I’m an Asian Male at the private school in NJ, willing to major in Finance/econ
GPA: 3.99/4.0 (B+ or A- in Gym in the freshman year, others all A’s and A+'s)
PSAT: 230 (NMS)
SAT 1: 2340 (M: 800, C: 800, W: 740 11 essay) one sitting
SAT 2: Math IIC: 800, Physics: 750, Chemistry: 780, US History: 760, Literature: 770
AP test: BC Calc (5), AB Calc (5), Physics 1 (5), Physics C (5), English (5), US History (5), Chemistry (5), Stats (5), Econ(5), Chinese (5) I’m not Chinese.
Senior Year Course Load
AP Gov
AP Bio
AP Comp Sci
AP Art History
AP Psych
AP Literature
Gym
Awards
two times AIME Qualifer w/ Dis. H.R.
one time USAMO Qualifer
one time AMC12 School winner
DECA Nationals
some guitar contests awards
violin contests awards
and some other awards
EC
Varsity baseball for three years (10-12) (co-captain)
Math Club (9-12) president
Chinese Club (9-12) president
Volunteer work at elder’s house playing violins 1000 hrs + (since 7th grade)
Volunteer work at summer camp, playing with kids & have a session teaching them how to play guitar (250+)
Varsity Swimming two years (10-11)
been playing violin and guitar since 8.
DECA (4 years)
Yale Global Scholars summer program
and some other as well.
Rec: Good
Math teacher’s father is at the elder’s house I volunteer at. I’ve known him for over 5 years.
English teacher: Had her class for three straight years. She likes me.
Essay: great.
counselor rec: surprisingly, her mother is at the elder’s house I volunteer at. She loves me.
two siblings and father went to harvard. Mom went to BC. No financial aid needed for top schools. But can I get full ride at stern and BC?
Harvard, Brown, Stern, and Stanford are all crapshoots.
You are underestimating how hard it is to get into Stern. It is exceedingly hard to get into and if you are applying RD, I believe it has a single digit acceptance rate. There are also too many Asians with 2300+ at Stern and a surprising number of them with perfect ACTs / SATs. It’s also very rare to get a full scholarship from NYU or Stern.
Because if all the Asian candidates applying to Stern have higher average stats, to stand out as an Asian applicant you have to have even higher stats.The standard is higher as an Asian applicant.
Academically close to perfect but not many points for originality applying as an asian male (good at math & play violin). You mention you go to a private, is it a feeder to ivies?
legacy helps applying to harvard (though, not as much as at other schools) and the math talent make a compelling case for you. Stanford relies a little more on ECs & you’re applying from the east coast so not as easy I’d say.
@dblazer no it’s not that type of private school. However, we send impressive numbers of people to Ivies every year. I don’t need a scholarship at stern. I was just curious
@qwertyzxc
“Because if all the Asian candidates applying to Stern have higher average stats, to stand out as an Asian applicant you have to have even higher stats.The standard is higher as an Asian applicant.”
This applicant’s scores are well up into the 99%ile, and no matter what kind of “higher standard” some school might be applying to Asians, that isn’t really going to be a factor here.
@qweryzxc you have to imagine too that the applicant pool applying to a school like NYU will, on average, be weaker than the one applying to Harvard so you can’t really compare acceptance rate so readily.
I doubt the applicant pool applying to NYU is weaker than Harvard. NYU gets 60,000 applications and Harvard gets 35000. The Harvard applicants are not applying to the top 5 schools in the nation and calling it a day. They need other schools on their lists. What you mean is that the average applicant that NYU admits is weaker than the average applicant that Harvard admits.
Keep in mind however that Stern and other business schools get a self-selected pool of applicants who want to major in business / finance. So the applicant pool at Stern, Wharton, Ross is certainly different. Nobody that doesn’t want to go to Wall Street / enter other business fields is going to send an application to Stern. But someone in the a village in China or an extremely rural town in the US that has no knowledge of Wall Street will still apply to Harvard.