<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2380 (800 CR 800 M 780 W)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Chem 800 Physics 800 Math II
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]GPA: 4.32W 3.95UW at time of application, 4.30, 3.89 after midyear
[<em>]Rank: 6/326 (dropped to 20/326 by midyear. senioritis…)
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AMC12 109.5, AIME 6 (2011), USNCO Qualifier, Mandelbrot Regional Winner, National Merit, Math League 1st Place. </p>
<p>[<em>]Essays: Talked about a prank my friends and I were planning to pull off (hope the caltech admissions office doesn’t rat me out, and i won’t post the details here because I think we can still get in trouble…), talked about the feeling of discovery and accomplishment one gets by engaging in scientific research and science in general, and… talked about one time where I used maphacks to win a competitive Starcraft match, felt bad about it, and confessed to my friends. I thought they were pretty good, but idk… I am quite a bad judge of my writing ability
[</em>]Teacher Recs: One really good, one generic/okay
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Decent. She knows me decently well.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: research paper on the construction of steiner’s ellipse without an affine transformation
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, International Olympiads): nope. anti-hook for being asian?
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: OR
[<em>]High School Type: public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese)
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Way too lazy to list it out. Leadership positions were NOT lacking though. They ranged from math/science to debate/forensics and piano/music, internship at a software company, about 150 hours of volunteer service.
[<em>]Awards: A decent amount of regional debate awards, piano awards, MUN awards…add that to the stuff above.
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]
[li] Holy shiznizz I didn’t see this one coming. Was going out to lunch, got the email, thought “oh great, my day is about to be ruined”. was pleasantly surprised</p>[/li]
<p>Where else have you been accepted/rejected?
deferred SCEA princeton, accepted to Illinois ECE</p>
<p>Edit: oops, in my excitement I forgot something. congrats to other people who were admitted! and if you didn’t get in:
reading down the page I was completely astounded by the stats of the people who were rejected. you will all get in somewhere else, and it will be just as amazing. you don’t need to hear it from me, but you’ll know i’m right in like a month</p>