What chance do I have?...

marcopolo
Sat, 18 Dec 2004 19:10:58 +0000

Hello everyone.
I am currently a junior in smalltown, usa, and am looking at colleges like

Harvard, MIT, and CalTec…

Here are my stats as of now, and if someone could please advise me as to

whether I have any chance or not, it would be most appreciated…

GPA: 4.35 weighted / 3.8 unweighted.
Courses: All AP/ Honors courses.
Grade Trend: Half A’s/ Half B’s/ Two C’s
SAT: I have taken a supervised practice test for the new SAT, and these were

my scores: MATH 800, READING COMP. 700, WRITING SKILLS 750.
AP Exams: I have again taken practice exams, and unless anything horrible goes

wrong I am expecting a 5 on US Histy, 5 on Chem, and a 5 on Comp Sci this

year.
Sat II’s: Same deal, expecting mid-700s on all…
Extra-Curricular:
Mock Trial (3 county champs, 2 regional champs, 1 states champ, 1

national most professional award)
Newspaper (Editor-In-Chief)
Technology Student Association (2nd place state computer engineering,

2nd place national science and tech visualization, 2nd place national tech

systems, 5th place national computer engineering)
Science League
National Honors Scoiety
Am Entered in the State Science Fair this year which is a qualifier

for the Intel Int’l Sci and Eng Fair. (Project is groundbreaking research and

practical development of more powerful national computer security and new

attacks against cyberterrorism…)
Applied to State Governor’s School of the Sciences (4 week summer

experience taking college courses at Drew Univ. and participating in

independent research projects w/ professors and other cool internship stuff at

Bell Labs, Lucent Tech, and Schering-Plough…)
Varsity Tennis Team
Community Service:
Peer Leadership
School-Sponsered Days for the Developmentally Disabled
Cross Age Peer Mentoring Program
(Numerous Small, Sponsered-Community Services)
Work Experience:
One Summer @ School Guidence Dept. and aid to setting-up new computer

network.
Since then have my own small business for computer services (fixing

computer and software, website design, video commercials, computer animations,

etc…)
Interests:
Computer Programming (adept in VisualBasic, HTML, Java, C++, and am

learning DirectX)
Computer Animation (have portfolio of industry-quality animations and

3d models)
Other Computer Graphics (fluent in professional graphic design

software as well as web site creation and video graphics)
Legalized Computer Internal System Hacking (member of numerous online

networks of skilled computer users where different levels of servers are

donated to be attempted to be cracked into)
References: On previous references my teachers have given me glowing letters

of recomondation, often saying how I am eager to participate and offer class

discussion.

Okay, thats pretty much it. Thank you for and comments or criticism you may

give…