Hello,
I am a female highschool senior from India, studying under the National Curriculum CBSE. I have scored a 1420(780-Math and 240-English) in my SAT and a 6/7/7 on my SAT Essay and a 760 in SAT Chemistry. I’ll be taking SAT Math 2 and SAT Physics on October 1st and I am awaiting for my TOEFL score result which is due next week.
Academics:
I have a CGPA of 9.2/10 in 9th(freshmen) year and 9.6/10 in 10th(sophomore). I had received a total 78.4% in my 11th grade and ranked 14th in school. Along with that, I have been a finalist in a state level science exam and received scores of 95.35/100 in Science proficiency test and 78.04/100 in English proficiency test.
(Apparently, we don’t have things like honors or APs)
I have been working as a part time teaching assistant for over an year at a Lab started by IIT Bombay alumni which focuses on teaching grade school students about science with experimentation and middle school students about electronics. Along with that, I have done a summer internship at Robosapiens Technology, attended courses on Solar Cells and Entrepreneurship offered by the Government of India and attended a course on ‘Swarm Robotics’ at IIT Bombay.
I have made my own solar powered cycles and contributed to my community by making and installing a solar based bio-digestor in my housing society.
I completed a course on Globalisation by University of Texas at Austin with a 79% and a Geometry course by school yourself with a 95%. Currently, I am doing a course on Pre-University Calculus offered by Delft Institute of technology. These courses were/are being mainly taken for interest in a topic or exam prep.
Leadership:
I am the house captain of one of the four houses at my school(If you are not familiar with it… refer to Harry Potter) and the Director of a committee in the first inter-school MUN ever being held in my district.
Along with all these, I also have awards from inter-school drama competitions and given several dance performances(both contemporary and classical dances). I was the editor of my school magazine and have won prizes at story writing competitions. My hobbies include playing basketball, watching anime and tinkering with the learning kits at my workplace.
I wish to apply for a major in Computer Engineering and have an alternate major of Computer Science.
Well, now that we are over the TL;DR phase, I just wanted to see what do you think my university selection and my chances of getting in:
- GeorgiaTech(applying early)
- John Hopkins
- Carnegie Mellon
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of California Berkeley
- Cornell University
- University of Texas, Austin
- UCLA
- University of Washington, Seattle
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Purdue University <— Safety
- Rochester Institute of Technology <— Safety
- UCSD <— Safety
- Virginia Polytechnic University <----Safety
I am really not sure about whether my safety schools are actually safe or not. ._.
Please help this poor and desperate soul with your godly opinion. Onegai!
P.S: I have met with the International Admission Officer of Rochester Institute of Technology at an educational fair at my city and had a nice talk with her. She was happy with my SAT score, took my resume and said she looked she forward to my application. This is a good sign, RIGHT? RIGHT RIGHT?