Chance me for MIT (Junior)

mathnerd1
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:40:31 +0000

Hi, I’m a junior in high school, and as the username suggests, I’m interested in mathematics. Chance me and I’ll chance you back!

MIT (EA)
Caltech (EA)
Harvard
Yale
Stanford*
Brown*
UChicago*
Duke*
UC Berkeley
UCLA


= will not apply if I get in somewhere EA.
UC app is due before EA/ED decisions come out.
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Asian Male from CA (-sadface-)

Go to a competitive public (charter) school, ranked rather high on US News/World Report.

Weighted GPA: N/A
Unweighted GPA: 3.99

Class Rank: Don’t know, would safely guess top 10%.

Freshman/Sophomore grades: All A’s except an A- in AP Spanish first semester.

AP’s: Calculus BC, Stats, Comp Sci A, Spanish Lang… all 5’s except a 4 on Spanish.

Taken Linear Algebra and Multivariable Calculus already at local institutions.

Junior schedule: AP English Lang, AP Chemistry, AP World History, AP Biology, Orchestra, Independent Study in Math (1st semester, real analysis/combinatorics/number theory), Abstract Algebra (2nd semester, off campus)… got all A’s first semester.

Senior schedule: AP English Lit, APUSH, AP Physics B (school is dumb and doesn’t offer C), stuff off campus for math/comp sci (EPGY, local institutions… thinking about Differential Equations, Real/Complex Analysis, Topology, Algorithms)

SAT: Took 2 weeks ago…will probably retake if below 2200.

PSAT: CR 74/Math 80/Writing 76, 230 composite… should be high enough for NMS.

Subject Tests:
800 Math II
690 Spanish (definitely not sending)



Summer Activities: 2010 - Linear Algebra course, 2011 - Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics

Other:
Math Club - Co-President (50+ hours) (unique, duh)
Writing/Poetry Club (30+ hours)
Tutoring in Math (50+ hours)
Journalism
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music - Student Staff (2009, 2010)
Ushering at local Shakespeare festival - 2009, 2010
USAMO Qualifier last year (132 AMC12 + 9 AIME)
Violin (most unique extracurricular ever): private lessons, school orchestra (concertmaster), county youth symphony (concertmaster last year), chamber music groups (won local awards), honors county high school jazz band, pit orchestra for school musicals
Working on a biomathematics project with someone, may submit to Siemens come fall/winter.
Applied to a few summer math/research programs for this summer.

My family has been very dysfunctional/fought a lot/on the verge of breaking up within the last 3 years, making it very hard to work on stuff/be concentrated at times. That being said, we make 100K+ each year.