<p>She's one of the most impressive overachievers I know, and she thinks she has zero chance at the schools she applied to.</p>
<p>Objective:
ACT: didn't take
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school only gives percentiles; at least top 5%
AP (place score in parenthesis):AP English (5), AP Chem (5), AP Calc BC (5), AP Physics B (self study) (5),<br>
Senior Year Course Load: she's definitely chosen the most challenging schedule she logistically could have, although she wasn't quick to choose all APs in subects she disliked for the purpose of inflating her GPA like some of her peers (ie shes taking multivariable calc isntead of AP stat)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 2nd in the state for physics league
Subjective:
Essays: I've looked over them to help her edit and I thought they were amazing and really showed her personality
Teacher Recommendation: Not sure. She said her Calc BC teacher said she was the smartest girl she had that year...probably good I'm assuming? They know she's actually passionate about learning, though she's quiet and emotional xD
Counselor Rec: Okayish. probably not great since her grade has 700 people and all the counselors are flooded</p>
<p>Other
School Type: large public..somewhat competitive? we send like 10-25 out of 700 kids to ivies each year
Income Bracket: enough to /need/ financial aid to goto school although I'm not quiet sure :x
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):</p>
<p>oh also, she attended the nj governor’s school for engineering during the summer
caltech
uillinois
rutgers
mit
ucberkeley
ucla
ucsb ccs
rice
dartmouth
princeton
mcgill
harvey mudd
stanford
columbia</p>
<p>caltech-Reach [All ivies/top 10’s are reaches, no matter what]
uillinois-Safety
rutgers-Safety
mit-Reach [All ivies/top 10’s are reaches, no matter what]
ucberkeley-High Match
ucla-Match
ucsb ccs-Match
rice-High Match
dartmouth-High Match
princeton-Reach [All ivies/top 10’s are reaches, no matter what]
mcgill-Match
harvey mudd-Match
stanford -Reach [All ivies/top 10’s are reaches, no matter what]
columbia-Reach [All ivies/top 10’s are reaches, no matter what]</p>
<p>Everything looks good, she should have a nice time picking from the lot once acceptances roll in!</p>
<p>McGill: Safety (regardless of major, even BiomedE)
Rutgers: Safety
UCSB CCS: Reach (CCS has ~90 spots yearly)
UCLA: Match (can she pay full-freight for an UC?)
UIUC: Safety (other than business/engineering)/Low match (business/engineering)
Rice: High match
Harvey Mudd: High match
Columbia: Reach
Stanford: Reach
MIT: Reach
Berkeley: Match
Caltech: Reach</p>
<p>@Apollo11 McGill publicizes the admissions threshold and I saw 3.5/1950 students getting in (for Arts, FMT) and even BiomedE, the hardest program to get into (law, med and dental school are second-entry for out-of-province, while those three programs are the “reaches-for-anyone” of Quebec schools for undergrad), has a safety line at 3.8/2100. With that school, for a given major, even 30 points on the SAT, 1 extra point on the ACT or an extra 0.1 GPA can turn it from a reach to a safety.</p>