Just applied to the following schools plus 2 safetys. CMU was ED, for Tepper. As always, uterly honest opinion.
New York, White Male, Low Income
Stats:
GPA:
UW/4.5: 4.35
W/4.5: 4.0
UW/4.0: 3.65
W/4.0: 4.0
(Greatly improved since freshman year due to financial struggle, went from 3.3/4 in 9th, to 4.0/4 in 10th and 11th grade)
Top 15% of class
ACT: 35
SAT 2 Chemistry: 740
SAT 2 Math 2: 800
SAT 2 Physics: 740
SAT 2 US: 760
AP US: 5
AP Physics: 4
(Taking AP Calc BC, AP Government, AP Physics C, AP Computer Science, and AP English senior year)
EC: Captain of Debate team (for senior year, member 9-12)
NY State Debate championship qualifer freshman and junior year (and most likely senior)
President of STEM Club (11-12)
Treasurer of coding club (10-12)
Founder of non-profit that helps elderly use technology
Member of Model UN (11-12)
Member of Key Club (Volunteering, 10-12)
Member of club that raised money for Syrian Refugees
200+ volunteer hours at after school program for kids
100+ volunteer hours for local teen organization that supplied activities for kids
Held 2 jobs throughout high school
Worked at local day camp for 2 years
QuestBridge Scholar
Thanks for any feedback
Some colleges ignore 9th grade scores.
If you have a compelling story you have about an average chance of 20% at GT and Michigan. I don’t think you’ll be accepted to CMU or Cornell.
It helps if you are the highest qualified student from your school applying to these colleges since offers are made by region. For instance GT will offer only about 250 students from NY state. There are 750 high schools in NY state. A large known high stem HS can get 4 or 5 offers total. Other schools none, one maybe two.
Maybe you should look at Buffalo or Stonybrook as well.
Thanks. I was considering Binghamton or Hunter as a SUNY. Also, in terms of Michigan and GT, there are an abundant amount of people who go to Michigan from my school, and basically no one who even applies to GT believe it or not. I got to a primarily upper class school, with a class size of about 500, and I’m ranked #53. That being said, I honestly would not mind going to a SUNY because I’d basically be paying next to nothing for an education just as valuable
Michigan offers 263 undergraduate majors from which to choose, since it is a comprehensive university. If you can think of it, they have it. Michigan adds degree programs.
GT offers only 38 undergraduate majors because it’s an engineering school. They offer 4 majors that are cultural/language studies which most likely exist for student athletes. GT actively cuts useless majors, and adds new useful technology majors.
MIT by comparison offers 53 which include music, gender studies, theater and writing.