Chance me U Mich, Cornell, U Chicago

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Cornell COE, U Mich COE, U Chicago please
Also, would anybody happen to know about U Mich merit aid?

Hispanic
Class Rank: Top 10% (Competitive high school with 400 students in my grade)
School does grades out of 100 for who knows what reason but anyway these are my grades out of 100, where Honors and AP courses are weighted as extra 5% and 7% respectively. I’ve never gotten a B.
GPA: 8th: 95 9th: 97.5 10th: 98.5 11th:100.9 Overall GPA:98.6
ACT: 35(35 Math, 36 Science, 35 English, 33 Reading,7 Essay)
SAT IIs: Physics 760 , Math II 800, US 720
AP Scores: Computer Science A(5), Physics 1(5), English Lang(5), US History(5)

Extracurricular:
Founder and President of Programming Club
Board Member Mathletes
Board Member Science Olympiads
National, Science, Spanish Honor Societies

Volunteer/Work:
Various hours from various things (ex: special Olympics, Robotic league volunteer).
United States Soccer Federation Grade 8 certified referee for 4 years
Internship at a cloud computing summer Freshman year

Summer Programs:
Financial Engineering at Baruch College
Researcher at a Computer Science/Applied Mathematics lab
various computer science camps (1 in c++, 1 in python)

Awards:
A few minor awards from various minor competitions. (Ex: bronze medal at Math Fair)
AP Scholar w/ Honors
National Merit Commended
National Hispanic Merit Scholar

Teacher Recs: Math Teacher, English Teacher
8/10 both

Course Load:

Freshman & Sophomore: Hardest Available. Didn’t take the one AP offered because I was scared.

Junior:
AP Computer Science, AP Physics 1, AP English Language and Composition, AP US History, college accounting course

Senior:
AP Physics C, AP English Literature, AP Statistics, AP Calculus BC, AP Spanish, AP Macro, AP Gov

Essays:
Common App 9.5/10
Supplements 8/10

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you have the best chance at UMich!
Pretty balanced application with good academics and extracurriculars. Now just write some awesome essays and you’ll def be a contender for Cornell and Chicago

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You have a very strong application and being Hispanic is a nice hook. You should consider some other schools in addition to these 3- MIT, CalTech, , Carnegie Mellon, Franklin W.Olin for reaches. I think you will get into both Cornell and U.Michigan but U.Chicago is pretty hard to predict their admit rate last year was something like 8%. My D was waitlisted with a 36 ACT at U.Chicago last year

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Very good shot at all three. Hispanic gets you a bump at Cornell, but why Chicago since they don’t have much of an engineering program? If you want to study engineering look elsewhere.

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@TooOld4School
I visited the school and loved it there! I don’t know exactly what I want to do but I know that I want to do something a long the lines of computer science and math and computer science at the colleges of engineering seem to be great mixes of the two.
Would anybody happen to know anything about U Mich OOS aid? Would I be competitive for aid?
These are my top 3 choices, however I fear that neither of the 3 will be affordable. :frowning:
Anybody have any other recommendations for colleges?
I’m applying to U Maryland, but not GT as I’ve heard bad things about the program there.

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Engineering approaches are a little different than CS. Umich has CS through LSA and CoE. You will have to run the NPC to determine what it will cost you. Michigan LSA has a language requirement, CoE does not.

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@TooOld4School UMich CS through college of engineering is a B.S. compared to a B.A. from LSA if I remember correctly?

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I’ve heard that the UMich COE gives pretty good merit aid, but there are a bunch of threads on CC that know better than I do.

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Are you National Merit and / or Questbridge?

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@ClarinetDad16 As I mentioned before, I was national merit commended and am a national hispanic scholar. I’m not questbridge.

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bump

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If you’re a minority or female applying to Cornell’s CoE, you will probably get a likely letter if you do RD since they do diversity hosting and women in engineering programs to encourage enrollment of these two demographics.

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Where is your home state and what is your gender? These would be critical for your chance in admission and merit aid at UMich. Also, what is your household income?

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@billcsho I’m from New York and male. 180k combined household income. However, the cost of living where I am is very high

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Your stat is near the threshold for scholarship but not likely to get one. This year, ACT 35 is around the 75th percentile for CoE. You need something to stand out to receive the Engineering Scholarship of Honor. A female student with the same stat may have a better chance. My D with the same stat but better SAT2 got it 2 years ago. Now it may be even more competitive.

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Oh, also I got a 2040 on the sat. Will this penalize me, considering I did so much better on the ACT?

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Don’t report your sat @Coldsummer123

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@sattake can I do that at Cornell though? Don’t they require I send all scores in?

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If you are not sending in subject tests, I don’t think you have to send your SAT scores at all, just all your ACT scores. I would check this though @Coldsummer123

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Sorry, I guess you would submit your SAT subject scores. I don’t think this will hurt you though. They will probably just consider your highest score, which would be the ACT