Hello, I am currently a junior and would like your feedback on the following colleges (I know some are near impossible for me but I still want to try it because you never know…):
Stanford
Columbia
Cornell
Brown
UPenn
USC
UC Berkeley
UCLA
Vanderbilt
Notre Dame
UChicago
UCSD
NYU
Emory
Georgetown
Boston College
I will be graduating with Full IB Diploma
Intended major: (Double Major) Economics + Political Science
SAT: 1550 (780 Math + 770 English + 22 Essay) – SuperScore = 1570
SAT Subject tests: 790 Biology // 800 World History // 750 Korean (Planning to take US History, Math II, and Literature)
GPA: Weighted – 4.3 // Unweighted – 3.65 ((If I do well second semester I can get 4.4 / 3.7 before sending in college apps)
- A note about GPA: I have 2 C’s on my transcript - junior first semester- because of extenuating circumstances (will be provided later but kinda personal).
ACT: Not taken yet but 34 and 35 on practice tests.
PSAT: 1480
AP’s:
AP Computer Science - 3 // AP European History - 4 // AP Language and Composition - 5 // AP Comparative Gov’t – 5
(Still have to take AP Bio, AP Calc AB, AP US History, AP Microecon, AP Macroecon, AP US Gov’t)
IB’s:
Have to Take – IB Business SL, IB Math SL, IB French SL, IB Philosophy HL, IB English HL, and IB Biology HL
EC’s:
NJROTC Drill Team (Sophomore - Current) – Team Commander
NJROTC Department (Freshmen - Current) – SubDepartment Head
Academic Decathlon (Sophomore - Current) – Team Captain
Mock Trial (Sophomore - Current) – Witness (Got Award Nominations)
IEDU Times (Sophomore - Current) (Basically outside club newspaper stuff – published in legit newspapers) // 3 Articles Published So Far – Student Reporter
California Association of Student Councils (Freshmen - Current) – Director of Funds
Political Blog (Current)
YouTube Vlogger (Sophomore - Current) – Nothing big…
Freelance Writer (Current) – Writing my own stories and using Amazon Publishing
Internships / Volunteer
Congressman Re-Election Internship (Sophomore to Current)
Political Science Research Intern (Sophomore Summer to Current)
Volunteer for Korean American Chamber of Commerce (1 Summer)
Future Plans:
Apply for research internship at Stanford, Columbia, etc…
Submitting multiple history research papers to get it published
Submitting multiple essays for national writing competitions
Extenuating Circumstances:
Things are kind of complicated, but I will be applying to QuestBridge and hopefully be making it in from there.
I will gladly provide any additional information you will need. (ALSO my high school is known to be a super hard high school in the area. We send nearly 70 people to UC Berkeley and UCLA each yr and top 10% always goes to good universities)
What do you think are my chances are?