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Pythagorean415

Chance mediocre rising senior with an interesting hook

Male, White, Northeast, small poor non-competitive High school, hooks are queer, incarcerated parent, very very low income (was a 0 income household for a while)

Intended major(s): applied math major with a minor in theater

Academics:

Note: going to be slightly nondescript to keep safe

SAT: taking in August but I'm looking at 1500 plus based on practice tests

Class rank: top 10%

UW/W GPA: 97ish

Coursework:

APS: Calc, Stat, Bio, Chem, Physics 1, Lang, Lit, APUSH, psychology, (every AP my school offers except for AP euro)

Duel enrollment: Calc 1-3, Liner algebra, discarte math

Awards: where I'm lacking. Student of the month ig?

Extracurriculars:

List club, community service, job, etc. Include leadership position if applicable. Also include summer activities here, if applicable.

Drama club/Thespain society: 4 years, VP, led to help get canned foods to kids in need (pound amount unknown right now), was in all shows, competed in competitions in almost made Nationals (maybe with some luck I could make it this year). Head of a crew during the school year and over summer at my summer camp

Color guard: 4 years, Captain for 3, led to victories on the local level and helped transition leadership between color Guard directors

STEM academy 3 years: participated in field trips, DE classes, monthly stem meetings

Summer research at University lab: working on building mathematical models to predict adverse drug effects this summer

Summer research with professor: don't know exactly what we're going to do but I'm meeting one on one with my discrete math professor this summer

Mock trial: 2 years, team got disbanded after the first two years lol

Select choir: 1 year, I put in everything to get into the choir and I might want to see write an essay about it. My voice teacher says getting All regional choir this coming winter is very possible if I lock him this Summer

Volunteering at local community theater: ushered for over 100 hours, also volunteering over summer as a camp counselor

Letters of rec likely from drama director who knew me all these years, English teacher I've had for 2 years and have a great relationship with, and one of my summer professors

Schools?

Essays likely going to be about how having a parent incarcerated affects me especially because I looked up to them so much. Although this did cause a grade slip and that's why I'm not super high ranked because I got a B in AP chemistry because of losing him. But despite this I want to study math like my dad and how I have to make my own identity. Not exactly sure just kind of the general idea.

Schools:

Rowan

Drexel

Temple

Rutgers

U Rochester

UC Boulder

Now the reachs...

Colgate

Princeton

Columbia

Cornell

Brown

Harvard

Would like any school suggestions

Posted Jun 6, 2026, 9:36 PM UTC

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