Hi
Pls chance me for Princeton , Stanford, MIT , Berkeley CS, CMu Cs
Indian Male
Sat (1570: Super score)
Subjects: Physics 800 & Math 800
Gpa: 4.0
Weighted Gpa: 4.75
North South foundation Math Bee: National 2nd
AMC 12 / 10: distinction
Aime : 8
Columbia science honor program
Lehigh valley Math team
Tennis JV
Piano: first place and performed at Carnigie
FBLa : Business challenge: 7th place at National
Internship with start up on using AI modeling for better sports
Physics tournaments at Nj state
You don’t mention your family’s ability to pay. Do you need financial aid? It is also a bit unclear if you are applying as an international student or if you a domestic student (I am guessing a domestic applicant of Indian decent, based on the things you have done in NY/NJ/PA).
If you are indeed a domestic applicant, you have to know that your odds are the same as any other high stat applicant, meaning that out of every 100 applicants who share your stats, only 4-6 will be accepted and 94-96 will be rejected. This is not a reflection of your ability, merely the result of too many qualified applicants for too few seats. You need to find match and safety schools you would be happy to attend. As a side note, Berkeley is a CA state school and does not give financial aid to OOS students. Your family would need to pay the full rate of $70K/year.
Can you recalculate your GPA using UC’s methodology? I suspect it will be strong, and therefore that’s your most likely admission.
I think admission could be tough at MIT, Princeton, and Stanford. You have excellent credentials and are qualified, but unfortunately that’s true of perhaps half the applicants. But you should absolutely apply as some of those applicants will certainly be chosen.
All those schools (for CS where appropriate) will be very high reaches for your demographic. 8 on AIME helps a little, but just very little.
Wish I could be more encouraging, definitely give it your all. One thing we learned as a family in this past admissions cycle is that the essays actually do count for something. Not as much as they say they do, but they do make a difference.
UC Berkeley offers CS in the College of Engineering (EECS) or CS in the College of Letters and Sciences. EECS is a direct admit while CS in the College of L&S requires a minimum GPA in pre-req courses to declare the major (this may change with some type of direct admit).
UCB also is test blind this admission cycle so your excellent SAT score will not be considered. UCB as an OOS/International applicant will cost around $65K/year with little to no financial aid.
As stated above, UCB is a Reach school so hopefully you have some solid Match and Safety schools on your list.
You should also add Cal Poly for CS. It’s extremely competitive (expecting 5600 applicants for 206 spots next year), but the admissions algorithm is objective, no essays, no post application human intervention. You should have a shot. Placement and salaries are every bit as good as all the schools on your list, but it’s a lot cheaper. One of my son’s friends interned for Salesforce and Apple and now works full-time at Apple. He had multiple pre-graduation great offers. Good luck!
@Murugvvel As others have said, the colleges you listed are reaches , especially for the ORM demographic. You do need to think about your essays, and how they can enhance your application. Otherwise, you will just be one more Asian kid with the alphabet list of math contests in the applicant pile. We are an ORM family, and were told point blank by our private counselor that any of these schools would be a very high reaches for our demographic.
Is the Carnegie performance one of those things where a private organization rents the hall for some competition? In that case, there will be many others with that same designation.
TO answer your specific question, little chance - and that has zero to do with you and all to do with the competition will be insane. But if you don’t try, you can’t get in.
Based on #s you are great - but there are other facets - and you have to be liked a bit more than other.
Lots of great schools out there - just make sure you apply to a couple lower end schools - and if money an issue, hit those schools with big merit.