Chance Me: Mixed-interest for engineering at Columbia (ED), Upenn (M&T), Yale, Princeton, MIT

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I want to double major in bioengineering and either economics or public policy.

  • Stats:
  • 3.95 UW, school has weird weighted scale but I’ve taken 10 APs as of Junior year and gotten a 5 on all 10 to give you an idea of course rigor.
  • 1560 SAT
  • 790 Math 2 (retaking Oct), taking Bio M and Chem Oct.
  • ECs:
  • Debate/MUN (our school combines them) Treasurer 11th, President 12th - MUN part one of the top ranked on BestDelegate
  • Mock Trial Secretary 10th, VP 11th and 12th - we never went high in the state though
  • Secretary/Treasurer and cofounder of volunteer/human rights activism club 11th/12th. Hosted some local events, raised 5k for schools and worked to free political prisoners
  • Secretary/Treasurer and cofounder of Bio Olympiad 12th (club had died like 15 years ago at our school, only just revived it so no achievements)
  • cancer research internship at a lab (it's at the medical school of one of the colleges in the title, I don't know if that will help though). 40 hrs/wk, 16 weeks
  • Awards:
  • 6 national level MUN and Debate awards
  • 4 state/regional science fair awards
  • National Spanish exam gold 3 years (not a native speaker)
  • Questbridge CPS
  • local school awards, honor societies, etc.
  • Demographics: low income white female from an overrepresented US state. Are my ECs enough for these ivies given my essays and recommendation letters are relatively up to standard?
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Do not retake your math subject test. A 790 is more than enough for any school.

You’re in the ball park but these are all reaches for all students. Have a list of solid match and safeties as well.

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I forgot to mention I’m a 4-year varsity tennis player (not captain or good enough for recruitment though), plan on applying to those schools through College Match (will ED to Columbia if I don’t match, as they allow this), may be announced Salutatorian or Valedictorian in January (school doesn’t otherwise rank), and made my state cutoff for NMSF so I will have that as well.

Thanks for your comment @momofsenior1 - I already registered to take all 3 subject tests in October haha, but I’m using my fee waiver benefits so it’s not an investment.