Could this be... another chances thread?

Colleges & Universities California Institute of Technology
1

<p>I’m applying Caltech EA and I want to know my chances:</p>

<p>I post the stats!!</p>

<p>Profile</p>

<p>School Type: Public (800 students)
Location: Tunapuna, Trinidad
Race/Gender: Indian/male
Prospective Major: Mechanical Engineering
Class rank: 1 of 130</p>

<p>SAT I Scores
SAT I Math: 800
SAT I Verbal: 720</p>

<p>SAT II Scores
SAT II Writing: 710
SAT II Math IIC: 800
SAT II Physics: 800</p>

<p>Long-form Info</p>

<p>Extracurricular Info
Represented Trinidad and Tobago at the International Mathematical Olympiad 2004 (Score: 9/42)
Represented Trinidad and Tobago at the Asia-Pacific Mathematics Olympiad.
2nd place in Trinidad and Tobago IMO team selection tests.
6th place at Trinidad and Tobago Mathematics Olympiad Level 2 2004.
Hypatia Contest 2004 Certificate of Distinction.
Australian Mathematics Trust, 3 certificates of credit and 1 of distinction from various years.</p>

<p>Qualified lifeguard (St. Augustine Aquatics Club). Play tabla (indian classical instrument at the Mahatma Ghandi Cultural Institute). Founding member of new chess club at school. Captaincy of the Trinidad IMO team to Mexico 2005 pending. Assistant lab tech (volunteer) in electrical engineering at UWI (a local university) summer before 11th (40 hrs/week for 4 weeks). Did volunteer work at the Newhaven Senior Citizen Centre in Arima earlier this year. Co-developer of the school’s website.</p>

<p>Caribbean Youth Science Forum 2004 project: “Power Generation: Human Powered Alternatives”</p>

<p>School awards: 1st place Form 5, 1st place L6, silver medal for CXC (gold medal is not awarded at CXC level), and then individual subject awards etc.</p>

<p>CV: <a href=“HillviewCollege.com is available at DomainMarket.com. Call 888-694-6735”>HillviewCollege.com is available at DomainMarket.com. Call 888-694-6735;

<p>Other Info
Courseload:</p>

<p>A Level:
Mathematics, Further Mathematics (self-study), Physics, Chemistry</p>

<p>AS Level:
General Paper</p>

<p>I’m writing in November as well as in June.</p>

<p>10k in the school walkathon (marcus beat me with 14k argh). Participated in school’s 1.5K in sport’s day. After 4th place they don’t rank so I have no idea how I did (it’s a big open-field race). :(</p>

<p>US citizen applying from outside US.</p>

1 Like
2

<p>Whoops, forgot to put I was vice-captain of the trinidad IMO team. :)</p>

3

<p>You surely stand a strong chance!!!
if not EA u will surely be in at regular i suppose!!!</p>

4

<p>You have a pliable chance, being a US citizen with internation experience I imagine will play in your favor, and it sounds like you have an interesting background. What is AS - General Paper. Is that from research? If you have research, I would say you have above a 50% chance. If not, but you’ve written very strong essays, I could imagine it being up near that 50% mark again.</p>

<p>g</p>

5

<p>No it’s not research, it’s a humanities subject based on argumentative writing. 2 essays with 600-800 words each in a 2 hour paper.</p>

<p>Let’s hope the coin they are flipping in the admissions office is entangled to give me heads. :)</p>

6

<p>whoa… you went to IMO. you’re in 90%.</p>

7

<p>whoa… you went to IMO. you’re in 90%.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~jsm28/imo-scores/2004/scores-code.html[/url]”>http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~jsm28/imo-scores/2004/scores-code.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Scroll down to TTB4.</p>

<p>I’m famous (more like infamous) because on the second day exam they had instructions on how to fill out the country code etc. and they used 76TTB4 (me) as an example. :)</p>

8

<p>Any more comments?</p>

9

<p>Not to be a prick, but he went to the IMO from Trinadad and Tobango. There is a difference in going from TTB and, say, the USA. You can tell this by looking at the scores of folks from the smaller countries and the larger ones. Clearly the competition to get in is much stiffer in somewhere like the USA, where everyone took gold medals. I stand by my around or somewhat below 50%, not 90%.</p>

<p>Galen</p>

10

<p>* where everyone took gold medals.*</p>

<p>I don’t think matt got gold.</p>

11

<p>Whatever, five gold and a silver. Same idea - the point remains.</p>

<p>g</p>

12

<p>Wow. But not being able to spell “Gandhi” worries me quite a bit.</p>

13

<p>Huh? …</p>

14

<p>Admitted. :)</p>

15

<p>Congrats…ha…my words werent worthless… :slight_smile:
if you like to tell what did you fill in the rectangle in your app?</p>

<p>I am not applying to caltech, got really little chances but, that question still keeps me curious…</p>

16

<p>I will reveal that in time. :slight_smile: It was really cool, though.</p>

17

<p>Hi amrik, congrats. M very happy for you. by the way, what did you put in the box. Just give me a general hint e.g a painting, math work, etc</p>

<p>Again. congrats.</p>

18

<p>It’s not a painting or a math work.</p>