PROFILE
Race/Ethnicity: African American
General Income Bracket: lower middle class
Intended Major: Comp Sci or Software Engineering with a minor or double major in Material Sciences/Engineering (I want to do 3D printing stuff)
STATS
GPA (UW) : 3.5208 -- I failed Algebra 2 Honors in 10th grade and retook it that same year and got a B. I talked about this in my additional info essay being attributed to me caring/worrying/being depressed about my grandfather who got bone cancer at the time. Also, my teacher was really bad (she got demoted to teaching regular 9th grade math the next semester since everyone failed as a result of her incompetence), but I didn't talk about her in any of my apps.
Rank: Top 16%
SAT: 2100 -- (730 CW, 640 M, 730 W, 12 Essay)
ACT: 31 C (33 M, 34 E, 32 R, 25 S, 10 W)
AP Scores: Mostly 4s (Will have taken around 12 APs out of the 18~ my school offers). have passed every exam so far.
SENIOR SCHEDULE (all AP excluding debate which is honors)
Calc AB
Bio
Lit
Government
Stats
Enviro
Debate III
WORK EXPERIENCE
Founder of Online SEO pseudo-firm (9, 10, 11, 12). I started up my own online business which revolved around freelance Search Engine Optimization and general Website Optimization. Essentially, I helped a myriad of businesses and companies move up in search engine ranking to facilitate sales for their businesses. I did so buy utilizing reputable web resources (in the eyes of search engine crawlers) to manipulate search engine algorithms into thinking that businesses were becoming more popular, which made the bots give more value to my clients' websites. I also worked directly with affiliate marketers on CPA and PPC campaigns by writing sales copies to help maximize their profits. I've worked with over 50 different business owners with a 100% approval rating on various internet marketing forums such as WF and DP.
Server administrator for [Don'tWantToGiveClanNameHere]'s Counter Strike: Global Offensive servers (12) (more of a summer volunteer job for my gaming clan).
Content Contributor for MyGamer (11, 12) Content writing about games and gaming news - provided articles for one of the oldest gaming domains on the web
EXTRACURRICULARS
A bullet point and a star means it's also community service:
Debate (10, 11, 12). I did Congressional Debate, and our squad had the most national success this year of any debate team in the nation. I was a prominent member of Executive Board and functioned as my debate team's webmaster. Coached novices. One of top 5 debate teams in nation.
*Co-President and Co-Founder of Microfinancing Club (9,10, 11, 12). Acquired money through primarily donation; $6,000~ donated to the Grameen Foundation to revitalize Indian economies through microloans
Junior State of America (9,10, 11, 12). Co-Webmaster of the head JSA website (national organization with thousands of members across the US). Chief Technology Specialist of the Southeast Region which is a position on the national board of JSA (elected).
*Mentoring Tomorrow's Leaders (11, 12). Founding member. We gathered kids in our school with GPAs below 2.0s, tutored them daily, and assumed the roles as counselors for them.
* Key Club (9,10, 11, 12). Director of Social Media. Participated in program called "Horses for Handicapped" where we helped children with cerebral palsy and ALS ride horses for fun.
National English Honor Society (12). Secretary and head of our schools NEHS Tutoring Committee.
National Science Honor Society (12). Webmaster.
Study Group Founder (won't give you the name since it'll give away my school) (9, 10, 11, 12). Founder. Study group for Class of 2014 with over 180 members.
Boy Scouts (7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
HONORS/AWARDS
AP Scholar with Distinction (June 2013)
Junior State of America: Best Speaker Award at the Spring State convention for the (April 2013)
National Forensic League -- Special Distinction
Harvard National Debate Tournament Congress Sweepstakes (my events squad cumulatively got 1st place overall) (2013)
lots of other local/regional/state debate awards that I don't feel like listing lel
National English Honor Society
National Science Honor Society
Mu Alpha Theta
COMMUNITY SERVICE (In addition to Key Club and Microfinance) AND VOLUNTEER WORK:
--In conjunction with one of my friend's Boy Scout Troops we organized a program in which we were donated refurbished computers and computer parts from a local computer parts provider, assembled the computers (and taught the younger kids in the troop how to do so), and donated them to local businesses and people
--Teacher assistant for my old AP Chem teacher
--Math tutoring done in conjunction with Mu Alpha Theta
ESSAYS -- I'm a pretty eloquent writer for the most part. I graded these IMO.
USC -- 9/10
Cornell 7/10
CMU -- 9/10
JHU -- 8/10
UIUC -- 7/10
Northwestern -- 9/10
UNCCH -- not done yet
UMich -- not done yet
RECS
Got four. All teachers I got them from loved me. Using the two that loved me the most more often than the others though. Calc teacher told me I'm one of the brightest students he has had so far. Chem teacher was like a mom to me. English teacher also liked me a lot.
CHANCE ME OR PREDICT MY DECISIONS FOR
-UMich
-CMU. For CMU I'm applying to 3 schools (if you don't know, all schools have different criteria for acceptances): SCS, CIT (Materials), and Information Systems.
-USC
-JHU
-Cornell
-Northwestern
-UNCCH
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