GPA UW: 3.96
GPA W: 4.57
SAT: 1570/1600
All honors and Ap classes +reqs
AP Classes(Score) so far: USH(5), CalcAB(5), Chem(5), Microecon(5), Macroecon(5), ComputerSci(5) Eng Comp(4)
EC:
Started company with winter hats and made over $100,000
Created a cell phone game with over 3,000 downloads on the App Store
Varsity Soccer 2 yrs and Jv 2 yrs
First Robotics engineering design team captain
VEX Robotics team captain
Spanish Club VP
Habitat for Humanity VP
Self-taught myself guitar
I am applying to:
Purdue University
Indiana University
University of Penn
Harvard
Cornell
Carnegie Mellon
I intend to major in Computer Science and a minor in business. Do you think I could receive scholarships from any of these schools? Please tell me what type of schools these are ex. Reach, Match, or Safety. Could you also recommend some schools to me to add to my list. Thank you! I will chance you back
I’d say Indiana is a safety, while Purdue/Carnegie being matches, slightly harder because your major, and Harvard and UPenn reaches.
Honestly for All those quality schools, it’s practically a reach for anyone.
Honestly, you don’t neccesarily need a “hook”. If you think about it, plenty of people get into these top schools, and not all of them have hooks.
I think the biggest key is to really not try too hard to impress on your essays. Now I say this with caution.
Of course sell your self and make yourself look good, but keep your voice. Answer all the essays how you would if someone were to ask you that in conversation. Let your on story speak for itself. Have faith in your story and your personality. Do your best to capture the true you, and if that matches up with your selected college, you’ll have a good chance! Hope that helps.
If you are looking for need based $, that probably wont happen if you had that income yourself. What income are your parents? And schools like Harvard dont give merit $
@Mchichioco Thanks for the advice. Do you think if I was to chance majors to something like drama when I apply, and then change majors once I am accepted to CS, that this would increase my chance of acceptance?
Your stats would make you competitive for the Wells Scholar Program at IU. You have to be nominated by your school. Has your counselor talked to you about that?
I wouldnt recommend you major in drama and then switch. Switching majors can be veryy hard! Especially since computer science is such a popular major, you might end up with a major in something random (like feminism history or human geography). I might be wrong but thats my opinion
Are you qualified to be admitted as a drama major? Or JK? In general, the robotics is good for a CS kid, the sports shows teamwork, the ventures are fine. But other than the latter, you haven’t described more than the his titles. Your full app will be the challenge. Which is why I say kids have to know what their targets look for. The whole in holistic.