MIT Really likes hand-on student

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Decision: Accepted

Objective:
ACT (breakdown): 35 (36E, 35M, 32R, 36S)
ACT superscore (breakdown): 35 (36E, 36M, 32R, 36S)
SAT II (subject, score): Chem 800, Math II 800
Weighted GPA:4.30
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1st decile
AP (place score in parentheses): comp sci, chem, physics I, physics C, biology, calc AB (all 5s)
Senior Year Course Load: AP music theory, jazz ensemble, AP calc BC, AP stats, AP spanish, AP physics II, regular english
Number of other EA applicants in your school: 0
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): #3 nationally for AAPT physicsbowl, winner of yale physics olympics
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): AP scholar with distinction, cornell book award, bausch and lomb honorary science award, some other stuff


Subjective:
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): robotics (head programmer all 4 years), lots of personal projects in CS/engineering, run coding classes at library, piano, some other stuff
Job/Work Experience: software engineer
Volunteer/Community Service: develop software to benefit the school system
Summer Experience: personal projects, interned at tech company

Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):

Essays:
Poured tons of time into all of these.
What You Do For Pleasure: 9 piano, probably not the most original but executed well
Department at MIT: 8 comp sci, again felt like it was executed well
Helping Community: 8.5 all about spreading CS in my community
World You Come From: 10 my favorite, talked about my start with programming calculators
Significant Challenge: 7 about robotics and screwing the team over, good but not the best

Other (teacher's subject, 1-10 rating, details):

Teacher Recommendation #1: AP calc 8
Teacher Recommendation #2: spanish 7
Counselor Rec: i have no idea
Additional Info/Rec: robotics mentor, 10+ i'll never get a better letter of rec
Interview: 7 went pretty well
Art Supplement: submitted music supplement, with a strong letter of rec
Maker Portfolio: made a pretty elaborate one


Other
U.S. State/Territory or Country: CT
School Type: public
Ethnicity: white/asian
Gender: male
Income Bracket Range: 300k+
Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): pretty much none


Reflection
Strengths: I feel like I truly demonstrated that I have a real passion for comp sci based on all the things I did throughout highschool.
Weaknesses: Upper class white/asian male from suburban CT. Not much community service
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: demonstrating real passion and creativity