Please chance me RD :)

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Wed, 20 Dec 2017 04:47:29 +0000

SAT I (breakdown): 1540 (790 Math / 750 CR+Writing / 16 essay) single sitting
ACT (breakdown): Did Not take
SAT II: 800 Math II, 730 Physics
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): ~3.7 (5.5 on a weighted scale of 6)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 15%, school isn’t more specific than that.
AP (place score in parenthesis): Physics 2: 4, Statistics: 5, and US History: 5
IB (place score in parenthesis): NA
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calculus BC, AP Physics C, AP Chemistry, AP Goverment, AP Economics, AP English
Q1 BC: B+, Physics C: A+, Chemistry: A-, Gov: A+, Econ: A, English: B-
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Qualified for the AIME (American Invitational Mathmatica Examination) this year and got a 6. Placed 4th for the Circuit Lab during the Science Olympiad Massachusetts state tournament (not sure this one is major though)

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
-Programming Club (Current President)
-Science Olympiad Competition Team Member (Informal group leader)
-Varsity Wrestling
-Have been playing piano and guitar since 8th grade. I take lessons an hour a week and practice for about 6.
-Bee keeper

Job/Work Experience: none
Volunteer/Community service: Taught English to members of the Greek Navy via Skype.

Summer Activities: An internship at Philips on QRS detection on an electrocardiogram; wrote a short research paper on my findings.
Essays (rating 1-10, details): Plan on making them good, but that’s a summer thing.

Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: AP US History 9/10. Good guy: talked about history/ politics a lot after school.
Teacher Rec #2: Honors Precalc and Trig. Hopefully good. 8-9/10?
Counselor Rec: 10/10 - I have known her for 3 years now. She’s told me to my face she would be including that I am the most passionate student for physics she had ever seen.
Additional Rec: 10/10 Rec from the person I did my internship under.

Other: Can speak Polish

Applied for Financial Aid?: Dont think ill get any with my families income bracket
Intended Major: Physics/ Computer Science
State (if domestic applicant): MA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public- Consistently top 15 in the state.
Ethnicity: Polish/Greek
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 200k+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Mom didn’t graduate High School, but that kinda gets canceled out by my dads PhD, so not really I guess?

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