- NA
ACT-35C one sitting (36E, 34M, 35R, 35S, 24W)
SAT II’s: Math II (720), MBio (740)
Unweighted GPA: 3.66
UC Weighted: 4.2
Weighted uncapped: 4.1
Rank: School doesn’t rank, but I would guess only top 25% because i didn’t take competitive classes until junior year
AP’s taken: Bio (4), Language (4)
Senior Courses- AP Latin 4, AP Physics C, AP Literature, AP Calc BC, AP Micro/Macro, Science and Religion, History of Los Angeles

Major Awards (USAMO, intel, etc…): no major awards
-Various awards for high scoring on National Latin Exams and Junior Classical League state convention tests

Subjective:
Extracurriculars
-11-12 Stage Crew of theatre program, I run one of the followspots
-11-12 club lacrosse team, we play against varsity level teams and other clubs

-9-12 President of the Gamer's Club, we discuss gaming in popular culture and professions in gaming industries, became president in 12th grade

Job Experience:
-9-12 Not sure if this would count but ran an ebay shop selling electronics to pay for my high school tuition
-10-12 PayPal reconciliation, reconciling PayPal payments with their invoices

Volunteering:
-9-12 Service at dog adoption clinic, walking, feeding, answering questions about dogs
-12 Tutoring and daycare at a k-8 catholic school
-10 Community service trip to new Orleans with school, various works (cleaning garden for sisterhood, cleaning school for new year, cleaning horse stables for horse sanctuary)
-9 high school placement test tutoring, tutoring 7th and 8th graders in math, english, vocab for a placement test

Teacher Recommendations: AP Bio teacher and regular US history teacher, am on good terms with both of them so i think it will turn out well
Counselor Rec: He said he spent the most time on mine, so I hope it will be good. I have an excellent relationship with him, I talk to him the most about college and issues and I always bring him a sample of the desserts I make for classes.

Essays:
-UCs were good, talked about service at dog adoptions, innovating gamers club, overcoming poor social skills and social anxiety through improv and theatre, expressing creativity through baking,
-Common App is ok, feels a bit weak, it’s about how I used gaming as a common interest to help immerse myself in my high school community since i was struggling socially.

Other:
prospective major: Materials Science and Engineering, Chem or Mech engineering where Mat isn’t offered, MicroBio where engineering isn’t offered
Strengths: Test scores, STEM classes
Weaknesses: English (straight B from 10-11 grade while i was getting A or A- in every other subject), EC, GPA for reach schools
State: CA
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: African American
Sex: Male
Income Bracket: 140k
Hooks: URM?

just feeling kinda nervous about the whole situation since my stats feel lower than what everyone on the site says theirs are