Brown boy gets hella waitlists
Demographics
- Gender: Male
- Race/Ethnicity: Asian
- Residence: Southwest US
- Income Bracket: 100k +
- Type of School: Public
- Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.):
Intended Major(s): Pure Math or Math + Physics
Academics
- GPA (UW/W): 4.0/4.9
- Rank (or percentile): 1/~450
- # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 12 AP Classes, 4 Community College Math Classes( Calc 3, Linear Alg, Diff Eq, Real Analysis)
- Senior Year Course Load: AP Phys C Mech, AP Physics C EM, AP Spanish, AP Lit, AP Econ, AP Gov
Standardized Testing
List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.
- ACT: 36 (36E, 36M, 35R, 36S)
- AP/IB: All 5's other than a 4 on APUSH
Extracurriculars/Activities
List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.
- Research role in a lab doing pure math
- Research role in a lab modeling disease spread
- Research involving materials for more efficient solar panels
- Co-President of a foundation tracking voting data and trying to increase voter participation in underrepresented areas
- Debate Captain
- Math Club President
- Chess Club Founder
- Varsity Football(only played 2 years)
Awards/Honors
- ISEF Grand Award
- ISEF Special Award
- National Merit Finalist
- Davidson Fellowship Honorable Mention
- Coca-Cola Regional Finalist
Letters of Recommendation
- Teacher I knew for 4 years doing debate (8/10)
- My math teacher that helped me run the math club (6/10)
- PI for the lab I worked in. (8/10)
Essays
I spent a lot of time working on my personal statement which focused on contrasting my experiences of where I grew up when I was little to where I live now in a big city, and how that change led to me searching for a sense of community and how I was able to recreate that sense of community for myself.
Didn't really start my supps until winter break so they were probably a lot weaker.
Decisions
Acceptances:
- Yale RD
- UPenn RD
- Columbia RD
- Rice RD
- Harvey Mudd RD
- Georgia Tech EA
- UC Berkeley RD
Waitlists:
- MIT EA (Deferred-> Waitlist)
- Priceton RD
- Stanford RD
- Caltech RD
- Johns Hopkins RD
Rejections:
- Harvard RD
- Duke RD
- Cornell RD
- Brown RD
- Darthmouth RD