Hey,
I’m a sophomore, going to be a junior next year. I’d appreciate some general input about how I am faring in terms of admission as I approach the halfway mark of high school. I’m applying to some of the country’s top technical schools, including but not limited to: CMU, Berkeley, MIT, Caltech, Cornell, Georgia Tech, Columbia, Princeton, UPenn, NYU, etc. How are my chances and what can I do to improve those?
General info:
White male, middle to upper-middle class
Attend one of the top stem schools in nation (number and name withheld)
94-95 GPA, unweighted
All honors courses (APs not offered to underclassmen in my school)
Math courses taken by the end of sr. year: Alg II, Pre-calc, Calc BC, AP Stat, Multivar
Science courses by end of sr. year: Hnrs. Bio, Hnrs. Physics, Hnrs. Chem, and an AP course in one of those three (probably physics C)
Current APs: Bio (4), taking physics 1 and 2 and comp sci A this year
PSAT - 1420
No SAT or ACT yet
EC:
-Varsity tennis player for top 20ish team in the state
-VP of school’s robotics and coding club
-I work a job at a local tutoring center (for money, not volunteering)
-I have tutored underprivileged kids for free in English and math
-I was a counselor for my local community college’s STEM camps (taught middle school kids about programming and CAD)
-I regularly volunteer for NHS hours at school events
-I am interning at a university research group in an Ivy League university this summer (not a high school summer program, meant for undergrads+)
Awards (names withheld for most)
-1st Place in a national app comp (10th gr)
-3rd place at a local research comp (10th)
-2nd place at a regional research comp (10th)
-3rd in state for TSA TEAMS (Tests of engineering, aptitude, mathematics and science) competition (10th)
-I’ve gotten a grant for future research from a local science organization
Skills:
-Bunch of programming languages
-Linux
-Research practicum