<p>Ethnicity:Indian
GPA: 3.67 UW, Kind of low but consider that I did the IB program at my school.
ACT: 34(35 English, 34 Math, 35 Writing, 31 Science)
AP's:
Freshman Year - AP US Government(5), AP Comp Sci AB(4)
Sophomore Year - AP Environmental Science(5), AP Calculus BC(5), AP Physics Mechanics(5), E&M(4), AP Human Geography(4), AP US History(5)
Junior Year(Projected) - AP English Lit(5), AP European History(5), AP Macroeconomics(5), AP Microeconomics(5), AP Psychology(5), AP Biology(5)
IB's:
Junior Year(Projected) - IB Economics(7), IB Spanish (4 or 5)</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Newspaper Club - 4 Years
DECA Business Club - 3 Years
Model UN - 4 Years
Schoolwide SGA - 3 Years
Countywide SGA Executive Board - 2 Years
Math Honor Society - 2 Years
Science Honor Society - 2 Years
Social Studies Honor Society - 2 Years
National Honor Society - 2 Years
Started school investment club with $10,000(Over 50% gains over last two years)
Internship for Java/Computer Engineer(Graduate of MIT, 4 years)
Robotics Team (3 Years)</p>
<p>Interested in computer science/finance degree(or econ) for ibanking/management consulting - dual major would be nice
Chance me for UChicago,UPenn,Cornell,Columbia,UCBerkeley,UMich,CMU(Computer Science), Northwestern, UT-Austin, UNC-Chapel Hill</p>
<p>If your class rank is in the top 7% (or whatever the automatic admission threshold is) in a Texas high school, you’re in at UT Austin and other Texas public universities (though you need to check whether you will be in your major as well as the campus).</p>
<p>Otherwise, UT Austin should be considered a reach since non-automatic-admission applicants have to compete for the remaining 25% of the class (this include all out-of-state and international students, Texas students from non-ranking schools or just below the automatic admission threshold, and home schooled students).</p>
<p>UNC-CH is a reach for out-of-state applicants. Not sure about Michigan. All of your other schools are reaches with your stats (some are reaches for everyone).</p>
<p>UChicago: Low reach
UPenn: Low reach
Cornell: Match/high match
Columbia: Reach
UCBerkeley: Match
UMich: Match
CMU: Match
Northwestern: Low reach
UT: Safety
UNC: Reach (Very difficult out of state)</p>
<p>@RChandler
Sorry. I did not realize that UT Austin only accepts people with a good class rank. I thought it was easy to get in because of its low rank. UT Austin is actually a reach for you.
Unless if you are very lucky, you will not get into a single college on your list. All of those colleges are reaches. None of them are matches, not even high matches. In fact, I would not even call any of those colleges a low reach for you.</p>
<p>Mangia- Yes full IB diploma. It’s a magnet IB too, so I tested into it.
Also, I self studied,
AP Comp Sci AB, Enviro, Human Geo, Government, Lit, Euro, Psych, and kind of Macro/Micro</p>
<p>What about financial engineering or finance degrees?</p>
<p>I hate to be the first person to say this, but all of those that you listed save UT-Austin, UNC and michigan, are crap shoots no matter how well qualified a candidate is. CMU’s SCS had a 6.8% acceptance rate this year, with the 75th percentile of admits having a 2400 SAT. (<a href=“http://admission.enrollment.cmu.edu/pages/undergraduate-admission-statistics”>http://admission.enrollment.cmu.edu/pages/undergraduate-admission-statistics</a>). Don’t let that discourage you from applying, but do not by any means think that you are likely to get into any of those school and fail to have backups. Apply to a couple of schools that you are very likely to get into. Good luck!</p>
<p>I hate to be the first person to say this, but all of those that you listed save UT-Austin, UNC and michigan, are crap shoots no matter how well qualified a candidate is. CMU’s SCS had a 6.8% acceptance rate this year, with the 75th percentile of admits having a 2400 SAT. (<a href=“http://admission.enrollment.cmu.edu/pages/undergraduate-admission-statistics”>http://admission.enrollment.cmu.edu/pages/undergraduate-admission-statistics</a>). Don’t let that discourage you from applying, but do not by any means think that you are likely to get into any of those school and fail to have backups. Apply to a couple of schools that you are very likely to get into. Good luck!</p>
<p>Crapshoots means they’re so selective that they reject a lot of qualified candidates and barely anyone can reasonably expect to get in.</p>
<p>Your GPA is indeed lowish for such competitive schools. They reject 2400/4.0s often enough, so you have to really give them a reason why they should choose you with a lower GPA over one of those people.</p>
<p>Your low GPA will hurt your chance at some schools like UMich. For UMich, you should try applying to LSA seeking for CS major with minor in business as your chance for CoE or Ross is not very high. It is nice to have that investment club on your EC, but don’t boast the 50% gain in the last 2 years. You can easily do that with any S&P 500 index fund as the market was in recovery mode.</p>
<p>First of all, your unweighted GPA is not “bad,” considering that all of your AP and IB classes probably put your weighted GPA over 4.0 (my son’s unweighted was only 3.3-3.4, but his weighted was around a 4.0, depending on the method used). You are listing some very selective schools, though, especially for Engineering. I don’t know much about UT, but I know that Berkeley’s Engineering college is a reach for almost everyone. I’d broaden the list to include a few more matches and safeties: Tulane, Lehigh, Purdue, RPI, Northeastern, Worcester Poly, Stevens Institute, Drexel, Rochester Institute of Technology, and some less-selective state universities have excellent engineering programs, and you should be competitive at them. </p>
<p>Bill,
Ooh someone else that knows about the market. Yeah I realized that, I want to be work in strategy consulting(MBB) and ross has pretty good recruitment for a state school. Any suggestion on how to make this work? I know MBB likes engineering majors too.</p>
<p>Woogz,
It’s not bad bad, but it could have been better. My parents forced me into classes like AP Physics(as a sophomore with no calc or physics experience). And I appreciate your suggestions, but other than Northeastern, I would rather go to UMD College PARK than them. Thanks though!</p>