Chance me for Stanford

nwlee
Sat, 26 Jun 2021 15:12:14 +0000

Personal:

Asian, Male, American citizen

extremely competitive Gifted Science High school in Korea

Class Size of 130, rank unavailable

Numbers:

ACT: 33/35/36/36 (tested once)

GPA: 4.22/4.3 (Our school calculates 4.3 as an A+, 4.0 as A0, 3.7 as A-. I don’t have any Bs or below)

APs:

AP Cal BC (5, took last year), took AP lang, Physics C Mechanics, Physics C E&M, Statistics, Chemistry this year and haven’t got the score yet. Probably all 5 maybe 4 for AP lang

School course:

taking Linear algebra(Anton’s textbook), Automata thoery, Number theory, etc. this year. Took Calculus, Physics, Chemistry(Zumdal’s textbook), Biology, Computer(C+), Quantum physics(Griffith’s textbook), etc. Also took English, literature, Korean, Chinese, world history, Korean histroy, etc. Also, taking Cornell’s summer program this summer.

Extracurriculars:

1. Basketball varsity captain.(But our team is the weakest in the country)

2. Did research about game theory and won the gold prize from our school

3. Did internship in Korea University NanoBio Sensing System Laboratory

4. Athletic Department President in student government

5. Editor at school’s newspaper

6. Did volunteer of under the Korea MOLIT for more than a hundred hours(Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport)

7. Won a research award with 3,000$ prize

8. The president of school TED club(a sort of speech club)

9. KPHO winter school (kind of like MOP but selects about 60 students and it’s about physics)

10. Haven’t decided the rest. I have a good research about COVID-19 which also won a school prize and some other minor clubs.

Awards and Honors:

1. USAMO qualifier (score of 16)

2. USAPHO qualifier

3. KSEF(might be a finalist for the ISEF, hopefully)

4. School research awards(3 in total. Two gold, one silver)

Essays: Haven’t wrote it yet, working on it.

Rec Letters:

Haven’t got it yet

Additional Information Section:

My dad studied and got a PhD degree from Stanford. I’m not sure this counts as a legacy because he isn’t an active alumni.

Areas of Interest:

Statistics, Bio informatics, CS, EE