<p>You’re not applying to MIT??</p>
<p>Stanford, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon SCS, Cornell Engineering - Reach
Cornell CAS - Low Reach
Carnegie Mellon MCS, UIUC - Match</p>
<p>Not sure about UT Austin.</p>
<p>I can say UIUC would love to have you because of your stats, and they would likely grant you admission.</p>
<p>Rank: As long as you’re above 10% it’s fine.
GPA/SAT: Awesome. SAT is 10 points below 2300 which is quite unlucky, but it’s fine.
Course load is nice. Coursera courses, imho, is useless. OCW is nice though. Too bad you aren’t applying to MIT.</p>
<p>Awards is nice, but not outstanding.</p>
<p>ECs are nice but almost lopsided. Beware.</p>
<p>Common App Essay is dangerous. May become a bit generic. You need good language skills to pull this one off. I have a lot of Asian friends who write about this…</p>
<p>You’re a bit on the “generic” applicant side, which does not please Ivy League. This is based on what I see from your ECs. However, if you applied to schools like MIT, Caltech etc. they would be more forgiving but you would still need more alternate ECs to counterbalance your lopsided-ness. I’m not sure what other ECs you do, but yeah…you seem focused, but lopsided. That’s my impression.</p>
<p>Be sure to include ECs outside of Math/Science, and if the colleges require quite a few different essays, mention what you do OUTSIDE of math/science…I’m not sure how lopsided-ness can affect one’s application, but a lot of Asians are like you, ever so focused on Math/Science. Be very careful not to make them think “generic”.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
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