Chance me UMichigan, Carnegie Mellon, uPenn, etc

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Applying to JHU, Georgiatech, Carnegie Mellon, UMichigan, University of Florida, University of Texas (Austin), RICE,

IVYs/first tier: Princeton, MIT, Harvard

Objective:

SAT I (breakdown): 1530
(800 Math) (730 Reading) (Single score)
ACT (breakdown): N/A
SAT II:
800 Math II, 800 Biology M
Unweighted GPA: 3.97
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): idk but in county im like 212/14,000 top 10% of my class and top 1-2% of county
AP (place score in parenthesis):

AP European History (5), AP U.S History (5), AP Lang (5), AP Psych (5), AP Calculus BC (5, AB subscore 5), AP World History (4 lol)

IB (place score in parenthesis): yes

Senior Year Course Load:
HL Math
HL Biology
HL English
SL Chemistry (double science)
SL History
SL Spanish

Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): i just listed all

Future Business Leaders of America (fbla)

  • 1st Place in Networking Concepts at State Leadership Conference
  • 1st Place Networking Concepts at Regional Leadership Conference
    Went to NLC didnt place but it was first year I did nationals

Science Competitors & Robotics

  • As an active captain, helped Science Olympiad team advance from regionals to state (11th grade), didnt really win much individually (yet but wont matter for college apps lol)
  • Third Place in Problem Solving in Regional Science Bowl competition

Some Mu Alpha Theta regional competitions over the years

Science Competitors & Robotics
• As an active captain, helped Science Olympiad team advance from regionals to state (11th grade)
• Third Place in Problem Solving in Regional Science Bowl competition

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Varsity tennis

Director of Public Relations and State Coordinator for a Nonprofit Organization aiming to spread Comp Sci to minorities and women: Contacted schools and helped organize educational coding workshops, Hosted coding workshops a local museum guiding kids in creating games with Scratch

Currently organizing a local Hackathon at a Children’s Museum for National Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek)

Director of resources for FBLA

Mu Alpha Theta
Secretary (2014-2015)
Vice President (2015-2016)
President (2016-2017)

Secretary of Science Competitors/Robotics
-Sci olympiad and quizbowl captains, etc

Job/Work Experience: None

Volunteer/Community service:
Volunteered at a Venial Laser Procedures Private Practice (basically clinical assistance like a hospital)
Helped raise over $20k as a dancer for an event for Children’s Miracle Network
Relay for Life - 3 years
plus the organization for Comp Sci in hosting coding workshops
overall will be probs 100-200hours

Summer Activities:
Nationals leadership conference FBLA, again the organization and the clinical practice but nothing much besides that

Essays: hook about the development of my passion for cybersecurity and comp sci from when I was a child and my discovery of helping others in programming through the organization, specifically on like how as a kid I started a youtube channel reaching over 150k views in removing antiviruses and computer problem solving and tech reviews for fun- just my passion for tech

Teacher Recommendation:
In process of doing so but I am close with my teachers and expect them to not be below 7/10

Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: half undecided but most likely computer science or BME

School Type: public
Ethnicity: Pakistani
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 100k+

thanks

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Your GPA and test score are both at the 75th percentile of UMICH, it should be a low reach with chance higher than the overall OOS admission rate.

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You have a great shot at all the schools with the exception of Carnegie Mellon, and the Ivies. Most Ivies compare students on a regional level. So if you are saying that 212 students outperformed you in the county, that’s not terribly good news for you. Is this county ranking printed anywhere? If not, do not mention it. I would also like to to see more student organization leadership/involvement. Whatever you do, just be sure that your essays are amazing and exude passion if you are to have a real chance at the Ivies. - Admissions Track

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Thank you guys

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Bump

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Your school doesn’t publish stand-alone rank or percentile within your class? How did you come up with 212/14000 if that’s the case? Do you have any idea how far off you are from being valedictorian at least?

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One of our reports gives our rank in the entire county but not class. Out of my entire class in school I’m sure I’m probably about 11-14 in rank from #1. A lot of people minimize their rigor at my school but take easy dual enrollment classes to boost their rank like Human Resources and anthropology lol. I didn’t take any though I just double scienced in IB instead and only 6 more kids besides me take my math class.

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@HarisH4 Got it, that makes sense. I would say H, M, P will be reaches based on your scores.

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JHU-High Match
Georgiatech-High Match
Carnegie Mellon-Reach
UMichigan-High Match/Low Reach
University of Florida-Low Match
University of Texas (Austin)-Safety
RICE-Match
Princeton-High Reach
MIT-High Reach
Harvard-High Reach

Chance me back!!

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Your state of residency will have a strong impact on your chances of admission to UMich and GTech. Both those schools are increasingly tough admits for out-of-state residents.

Rice would fall in the reach rather than match category.