Hi!! Just kinda want some unbiased opinions about my chances at some schools I’m applying to.
I’m a white girl from FL with no hooks really, from a big competitive HS.
GPA is a 4.0 unweighted and 5.3 weighted. Ranks don’t come out till the end of the year but I know I’m 1 or 2 out of 580 SAT: 1560 SAT II: 790 Math 2, 770 USH. I’ve also taken 11 AP’s with 5’s on 9, and 4’s on 2.
ECS: NHS president, Girls who Code chapter founder/president, Math team VP, DECA committee head, Academic Team, Internship for marketing and design at a tech start up, going weekly to a senior living facility to teach residents about technology and keep them company, Psych and Business Honor Societies, and I tutor kids in the aftercare program of a local middle school and I also tutor as a job to make money
Awards: National Merit finalist, National AP Scholar, DECA 5th place in FL, Yale Book Award, Chinese Statewide superior award, highest AMC score w/in school, english/chinese/ap bio/business schoolwide awards.
My essay kinda isn’t done but it’ll hopefully be pretty good by the time I complete it!! My teacher recs are good and personal but nothing like incredible or breathtaking. The CEO of the company I worked at wrote me an amazing rec but I can’t submit it to most of the schools on the list, I think just Emory and Brown?
My intended major is industrial engineering or econ–I’m not sure yet lol.
Schools:
Columbia (ED)
UChicago (EA)
Tufts
MIT
Brown
Emory
NYU
Georgetown
UC Berkeley
UCLA
You look like a competitive applicant but can you afford $60K+/year with little to no financial aid as an OOS student for UCLA/UCB?
Hope for some merit aid if possible, out of state costs are going to be pretty high for most of those schools. Also, is Columbia your clear #1? You have a pretty good shot at getting in there, so if you aren’t necessarily sure if that’s your first choice you may want to avoid ED.
Other than that you have a chance at every school, but the MIT-caliber ones are a toss up for practically any applicant.