<p>Hello all,</p>
<p>I am good at STEM subjects but not so good at liberal art classes. Do I have any chance at MIT, Caltech, or Berkeley? I've pretty much ruled out Ivy League schools because my GPA and SAT are poor. Even so I'm applying to Stanford (#3 choice) just for kicks but I'm not optimistic about my chance there, however I think I might have more of a shot at MIT + Caltech.</p>
<p>Ethnicity: Hispanic Black (Both parents are Black Panamanian immigrants)
Gender: Male
Income: Middle class
State: MT
Intended major: Engineering
Parents went to college: No</p>
<p>Grades:
Freshman courses
Algebra II Honors, A+A
AP Chemistry, AA+ 5 AP
Freshman English Reg, BB-
AP Human Geo CB 3AP
Spanish 1 AB+
Arts 1 B, PE A</p>
<p>Sophomore courses
Calculus AB AP A+A+ 5 AP
Sophomore English Reg B-B-
World History Reg BB+
AP Biology A-A- 5AP
AP "A" Computer Science A+A+ 5AP
Spanish 2 B+B+</p>
<p>Junior courses
Calculus BC AP A+A+ 5 AP
Junior English Reg BB. Took English Language AP test without course, received a 2.
US History Reg CC
AP Physics B A+A+ 5AP
Spanish 3 A-A-
AP Environmental Science AA+ 5 AP</p>
<p>Summer school: Arts 2: A</p>
<p>Senior courses
AP Physics C (expecting A+)
Multivariate Calculus Honors (expecting A)
Senior English Reg (expecting B)
AP Psychology (expecting A)
Spanish 4 (expecting B)
AP Statistics (expecting A+)</p>
<p>PSAT: not good, low 160s, messed up on math and everything else. didn't prepare at all.</p>
<p>SAT 1: 1st attempt. 1800 (510 Critical Reading, 800 Math, 490 Writing). Note: this was taking with almost no studying.
2nd attempt. 1970 (620 reading, 800 Math, 550 writing).
Retook in October.</p>
<p>ACT with writing: 1st attempt 36 Math, 36 Science, 22 English, 26 reading, 8 essay
Retaking next week.</p>
<p>SAT Subjects: Math 2 800, Physics 800</p>
<p>EC:
Math club 4 years, treasurer junior year, VP senior year
Mu Alpha Theta
Science bowl 4 years
some AP scholar awards
AIME qualifier 2009, 2010, 2011
AMC school winner- 2010
School math award- 2010, 2011
NHS 4 years
Varsity baseball 4 years
Marching band 4 years
Robotics 4 years: FRC & Vex. Driver this year.
Programming club 4 years
100hrs community service</p>
<p>With my clubs I participate in USACO, USNCO, USAPhO, but so far I've never made it past the first rounds.</p>
<p>Recommendations: Spanish 3 teacher and AP Physics B&C teacher, should be good for spanish and great for physics. Counselor rec should be great as he is involved with robotics and so has known me all 4 years.</p>
<p>Top choices in order:
MIT Early action
Caltech also EA
Stanford
UC Berkeley (out of state of course)
Harvey Mudd College
Olin college of engineering
Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>Other colleges I'm applying to:
RPI
UIUC
UT Austin
Wentworth Institute of Technology
USC
Purdue
Ann Arbor
Georgia Tech</p>
<p>Do I have enough schools that I am likely to get into? I know I am likely to get rejected at most or all of my top choices but do I have any chance at all?</p>
<p>I didn't get accepted into my summer program of choice after sophomore year (COSMOS UC Davis for Math) so I didn't do anything. I had to take Arts 2 last summer so that I could take the schedule I wanted to take senior year. Is the fact that I did not do much summer stuff going to hurt me?</p>