<p>Quick Summary:
Advantages: SAT scores, great extracurricular, good story for middle class guy, college classes
Disadvantages: low gpa, no academic awards/academic club involvement</p>
<p>Short version of my life (Important): Grow up loving skiing living in the Northwest. School was super easy, so easy in fact I got bored. Proceeded to start hating school by 6th grade. By 9th grade I had started winning ski competitions and getting ski sponsors. Winter of 9th grade I (somehow) convinced my parents to allow me to attend online school to pursue skiing and to allow myself the flexibility to travel for competitions (the school had threatened to not let me graduate 8th grade because I was gone so much for contests). Online school was great for skiing and great because I wasn’t forced to do “stupid” school anymore. 12 months into online school I started to remember a curiosity and passion almost pounded out of me by my time in forced education. Proceeded to pick up my grades and decided to attend running start full time beginning fall junior year. (For those who don’t know running start is a program in Washington where you get free college credit and you attend real college classes). I am now loving college classes and in particular my math and science courses, while also feeling very challenged.</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2250 1st take (CR:780 M:770 W:700)
ACT:
SAT II (conservative estimates from practice tests): Math II:750 Physics: 750
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.71/4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Don’t know rank and it isn’t applicable as I take college classes with a different grading system.
AP (place score in parenthesis):
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: Linear Algebra, Calc III, Calc IV, Diff Eq, Physics II (E&M), Physics III (waves&optics w/ a little quantum), Chem I-III, English Comp II, Poly Sci I</p>
<p> Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
John Hopkins talented youth kid back in 7th grade if that counts? (haha)</p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
-Freeride team (team captain 2 years)
-Freeride competition:
-1st in U.S. 8th grade
-10th in N.A. 9th grade
-15th in N.A. 10th grade
-13th in N.A. 11th grade. (All of these were invite only, selected from ~1000 competitors)
-Numerous regional contest wins/awards
-Have 5 distinct sponsors that supply me with almost all of my gear every season
-Made my own blog to chronicle my travels for skiing competitions
-Japanese Club 11th grade</p>
<p> Job/Work Experience:
Courtesy Clerk at QFC 20hrs/week (since spring of Sophomore year)
Worked at a summer camp in Oregon for food and lodging so I could ski during the summer after 9th grade
Volunteer/Community service:
Volunteer to help teach wilderness survival techniques to youth ages 5-15 80 hrs.
Summer Activities:
Worked at a summer camp in Oregon for food and lodging so I could ski and train during the summer after 9th grade.
This summer I get to take classes in my favorite subjects (math&science).</p>
<p>Other
State (if domestic applicant): WA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: M
Income Bracket: ~130k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):</p>
<p>List of schools that you’re applying to:
-University of Washington
-UChicago (parchment seems to think I have a 30% chance. que skeptical face)
-UC Berkeley 3.81 UW UC gpa, and 4.21 weighted w/ college classes - applying to college of L&S
-Reed
-I need more!</p>
<p>If anyone can give me some advice/chances that would be awesome! Also I need lots of help selecting more schools to apply to. UCB is my dream school because they’re admissions standards aren’t as high as some of other good math and science schools, so if someone could reccomend more schools like UCB (preferably cheaper!), that would be greatly appreciated.</p>