[ *] SAT I (breakdown): 2140
[ *] ACT: none
[ *] SAT II:780 Math 2 760 Chem
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 2.4 percent of class
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): Us History 5
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ ] Senior Year Course Load: Ap Chem. Ap statistics, Ap calculus, AP Physics, English 4-1, Microeconomics
[ ] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National achievement scholarship semifinalist- soon to be finalist, National Spanish honor society,National society of High school scholars inductee
[ /list][ b]Subjective:
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 2 years of track( have asthma so made sure to state that), Red Cross club (co-chair), avid program (tutor), Young life club( founding member), National Spanish honor society, Robotics club (design team), greenhouse club ( take care of lizards, snakes, and turtles)
[ *] Job/Work Experience:none
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: Student council volunteer( soup kitchens etc)
[ *] Summer Activities:
[ *] Essays: 9-10/10 - Wrote about the process of writing, how it makes me feel,and described the impact of writing my first short story/book
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: 10/10
[ *] Counselor Rec:10/10
[ ] Additional Rec:
[ ] Interview:yes for northwestern
[ /list][ b]Other
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): NJ
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type:Public
[ *] Ethnicity: Black
[ *] Gender: M
[ ]Income Bracket: 120-150K
[ ] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, National achievement semifinalist (only 1600 in country), My sister is a PhD graduate student/researcher at Johns Hopkins so i have a bit of legacy
[ b]Reflection
[ *] Strengths: GPA, Essay, good Extracurricular, I’m applying for engineering so my love for writing shows more dimensions of my personality.
[ *] Weaknesses: SAT score and could use more ECs
Hopkins: not sure
Penn: high reach
Cornell: high reach
Columbia: high reach
Northeastern: low target/high safety
Buffalo: safety
Northwestern: mid reach
Carnegie: not sure
Just my guesses, no one knows for sure
JHU: High Match / Low Reach
Cornell: Low Reach (would rate as more likely but engineering is tough for males)
Upenn: Low Reach
Columbia: Low Reach / Reach
Carnegie Mellon: High Match / Low Reach
Northwestern: High Match/ Low Reach
I would expect you to get accepted to all the remaining schools and they will probably give you some sort of scholarship. Of the 6 schools above, I think you’ll get into at least 2 or 3 of them though they’re pretty difficult. Honestly, there’s just not that many African American applicants with perfect GPAs – though I don’t really know the rigor of your highschool, I think you might even have a shot at HPY along with these schools.
oh I forgot to mention- I was deferred at Harvard SCEA