Stats-

4.0 UW, 4.6W No class rank, but in the 99th percentile

By the end of senior year will have taken 13 APS

Physics 1, Chem, World History, APUSH, Lit, Lang, Seminar, Research, Physics C, Stats, Calc BC, Gov.

Also take a PLTW engineering courses all 4 years(weighed same as AP), and have done Pre Calc BC( also weighted) rest have been honors.

1500 SAT

Extracurriculars:

One of the student founders of a youth run research institute at local college, has funding from college and have been part of multiple national conventions, it is mainly about social problems in my area and how we can fix them. Spoken to school board members and county heads. 3 yrs

2-Research with professor at local college on using mathematica to find optimal trajectories to space travel 1 yr

3-Research with professor on the corona of black holes and investigating it more ( hard to explain) 1yr

4-Internship at Aerospace Firm 1 yr

5-Founder of a startup that introduces middle schoolers to astronomy and aerospace, made a curriculum with 13 lessons, and have multiple volunteers doing it in other areas 1 yr

6-Job as a tutor and college readiness coach at a nonprofit that is sponsored by my local college, 2 yrs, over 20 students taught. Also have a YouTube channel where I post videos on topics that my students struggle with.

7- Done a program at NASA where I created multiple technical reports on areospace and systems of engineering, worked with professors in the field. 2 yrs,

8- Have a TikTok channel and podcast where I educate people on astronomy . 10 episodes, 1yr . ( TikTok is more entertainment but still about astronomy/space)

9- President and founder of STEM club at my school , made students go to state competition, had over 40 students per year. 3 yrs

10- Part of my schools top orchestra, made it to county wide orchestra, and was part of another one in Washington DC, preformed at a church. (Since I was a kid so probably like 6-8 years)

Awards (weakest)

HOBY state ambassador Two national college board awards( first gen and Hispanic awards) All county district awards POSSE scholar first round( have interview next week to see if I continue) Varsity letters for orchestra

Hopefully will be accepted into questbridge and other scholarships I applied for, let’s see

LOR

1- AP research teacher, he writes good and personal letters that have gotten students into IVYS, have a good connection

2- one of my professors who are part of the students run council, PhD graduate, great writer and great connection

Forgot to add my demographic-

Low income (50-60k) first generation Hispanic student, competitive area ,want to apply as mechanical engineer.

ESSAY-

On how my isolation and loneliness as a child brought me to love space and learning about it

COLLEGES-

USC- top school

UVA VT

Safety

GMU( not applying to more since if all goes wrong I’m 100% going here)

Ultimate reaches

UCLA Columbia Stanford MIT