Hi thank you for clicking!
I am currently a junior. our entire senior class got destroyed by college admissions and now im worried! plz chance me for these schools. ik it means nothing but whatevs
Cornell
MIT (Legacy)
Carnegie Mellon
UPenn
Harvard
Dartmouth
Columbia
UMich
Georgia Tech
Cooper Union
UC Berkeley
UNC
Here are my credentials:
SAT: 2340 M:800 R:760 W:780
GPA: UW: 3.83 W:4.2
Subject Tests: Physics 800 Math II 800 Plan on retaking Chem but 740 first time (hope to get to 780+)
Senior year: AP BC Calc, AP Spanish, AP Physics, AP Chem, AP Lit, Art Requirement Class
AP Tests: Psychology, Environmental Sci, Macro, Micro (5s)
ECs:
National Honor Society,
National Honor Society Vice President,
Spanish Honor Society, Also VP
President of ECO Club,
Terracycle Coodinator of ECO Club,
VP of Team Unify,
XC/Track all seasons of high school,
Commended Scholar,
Science League,
Internship at Liberty Science Center,
Summer Program at Cornell or UMD
Published for DNA research in prestigious program
Involved in community green team
Secretary of class (Junior/Senior)
AP Scholar with Honor
Rec letters: Math teacher is stellar had her for all 4 years, Humanities one will probably be good as well (had her for 3 years)
Your test scores and grades are within the range that could be admitted to any school on your list. Your GPA is a little low for the top schools, but not outside what is reasonable. Your extracurriculars look pretty good to me. Could you elaborate a little on your DNA research? What is the “prestigious program” in which you published it?
A lot will depend on your essays and letters of recommendation. Your letters need to say things like, “one of the best students in my long teaching career.” Your guidance counselor will fill out your secondary school report. It will ask about your curriculum in relation to what the school offers. For the top schools, it really needs to say that you took the “most demanding curriculum available” or words to that effect.
You have many of the components to admission at top schools. You will have the opportunity through your essays to tie it all together, to reveal some part of yourself, to let folks see beyond the surface of test scores and grades.
You should get into many of the schools you’ve listed, although all the Ivies are a roll of the dice for most everyone. Still, getting into one or more wouldn’t be surprising.
Good luck and try not to be too stressed. You’ve compiled a good academic record. Keep working at it and you’ll have some good choices this time next year.
@notjoe thanks for the response! The DNA research program is the Rutgers Waksman Student Scholars Program. And the thing is, I was lazy in 8th grade and was in no honors classes freshman year, and got a B in english and history, and then the year after I could not take APUSH or Honors english due to prerequisites and my english teacher was psychotic so I got another B. Now I have a 4.0 uw this year, but I was unable to take the most rigorous classes, not by choice, but because of my school’s prerequisite system.
ALL Ivys: reach
MIT: reach, a bit better than others.
UMich: reach(OOS plus GPA is not high enough)
Georgia Tech: high match
Cooper Union: Not idea
UC Berkeley: high match
UNC: reach(OOS has a huge disadvantage for being OOS and your GPA)However your EC may help you