<p>Ethnicity: Asian-American
Gender: Male
School Type: Public (not competitive at all)
My unweighed GPA- I do not know. I have a 94-96 avg. <a href="no%20APs">unweighted</a>
Rank: probably Valedictorian
SAT: (verbal-660, math-770, writing-660)[all the people in my school score below 1500 except me)
SAT II's:
-aim for 800 (math IIC, Physics) probably will get 800</p>
<p>Awards- a bunch of schoolwide awards (useless)
Classes-
No APs are offered in my school(cuz my school is for immigrant stduents who have lived in US for less than 4 years).... So, i only take 2 college courses - 1 for each term) each year at City Universty of New York.... Total Credits Earned: 7.0
Cumulative GPA: 3.442</p>
<p>Ectracurricular Activities
-Science Club at my school for 3 years- for Fun (with no competitions)
- I am volunteering at city council campaign office ( he has a high chance to win)
- Columbia university Law School program for a year
- Internship (assistant)at Columbia University Medical Center at a Fred Chang's Lab</p>
<p>Recs-
- both teacher recs will be great (who knows)
- Counselor rec-probably great (who knows)
-If possible, recommendations from a Columbia University Medical Center post-doc </p>
<p>Those are solid test scores. As you may know, the CR is slightly low for Tufts, while the Math is at the top of the middle 50% range. See [Profile</a> of the Class of 2013 - Office of Undergraduate Admissions - Tufts University](<a href=“Tufts University”>Tufts University).
If you actually get 800s on Math II and Physics that would be great.
You are very competitive, although not overwhelming, as a candidate (few people are). One of the keys for you will be how you weave your ECs into a compelling essay. Focus on that; it could be the ballgame for you.</p>
<p>Sorry…but I don’t see any solid test scores…
The fact that your classmates couldn’t get above 1500 on 2400 isn’t going to save you…it just shows how misleading your unweighted GPA is… your SAT 1 score is average by Tufts standard…
Many of the applicants will have perfect scores in Math 2, Physics, Chem etc…and many more are hoping to get it…
Your ECs are just too ordinary…
You should probably check out the other chance me threads on this forum to see what you’re up against… I don’t think you’ll like it…
The way I see it…you’re essays have got to be the best if you’re to have a good shot…and that’s with ED…and I wouldn’t suggest the TOEFL as getting a 650+ in CR gets rid of that requirement…</p>
<p>^ I actually have to agree with Lightbearer here. And I actually have to disagree with you WCASParent (for probably the first time), when you say the student is “very competitive.”</p>
<p>If you’re essays aren’t amazing, then I don’t think so… Anyways, what extra-currics/things have you done that make you want to go into engineering? Maybe you should try to highlight those things in your application, if they exist.</p>
<p>i’ve been in this country for like 5 years… I didn’t know enough info about college until recently…Well, i haven’t done ECs for engineering,… but this is what i really want to do…I should have transfered out of my school (cuz my school is terrible, but anyway). will my chance be higher if i do something besides engineering??</p>
<p>^ yeah probably, because the # of kids accepted into the engineering school is like 100+ versus the over 3,900+ students accepted to the A&S school. so its obviously going to be a little more competitive, and if you can’t articulate why you even want to be an engineer in the first place, than i doubt you stand a chance against the rest of the applicants that can.</p>
<p>there’s many fewer applicants to the engineering school, too. I think if they see that you’ve been interested in math/science (whether through course selection, recommendations, test scores, essays, etc) you’ll have just as good chances at the engineering school as at the A&S school.</p>
<p>I’m an engineering freshman… and I suspect that the engineering school’s easier to get into than the Arts and Sciences school…you’ll get butchered if you go up against the IR major maniacs…</p>
<p>yea, Engineering is what i want to do desperately… i guess i need to show my passion for engineering on writing the essay about " why tufts", i guess</p>
<p>i think you are a pretty competitive applicant for engineering.</p>
<p>your test scores are pretty good–especially when you consider that tufts will take context into account. i got into tufts engineering with similar math and a slightly higher CR score. </p>
<p>the most important thing is to write solid essays for tufts. when i applied last year they had an optional essay. do it. it not only shows interest in the college but gives you a chance to show another side of yourself and your writing ability.</p>
<p>good luck! hopefully i will see you at tufts next year</p>
<p>Two things:
You guys don’t find a 770 in math to be a solid test score? Jesus. . .
There is virtually no wall between the two schools. It is common for first-year arts and sciences students to transfer to the engineering school, and for engineers to transfer at any time to arts and sciences. In fact, when I was first applying, Tufts prided itself on the statistic that it was the only engineering school in the country which graduated more engineers than it accepted, due to extremely low attrition and relatively high cross-over from arts and sciences to engineering.</p>
<p>I think you have a challenge ahead of you. It is not impossible, but I do not think you will be accepted easily.</p>
<p>First of all, you an asian male applicant. For whatever reasons, the asian subgroup of application pools tends to be more competitive that the general. Tufts will have many asian male applicants who have stronger stats that those you currently have. But you still have time to raise your scores and/or even try the ACT.</p>
<p>Next, your GPA does not make sense. The statements I have a 94-96 avg and Cumulative GPA: 3.442 conflict. A 94 96 avg would be a 4.0 GPA. How are you doing your math?
Your math may be the 75% for the application pool in general. That does not mean you are in the 75% of the engineering applications. Likewise though, your CR and WR are below the 25% of the total application pool but may be higher within the engineering application pool.
good advice, you should check it out
Your ECs are not supposed to be done for something. They are supposed to be what you actually enjoy. Given that, to date, you have not had interest in engineering enough to do related activities. Are your high school curriculum choices more reflective of your interest? As for having higher chances applying to A & S than engineering, I would say no. Your CR and WR is solidly below the 25%. Unless there is something very compelling about you that would cause Tufts to overlook that then your odds go down. Your scores are closer to engineering scores.
Bad math, in the class of 2013, 196 engineering acceptees enrolled. Using the enrollment rate of 33%, the number of accepted engineers is probably between 550 and 600.<br>
exactly
That sounds like your essay is going to look like almost every other engineering applicant.</p>
<p>As for your ECS, the following is from the Tufts site:
On your current list, nothing is jumping out at me.</p>
<p>Final note, S graduated Tufts engineering in May and I saw D through her application process last year. She is now at Harvard.</p>
<p>^ was not an “innocent name drop”. Why did I mention it? It is because many of the Tufts and Harvard applicant are the same students (though in my case S did not apply to Harvard and D did not apply to Tufts). So after watching this process twice, and reading about these two overlapping application pools, my comments above reflect what I heard. Though Acceptd, I don’t blame you for your conclusion. Looking back at what I wrote, it does come across that way.</p>