What all colleges are you applying to?
Basic Score and Profile?
Have you already submitted your applications?
What kind of feeling do you have about this year?
International student from India
EA - GeorgiaTech
RD - RIT, Purdue, WPI, RPI, UCB, UCSD, UCSB, UCLA, JHU, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, University of Washington, Seattle.
SAT- 1420(780M+640E)
SATII- Chem-760 Math 2-800
Intended Major Computer Engineering
GPA: 4.4/5
ECs
-Internship at a lab founded by IIT Alumni and taught middle school kids who attend classes there.
-House Captain(refer Hogwarts)
-Director of a committee at the first interschool MUN in my city.
-School Magazine Editor(Computer Section)
-Done out of school courses on robotics
-Intraschool basketball and writing prices.
-Part of the interschool drama team.
-Completed 3 edX courses solely for interest or test preparation.
International student from India. I’m applying to a lot of match and safeties for the simple reason that I have a budget constraint.
I’ve applied to Iowa State, UAlabama, UofM(Twin Cities), USF, SJSU, Texas A&M, SUNY Buffalo, NAU, USC, UTD, UofCincinnati and Michigan State.
SAT - 1460(730M+730E)
Intended major- Computer Science
Academics:
9th- 95%
10th- 9.5 (GPA)
11th- 96.8%
ECs:
- Internship at a software consultancy firm. I was responsible for their search engine and social media presence.
- Head Boy of the School
- Ranked 74 out of about 30k students in Technothlon
- Completed 2 EdX computer-related courses
- I used to run various tech blogs and a related Youtube channel.
- Lot of school level prizes.
- Played Cricket at the Inter-school level. (Captained the team in 10th grade)
So far I’ve heard back from three universities. I was accepted at Iowa State and USF. I was also accepted at Texas A&M but the Engineering review is still on so fingers crossed there.
Hey Fellas,
Stats:
SAT Superscore:1470
Highest SAT :1440
SAT Subject Test: Math lvl 2:790 ,Chem 750+(expected)
TOEFL:106
10th:92.5%
12th:92.6%
Unis applied to :FIU,UMN,UTD,UTA,Texas A&M,Iowa State,Uni of Arizona,Umass Amherst,Univ of Richmond,Miami Uni ,and Cornell (Just dreams. Eh?)
EC’s
District level badminton
Took CS50 by harvard
Science Club
Programming Club
School Volleyball team
Volunteered at an Orphanage and a Hospital
Good Luck fellas.Would also like to get some suggestions for some more universities.
Applying/applied to:
-Brown (ED)
-Harvard (legacy and why not?)
-Pomona (going to ED2 depending on Brown results)
-Williams
-Tufts
-WashU
-Northwestern
-Northeastern (hopefully honors college)
-Berkeley (in-state)
-Cal Poly SLO
ACT: 34 super score (32 single I think but most of my schools super score)
GPA: 4.0UW/4.79W (rank 1/97 but school doesn’t officially report)
*school ranked #1 charter school in CA and #6 public school in CA (niche ranking); 100% graduation rate and 100% of graduates go to college
ECs
-freerunning/parkour (ranked #1 among ~1000; eats up most of my time)
-coach (paid)
-seat on board that confers w/ the International Olympic Committee to make freerunning an Olympic sport
-piano
-photography (president of club)
-student body president in 9th grade, rep in 10th and 11th, and senior leadership president in 12th
-writing internship w/ city’s newspaper
-NHS
-Astronomy club VP
-about 350 hrs of community service
-yearbook senior language editor
And some other small things
Good luck to everyone!!