SAT: 2320 (M: 800 / R: 720 / W: 800)
SAT 2: Math 2 - 800 / Physics - 800
GPA: 6.8/7
Rank: 6 out of 780
APs: Human Geography (5), World History (5), Spanish Lang (4), Computer Science (5), English Lang (5), Physics 1 (4), Calculus BC (5) w/ AB subscore of 5, Statistics (4), US History (5)
ECs:
Key Club (VP)
National Honor Society
Science Olympiad (District, Regional, and State Winner)
UIL Academic Competitions (Mathematics Team Captain)
Worked as a Math tutor at Kumon
Marching Band (Clarinetist - won several awards at District and Region Band)
Clarinetist at Houston Youth Symphony
Participate in Destination Imagination (5x Regional Winner, 3x State Winner, 3x Global Finalist, my team got 2nd place in Global Finals in sophomore year)
Accepted into Economics summer program at Berkeley
Accepted into MIT Launch (10-15% acceptance rate)
Started my own healthcare technology company and have provisional patent
Please chance me for Electrical Engineering for:
MIT
Stanford
UMich - Ann Arbor
UT Austin (in-state)
Cornell
Columbia
UPenn
Northwestern
Rice
Georgia Tech
Princeton
Carnegie Mellon
UC Berkeley
Please chance me and I will chance back!!! And let me know if you think there’s anything special on my resume that I should highlight in my app!
Imo you have a very strong app. All your schools should be doable. But remember. They still reject students despite strong applications for some or another reason. But you are def a strong candidate.
Your academics look good but you have to remember that the top schools are always crap shoots. Make sure you can afford the out of state publics and make sure you have some safeties.
You could potentially get into any of those schools, but as Aunt Bea said, the top schools are crap shoots. And what is your financial situation? That is the big factor always. The tip top schools give little to no merit. With your stats a school like Case Western might.
Here’s a compliment for your list of schools: often I see just random lists of the top and best-known schools. You have done your research for engineering.
GTech and UMich are solid matches, Rice and Carnegie Mellon are higher matches, while the rest are just absolute crapshoots for everyone. Except UT Austin, which I’m sure you won’t have any problem getting in.
You have great Sat scores and GPA that will pretty much guarantee you in Carnegie Mellon, UMich GA Tech and UT Austin. Just make sure your essays demonstrate that you are just not super focused on school, but have ecs outside of school.