Demographics: Male, Indian, suburban Georgia, very competitive majority Asian high school (ranked 2 in the state and top 100 in US), junior
Intended major: Biology (premed)
SAT/ACT: 1540
GPA: 3.9UW (At the moment, likely to falter but nothing below a 3.7)
Classes:
Freshman year: AP Gov (3)
Sophomore year:AP World History (4) AP Computer Science Principles (5)
Junior year: AP US History AP Chemistry AP Language and Composition AP Statistics
Senior year: AP Physics 1, AP Biology, AP Calculus BC, AP Microeconomics, AP Macroeconomics, AP Environmental Science.
ECs/Clubs:
County Youth Commission (only 30 kids were selected in the county, second largest county in state. Only rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors were allowed to apply)
Interned at Flushing hospital in NY over the summer
County Budgeted Service Project
ModelUN (Since freshman year, won several best delegate and honorable delegate awards)
Several awards nationwide awards for islamic history (Competitions in GA, NJ, NY, etc.)
Beta Club (4 years, president of Beta for 2)
Vice President of a popular politics club in my school
Article writer for the odysseyonline
Various Fundraisers (Raised 15k for Syria)
Over 250 hours volunteering at a community clinic and shadowing doctors.
HOSA (intend to win some competitions this year)
AP Scholar with distinction National Honors Society
Part of a muslim youth group at local mosque (4 years)
I was homeschooled for the first 2 years of my high school because I was very involved with organizations like ICNA and Helping Hand (Volunteering in local food drives and fundraisers since I was 8)
Schools I will apply to:
University of Georgia
Emory University
Georgia Tech (Legacy)
Rutgers University ($50 million donation)
Augusta Medical College (BS/MD)
New York University (Out of state)
UWash (Out of state)
John Hopkins University (Out of state)
Northwestern University (Out of state)
Vanderbilt University (Out of state)
Georgetown University (Out of state)
Davidson College (Out of state)
Carnegie Mellon University (Out of state)
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (Out of state)
University of Rochester (Out of state)
Every ivy
Your ECs are strong, and not that I’m very qualified to say this, but I would call them Ivy-caliber (not that that’s a guarantee of admission). Your SAT is good for these schools. I think that your weak point is the UW GPA. 3.9 is not a problem but if you drop to a 3.7, you become less competitive, especially at ultra-selective schools. If you keep your grades up, get good rec letters, and write good essays you would probably be an impressive applicant. Also, take the SAT subject tests. Carnegie Mellon “strongly recommends” them and I imagine that some Ivies and other schools on this list recommend or require a couple. And get 800s (at least 770 anyway), because anything less isn’t going to help you.
Also, I’m kind of wondering if you are actually planning on applying to every single school on this list. I would recommend 15 schools AT MOST, especially since I assume that almost all on your list require writing supplements. College applications are a lot of work. When I was a junior, I thought that I was going to apply to 10-12 places. So far I have applied to 6, and I might apply to one more but that’s it. I can’t see you having time to apply to 22 places (if I counted correctly), especially if your ECs are as time consuming as they appear to be. 15 may even be too much; if you’re on the fence about any I suggest cutting them out of the list now.
Your guidance counselor should have put a limit on your schools. You need some safeties, because you are applying to a number of OOS schools where their priority is their residents. Even students with perfect scores get rejected.
You donated $50 million dollars to Rutgers?
There is nothing to lose. Your profile indicates that you will definitely get into a great college. Feel free to try every IVY League and there is a high chance for you to get into one of them (or more). However, you should also apply to all other schools on the list just in case.
I don’t understand people who apply to every ivy league school–they are all so different. Why waste the time/money?It just shows that you are not looking at “fit” when applying to colleges, but relying on rankings and prestige. Don’t waste your time applying to schools only based on their names. Shorten the list to colleges that are a good fit for you.