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Chance a chud for HYPSM + Caltech
- GPA (UW/W): 4.0 UW
- Rank (or percentile): top 2% at competitive school (700+)
- 16 APs, and couple classes at local CC; MAX rigor
- All 5s except two 4s, projected all 5s on calc bc ab physics 1 comp sci a
- Demographics: Asian Male; income: <100k
- Major: Prolly bioengineering / meche (cooked)
Standardized Testing
- SAT: 1520: (790 math) (730 eng)
retaking for 1550 in august and september smh 🥀
Extracurriculars/Activities
- Co-founded a biomedical startup, patent filed: got on 5+ national news/radios ; biggest time commitment, but pretty big and gave like pitches to major companies/ were invited to;
- Founder/ pres sci olympiad, grew roster 4x, first-ever state qualification
- Robotics team programming lead, built computer vision + autonomous control systems, ran outreach events (not a very good team but my region is hella comp.., made regionals and got some local ones but no worlds)
- Founded a free STEM mentorship platform for under-resourced students, currently mentoring ~50 students across multiple countries (11-12)
- Research internship at a top (hypsm) lab, summer (11)
- Research internship + follow-up research at a regional R1 university lab during the summer(11-12)
- Independent research project: i like doing personal research projects for fun, submitting to like isef sts all that next yr
- Humanities research project related to my background
- 4 years weekly teaching at a local nonprofit org, over 600 hours prolly
- JV Sport: im lwk trash but was fun
- DECA all four years, qualified internationally a couple of times and qualified to state all three yrs
Going to YC startup school too if that counts as an ec (ik everyone that applies gets in but yeah)
Awards/Honors
- Top award @ ISEF and First Place Grand at isef
- Overall Grand Prize @ state-level science fair , 2x qualifier at state sci fair
- DECA internationals qual (got cooked at icdc tho)
- PVSA Gold… (got discontinued after freshman yr)
- A couple Science Olympiad medals at regional/state level
Some random research conferences, not that comp so not worth mentioning
Letters of Recommendation
- Robotics Advisor: 10/10 closest teacher, wrote me couple recs for some programs, and they are all crazy glazes
- History Teacher: 8/10?: he tells me im one of his favorite students ever but prolly dont mean that much. still talk to him very often and super close
Ik being asian male is a death sentence, but do i have a good chance for stanford REA and other hypmsms + caltech?
u/Shot-Apricot-8476 — 11 days ago