Hey waddup I’m a white male, currently a junior in a public MA high school, and I’m applying to some colleges next year.
These are the schools I’m most likely applying to:
Harvard
Dartmouth
Carnegie Mellon
Brown
MiT
Tufts
WPI
Intended major is Computer Science.
My stats:
-Weighted GPA: 4.75
-Unweighted GPA: 4.0
-Rank: 3/323
-SAT: 800 Math 730 English
-Probably taking SAT II Math 2 and Chem and ACT with writing
AP Scores:
-Statistics - 5
Courses:
Freshman Year:
-Geometry - A+
-English I - A+
-Biology - A+
-Comp Science I - A+
-Spanish II - A+
-World History - A+
Sophomore Year:
-AP Statistics - A
-English II - A
-Comp Science II - A+
-Chemistry - A+
-Algebra II - A+
-US History I - A+
-Spanish III - A+
Junior Year: (so far)
-AP Chem - A
-AP Lang - A
-AP Comp Sci A - A+
-APUSH - A
-Pre Calculus - A+
-Spanish IV - A+
-CSCI E-50 at Harvard Extension School
Senior Year:
-AP Physics I & II
-AP Comp Sci Principles
-AP Lit
-AP Spanish Lang
-AP Calculus BC
-Some stupid required art course
Extra Curricular Activities (They kinda suck)
-Varsity Math Team (9th - 10th, probably gonna go back to it 12th)
-Chess Club (9th - 11th, probably gonna stick around in 12th)
-National Honor Society (11th, sticking around in 12th, might be an officer)
-Semi-official programming team (10th, captain 11th - 12th, my personal favorite EC, there’s competitions twice/thrice a year and my school generally does awful but since I’ve been a part of the team we’ve been on an upward trend)
-Tutoring for 1-2 hours a week (9th-12th)
-Programming Club (starting 12th grade, founder and captain/president or whatever, I’m actually gonna be teaching the kids in the club C++ for a little over a semester and in the end we’ll all make a fun project like a program or app or something of the sort.)
-Varsity Tennis (11th grade, gonna try out again 12th)
-I’m gonna try and get some sort of CS related internship/job over the summer
Extra Information:
-If you couldn’t tell, I’m really into programming. I’ve dabbled in the following languages both as part of schoolwork and not part of schoolwork: C++, Java, Python, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, Visual Basic, C, and SQL.
-I have a very good relationship with my comp sci teacher, i’ll have had him all 4 years of high school and I’m even working on a programming project for his company. He and my AP Lang teacher (who i’ve had for 2 years) will probably write recommendations .
-I’m working on a game development project with a team of 4 (including me, the leader) using Unreal Engine 4 and code in C++, I want to have some sort of functional build that can be played by October 2018.
-My family is sorta low income (somewhere between 60k and 80k, I think), and I’ve had a rocky family situation, not sure how much that affects my application
-My great grandfather was an alumni of Harvard College, my grandmother is an alumni of Harvard Business School, and my mother went to Harvard College until she dropped out. I’ve heard that alumni relationships can be good so there’s that.
-I’m expecting my GPA to go up after the end of this year and the start of senior year (probably into the 4.8s weighted) as i had a rocky first quarter but i have a metric ton of APs so that helps, I might be Val but I don’t know if the difference between 3rd and 1st is really all that important.
-I’m expecting pretty much all 5s on my AP exams unless a few 4s sneak in there, I feel pretty confident on all of them and I got 5s on mock tests.
So yeah, tell me how my chances are, what I can improve on, what really sucks about me, etc. Harvard is my first choice but MiT and CMU are schools I really want to go to as well.