Note: still a junior, and planning on improving much of my profile this year and hopefully attend summer camps, but wondering how I would do if I had to apply with just these.
Demographics
- US domestic (US citizen or permanent resident) or international student
- State/Location of residency: California
- Type of high school (current college for transfers): Public, T500 ranked
- Gender/Race/Ethnicity (optional): Male/Asian
- Other special factors (first generation to college, legacy, athlete, etc.):
Intended Major(s)
Astronomy/Astrophysics/Computer Science
GPA, Rank, and Test Scores
- Unweighted HS GPA: 4.0
- Weighted HS GPA (incl. weighting system): 4.5 (5.0 scale)
- College GPA (for transfers):
- Class Rank: 5/600
- ACT/SAT Scores: 1570 no intention of retaking.
- PSAT: 1480 (No NMSQT for CA)
Coursework
(AP/IB/Dual Enrollment classes, AP/IB scores for high school; also include level of math and foreign language reached and any unusual academic electives; for transfers, describe your college courses and preparation for your intended major(s))
Awards
This is doxxable so I will be vauge, and I can only include 5 of these.
Award sponsored by T5 national scope, only awarded to top 2% of applicants.
Award sponsored by NASA international scope, only given to 20/14,000 applicants
Good placement at USAAAO.
Congressional App Challenge for my district 2019
Large local science fair, 1st place award + special award
CSEF top 30 CS project.
(Looking to do project for Local Fair/CSEF this year)
Selected to attend program from school out of 70 applicants at my competetive public school
USACO Silver
Cyberpatriot Platinum
AIME x2
AP Distinction
Extracurriculars
(Include leadership, summer activities, competitions, volunteering, and work experience)
Internship at T30 selective (5%) Program as sophmore
High level of involvement and creditation on current satellite project sponsored by NASA and T30.
Co-discovery of multiple exoplanets
5 Astronomy papers in varying scientific journals.
IEEE Paper (Not the full journal one of its many subsidiaries with lower Impact factor) Computational Chemistry and ML.
One of two high schoolers working in grad/undergrad astronomy outreach program (major organization)
Speaker at multiple astronomy conferences
Taught college students astronomy courses
Club president of 3 clubs, high ranking board of 1 50+ members
Essays/LORs/Other
(Optionally, guess how strong these are and include any other relevant information or circumstances.)
Still a junior, my essaywriting is somewhat strong, but not overly strong, above average 7/10.
LOR’s should be decently strong, 8/10
Cost Constraints / Budget
(High school students: please get a budget from your parents and use the Net Price Calculators on the web sites of colleges of interest.)
No issues with cost.
Schools
(List of colleges by your initial chance estimate; designate if applying ED/EA/RD; if a scholarship is necessary for affordability, indicate that you are aiming for a scholarship and use the scholarship chance to estimate it into the appropriate group below)
- Safety (certain admission and affordability)
CSU System (Certain admission through California policy) - Likely (would be possible, but very unlikely or surprising, for it not to admit or be affordable)
UC system saftey due to in state
UCSD
UCI
UCR
UCSB
UCSC
ASU - Match
(My school has a 80-90% acceptance rate for these colleges with my GPA Rank)
Berkley
UCLA - Reach
MIT
Stanford
Harvard
Caltech
Yale
Princeton
UPenn
Cornell
Columbia
UChicago
Duke
JHU
Dartmouth
Brown
Rice
Vandy
Northwestern
Carnegie Mellon