Sat: 1270
Sat 2: M1: 550 Phy: 600 M2: 600
GPA 5.02 w 3.98 uw
Female
Low income
African American
South Side Chicago Illinois
First Generation
Single Parent Household
Major: Electrical Engineering
Extra Curricular: Section Leader Band, Pep Band, Pit Orchestra, STEM Tutoring Internship, US China 100K Strong Ambassador, Robotics, Study Abroad in China, PepsiCo Design Challenge, Chinese Culture and Language Club
AP:8
Four years of Chinese
Strong letters of rec (One from Physics teacher another from Chinese teacher)
Essays: Center around globalization, engineering, identity
Schools:
UofI Urbana Champaign - Accepted
Whitman - Accepted
UIC - Accepted
Spelman - Accepted
Howard
Carnegie
Syracuse - Accepted RD w/28k per year
Purdue - Rejected RD
UMich Ann Arbor
Cornell University
Yale University
NYU
Northwestern
Northeastern
USC
WPI
UWisconsin-Madison
You have a very low SAT score for some of these schools. However, combined with the fact that you are African American + low income, you do stand a chance. Don’t expect much from Ivies or other selective universities.
At the more selective schools on your list: Carnegie Mellon, UMich Ann Arbor, Cornell University, Yale , Northwestern, Northeastern, your standardized test scores put you well into the bottom 5-10% or less of students overall. When you take into consideration that you are applying as a STEM major, the standardized test scores look even less favorable. Given that these schools regularly turn down low income, first gen AA applicants with SATII’s in the 700s, your chances are less than optimal.
You have some good acceptances so I wouldn’t stress out.
I would suggest that you go to a school that provides academic support instead of going to a prestige name school. An EE major with low standardized test scores will have a hard time surviving with weeder classes in college STEM classes.