Proof you can make it to a T1
Gender: male
Race/Ethnicity: Asian
Income Bracket: lower middle class
Type of School: non competitive public
Hooks: first gen
**Intended Major(s)**: CS
**Academics**
GPA (UW/W): 4/4.4
Rank (or percentile): 2/300
* \# of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 11 APs
1530 SAT (790m, 740 eng)
**Extracurriculars/Activities**
Software lead of robotics team that performs pretty good (worlds qualified all 5 years, event winning, etc)
Founder of career-oriented club. Grew to 40+ members. Did the fundraising, outreach, and organization.
Leadership in a regional conference/program for my state
Leadership in 2 separate honors societies
1 software engineering internship at a tech startup. Recognized in a news article as a top 100 startup to watch. Worked with them for last 2 years (mainly summers)
Varsity athlete in one sport (not good enough to get recruited or anything)
Awards:
Nothing crazy. National merit commended, Harvard book award, student of the term, and college board awards.
Essay:
I think my essays were unique. I threw in a bunch of personality and also had a personal common app essay. It was about a medical condition I have that is 1 in a million, how it’s pushed me into pursuing STEM, how I’ve grown from it, and connected it to robotics and the community I found and also the sport I play and how I defied the expectations I’ve had since birth.
ALL APPS WERE RD
*Acceptances:*
* MIT (committed)
* Dartmouth
*Waitlists:*
* Harvard
* Princeton
* Yale
* Cornell
* cmu
*Rejections:*
NONE
My app should be proof that anyone can make it to a top school and should absolutely STRESS the importance of essays.