Chance me for NYU Stern (ED), UMich, Cornell, Columbia, UVA, UNC, Wharton, UChicago, Berkeley

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Plan on ED1 Stern (legacy school)
Race: Asian Male attending large public school in NJ, income=200k+
Major: Looking to major in Business/finance

GPA: 3.75 UW, (4.0 junior year, great progression)
Course Rigor: best our school offers except for spanish.
Senior Year: AP Stats, AP Lit, AP Gov, AP Phys2, Multivariable calc, econ.

SAT: 1510/1600. 21 essay
SAT SUBJECT TESTS: MATH II (800), PHYSICS (790), US HISTORY (740)
AP TESTS: US HISTORY (5), PHYSICS (5), CALC BC(5), COMP SCI(5), LANG (5)

Extracurriculars:

  1. FBLA (historian leadership position), 2nd at states, best FBLA school in state, attended nationals. ( leaderships outside of FBLA not allowed)
  2. Science Olympiad. 7th at regions and states
  3. Science League: (school curriculum physics test) 11/300 in state, team finished second in state.
  4. Physics Olympics, 2nd in Fermi event at states
  5. Columbia Science Honors Program
  6. School Newspaper writer
  7. Math League (went to Princeton for PuMac comp, didn’t place)
  8. JV Volleyball (will be varsity)
  9. NYU Math Circle summer camp

Volunteering: ~180 hrs

  1. Teach a Rubik’s cube club at chinese school. Started it all myself and recruited 20 students for two years
  2. Leader of youth group to campaign for local candidate; phoned ~12,000 residents and walked door to door

Essays/Rec
Essay: I made $1500 selling Rubik’s cubes (my talent) over four weeks in NYC. met new people, learned marketing skills, taught kids how to solve the Rubik’s cube!
Recs: 9/10 from chem, 5/10 from COMP SCI

Strengths: Extracurricular, Passion and talent in cubing (teach, sell, take initiative), legacy

Weaknesses: GPA, no internship, not much business in extracurriculars.

NYU Stern is my dream school and I have legacy to it, so i’m hoping I can make it!

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How is your class rank? Your GPA is near the 25th percentile at UMich while your SAT score is within the mid 50, it is still a reach.

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@billcsho our school doesn’t do class rank, but I’m guessing better than 50/600.
My gpa junior year with 6 APs was a 4.00/4.00 (which is like 10/600) so I’m hoping that can help me, but I didn’t do well freshman or sophomore year

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If you are within the top 10% of the class while your GPA is 3.75, your school may have pretty tough grades. That may help your chance a little bit.

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@richardye1 I can tell you that for Penn the average GPA is around 3.93 and the average SAT is around what you have, maybe a bit higher. your ECs are good. Penn, Columbia and Chicago are definitely high reaches for you.