what are my chances for Princeton SCEA
planning to apply for Princeton Engineering - Mechanical or Aerospace
GPA 3.91 (unweighted) 4.456 (weighted)
ACT 36 (singe seating)
SAT 1580 (singe seating)
SUBJECT SAT: MATHII 800
SUBJECT SAT: PHYCIS 800
SUBJECT SAT: BIOLOGY 800
AP SCORES: AP COMPSCI 5, PHYSCIS C 5, BIOLOGY 5, APUSH 5, LATIN 5, CALC BC 5,
EC
lacrosse varsity team 3 years (team captain)
model UN - gaveled several times (officer)
informatics society (officer)
writing tutor
red-cross
AMC12 - Invited to AIME
AMC8 (Honor roll)
VOLUNTEERING
300 hours of community service
JOB
Summer internship (NIH) (Center for Info & Technology)
ethnicity is white
first generation
SCHOOLS:
Princeton
Carnegie Mellon
Columbia
Cal-Tech
U-Penn
U-Michigan
Cornell
Duke
AZ State
Rice
Colgate
please take a look and let me know if the schools above make sense for me to apply.
@pavbol2018 How do you expect us to know this, especially when you have perfect grades/scores? Are you insecure? Look at the Common Data Sets of these schools and see the stats on other admitted students. A lot of elite schools look for intangibles that don’t always come across in the numbers.
I am insecure. i go to a school in AZ that is very competitive and a good number of students get perfect scores. What are the intangibles you are talking about? I appreciate your answer.
@pavbol2018 - Are you a junior in HS? If you’re a senior, I’m afraid you’ve missed the deadlines.
Let’s recap: You have a perfect ACT score. You have perfect SAT subject test scores. You have '5’s on all the AP tests (I assume these are all the ones you took. You have a near-perfect SAT score. I’m not sure what you expect to hear. The ivies turn down perfect score students all the time. Best bet is to check your school’s Naviance system and find out who from your school went where and with what stats. Also, check the Common Data Sets for each school.
Finally, why would one go to Princeton to study aerospace or mechanical engineering? I’m a mechanical engineer who spent a lot of time in graduate school and I don’t know a single colleague or professor who went to Princeton undergrad.
If your essays suck, you won’t get in, I’m telling you that right now. If you write scholarly but extremely personable, narrative-style essays about YOU and YOUR LIFE and your JOURNEY that are interesting and fun to read, you have a shot.
Your stats are great. The one area that I think you’re lacking in is extracurricular. Those who get into Princeton Engineering and other selective engineering schools will most definitely show deep commitment to STEM. They’ll be heads of the Science Bowl club, Robotics club, Intel semifinalists, etc. All I see is your Informatics Society, AIME, and internship that show your interest in STEM.
It’s a little late to get involved with STEM ECs now, so I suggest that you write some amazing essays about why you love Princeton Engineering and why you want to be an engineer.
Reading this, i thought : it’s all about the essays. You’re perfect score wise ofc, and you have good and strong ec’s but nothing standout, so it’s all about the personal qualities and voice that you can convey in your writing