Hello everyone! I am a junior in high school and was wondering what my chances for my top colleges were!
Here is my “resume”
SAT: 2110 (Math 800, Reading 660, Writing 650) (Taking it again next week :D)
GPA: 3.72 uw and 4.22 weighted (I am doing IB diploma, and I screwed up freshman year (w/o freshman year, GPA is 3.85)
Rigor of Courses:
Junior Year: IB Mathematics HL (Since this is the highest course offered at my school for math, I will have no math senior year), IB Biology HL, IB Physics HL, IB Spanish SL, IB American Studies SL, IB Language Arts HL
Senior Year: IB Physics HL, IB Biology HL, IB Language Arts HL, IB Computer Science SL, IB Business and Marketing SL, and IB Theory of Knowledge SL (this is required for all IB Diploma candidates).
Extracurriculars:
200+ hours of volunteering service
Have a job at kumon
President of Math Club (all the following happened after my presidency)
-Have won team state championship 1st place
-Competed in the American Mathematics Competition (AMC)
-Won team 3rd Place in state championship
-Have been executive director and class representative my sophomore year.
Member of DECA
-8th Place at State Level (SCDC)
-Finalist Award for Marketing Communications Team (SCDC)
Have Played piano since the 1st grade
-Won Superior Plus in Northwest Music Festival all 4 years of high school.
Tutoring
-Have a summer job tutoring 8th grade kids and below.
Treasurer of local charity club (Charity Circle)
-Funded and made several activities, raising over 1,000 dollars.
Senior Year Link Crew Leader
Playing JV Tennis Senior Year
My major I want to go into: Mechanical Engineering, then Aerospace/Aeronautical Engineering.
My Colleges: Berkeley (ik its a long shot!), University of Washington (I live in state), Georgia Tech (applying early decision or early action), University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and MIT (this is a joke)!
I hope you don’t actually listen to a word @PatriotDad just said. The fact that he is blatantly offensive in stereotyping Indians and the social welfare they obtain is a huge red flag. I’d say you have as good of a chance as any at all of these schools. If you apply early to GT, I’d be certain you’d get in.
Hmm…I am not so sure as @patriotdad that you will get into the college of your choice. I say you are in at University of Washington, but the others are definitely not guaranteed, and as it stands now, (you said it’s a joke, but unclear if you are going to apply there) MIT I think is out of reach. Students with your grades and SAT scores get denied at UMich, Berkely, and Georgia Tech each year…they get admitted too, but I say those are all still a reach for you. You MIGHT get in to one of them, but I think the odds are long unless you raise that SAT score. Good luck.
@PatriotDad my husband the plumber commented that your plumber probably spent a great deal of time traveling to and from your job and also spent quite a bit of money on the equipment. Sadly no plumber we know makes $1200 an hour. In fact he is forcing my kids to come to work with him just so they understand the importance of a college education. So as the official wife of a plumber I respectfully disagree with your idea number 2.
Your GPA is low, too. Unless you improve both the CR and GPA, I don’t think you are getting into Berkeley or Michigan or MIT. You probably are in at UW. Someone more familiar with Ga Tech will have to comment on that.
I’d add a few more matches and a safety if I were you.
UWashington/Engineering is a good match.
What’s your parents’ budget?
For a Washington resident, UCB = 55K/year, no financial aid; UMich, same thing; GTech: apply by October 15 but odds are low you’ll get a scholarship, so expect 50K/year.
You, as a freshman, can borrow $5,500. So, if your parents don’t have about 200k in a college account somewhere, or are in the 98% income-wise, they can’t afford the schools above. Odds are that you’e part of the 98%…
In short, revise your list. Include MIT because, why not? But also include colleges that you can afford.
If you want to go out of state, look at Cal Poly SLO (less expensive than UCs, but superb for engineering) and SDSU Honors; Olin; RPI; Rose Hulman; Northeastern; UCincinnati (for Cincinnatus scholarship + excellent co-ops).
Thanks for that update! Yes, I realized that it would be hard to pay for these colleges, and that is why I started saving money from my job. I have almost around 25 k saved up and my parents have been saving for college the day I was born. The only problem I see is getting into these colleges.
Ask them what their annual budget is. Even if your parents saved money, no one could predict that public universities that used to cost 3-7K a year would now be 12-17 for tuition only, and that top colleges that were 30-35 would reach 65 in about 15 years…
Apply to Cal Poly SLO! Their engineering program is one of the best in the country. For aerospace- MIT has to go through SLO to affiliate with NASA! Cal Poly signed a contract with NASA way back when saying that they are the only school NASA can work with, so as a result, if MIT wants to talk with NASA, they have to go through SLO! That’s how amazing their program is!
Not to mention, you have a much better chance at getting into Cal Poly SLO than you do MIT (still should be considered a reach). Cal Poly GPA is capped at 4.2 so you’re already as high as they want. Raise your SAT score and you definitely have a good chance!