Guidelines
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Demographics
- US domestic (US citizen or permanent resident) or international student
- State/Location of residency:
- Type of high school (or current college for transfers):
- Other special factors: (first generation to college, legacy, recruitable athlete, etc.)
International student from Canada, autistic
Cost Constraints / Budget
(High school students: please get a budget from your parents and use the Net Price Calculators on the web sites of colleges of interest.)
Intended Major(s)
Aerospace Engineering
GPA, Rank, and Test Scores
- Unweighted HS GPA: (calculate it yourself if your high school does not calculate it) (8.3/9.0)
- Weighted HS GPA: (must specify weighting system; note that weighted GPA from the high school is usually not informative, unless aligned with the recalculation used by a college of interest, such as CA, FL, SC public universities)
- College GPA: (for transfer applicants)
- Class Rank: (9/210)
- ACT/SAT Scores: 1460 SAT (Due to my autism diagnosis, I am normally entitled to 25% extra time. However, the papers to certify this from the UK were not delivered on time to Canada and I had to sit the exam without the extra time) (770 Maths, 690 EBRW)
List your HS coursework
(Indicate advanced level, such as AP, IB, AICE, A-level, or college, courses as well as specifics in each subject)
GCSE grades: Grade 9s in Maths, Physics and Further Maths. Grade 8s in Chemistry, Biology, Geography, Spanish, English Language, English Literature. Grade 7 in Computer Science and Music. Note: I averaged 95% average in computer science before gcses. I did 11th grade in the UK.
Alberta Grade 12 scores: 90% average
- English: English GCSE (Higher)
- Math: (including highest level course(s) completed) Maths and Further Maths GCSE
- Science: (including which ones, such as biology, chemistry, physics) Physics Chemistry and Biology GCSE (Higher)
- History and social studies: Geography GCSE (Higher)
- Language other than English: (including highest level completed) Spanish GCSE (Higher)
- Visual or performing arts: Music GCSE
- Other academic courses: Computer Science GCSE (Higher)
College Coursework (Transfer Applicants)
(Include college courses taken while in high school if not included above.)
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Awards
Only High-School student to be selected for the William Lowell Putnam Math Competition at the University of Alberta
Gold (Senior Kangaroo (Andrew Jobbings)) UKMT SMC 1 Year Early (Top 700 in the UK)
Hamilton British Mathematics Olympiad (Top 500 in the UK (out of 270,000))
NASA International Space Apps Challenge Hackathon: Where I built a python program and performed research to calculate spaceflight paths for spacecraft to Mars and other planets.
Led my team to win the Math Cup in the UKMT (National Math Competition) for the first time in their history by teaching them creative solutions that I made and inspiring them to dig deeper in maths.
(Semi-Official) Top 300 In The William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition (Best Canadian High-School student in History)
Extracurriculars
(Include leadership, summer activities, competitions, volunteering, and work experience)
Research on creating a spacecraft flightpath equation/algorithm with less variables than NASA (96.58% accuracy) verified by NASA JPL scientists (under review by AIAA and being considered by DARPA)
Research on applying Putnam Math Competition problems to Astrodynamics flight path plans
Candidate For DARPA Research Grant
Youtube channel and tiktok teaching solutions for the William Lowell Putnam Math Competition as well as the International Math Olympiad.
EH-U14 National Field Hockey Champions
Invited to Putnam Math Camp (training with my university team)
Essays/LORs/Other
(Optionally, guess how strong these are and include any other relevant information or circumstances.)
Math Teacher: Spoke about my mathematics ability (studying 3rd year university math whilst in 10th grade) as well as my tutoring of GCSE maths classes [9/10]
Research Mentor: Spoke about my research ability and my research equation. Also mentioned my application of Putnam Math Competition problems to astrodynamics research [9/10]
Physics Teacher: Spoke about my impressive results and my engineering mindset [8/10]
Essays: Spoke about growing up in an underpriviledged environment as well as having autism. Spoke about Putnam and scientific research lessons it taught me, also about collaboration for research and the NASA Hackathon [9/10]
Schools
(List of colleges by your initial chance estimate; designate if applying ED/EA/RD; if unsure, leave them unclassified)
MIT
Purdue
UofT
Georgia Tech
Stanford
UT AM
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