Background- Asian Indian middle class, no hooks, above average high school in terms of rankings but most go to our local state schools. Once in a while someone gets into somewhere amazing.
Objective Stats GPA- ~97 UW, ~99-100 W; 4.0 unweighted on 4.0 scar but we use 100% scale
SATs- took March so no scores but 1410 PSAT so assuming I get the same thing. I feel fairly confident I did as well or better.
Rank- 2/110, high chance I will be #1 after this year
Rigor- 7 APs, 9 honors throughout high school, most rigorous of anyone in my grade, especially senior year
ECs FBLA-2 years- treasurer(11), president(12)- 1st at regionals, not too hot at states, joined this club due to my interest in business that started early junior year and probably my favorite club
Model UN- 2 years- treasurer(12)- outstanding speaker, two events per year
Tennis- 3 years- Varsity team, club team(winters), clinics year round, especially during summer which is almost 20 hrs/week- as you can see lots of time spent on this all year with improvement shown as I went from 7 to 2 on our team, my favorite overall activity
Tennis volunteering- summers- 75 hrs over the summer with local tennis programs
Students against destructive decisions(SADD)-4 years-treasurer(11)- I know a lot of other schools have this but we have one program in this club that’s really awesome. I can’t go too in detail about for anonymity reasons but I would even consider writing an EC essay on this one.
Engineering competition-11th grade- did not do well at all, first time we’ve joined this competition and did terrible so might as well not put this, not much time spent on it either
A few others(NHS, piano, etc) not as important but stuff I’ve done all four years other than NHS which only upperclassmen join.
Reaches
Cornell- AEM(super reach)
Georgetown- McDonough(super reach)
Carnegie Mellon- Tepper(reach)
Lehigh- Computer science+business(reach)
Matches
Lehigh- Finance(solid match)
Bucknell- Accounting and Financial Managment(solid match)
Safeties
Pitt(safety- hoping for honors college/scholarships)
Penn State UP(safety;hoping for honors college)
Temple(super safety+amazing automatic scholarships)
Would love to hear your guys’ opinions on my list and if you have any suggestions.
bump!
What state do you live in? Looks like PA. Since you were posting on the Financial Aid page, I’d take this over there and start the conversation with them from a money perspective. Figure out which schools will enable you to graduate with the least amount of debt, what are the best schools you can get into with the most merit aid? The folks over there will help you if you ask nicely and provide the info (stats) above, they are awesome!