CHANCE me (Ivies, MIT, Caltech, Stanford, etc.)

stemboy9621
Mon, 14 Sep 2020 05:55:44 +0000

Hello, I’m a current senior, and I would love you guys to chance me on the schools listed below. My spike would be math and engineering and I really want to major somewhere around mechanical engineering or applied math.

Schools in order of priority : Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Columbia, Penn, Cornell, CMU, and the UCs

Demographics :
Asian Male (oh no), us citizen
Private high school

Standardized tests and scores:
SAT - 1570/1600
SAT II - Math 2 (800), Physics (790)
GPA - 4.21 (W) 3.96 (UW)
9 AP’s with all 5

Awards :
AIME qualified 3 times, scored 7~8
USACO Plat qualified
HMMT and ARML Semi Finalist
Some smaller local competitions
Nationals qualified for Robotics

Recs :
Physics teacher (prly good)
Math teacher (very good, def)

ECs and Leadership :
Played a varsity sport for all years of HS
Researched and published 2 papers, mentioned in a famous stem magazine.
Math team all 4 years, captain senior year
Robotics team for 3 years, captain senior year
Part of a STEM research club, I’m officer this year
Made some projects (prosthetics, corona websites, school website redesign, etc.)
Music (I was really committed - jazz, pit, abrsm, international bands, carnegie hall, etc.)
Cofounded non-profit teaching young kids (MS and ES) basic coding and engineering
Cofounded NGO focusing on human rights in Asian communities
Maker blog where I record all my projects (won’t disclose for privacy reasons)
Internship (soph → jr. year) at a local university using CAD and stuff like dat
PROMYS this summer, was really nice.