Demographics

• Gender: Male
• Race/Ethnicity: Asian
• Residence: Intl (US Citizen)
• Income Bracket: No aid needed
• Type of School: Private Competitive HS
• Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): None

Intended Major(s): EE/ECE

Academics

• GPA (UW/W): UW: n/a, 4.59/4.0 Weighted
• Rank (or percentile): n/a (~2/77 in reality)
• # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 17 APs
• Senior Year Course Load: AP CSA, Cal BC, Physics C: M, AP Comp Gov, AP Lang

Standardized Testing

List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

• SAT I: 1550 (750RW, 800M)
• ACT: 35 (36E, 36M, 34R, 34S)
• AP/IB: Chem 4, Lit 4, Phys2 5, PhysC‑E&M 5, Precalc 5, Psych 4, APUSH 5, Bio 5, CalcBC 5 (AB 5), Phys1 5, PhysC‑Mech 5, World Hist 5

Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.): TOEFL 112

Extracurriculars/Activities

List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.

1. Research at National University on Drone Control, published in high-school journal
2. Robotics Team Captain
3. Internship at drone company
4. Volunteering: teaching elementary school kids LEGO EV3 and coding
5. Selective Math Program at National Uni
6. Math Olympiad Camp (about AIME qualification level)
7. Acapella Vocal Percussionist for four years
8. Choir member
9. Instruments: violin, piano
10. Some filler ECs

Awards/Honors

List all awards and honors submitted on your application.

1. AIME Qualifier
2. Some British Science Olympiad Awards
3. Robotics Award
4. Platinum Award in Intl Cyberfair
5. National Merit Semifinalist (1520 PSAT)

Letters of Recommendation

(Briefly describe relationships with your recommenders and estimated rating.)

Math teacher for four years, top student in class, 8/10

AP Psychology teacher, top student, 8/10

Interviews

All were pretty similar and went well: MIT, Stanford, Princeton

Got cooked on Cambridge's last engineering question

Essays

Wrote about how Music intersected with STEM, thought it was pretty good

Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)

Acceptances:

• USC (EA)
• Purdue (EA)
• UIUC (EA + Committed)
• Imperial College London

Waitlists:

• Carnegie Mellon University (RD) (rejected)
• Georgia Institute of Technology (EA)
• Northwestern University (RD) (rejected)
• Rice University (RD) (rejected)
• University of Michigan (EA) (rejected)
• UCSD

Rejections:

• Caltech (RD)
• Columbia University (RD)
• Cornell University (RD)
• Duke University (RD)
• Harvard University (RD)
• Princeton University (RD)
• Stanford University (REA)
• UT Austin (EA)
• University of Pennsylvania (RD)
• MIT(Aerospace Engineering) (RD)
• Cambridge
• Berkeley
• UCLA

Additional Information:

Getting into no schools in RD pretty much broke me. :(