Chances for next year?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Florida Junior

Objective:

SAT I (breakdown): 2290 (R690,M800,W800)
ACT (breakdown): N/A
SAT II: Chem (790). Spanish (780). Math II (June)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.909
Weighted GPA (out of 6.0): 5.182
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 6/615
AP (place score in parenthesis): Stats (5). Spanish (5). World (3). Euro (3). Currently in Psych, USH, Calc AB, Chem, and English. Next year will take Human Geo, Macroeconomics, U.S. Gov., Physics C, Calc BC, Lit.
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Human. AP Calc BC, AP Physics C, AP Gov/APEcon, Dual Enrollment Art (tentative)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
Dartmouth College Book Award
In the eleventh grade, I participated in the David Essner Math Competition after qualifying for a select group of five members from my school, including sophomores, juniors and seniors.
Champion of the 12th annual FGCU Statistics Team competition
4th Place in the 12th annual FGCU Statistics Individual competition
6th Place in the 2015 January Regional Statistics Team Competition
4th Place in the 2015 SECME Math Bowl
Best from School’s AP Chemistry students in the National Chemistry Olympiad
6th Place in the 2015 March Regional Statistics Team Competition
AP Scholar with Honor after sophomore year.

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity Volleyball and Soccer. Math, Social Studies, English, Science, Spanish, National Honor Societies. Chai Club, Chemistry Club (Executive officer), College Prep Club (Founder and President). Tutor. Pre-School of Madrichim (Jewish leadership youth group) (member). School of Madrichim (Jewish leadership youth group) (member). Maccabi Tzair Miami (local branch of global Jewish organization) (leader).
Job/Work Experience: Tutor in Algebra I and II, geometry, pre-Calc, Calc, stats, chem, physics, Spanish.
Volunteer/Community service:Summer Camp Counselor (160 Hours)
Pre-School of Madrichim (Jewish Leadership Youth Program) (66 Hours)
School of Madrichim (Jewish Leadership Youth Program) (170 Hours)
Madrich in Maccabi Tzair Miami (Branch of Global Leadership Program) (Ongoing)
Tutor in Algebra I and II, Geometry, Pre-Calculus, Calculus, Statistics, Physics, and Chemistry.
Two week summer program in Spain where I’ll be teaching English to Spaniards!
Most of my college essays will hover around these leadership programs and the Spain program!^ they really beef up my app
Summer Activities: summer camp counselor '13. Costa Rica with Pre-SOM '13. Israel with SOM '14. Spain '15, and probably SCEEP '15
Essays: Fire 9-10/10
Teacher Recommendation: Fire 9-10/10
Counselor Rec: Fire 9-10/10
Additional Rec: prob NA
Interview: idk
Other: sexy

Applied for Financial Aid?: yeeet
Intended Major: either engineering or business. Maybe both
State (if domestic applicant): Florida
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Gender: male
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): diversity, bilingualism (summer program and maccabi), ECs, leadership.

Reflection

Strengths: stats, courseload and ECs
What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: ECs and diversity
Weaknesses: Ivy League lottery; still don’t know what I wanna study (prob either business, engineering, or both)

I think I’ll be applying to some of the following (still unsure):
Penn (wish I could ED to M&T but finance and binding won’t allow it)
Michigan (EA)
Cornell (RD)
Harvard (RD)
MIT (EA)
Yale (RD)
Columbia(RD)
Stanford (Rd)
WashU (RD)
UF (safety)
Carnegie Mellon (RD)
Duke (RD)

I still haven’t decided whether I wanna study business or engineering, maybe both. I’d like to apply to schools who are good with both. If you guys could rate my chances (1-10) of getting into each of the aforementioned, that’d be greatly appreciated. Any personal comments are accepted and suggestions of other schools is amazing!

I will also be attending a summer program this summer! I will be attending a two week program in Spain where I will volunteer to teach English to Spanish teens.

