I'm not a typical Mudd applicant, chance please?

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<p>I am a high school senior pursuing engineering, with an interest in renewable energy.</p>

<p>Weighted GPA, all classes: 4.37
Unweighted GPA: 4.0</p>

<p>One sitting SAT: 2300 (740,760,800)
Superscore SAT: 2360 (800, 760, 800)</p>

<p>Subject tests: Math2C 800, Physics 790, World History 770, Literature 760</p>

<p>APs Taken: World History, Calc AB, Calc BC, Computer Science A, Physics B, US History, English Language, Environmental Science (5s on all of them)</p>

<p>Senior Year APs: Physics C, Biology, Govt/MacroEconomics, English Lit, Calculus 3/Linear Algebra (not an AP, but a college class offered at my school)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>Ecology Club (4 years, president for last year and upcoming year, very active club, runs recycling programs, has won several awards for xeriscape gardens at local fairs)</p>

<p>Dance (9 years, avg 10 hours a week, ballet, jazz, modern, been in multiple shows, studio dance company etc)</p>

<p>Girl Scout (12 years, many many community service and leadership projects 300+ hours, earned silver award, working on Gold Award, for which I planted an ecofriendly garden at an elementary school and taught kids about native plants)</p>

<p>COSMOS Math and Science Summer Program (summer before junior year, studies organic chemistry and logic with UCSC professors, completed brief research project)</p>

<p>Marine Technology Society/Scripps Institution of Oceanography Summer Internship (worked as data processing intern in Whale Acoustics Research lab 40 hr/wk for 6 weeks, learned MATLAB, SQL and Python, explored engineering and technology in research, completed several projects)</p>

<p>Science Magazine (12th grade, Lead Content Editor)</p>

<p>CCW Teachers Aide (worked as teachers aide for four summers 7-10 grade, taught K-6 various arts)</p>

<p>Ballet Student Teacher (10 grade volunteer, taught ballet to 4-7 year olds)</p>

<p>Awards: National AP Scholar, AP Scholar with Distinction, Rachel Carson Book Award (for environmental efforts), Gold and Silver Awards for Girl Scouts, National Merit Commended Scholar (My PSAT is 220, but I live in CA...so sad..)</p>

<p>I'm expecting good recs, and I'm a decent writer. I'm extremely passionate about everything I do, which is why I dont have a lot of extracurriculars.
I'm planning on submitting the arts supplement for dance.
I am a white female and I go to a competitive public school.</p>

<p>what are my chances please?</p>

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<p>how are you not a typical applicant?</p>

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<p>The acceptance rate at HM for females is almost 50%. Even without that fact, I’d say with those numbers you’re as close to a lock as is reasonably possible.</p>

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<p>I’ve done more non math science extracurriculars than math and sciencey ones, i dance and go to an arts school, I love humanities.</p>

<p>Thanks for the input! wow 50% is huge. :confused: of course, once you get there, you still have to do the same work :)</p>

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<p>Dancer…several friends of my daughter are on the dance team or do some sort of dance program within the 5C campuses. So being a dancer at Mudd is not unusual at all. It is great that you love humanities and you will find many students that have a real niche for a certain topic under the humanities spectrum.</p>

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<p>You have more math/science extracurriculars then I ever had before I got here. The 50% is high, but the applicant pool is also very self-selective (not enough to completely account for numbers that high, but it does skew things). You’re not at all far separated from what I’d call a typical applicant, and I’d say your chances are fairly excellent.</p>

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<p>ohhh how are they liking the dance?</p>

<p>and glad to hear all those things, I guess i’m typical after all :stuck_out_tongue: good to know I won’t be alone!</p>

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<p>FYI, I think the 5Cs are multi-year national champs in Ballroom. They’ve got youtube videos. Check 'em out.</p>

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<p>You would have a competitive edge, but your weighted GPA is pretty low. I’m pretty sure 4.4 is the minimum.</p>

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<p>The OP has a 4.0 unweighted and will have taken 12 APs plus a college course by the time she graduates. That’s PLENTY of hard courses. I’m not even sure every HS does weighted GPA the same, and selective colleges usually don’t consider it anyway–only unweighted and rigor of schedule. In fact, as I said before, I wouldn’t worry about anything if I were the OP. I think if she wants to go to HM, she’s as good as in.</p>

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<p>While not a requirement for admission, the ability to understand sarcasm is key to enjoying life at Mudd.</p>

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<p>Oh, snap! It can be a challenge on these boards to discern the sarcastic from the merely clueless. I apparently I failed to meet said challenge in this instance :)</p>