Thanks y’all-
I did do the research and made sure these were schools I wanted to go to, and my parents are absolutely on board for everything. Everything from the campuses to the majors/classes systems to the cultures, I made sure I liked. I have lots of music compared to others because I’ve been playing the violin for a really long time and STEM is a relatively recent development. And I’m actually still exploring what I want to do. At first, I really liked the biological sciences and wanted to go to pre-med. Later, I realized I would like to focus more on cognitive science/materials science and not go to pre-med. But in general, I do love STEM and as for political science, although it could be considered a humanities major, poli sci research actually is very similar to science research and uses a lot of math/statistics, and that’s why I thought it would be really cool to study even political science at a STEM school.
And by reasonable, no worries–I didn’t mean like “getting in” reasonable but more like “would the admissions officers look at my application and consider” reasonable. I definitely do realize that my chances are less than 10% at best.
And yes, I’m a violin-playing Asian going into STEM lol which is a big rip but I just wanted to try throwing my early cards at my dream schools. I just hope that I can convey that those are things that I sincerely love to do.
And do you guys have suggestions for other colleges? Like just a few that come into mind. If it helps, my preferences are: a more collaborative atmosphere (for example, I’ve heard JHU is very competitive while CalTech&MIT are more collaborative) and a school that offers some kind of program or major related to cognitive science (interdisciplinary program involving neuroscience and computer science). And yeah, Brown I’m definitely applying RD (not applying ED cuz I’m not ready for that commitment).
Thank you all for the feedback!