Chance me/Match me Rising Senior (Asian Male) For Colleges

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Demographics
US Citizen

  • State/Location of residency: Texas
  • Type of high school Public High School (class size about high 500s), pretty competitive usually sends 15ish students to T20 schools:
  • Gender/Race/Ethnicity Asian Male:
  • Other special factors (first generation to college, legacy, athlete, etc.): Sibling legacy to Yale

Intended Major(s) Not sure

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores

  • Unweighted HS GPA: 3.96/4.0

  • Weighted HS GPA (incl. weighting system): 4.62/5.0

  • Class Rank: 13/581

  • ACT/SAT Scores: 1530 SAT (800 Math, 730 R/W), Studying to take ACT during the summer (Consistently getting 35+ on practice tests), 800 SAT Math II

Coursework
9th grade PreAP English, 10th grade PreAP English, 11th grade AP Eng Lang and Comp, PreAP Algebra 1 (middle school), PreAP Geometry (middle school), 9th grade PreAP Algebra 2, 10th grade PreAP PreCalc, 11th grade AP Calc BC, 9th grade PreAP Biology, 10th grade PreAP Chem, 11th grade AP Chem, 11th grade AP Physics 1, PreAP World Geo 9th grade, 10th grade AP World History, 11th AP US History, 11th AP Human Geo, 11th AP Psych, PreAP Spanish 1A and Spanish 1b and Spanish 2 and Spanish 3, AP Spanish 4, AP Computer Science Principles, AP Computer Science A, AP Computer Science 3 (class after CSA)

Awards

  1. Scholastic Awards Summer Scholarship (SAS) Recipient: Received a fully funded scholarship to the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop through the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
  2. USA Biology Olympiad Semifinalist
  3. AIME Qualifier
  4. USA Computing Olympiad Gold Competitor
  5. 2x Scholastic Writing Gold Key Recipient, 3x Scholastic Writing Silver Key Recipient, 4x Scholastic Writing Regional Honorable Mention
  6. American Prize National Finalist (High School Division for Piano Solo)
    Planning on some more writing based awards this summer into the beginning of senior year.

Extracurriculars
(Include leadership, summer activities, competitions, volunteering, and work experience)

  1. Texas Boys State Delegate
  2. Congressional Awards Silver Medal Recipient (Volunteering-based award)
  3. Selected to the Welch Summer Scholar Program
  4. Selected as a Mentee to the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program
  5. Editor (not editor in chief) for a small literary magazine

Essays/LORs/Other
(Optionally, guess how strong these are and include any other relevant information or circumstances.)
Essays should be good (8.5/10), will be spending a lot of time and having many people look over it.
Teacher LORs should also be good (8/10), Counselor LOR will be pretty average (6/10) bc it’s pretty rare to actually meet face to face with the counselors unless it’s for a schedule change or some issue like that

Cost Constraints / Budget
(High school students: please get a budget from your parents and use the Net Price Calculators on the web sites of colleges of interest.)
No cost constraints but would definitely prefer a cheaper school over an expensive school if all else is similar

Schools
T20 schools (emphasis on Rice, UPENN, Yale), UT Austin (auto admit bc of school rank), Texas A&M

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Oh also I forgot to mention under extracurriculars that I have published over a dozen literary works (poems/short stories/etc) in several literary journals/mags (not huge ones like the new yorker but pretty notable within the smaller lit mags)

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Being auto-admit at UT Austin means that you are in at a very strong university. I hope that this takes a lot of pressure off the process since you know you will have a great university to attend.

Otherwise you are a very strong candidate. Admissions at the top universities in the US is very difficult to predict. I think that you should pay close attention to be differences between the top schools, apply to the ones that will be the best fit for you, and see what happens.

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Yes, I totally agree. UT Austin is an amazing school, and I’m extremely grateful that I qualify for its auto admission (it really does lessen the stress coming from the unpredictability of college admissions). Thank you so much for your input!

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Is UTA right for you? By that I mean if you are looking at Rice and Penn, they are much smaller. You have a chance of course at any top school but they are reaches for all. If you want cheaper, I’d suggest you look at schools with a lot of scholarships that are merit based…Washington & Lee has the Johnson Scholarship. Not sure your city but they also have a Dallas resident full tuition scholarship I believe. SMU has some great merit. Then there’s Vandy, WUSTL, and Emory that offers many scholarships.

Publics wise there is lots of money but mainly large schools although not as large as UT…but great aid….from an Arkansas, OU, Alabama, Arizona.

You’re off to a great start. If UT is too large, look at SMU, Rochester, Wake Forest, Tufts, etc as outstanding mid size choices as alternative to the top tier schools should you not get in.

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Any school leadership? When you apply to UT, what major will you choose?

Good shot at T20. Kid’s friends at a similar sized TX HS got into Vandy and Wash U ED. Rice is possible too.

What rank was your sibling? Special hook?

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My sibling was only enrolled in the high school I’m at until sophomore year (rank 2 at the time), then went to TAMS, its like a college style high school experience for junior and senior years.

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Is your sibling male or female?

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Female

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That’ll be a big difference in college admissions.

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why? What’s his sister have to do with him? Confused - but being female (and he’s not), other than maybe certain tech majors, is not a leg up. What am I missing?

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Asian male and female are treated totally differently.

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Yes, at certain schools, it can be a difference (sometimes female acceptance rate is higher, a few times male acceptance rate is higher). I think it moreso depends on how many males a particular school or major has relative to females. Regardless, I would just like to put out my best efforts and not really worry about factors that I cannot control.

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The sibling legacy at Yale is interesting. You potentially have a higher than average shot there. They’ll want to ensure you have similar stats at your sister before admitting you. However Yale is quite unpredictable.

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Hi, I wonder if you could shed more light on how they are treated. Thank you.

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