Lack of big-ticket STEM EC's/awards

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm hoping to apply this fall to Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Duke, and Berkeley (in addition to a multitude of safeties) for an engineering major. As of now, the only STEM EC I have is Science Olympiad, but we're definitely a "powerhouse" Science Olympiad school in our state (almost consistently ranked #2 behind another school that always wins). I've been extremely involved (President for 2 years, VP for 1 year) and have tons of top-5 state individual medals. I also have done a summer of research in industrial engineering (very math-intensive, but it's seemingly not as well-regarded as doing cancer research). I also am the CTO of a tech startup and was the main lead in the technical development of our app.</p>

<p>Are these good enough to get into an engineering major at these universities? I never really participated much in the famed Olympiads or Science Fairs of CC. The rest of my app is not too bad (top-5 nationally-ranked athlete for a non-recruited sport, tons of community service, International DECA awards, etc)</p>

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<p>bump</p>

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<p>Lots of similar threads out there - but basically without knowing what your test scores and grades are and thus without knowing whether that part of the app is in the upper half of their expected range it is hard to predict, and even then is subjective. And of course, are you going to be convincing and passionate enough about your interests in your essay … Your ECs sound amazing and should help but still the application process is crazily subjective at most of your list.</p>