Please chance me for – UPenn M&T ED, Columbia Engineering, UC-Berkeley Engineering. Thanks in advance!
Objective:
[] SAT I (breakdown): N/A
[] ACT: 34 in one sitting
[] SAT II: 780 Bio-M, 730 Math I, 670 Math II, 660 World History
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 93.5/100 UW
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): World (4), Bio (5), US Gov (5), English Language (4)
[] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics, AP Lit, APUSH, AP Calculus AB, electives/minors
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None[/li] Subjective:
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): School Newspaper (Assistant Editor), Science Olympiad (Asst. Captain), Medicine & Engineering Club (Founder & President), Debate Team, Healthy Choices Club (VP)
[] Job/Work Experience: Started tutoring business
[] Volunteer/Community service: Coordinator of peer tutor program, Mentor for special needs kid, Community youth board
[] Summer Activities: Shadowed a doctor and set up her practice’s electronic medical records (EMR) system, Summer medical program
[li] Recs: Math Teacher, Science Teacher/Science Olympiad Asst. Coach, Doctor I shadowed[/li]
[/list]Other
[] State (if domestic applicant): NY
[] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[] Gender: Male
[] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
Not getting into Penn M&T (too selective and you don’t seem to present a strong case for being in it). Columbia is high reach/crapshoot. Berkeley is reach.
you may as well just apply to UCB’s general school so it would be a target school. I got in last year with lower stats, and I knew I had a solid chance of getting in. Penn is a high reach, columbia is a reach
Columbia’s admit rate was 6.94% for the class of 2018 and 6.1% for 2019. Penn’s was 9.9% both years, so half is a bit off. That probably is reflective mainly of Columbia’s smaller class size - 2228 admitted students (for 1406 spots) vs. 3697 (for 2420 spots), with almost the same number of applicants. The enrollment rate of accepted students was similar for both schools (61% for Columbia, a slightly higher 65% for Penn). The accepted applicant statistics of the two schools are generally similar in terms of GPA, class rank and test scores.
Wharton admission statistics are not released separately, but are generally considered more difficult than Penn as a whole.
M&T is a different ballgame, however, with a much lower admit rate than for Penn overall, and higher average test scores.
So I think it’s perfectly reasonable to consider Wharton and Columbia as high reaches, but M&T as being in a different category.
M&T is extremely hard to get in. My brother (2400 SAT, 36 ACT, 5s on 11 AP tests, and tons of extracurricular activities) was accepted into all the ivy leagues besides M&T.