Here's me, rolled up into a single page. Woohoo.

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Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:39:12 +0000

Well… I loathe chances threads, but several people have asked me for my stats, so here they are. Discuss if you like - School of computer science, mostly.

GPA: 4.0 on 4.0 scale
Rank 1 in an uncompetitive public high school.

SAT IIs:
Physics 800
Math II 790
US History 720

ACT:
34 composite: 36 math, 35 science, 32 reading, 33 english

SAT: Took it once in 9th grade. Never took it again. :-)

Clubs:
Editor in Chief of my school’s newspaper
President of my school’s science club
Captain of my school’s math team
Part-founder of my school’s chess club
O’Neil NHS member.

Classes this year:
Physics 109 & 110 (Mechanics and Electromagnetism with Calc)
Calc III (Multivariate) and Linear Algebra
Computer programming independent study
Economics
Journalism 2
English 4

Here’s where the good stuff starts!

Taught myself to computer program over the last 8 years (QBASIC->Java->C++, then learned (in some random order) Assembly(x86), HTML, JavaScript, Perl, PHP) all fairly proficiently.

Participated in the [Battlecode competition](http://battlecode.mit.edu) this year. Basically it’s an Artificial Intelligence competition against teams of students from MIT. I wasn’t able to officially compete, but I was able to defeat 5 of the 8 teams that made it to the final tournament (out of roughly 150 teams) in scrimmages. Those 5 teams each won at least $1000 and lots of job offers (Google, Intel, etc…) I’m a bit jealous. :-)

Gold division competitor in the USA Computing Olympiad

Wrote a program to do and show cellular automata in 3d. [Here’s a few screenshots of some of the states.](Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos) Very interesting stuff!

Various other fairly minor awards, etc. in math, science, computer science, and journalism.

Applying to MIT (deferred), Caltech (deferred), CMU (SCS), Rensselaer, UW-Madison (accepted)