<p>I'm currently looking to either go into a B-school or engineering. Please chance me at the following colleges: Dartmouth, Emory, NYU (Stern), UPenn, Duke, and Cornell. </p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 730 CR 740 M 800 W (2270)
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[li] SAT II: 780 Chem, 750 Bio, 740 MII, 720 USH</p>[/li]
<p>[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.75
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Chem (5) Psych (5) Gov (5) Bio (5) APUSH (5)
[</em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Phys C, AP Stats, AP Calc, AP Lit, two honors business related classes
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): State finalist at We the People Competition</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Student govt (President), NHS (Treasurer), FBLA, Model UN, FIRST Robotics (Fundraising Team leader) Track and Field (Varsity) Cross Country (Varsity)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Intern at dentist's office
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: 200+ hours at hospital
[</em>] Summer Activities: Volunteering and working
[<em>] Essays: (Haven't written, I'm a decent writer)
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: (Should be fantastic, both of em)
[<em>] Counselor Rec: (Should be average)
[</em>] Interview: (Should be great, if necessary)</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CT
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): USA
[<em>] School Type:Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket: Around 100k
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None really...[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Everything is good in your application except for that low GPA. I would say that Emory and NYU are definite matches, while the rest are reaches. Good luck!</p>
<p>I disagree with the person above. UPenn Duke and Cornell are certainly not reaches for you when you consider both your high SAT grades and SAT II’s. I’m a rising senior so I admit I may not be the most credited person but several of my friends that recently graduated got into UPenn (not Wharton), Duke (Trinity), and Cornell (both IRL and Dyson) with grades and test scores much lower than what you have. They were all upper-middle class students with no hooks. Sometimes its just beating you competition haha.</p>
<p>In response to marshmelt: For schools that competitive, it is basically unpredictable. You may know people that got in with lower test scores and grades, but I also know people that got rejected with higher scores than the OP, even applicants with perfect 2400/4.0s. There are things in the OP’s application that could get him rejected (lower GPA in comparison to the majority of other applicants, and no true “passion” demonstrated in his ECs). The middle 50% of enrolled Freshmen at UPenn last year had an average GPA of 3.9, and it gets increasing competitive as the years progress.
It would be foolish to state that schools with such unpredictable acceptances are considered matches or anything below at least a low reach. Much of your acceptance outcome has to do with luck, and I believe that many of your friends had luck. As an example, one year the univeristy of which you applied to that might want more students in the music department and less in the science department, so if you are a person with a music background, your chances would increase as opposed to a student with a science background. Its also immensly difficult to pick and guarantee a spot as the pool is so highly talented. Many profeessional educational analysts even agree that once an applicant has passed a certain threshold of grades, a lottery system should take place for all the applicants that meet the required criteria, as many students are equally talented and it’s immensely difficult to distinguish between one or the other. Your friends may have gotten accepted, but it is faulty to base their success and use them as an example for each applicant.</p>
<p>Dartmouth - reach
Emory - match
NYU (Stern) - match
UPenn - reach
Duke - reach
Cornell - reach</p>
<p>Business and engineering are very different things! It’s like saying I want to be either a writer or a mathematician. The personality type for each occupation is quite different!</p>