Chance Me, Kinda Weird App

shrig94
Sun, 07 Nov 2010 10:19:40 +0000

I’m applying not only to Harvard but also Duke, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Caltech, Yale, Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Carnegie Mellon. So, if you can, please chance me for all.

My top choices are Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, and Berkeley.

I’m a little bit strange, since I’m applying as an 11th grader, and I goto an IB school, so I don’t have any IB/AP Test scores to prove my proficiency yet.

Anyways, some stats:

GPA: 4/4 (UW) 4.82/5 (W)

Class Rank: 1/149 (We have quite rigorous classes grading-wise. Only two students haven’t had a B yet, and the other student took one less advanced class than I did, sophomore year. There aren’t any ties for valedictorian either. That said, we are not a great school by any means. The best universities we sent kids to last year were Babson, Rice, and UT)

SAT: 2200 (800 math, 680 cr, 720 wr-8 essay)

SAT II: Math II:800, Math I:800, Phys (not sure but…):700+ (90% sure it should be)

Awards/Honors: AIME Qualifier 2 time, USAJMO Qualifier 1 time, TMSCA 2 Time State Champion in Mathematics, Number Sense and Calculator

Sports: Varsity Table Tennis, 3rd place state winter games tournament

ECs: Metroplex Math Circle Assistant, Copy Editor for Newspaper, Math/Science/Computer Science Team, Class Pres (9, 10), Key Club Pres (11), StuCo Parliamentarian (11)

Rigorous courses taken/taking:
SL Physics, SL Math, HL Math, English III IB, History of the Americas IB, French III IB, Chemistry SL, Local University Computer Science and Statistics (received A’s in both)

Distinguishing Features:
Only USA(J)MO Qualifier ever in an 80 mile radius
Founder of the website [Online Math Circle | The World’s First Online Math Circle](http://www.onlinemathcircle.com)
Very rural background, 2 hour drive from the nearest big city (Dallas)
Applying Early as school in my area isn’t challenging enough