Chance me UMich and Cornell

Coldsummer123
Sat, 25 Jul 2015 00:31:01 +0000

Thank you!
Chance Cornell Dyson and ILR Economics please.

would I get any financial aid also?

Hispanic, National Hispanic Scholar
Class Rank: Top 10% (Competitive high school with 400 students in my grade)
School does grades out of 100 for who knows what reason but anyway these are my grades out of 100, where Honors and AP courses are weighted as extra 5% and 7% respectively. I’ve never gotten a B.
GPA: 8th: 95 9th: 97.5 10th: 98.5 11th:100.5 Overall GPA:98.5
ACT: 35(35 Math, 36 Science, 35 English, 33 Reading)
SAT IIs: Physics 760 , Math II 800, US 720
AP Scores: Computer Science A(5), Physics 1(5), English Lit(5), US History(5)

Extracurricular:
Founder and President of Programming Club
Member in Stock Market Club, Science Olympiads, Mathletes
National, Science, Spanish, Business Honor Societies

Volunteer/Work:
Various hours from various things (ex: special Olympics, Robotic league volunteer).
Helped coordinate a charity effort with the school to refurbish old computers.
United States Soccer Federation Grade 8 certified referee for 4 years
Internship at a cloud computing summer Freshman year
Co-Manager at a great clips summer Freshman year

Summer Programs:
Financial Engineering at Baruch College
Researcher at a Computer Science/Applied Mathematics lab
various computer science camps (1 in c++, 1 in python)

Awards:
A few minor awards from various minor competitions. (Ex: bronze medal at Math Fair)
Might be Siemens semifinalist - how much would this help?

Teacher Recs: One from programming teacher who knows me very well and has a very good relationship with me so it will be incredible. One from english teacher who likes me very much and knows I am a very good student will be pretty good, but not as good as programming teacher.

Course Load:

Freshman & Sophomore: Hardest Available. Didn’t take the one AP offered because I was scared.

Junior:
AP Computer Science, AP Physics 1, AP English Language and Composition, AP US History, college accounting course

Senior:
AP Physics C, AP English Literature, AP Statistics, AP Calculus BC, AP Spanish, AP Macro, AP Gov

Essays:
Should be great, probably going to be about how I stutter.