Hispanic Male (Mexican)
Intended Major: Aerospace Engineering, Nuclear Engineering (UC Berkeley Only)
Top School Choices: MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Caltech, UCLA, UC Berkeley
Other School Choices: San Diego State, UC Irvine, UC San Diego
1470 SAT (800 Math, 670 R/W)
28 ACT (29 Superscore)
-Planning on retaking both after adequate preparation
SAT II- Math II, Chemistry, and Spanish planned for October 2018
GPA:
(Unweighted): 3.78
(Weighted): 4.33
AP:
Spanish Language: 5
European History: 2
Chemistry: 5
Spanish Literature: 4
English Language: 3
-National AP Scholar with Honor
Proposed Coursework for Senior Year:
AP English Literature
AP Government
AP Macroeconomics
AP Calculus AB (School is switching from BC to AB)
AP Physics 1
AP Psychology
Marching Band/Instrumental Music
Jazz Ensemble
Sociology of Gender (Community College)
Intro to Political Science (CC)
German I (CC)
Activities:
•Mock Trial
-Vice President (11th)
-2nd Place Prosecution Attorney at County Competition (Out of 33 Schools)
-Participant Freshman-Senior Years
•Robotics Team
-Founding Member (2016)
-President of the Robotics Club (12th)
-Head Mechanical and Electrical Engineer (11th)
-Participant Freshman-Senior Years
•Band/Music
-I have been participating in my High School’s Marching and Jazz ensembles since the 8th grade, and have been participating in the Concert ensemble since my Freshman year
-First Chair Tenor Saxophone- Jazz and Concert Bands (Freshman-Senior), Marching Band (Freshman Only, due to advancement to higher rank)
-Drum Major (Sophomore-Senior)- I hold the record for being the youngest student at my high school to ever fill the position, having received the position at the end of my Freshman year, and have been incumbent since the start of my Sophomore Year.
•Student Mentoring
-I mentor and tutor elementary school age youth at a local mentoring organization that I used to go to as a 4th and 5th grade, helping with homework and providing a “safe space” for these youth to express themselves and their feelings. I have been mentoring since the start of my Freshman Year.
•Community College
-I also attend my local community college and take courses there, due to the fact that I think that my school does not offer a rigorous enough curriculum for my liking. I have completed 22 units so far, I hope to have 40+ completed by the time I graduate high school.
More about me:
•I am bilingual, fluent in both English and Spanish. I learned to speak both more or less equally growing up, but I had more exposure to Spanish. Spanish is my first language.
•I will be a first generation college student, and the first in my family to attend a 4-year university.
•I was born in the United States, but both of my parents moved here from Mexico during the later half of the 1980’s.
•I love world cultures and constantly learning more and more. As my summer project, I am learning how to read and speak German.