<p>Male / Caucasian / Rising Senior
Attending highly ranked private day school
Legacies: Princeton (mother undergrad), Stanford (mother business school)</p>
<p>Academics</p>
<p>Courseload - Difficult but not quite the most rigorous offered in some areas
Exhausted curriculum in Comp. Sci., will do Independent Study in Compilers next year
GPA - 4.033 weighted, 3.789 unweighted (school does not rank students)
SAT I - 2370 (800 CR, 770 M, 800 W)
SAT II - 800 U.S. History, 790 Math II, 800 Literature (will take Chemistry in October)</p>
<p>Wrote and sold 5 iPhone applications by myself on the App Store
Hired as UCLA employee (Programmer Analyst 1) to work for TIMSS study
Co-founded an incorporated social networking startup
Paid internship at UCLA this summer at Center for Embedded Networked Sensing
Work (volunteer) writing free and open-source software (got press in Wired etc.)
Boy Scouts - attained highest rank of Eagle Scout
JV/Varsity Cross Country/Track & Field- 4 years</p>
<p>Colleges</p>
<p>MIT
Harvard
Stanford
Princeton
Columbia (Engineering)
UC Berkeley (in state)
Cornell
Washington University in St. Louis</p>
<p>Very good test scores and excellent accomplishments put you in the running for all of the schools you’ve listed. The GPA is definitely going to pull you down, however.</p>
<p>While I agree a 4.0 would be nice, it would be an erroneous assumption to think that everyone who goes to high caliber schools like Stanford have 4.0s. Your ECs are great. You have a legacy at Stanford and Princeton. Your test scores are superb. I think you’ll have a very good chance for all your schools.</p>
<p>I did not make that assumption. A weighted GPA that just barely breaks 4.0 is going to be questionable, considering that the recalculated mean GPAs of these schools are well over 4.5.</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s what I figured. My courses aren’t bad but they’re not the absolute strongest either. For example, I took AP Env. Sci. over AP Bio this year, and I’m not at the highest math level at our school (I’m taking AP Calc AB as my terminal math course). So I know my academics are my weakest component, and I just hope they won’t drag me down too much.</p>
<p>I know that’s a huge issue for HMPS admission, but will it kill me for the other four? What are my chances for those?</p>
<p>Your SAT I scores are good, but your GPA is kind of low for said schools. Also, your mother’s graduate school education doesn’t count for legacy. Only the undergraduate education counts. Your SAT II scores are good too. What’s going to hurt, though, is the fact that you didn’t take the most rigorous course, as you proclaimed. The fact that your GPA isn’t that high whilst not taking the most rigorous course just adds to that problem. Your ECs seem alright. I would say HSPM are mid reaches.</p>
<p>APs just came in, got two 5’s on AP Env. Sci. and AP US History, which go with my previous 5 on AP Comp. Sci. AB. My school doesn’t do many APs so that’s not as few APs as I’m sure it sounds.</p>
<p>Right, you have excellent chances. I like that you didn’t waste time writing down every EC like many people on CC do, but just the core ones. I don’t think that the GPA will hurt that much, it will just indicate that you come from a very competitive school.</p>
<p>Could somebody also chance me for Tufts and Brown as well as the above schools? My profile is the same except I have a legacy at Brown (undergrad father) and I took a Chemistry SATII and got 740.</p>
<p>faleslife, have confident in yourself. I just had a dinner with my tutor yersterday who is
a phd researcher at UC berkeley Dept ofEngineering. He gave me suggestion that I should go for the strongest Dept where my interest is in, not the name of the school. He has many friends who got accepted at Ivies, some are not happy after one year. He especially mentioned Yale, he said its Engineering Dept SUCKS. </p>
<p>I am interested in CS and he suggested me to go after CMU which is the #1 in the country. I don’t have a good stat as yours. My uw gpa 3.72, wt 3.88 worst than you,
my sat1 only 2200, sat subject MATH2 800, Physics 800 Chem 790 History 770. My
overall is worst than you,but I’ll try for the best and go for CMU. </p>
<p>Anyway if you so determine for Ivies, wish you the best luck</p>