It would be greatly appreciated if I could be chance me at those STEM schools, I plan to major in CS and minor on Entrepreneurship or social sciences (History) … I love creative writing and history too.
I’ll try to chance you back too!
Major: CS
Stats
GPA: 4.0 Unweighted
Class rank: I will graduate from a US top 50 public high-school which is a selective enrollment high school, all the classes are honor classes. My high-school doesn’t rank but I’m in the top 1-5%.
AP classes: AP CS, AP Physics, AP Stats, AP Chemistry, AP Biology, AP Calculus, AP World History, AP French, AP Latin, AP Lit, AP Language, AP Art, AP Microeconomics
College Classes: I took Advances Maths Classes in number theories, theory of computation & college level geometry at my High school (I was lucky they do offer those courses). I also took advanced python programming & maths applied to finance and also creative writing and middle eastern and European history classes at my local university.
SAT: 1590 with an 800 in Math and 790 in English
EC
Founded a social media company with 50-100k annual revenue.
Elected class president and president of the fundraising board, and worked closely with teachers, students, and parents to raise 300k for the school in fundraising.
AIME qualifier AMC 10 and AMC 12
Debate team state champion
Maths club president
Entrepreneurship club founder and president
Responsible for the school journal content (I wrote lots of the content)
Did university-level research in biology/mathematics with my local university.
Did a summer doing archeology and volunteering with my local university, I loved it!!
Taught Maths in Africa (in a french speaking country) to school kids and helped build a school.
Other minor awards + some quite selective summer maths and STEM camps.
Oh and varsity basketball and soccer player (but I’m not very good haha)
Me:
White + Hispanic
Female
Family income 500k-1mil (I’ll be paying full tuition, and that’s totally fine)
Top Schools: MIT (would be dream come true), Caltech, Stanford engineering, CMU computer science
Other Schools: Upenn (Dad’s alma mater), Cornell, Brown, Georgia Tech + I’ll prob try Harvard (they have a good CS division).
I was wondering if coming from a “rich” family but not rich enough to make a large donation will hurt my chances?