Chance me for CMU Econ ED

Colleges and Universities A-Z Carnegie Mellon University
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Demographics: Gender, race/ethnicity, state, type of school, and hooks (URM, first generation, legacy, athlete, etc.)Asian Male-public school

Intended Major(s):Econ

ACT/SAT/SAT II:1570, also have a 1500 and 34

UW/W GPA and Rank: 3.97 UW GPA, 5.33 UW(School has hyperinflated system), no class rank but at least top 10%.

Coursework: AP/IB/Dual Enrollment classes, AP/IB scores, etc

Taken 6 APs, 4s on 4 of the test and 2 5s

Taking 7 APs currently this year

Awards: Presidential award 9-11 grade (for top 10%), National Merit semifinalist.

Extracurriculars: Academic Games- 2 national championships, multiple other national state and local awards, 5 time national qualifier.

Piano- Grand cup winner (11 consecutive years of superior ratings), Statewide competition honorable
mention award

Youth and Government - Legislative President, 2-time statewide committee chair

NHS member

Miracle league volunteer

Varsity Tennis Player
12 year soccer player

International Debate and diplomacy member, and Global leadership club member

Subway Assistant Manager

Essays/LORs/Other: Optionally, guess how strong these are and include any other relevant information or circumstances. Common App essay 8/10, LOR average 6/10, haven’t written any supplementals yet.

Schools: List of colleges, ED/EA/RD, etc: ED-CMU, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Rice, Ohio State, Pitt, Florida, UCF

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Your chances will be good nearly everywhere. However, if you are certain on your intent to study economics, you may want to refine your list:

https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.uslacecon.html

https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.usecondept.html

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“Good” is always relative to the school’s overall rate. You’re certainly in the pool of well-qualified, above average admitted, candidates, but Dietrich’s acceptance rate is still 14-24% (depending on which CMU source you believe).

There will certainly be candidates with a similar profile that are rejected. But I would guess that the pool with these metrics is closer the 35-50% acceptance range.

(SV?)

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Yeah how’d you know? Is there any other places you’d recommend looking/applying to?

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If you would like to consider some undergraduate-focused schools with top-notch economics programs, research a sampling such as Williams, Claremont McKenna, Colgate, Hamilton, Amherst, Swarthmore and Pomona. Note that nearly all of these particular suggestions represent reaches, however. In any case, you could explore other potential excellent choices through the analyses linked in the first reply.

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(I know the area very well. ALGOA and the crazy wGPA scale is pretty unique…)

Unfortunately, all of my knowledge of where similar students looked was related to engineering/STEM. Looking at the overlap of schools I know from going through the process and USNews’ top Econ schools, other than obvious ones on top - UMaryland was on our list as a very nice school after we visited, and right up with CMU in the rankings.

Michigan is up there, with admissions criteria not quite in the HYPSM category - you certainly exceed the standard metrics and I think Naviance will show you a decent success rate.

Penn State isn’t far down, so that’s an obvious safety. As is Ohio State, with a good OOS scholarship. I think it even netted out cheaper than PSU.

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In case it might be unclear, note that U.S. News does not rate undergraduate economics programs.