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UMI: Match
UF: Safety
CMU: High match

Everyone else is a reach…

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Thanks!

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For either Engineering or Business (Ross pre-admit) at UMich from OOS, it would be a low reach due to the low admission rate. It is getting really crazy this year as they are admitting less students. Your scores are fine while GPA are right around admission average. Bring up your CR score a little bit may help. It would be a high match if you apply to LSA instead.

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Is LSA the engineering area? @billcsho

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@baller55 No, LSA is Literature, Science, and Arts. It is the main school (~2/3) at UMich.

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As long as you are satisfied with UF as your safety, there’s no harm in aiming high. If you would be very disappointed going there, then your list could probably use a few more matches and moderate reaches. Maybe Tulane, Lehigh, McGill,Rice, et al.

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@billcsho I’m pretty confident I’ve narrowed it down to either business or engineering. I’m not very informed with what area engineering is in (I know business is Ross).

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@billcsho I’m pretty confident I’ve narrowed it down to either business or engineering. I’m not very informed with what area engineering is in (I know business is Ross).

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@woogzmama I think I can get into 2-4 of my “reaches.” Like if I get into UF, CMU, Mich, and WashU I’m satisfied. Then I think I can get into 2-4 of the rest of the schools aforementioned, where I would then analyze financial aid and decide.

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bump

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Penn - waitlist/accept
Michigan (EA) - accept
Cornell (RD) - waitlist/accept
Harvard (RD) - waitlist/accept
MIT (EA) - waitlist/accept
Yale (RD) - Waitlist
Columbia(RD) - Accept
Stanford (Rd) - could go either way
WashU (RD) - Accept
UF (safety) - Easily and Accept
Carnegie Mellon (RD) - Accept
Duke (RD) - Deny

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@woogzmama McGill makes me cringe: you can’t say that it’s a match at that level; in fact it’s either a safety or unreachable, depending on the student and the intended major…

That said, McGill is a safety for engineering and business. Even the most selective of these items at McGill starts becoming a safety at 690+ on each SAT subscore and each SAT2 for a student at 3.7+ UW (w/o 9th grade).

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Penn - waitlist/accept
Michigan (EA) - accept
Cornell (RD) - waitlist/accept
Harvard (RD) - waitlist/accept
MIT (EA) - rejected
Yale (RD) - Waitlist
Columbia(RD) - waitlist (RD is so difficult)
Stanford (Rd) - waitlist
WashU (RD) - Accept
Carnegie Mellon (RD) - Accept
Duke (RD) - Accept

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Penn-low reach
Michigan-high match
Cornell-low reach
Harvard-high reach
MIT-high reach
Yale-high reach
Columbia-high reach
Stanford-high reach
WashU-high match
UF-safety
Carnegie Mellon-high match
Duke-low reach

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You need to research some of these schools a bit more, several do not offer business degrees.

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@boolaHI like which? I’m not too informed on this lol

I would like to seek a wide variety of prestigious schools where i can study either business, engineering, or both. Then I will narrow the list down by september.

can you tell me which of the aforementioned schools provide business and/or engineering? Also, which schools aren’t mentioned but specialize in one of those two fields?

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I can’t speak to all of the schools, but for the most elite ones on your list, the following do not offer, a per se, business degree (although many substitute it with an economics degree): Y-H-S. Penn would seem the most natural school, but the degree is offered in finance (which is really negligible by any employer’s standard).

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Look into the Honors College at UAlabama, and their Stem-MBA program. It’d be a safety with your stats.

Most of your list are reaches though.

Why did you say "(wish I could ED to M&T but finance and binding won’t allow it) "?

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@MYOS1634 because I can’t take the risk of binding with my economic circumstances. Schools may think I can pay a lot because my mother’s a physician but I really can’t. I have a sibling graduating next year and another sibling who will be a freshman in college next year. Unfortunately my financial circumstances will not allow me to be binded to any school