Demographics
- US permanent resident
- State/Location of residency: MA
- Type of high school (or current college for transfers): Small public school ~50 people in my class; no IB program and very few APs offered in person, so taken a lot online
- Other special factors: Moved from Ukraine 2 years ago in the middle of school year. Graduated Ukrainian school 9th grade as an external student and went here into second half of 9th grade.
Cost Constraints / Budget
Run NPC and expected payment is $25,000
Intended Major(s)
Physics, Biophysics, Computational Biology, Computer Science
GPA, Rank, and Test Scores
- Unweighted HS GPA: 4.0
- Weighted HS GPA: 4.62
- Class Rank: School doesn’t do
- ACT/SAT Scores: went only 1 time and got 1500: 710 English + 790 Math; will also go in October and possibly November
List your HS coursework
Linear Algebra through WPI
AP Pre-Calc (online self-passed course): 5
AP Biology: 5
AP CSP: 5
AP Calc BC (self-studied): 4
AP Physics 1 (online self-passed course): 4
- English: English 1 CP1; American Lit. Honors; British Lit. Honors; World Lit. Honors
- Math: Algebra 1 Honors; Geometry Honors; AP Pre-Calc (taken through VHS; 5 on exam); AP Calc BC (self-studied; 4 on exam); AP Stats; Linear Algebra through WPI course
- Science: Biology CP1; Chemistry II Honors; Computer Science Honors; AP Biology (5 on exam); AP Physics 1 (taken through VHS; 4 on exam); AP CSP (5 on exam); AP Physics C (taking through VHS); Independent CS project on quantum systems
- History and social studies: US History 1 CP1; US History II Honors; AP Psychology
- Language other than English: German II; German III
- Visual or performing arts: Digital Media Production
- Other academic courses: Engineer Your World (through UT Austin)
College Coursework (Transfer Applicants)
(Include college courses taken while in high school if not included above.)
Awards
Am the first one ever in our school to participate in MSEF
3rd regionally on Science & Engineering Fair; 2 consecutive years
2nd regionally on Ukrainian Science & Engineering Fair
1st in oblast (aka state) in Ukrainian Biology Olympiad; would go to nationals but had to quit because of leaving the country
AP Scholar with Distinction
Metrowest Student Film Festival Finalist
Bryn Mawr College Book award
Extracurriculars
Intern at UMass Chan Medical School research lab
Developed a method for large scale protein production with potential to reduce electricity consumption by 100x
Initiator and president of first ever school technology club, focusing on Software Development. A little more context here: our town is very tiny and unknown, and no IT-working people live in it. After a year in the club people around school started coming to me saying “this club inspired me to pursue career in cs”. Now expanding this club to middle school and organizing community- and possibly state-wide events.
One of the first members and active promoters of one and only technology help group in school. Constant volunteering in dealing with software and hardware issues throughout school. ACER certified in laptop assembly
Vice President of Chernivtsi oblast (aka state) in Minor Academy of Sciences of Ukraine - UNESCO recognized hub promoting research among gifted youth
Had a short inofficial research experience in Ukrainian university, ranked 3rd Ukraine-wide.
When arrived into US worked as a stablesman, dealing with horses
Essays/LORs/Other
I love writing essays and so far those people who reviewed my college essays and personal statement liked them.
For LORs:
Computer Science Teacher: 9/10; built very strong connection with him. He is a nice person, but just naturally looks like he is aggressive, although he is not, so students don’t really often ask him for recommendations, but he was the one who nominated me for 4 scholarship awards among technical institutes (that was the highest earned number of scholarships earned in our class)
Biology teacher: 8/10; he knows I am passionate about science, and when doing my science fair project we were staying late discussing different science topics. But he has a lot of people asking him for LORs, so not really sure of how much care will he give for one letter
Research Mentor: 9.7/10; she was mentoring me through my internship and said that I was a great addition to the lab. Also said that I opened them a new direction to pursue through the project I am doing. Very strong connection. I am the first high schooler in the lab and in her experience, and she is more than happy with my work
Schools
- Reach: MIT (dream school, EA); Carnegie Mellon (2nd dream school, RD); UChicago; Yale; Princeton; Dartmouth; Harvard; Rice; UPenn; Duke; Johns Hopkins; Caltech; Olin (considering engineering)
- Targed: Brandeis; UMass Amherst; URochester (have a scholarship $5,000/year)
- Safety: RPI (scholarship $40,000/year); RIT (scholarship $19,000/year); WPI; Purdue