Asian-American boy (oof)
Academics:
3.95 GPA (UW)
1500 SAT/33 ACT
SAT 2 700 Math 2, 700 Physics, 750 US History, 750 Latin. 700 Chinese
APUSH/APWorld/APEngComp 4
Top 5% of Class
ECs:
Varsity Football and Varsity Golf (Captain, won deeded Award by vote) (Northeast Junior Ranked but will not play college)
Executive Editor School Newspaper
School Accapella Group (2 years)
Musical 3 years
Intern at Korea Times, wrote article on travel experiences in Russia and Morocco
Dormitory Proctor at Boarding School
Summer Course at Columbia University - Colloquium on East Asian Literature (Grade: A)
Writing Center Tutor (Junior Year+Senior Year, 2 hr/week, 152hrs)
Fields of Interest:
Journalism, Communications, English Literature, IR
Recs:
Advanced English Teacher - 5/10? Not very personal but emphasis on proficiency in language
Honors Pre Calculus Teacher - 8/10 - Very personal, passionate on interests
Hook (?):
Grew up in diverse but poor community with a single parent and had to take an early role in family
Breaking stereotypes and cultural barriers as an athlete and in music/acting
If your parents are divorced, many private schools will require both of their financial information. See http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/2083835-faq-divorced-parents-financial-aid-and-net-price-calculators.html .
UCB would only offer financial aid if you are in state.
You list looks like all reaches for admission except maybe UCB and USC (still probably low reach to high match). Not sure about BC.
Add affordable safeties.
CMC accepts 77% of their class ED, with a 32% ED acceptance rate. RD rate is 6%. You sound like the Claremonts could be a great fit for you, but you also sound like you wouldn’t want to pass up Stanford et. al. in the EA round.
You seem like a strong candidate; they’re just all reachy schools so there are no sure bets. URochester might be a nice less-reachy school to add, with strength in many of your areas of interest.
I wouldn’t submit the SAT subject scores. They are fine, but for an Asian student the scores are relatively low. The 700 on the Chinese is really low unless you’re not a native speaker.
You’re not majoring in a hard science from my assumptions, but the 700 in Math 2 isn’t that good of a score. I might retake to get 750+.
I would just submit the 2 750 SAT subject scores.Not submitting 750 scores would be a major error. I would not apply to Stanford and probably not Ivies. Your stats are not that strong for URM. You may have a shot at a top 50 school. If you are in California, I would apply to UCB, UCLA, UCSD and probably other UCs as safes. The other schools you mention are OK to apply to. You could also apply to private schools at a little lower level than those you mention.
OP mentioned that he’s Asian and not URM.
George Washington and BU might be high matches given the current stats.
I meant ORM
You’re definitely a strong candidate. As a current Stanford undergrad, I would definitely recommend that you try to take one of your existing ECs and go above and beyond outside of school, and also emphasize your early role in the family in your essays.
CMC accepted 207/658 via ED in ‘17-18. That is a 31% rate of acceptance via ED.
Overall, CMC accepted 658/6349 or a 10.3% Admissions rate inclusive of ED applicants.
This, the ED acceptance rate is 3-fold that of regular admissions overall rate.
The exact non-ED acceptance rate is unknown but no better than 451/6142 or 7.3%, assuming a 100% ED acceptance rate, which is unlikely. Thus it is somewheee between 7-10%.
Source: CMC 2017-18 Common Data Set