Top Schools for a US expat

<p>Profile: Caucasian male, US citizen living in Canada. Lived in Alaska before that up until grade 10.</p>

<p>Major: MechE or EE</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 U.W.</p>

<p>SAT: 2340: 800CR/740M/800WR</p>

<p>800 Chem
780 Lit
<strong><em>will be taking math 2</em></strong></p>

<p>Rank: Ranked highest in the school in unweighted class average</p>

<p>APs: Bio(self-study), Chem, Calc BC(self-study) all 5s. Looks kinda pathetic, but that’s the most I could get out of my school’s available courses.</p>

<p>Major-ish Awards: school award for highest uw average in class. 10th, 11th
top 4% on the Chem 13 News exam (university of waterloo administrated)</p>

<p>Hooks: US citizen with international experience? Probably the only applicant to have shot a moose?</p>

<p>ECs: Alaska(gr.9): FTC robotics, youth shotgun league, school swimming, school track.
Canada(gr. 10-11): FRC robotics(leadership)(co-founded gr11), school track(gr 10 only), club track(full year- big time commitment), Principal’s advisory council, founded unsuccessful volunteer tutoring service, volunteering at my family’s church.
All grades: hunting, fishing, camping, recreational scuba diving.</p>

<p>Recs- probably good to very good.</p>

<p>Essays: Very good to extremely good. I’m a skilled writer when I want to be.</p>

<p>Colleges in order of preference: </p>

<p>Stanford SCEA
MIT
Princeton
Caltech</p>

<p>UCB
CMU
Cornell
UCLA</p>

<p>Georgia Tech EA
Northwestern
UT Austin</p>

<p>Your input is greatly appreciated.</p>

<p>Isn’t Canada part of the U.S.? ;)</p>