Hello all,
I was hoping to get your insights on whether or not I should apply to these colleges. First a little about me:
34 on the ACT
96 unweighted average (my school doesn’t work on the 4 point scale)
A multitude of AP classes (3 in junior year, 5 in senior year)
3rd in my class of 170-180
Will graduate with an associates degree along with my high school diploma.
I exhausted my school’s math curriculum, by taking Calculus AB in 11th grade.
I am involved in 12 clubs and sports, holding leadership roles in about 5 of them.
My two dream schools are Yale and Princeton and I would like to study either chemical engineering or physics at either institution.
Those are the school’s I’m applying to early action, and I’m also applying to Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn, Columbia, Georgia Tech, and MIT regular decision.
If you could give me tips on my resume, and tell me if I have a chance of getting in. Any knowledge or information shared by students who have been accepted to these institutions or similar ones would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.
You probably have an average chance as an international student, which at those schools except for Georgia Tech is de minimis.
If you really want to study in the US, you need a better list of schools with a more realistic range. In chemical engineering the state schools will tend to dominate, actually in engineering as a whole this is true.
Re think the list and come up with a better range.
For the love of god people put some safety schools on your list.
I should’ve mentioned that I am a student in New York
I have back up schools, but I didn’t think I should mention them because I have a really good chance of getting into them.
People on CC think that if you haven’t written about something then you never thought of it before. Next you’ll get harangued about finances and/or challenged to justify your “obsession” with Ivies.
Even as a student from NY, you have an 90% - 95% chance of rejection. If you lived in North Dakota you would have a better chance. Tough place to apply to school from.
Your title (and before I read the post) reminded me of the line from Risky Business: “You’ve done a lot of solid work here, but it’s just not Ivy League, now is it?”
Your stats make you a credible candidate, but the 2014 acceptance rates for engineering were 6% at Yale and 7% at Pton (source profiles.asee.org). Yale accepted just 289 out of 4762 applications. That’s lottery ticket territory.
Also, you can’t apply early to both schools.