Chances at Brown ED, Cornell, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley, Duke, UChicago, CalTech, Columbia
Sibling Legacy at Brown
Race: Indian
Gender: male
GPA: 3.9/4 unweighted, 5.0 Weighted
Class Rank: 2/220
SAT: 1540 (740 RW, 800 M)
AP Exams: AP Euro (5), Psychology (5), Calc AB (5), Calc BC (5), Lang (4), Lit (4), Spanish (5), Chemistry (4), Physics 1 (5), CS Principles (5), Macro (5), US History (4), Statistics (5), CS A (5),
Highest Course Rigor Offered
Extracurriculars: Math Club Co-President, Stock Market Club Co-President and co-founder, Coding Club President and Founder, Class Vice President, Model UN, ACADEC Treasurer
Awards
AIME Qualifier 2x, 9 on AIME (top 10% of participants), Distinguished Honor Roll AMC 10, USACO Gold, Google Code Jam Round 2, Facebook Hacker Cup Round 2, ACSL Perfect Score, State Math Competition Top 10 out of 200+, National Econ Challenge Semifinalist, Personal Finance Challenge Semifinalist, Stock Market Game Winner 4x, National Merit Scholar, ACADEC Gold Medal in Math, ACADEC top 10 in state
Essays: 8/10
Letter of Recommendations: 8/10
first, u only get 5 awards on common app so cut that down. a lot of them seem like fluff anyways. obviously you are a good student, my concern is ur ECs. everything is within ur school and nothing stands out as insane, which is what u need for these schools. i would use this summer to find some unique ECs
Yeah I forgot to add volunteering to the list, I teach underprivileged children math/coding. However, what do you mean by everything is within my school?
i just mean that the scope of all ur ECs is ur school. obvi u have some awards outside of ur school, but everything else is based on the infrastructure provided by a hs.
your whole goal is to “stand out”. one way to do this (there are plently of others) is to have ECs that makes AOs stop and ask how in the world you pulled that off. when all ur ECs are within ur school, its very easy to see how u did everythinng. you signed up for this club, that club, ran for this election, founded that club, etc etc.
This is a really late post, but would you mind expanding on how you have a 5.0 weighted GPA but not a 4.0 unweighted? I would assume that you’d have to have a 4.0 uw in order to possibly have a 5.0 weighted gpa?