<p>Greatest movie ever…now on to the stats</p>
<p>Chance me please?</p>
<p>Paras Doshi
Resident of Westwood, MA
GPA: 3.3 UW, 5.3 W (out of 6.0)
Rank: School doesnt rank, probably top 25%
Mildly competitive school (we send about 5 students to Ivy’s every year)
Class size: 220
Most rigorous course load
- 9th grade - All honors classes
- 10th grade - AP Chem and the rest honors
- 11th grade - AP US History and AP Physics B and the rest honors
- 12th grade - Going to take AP Stat, AP Calc, AP Physics C, AP Lang and Comp, Honors Spanish, Honors Psychology</p>
<p>AP Chem - 4, AP US - 3, AP Physics B - 4</p>
<p>ACT: 30 (retaking…getting around a 34 on practice tests so hopefully i can do that well)
SAT: 1980 (Once again, retaking…hoping to get around a 2100)
SAT II Chem: 720
SAT II Math I: 720
SAT II Math II: 760
SAT II Physics: 640 (screwed this one up…)</p>
<p>EC/Volunteer:
-Internship for two summers at Harvard Medical School in the New Research Building (Summer of 11th,12th)- Did mostly computer stuff (installed servers, software, hardware, etc.)
-Began a branch of Akshaya Patra in Massachusetts (11th, 12th) - Akshaya Patra is an organization which gives free food to underprivileged kids in India
-National Honor Society (1th, 12th)
-Academic Decathlon (10th, 11th, 12th) - won award for speech in statewide competition
-Science Team (10th, 11th, 12th)
-Key Club (9th,10th,11th,12th) - Recently elected as Vice President
-Percussion (9th, 10th)
-Religious (Jain - props to anyone who’s heard of Jainism) Education (9th,10th,11th,12th)
-Created advertisements for nationwide Jain phonebook (summer - 9th)
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (9th) Educational Studies Program - I went to MIT every Saturday for 10 weeks and took classes in Economics, Debate, and How to start a high tech business
-Selected for and attended Boys State
-Leadership Development Program (summer - 9th) - I helped organize games and take care of little kids
-Minuteman Press School (Summer of 12th) - I learned about printing and marketing (my parents started a printing business and Minuteman Press is a franchise, so we all went to this school for 2.5 weeks and learned about how to start the business, how to price jobs, how to print on a press, etc.)</p>
<p>Sports:
9th - Soccer, Ski Team, Outdoor track
10th - XC, Indoor track, Outdoor track (letter)
11th - XC, Indoor Track, Outdoor Track
12th - XC, Indoor Track, Outdoor Track</p>
<p>Reccomendations:
I’m definitely going to get good ones from my GC, my math/computer science/engineering teacher (who is an MIT grad), and my “boss” at Harvard Medical School</p>
<p>Schools I’m applying to:</p>
<p>University of Pennsylvania (ED)
Case Western Reserve
University of Michigan
University of Texas: Austin
Rice University
Boston University
Umass Amherst
Rensselear Polytechnical Institute
MIT
UMD: College Park
University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus
Northeastern University</p>