Well aware of the high selectivity of CMU SCS, but I just want to know if acceptance is within the realm of possibility…likelihood of financial aid would also be good to know
Demographics: white female from Virginia
School: STEM-oriented rigorous college prep school in the morning + public high school (both NoVa)
Unweighted GPA: 4.0 (my school counts anything 90% or above as the same GPA, if that matters.)
Weighted GPA: 4.48
SAT: 1530 | 780 RW | 750 M
SAT IIs: Chem 740 | M2 760
APs: AP World 3 | AP Chem 4 | AP Comp Sci 5 (taking AP environmental science next year)
Rank: 2 out of ~500
Courseload: pretty rigorous, always at least honors when possible, I tend to take dual enrollment classes over AP classes.
ECs/activities
- Accepted to summer gov school for math, science and technology (month-long summer program for advanced STEM students in Virginia) as a rising junior
- FIRST Robotics grades 10-12, project manager grades 11-12 (not a world class team, we’re pretty small but have been around for 10+ years)
- Co-president of mathematical modeling team (member grades 10-12, co-pres grades 11-12) - finalist team this year for HiMCM (nationwide competition)
- Newspaper editor-in-chief (member grades 9-12, EIC grades 10-12)
- Scholastic bowl co-captain (member grades 10-12, co-captain grades 11-12) - undefeated district championship team the past 2 years
- Internship this summer with the government, doing some web development stuff mostly
- Seabase, week of high adventure activities on a boat (last minute change, I was going to be on a Philmont backpacking trek but it was cancelled)
Other colleges I’m considering: George Mason, Virginia Tech, Case Western, University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins
Any insight would be super helpful! Thanks for reading 