Chance me for baked gpa (end of year junior)
Personal information
Junior
Moved from a Canadian Catholic school junior year into a public school in Pennsylvania (will have to apply internationally for out of state)
Desired Field - Data Science / Finance
White/immigrant parents
(150k a year family yearly income) (middle child of 3)(older sibling attends Purdue)
Fluent in 4 languages (English, French, Ukrainian, Russian)
Uni’s (will probably change but price is a huge factor)
Safeties
Penn state
Targets
Purdue
CMU
Big boys
Upenn
Berkley
Stanford
Princeton
The Vard
Early Action
Purdue, REA Stanford
Stats
SAT - 1550
AP's
Junior - (AP Calc AB, AP Lang, APUSH)
Senior - (AP Calc BC, AP Econ (Macro, Micro), AP Lit) (Self study AP Business and Personal Finance)
(I was doing IB before this so these are respectively all AP's I could have taken)
GPA
- 3.750 UW
- 3.950 W
Ec’s
Clubs (I moved schools halfway through my high school years so I can’t really show “commitment”)
- President of Cash club (2 years) (2 hours per week)
- Co-President for Robotics and DECA club (2 years) (20 hours per week (combined))
- TEDx (1 year) (topic - the simplicity of luxury) (2 hours per week)
- Tsa (2 years), Debate, - member (1 year) (2 hour per week (combined))
Sports
- Varsity Track (10 years total) (Most Improvement Award) (6.5 hours per week)
Personal projects in school:
- Co-Student Liaison and Project Manager for a school nonprofit, helping manage over $160K in funds. Led student-focused projects, organized fundraising efforts, and coordinated scholarships to support and improve opportunities for students across the school community.
- Conducted research in quantitative finance focused on extending stochastic differential equation-based options pricing frameworks to futures markets. Investigated how models such as Black–Scholes and binomial lattice methods can be adapted for forward and futures contract valuation under varying volatility and interest rate assumptions. I completed this research mentored by a professor at CMU and a student attending Wharton, UPenn.
- Grew an informal TikTok channel to 10k followers and founded a global education initiative that led instruction for 5000 students across 80 countries; mentored projects on research, events, and provided insight on their high school experience (3 years) (Papers: Quant Finance, Astrophysics, Aerospace, Medical, Biomedical Engineering and more to come)
- Developed and launched OptionsProf, a web platform that manages options income strategies, including portfolio analysis, opportunity identification, tax optimization, trade recommendations, risk management, strategy performance tracking, and continuous optimization of investment approaches. (50-200 active users per month)
- App Developer for Digital Promise, I collaborated with students from Philadelphia and Lebanon to research global challenges and launched AquaWatch in Madlearn, an app that tracks access to clean water and sends real-time alerts about contamination and shortages. (100-200 users per month)
Professional experience outside schools
- Attended Carnegie Mellon University’s Statistics & Data Science Summer Camp, a selective program focused on statistical analysis, modeling, and data science.
- Private tutor - (Teenage Tutors) (+100 hours) (paid) (2 years) (math)
- Construction - worked for a contractor (80+ hours) (paid)
Professional Internships
- Tv club (Machine learning/Ai and back-end programmer) (called back and have been part-time working for 4 years) (managed ~ 20 people)
- Kolly (Growth Intern) - Developed and executed data-driven advertising campaigns across Reddit, TikTok, and other social platforms to drive user acquisition and expanded company reach to over 1,000 potential clients.
- Alpha Residential - (shadow) financial analyst and assistant to their development and corporate accounting manager) (3 months)
- Apex Newbury - (shadowed) assisted with daily building operations, including cleaning common areas, maintaining property appearance, and supporting general maintenance tasks to ensure a safe and welcoming environment for tenants. (6 months)
Awards
Provincial and Regional robotics finalist
Global Economics Challenge State finalist
TSA State Champion (cyber security)
Honor Roll all years
Principals Award
Personal Finance and Chemistry - Academic Excellence
W!se Personal Finance Certificate (Qualified for their Scholarship)
Posted Jun 4, 2026, 12:54 AM UTC