Chance me for Stanford + others (URM)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I’m a junior.

Objective:

SAT I (breakdown):2210 (High Math)
ACT:n/a
SAT II: 750 Math 2, gonna retake and hoping for higher. (planning to take physics and spanish also)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):n/a
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10%
AP (place score in parenthesis): 4: World History, Human Geography (Currently a Junior and I’m expecting a 4 on English Lang, and a 5 on US History, Calculus BC, Spanish 4, and Computer Science)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C, AP Statistics, AP Microecon, AP Spanish 5, AP English Lit, AP Gov, Computer Science 3 Honors, Debate
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Probably some AP Scholar, Likely National Merit, some various debate awards, some programming awards, and attending a few good summer camps, gave a local Ted Talk.

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Debate (Vice President), Junior World Affairs Council (President), State leadership position in a national organization, Programming Club (President), First Team Robotics (a captain), some other clubs that I don’t have leadership in.
Job/Work Experience: Paid intern twice with a global/top tech firm in the area. Currently a writer for a popular local news. Also developed a phone application.
Have led several community projects and worked closely with the Mayor.
Volunteer/Community service: 200+ hours, started a nonprofit to help urban students have access to stem mentors and resources

Intended Major : Computer Science and/or Electrical Engineering
School Type: Large and competitive public school
Ethnicity: Black
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: <60k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): URM, very diverse extracurriculars, few Black people in STEM
Weakness: Grades, rank

Chance me for:

Stanford (really all I care about tbh, bc I’ll go be going to a state school otherwise)

Harvard

CalTech

MIT

Carnegie Mellon (Computer Science)

Berkeley (Computer Science)

Cornell

2

Oh yeah, also first generation hook.

3

Would need to know your unweighted GPA to make a prediction. Top colleges want to see you are capable of succeeding in all the classes you will need to graduate, not just the STEM ones.

4

I’ll be applying with one, but I don’t know it at the moment. My grades consist of A’s and a few B’s from this junior year.

5

bump

6

Post your grades if you want an honest opinion. Without it we are all just as clueless as you.

7

Post classes and grades if you don’t have. GPA.
Also, ‘Stanford or bust’ is adolescent swagger. You need to develop a good application strategy.
You have excellent odds at getting into a top school but you need to identify matches and low reaches instead of focusing on schools where odds are you’ll be rejected (that’s what 5% acceptance rate means - beside Stanford, that’s also cmu CS.)
What state do you live in?
Why Caltech but not HarveyMudd?

Any way you can take something else than AP stats senior year, after bc? If your school doesn’t offer MV or discrete math, any chance you could take either one at a local cc ?

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Grades:

A’s in US History, Debate, Spanish, Computer Science, except B+ in Calculus BC, Physics, and English

9

The Stanford or Bust mindset was really just about which reach schools I care about. If I don’t make Stanford, I’m fine with going to a state school.

10

bumppppppp

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What state do you live in? are you instate for California?
UC’s weight GPA 's higher than test scores. Calculate your ucgpa by adding all your grades (google will help you if you don’t know howbto do this.)
If so make sure to apply to cal poly slo as well as a couple UC’s.
If not, remember UC’s do not have any financial aid for oos applicants sobyour parents need to have 240k and it’s really not worth it.
Based on the grades posted your GPA is likely in the 3.7 range which is low for Stanford. And it doesn’t seem you have a national or regional award in CS or something else.
The B+ in calculus and physics may well sink you at cmu -cs, since they accept nice rate is about 5% and their numbers are out of this world.
Please answer the other questions in #6 .
Why did you say you’ll be going to a state school if you don’t get into Stanford, is that what your parents said?