Junior DS from highly rated public high school in our state.
4.0 unweighed GPA. Have taken most rigorous courses offered. Dual Enrolled in our State Flagship college since Freshmen year. 12 AP classes plus college level math classes (multivariable calc junior year).
SAT 1590 (800 r+w, 790 m, first try)
SAT2 US History 800, Math2 800
PSAT 1510 (750 r+w, 760 m) - very likely NMSF
APs: Calc BC:5, MicroEcon:5, MacroEcon:5, Human Geo:5, Psych:5, Comp Gov:5, US History:5, Environmental Science:5
(just took 4 more APs: Physics, Comp, World History, Euro History)
Major: undecided, possibly Economics
EC:
Speech and Debate: Captain. Nationally ranked policy debater (top 20), one of the top 3 junior teams this year. The first debater to make it to the nationals from our state in 10 plus years. This activity takes up 10-20 hours/week year round and is his main EC.
Assistant Director/Coach for local middle school debate program, coaches few times a week.
Cross Country runner, 4 years
National Honor Society Leader
Student Government Site Council Representative
No cost constraints.
Non- academic preferences: Urban, medium/large, liberal is a plus. Interested in schools with a debate program but that is not a must. Has been contacted by a few schools with debate program.
Here is his preliminary list (* has a college debate program, some may assist with addmission)
Harvard*
Columbia
Dartmouth*
U Chicago
Northwestern*
Brown
UC Berkeley*
U Michigan*
USC*
Emory*
Is your in-state flagship attractive? How would it be on the reach/match/safety scale?
Does he want an economics department with highly math-intensive offerings? For example, relatively few economics departments offer intermediate economics courses that use multivariable calculus and/or linear algebra (some may offer high math and low math versions, like Harvard and UCB). If that is a consideration, take a look at the math prerequisites for the intermediate economics courses.
It looks like he will want to find good offerings in math and statistics.
Impressive profile! I’d have him apply to your state school or some other well regarded public school that he likes early and use that as a safety then just focus on matches and reaches.I’m sure he’ll wind up with some nice choices!
Wake Forest has a top-ranked debate team. Almost 5000 undergrads and a member of the ACC in sports. It has very much a campus environment about 4 miles from downtown Winston-Salem, which has really redeveloped nicely in recent years, including a new Wake Downtown facility for biosciences.