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Hey guys,

I”m a high school senior currently attending a high school in southeastern CT, where I transferred to this school since last Feb. 2008 from a high school I attended in New Jersey.

I had applied to three schools early action, which are MIT, Caltech, and University of Chicago…and I’m anticipating less than two weeks of response back from those schools…and I will be applying to Harvard, Stanford, Yale, etc regular.

Female
Asian-American (Chinese)
Ranked 16 out of 250 students in a 1000-ish student in this new public high school.
SAT 1: 2160 (CR: 720 M: 760 W: 680)
SAT 2: Physics (760) Math 2 (800) United States History (750)

Took 3 AP exams last year:
AP Physics B: 4…..final grade is A
AP Calculus AB: 5……final grade is A-
AP US History: 4…….final grade is A

Took all honors and APs when possible in both of my high schools, and got all A’s, A-s, and A+s with only two B+ in all of my transcripts. This year I am taking:

AP Environmental Science
AP English Literature
AP European History
AP Biology
Chemistry Advanced (no honor level in this school)
Art 1 (required to fulfill elective requirements)
One semester course 3-D Design (same as Art 1)
One semester Study Hall
will take Discrete Mathematics and Statistics & Probability Advanced to replace 3-D Design and Study hall after the first semester…wouldn’t want to go a year with out taking at least one math class. =]

My Extracurricular activities are not much, but I will list them what I had done in both high schools:

1) President and founded NJ’s high schooll’s first book club…is growing and successful since I left it.
2) Research internship with a University of Connecticut professor and graduate student on mercury pollution in rain water for whole school year. 20 hours per week
3) Science Olympiad team member
4) Editor of this CT HS’s newspaper…meet about once or twice weekly, depending on what we have.
5) Founder and president of this CT’s high school’s math club. Plan to participate in the AMC 12 competition this feb.

And also, I guess I should mention that I had done research with a MIT professor for the past whole summer (about two months) within a Harvard-MIT joint partnership lab that specialize in speech and hearing science at a Harvard Medical School’s teaching hospital (No, this is not MIT RSI or any program. I only emailed him and asked him if he is willing to take me in for the summer….and note that I have NO connections to this laboratory or the professor…so you can say I was hired and given research stipend based on my merits and interests). I was probably the first and only high school student ever to work in this lab for the whole summer in the lab’s 50 year history (the lab mostly consists of graduate students and professors..and only 2-3 undergraduates).

The research project was about animal acoustics and I had co-authored a research paper with him, which was presented at a conference in Oregon (I didn’t go to this one, because I spent a week while he was away trying to develop a system to define this animal’s particular structure in 3-D)….and since I couldn’t keep working there for the rest of school year because of the distance problems but I still wanted to keep gaining and learning about research, so I had emailed and asked a UCONN professor in this branch of UCONN that specialize in marine sciences and environmental science, which is so unrelated to what I did over the summer, but I am willing to try something else beyond speech and hearing science, to take me in for the whole school year. Right now, I am learning the ropes of mercury analyzing in waters and is even collecting rain waters right in my backyard to contribute to their collection of rain waters around the world.

My letter of recommendations come from my freshman english teacher in NJ who said I am “clearly, she is the best of the best…..different from all other brilliant students in her school…”, one from my AP calculus teacher in this CT HS who probably talked, one 4 pages long letter from the MIT professor I worked with, and another is from my guidance counselor from this CT HS who was said to have given me a “very good recommendation”.

My main essay compresses my whole life into two pages about me and my deafness. Yes, I was born deaf and got a Cochlear Implant surgery when I was three. The whole essay talked about how people had low expectations of me as a deaf student and how I tried to overcome that expectations to show them that I am more capable academically more than they think, and so on.

I sent in the research poster I had co-authored with the MIT professor, along with a one page statement about the reserach and what I learned from it, why did I do this research, etc.

So, guys, do I have any chance for those schools’ Thanks so much for reading this post!!! =D