Indian Male
GPA: 3.93
Rank: 5 / 592
SAT I: 2230 (750 CR, 770M, 710W - 9 essay) - planning on retaking
SAT II: 800 Math II, 740 Physics
ACT: 33 (35 E, 31 M, 33 R, 34 S, 9 Essay) - retaking as well
National Merit Commended
APs:
Psychology (4), Physics I (4), US History (5), English Lang (5), Statistics (4), Human Geography (5)
Next year I plan on taking English Lit, Government, Macroeconomics, Calculus BC, Biology, Physics C, and European History.
Leadership / ECs:
Captain of Academic Worldquest Team
President of Model UN
President of National Beta Club
Vice President of Rho Kappa (Social Studies Honor Society)
TFA State Qualified Debater
Around 230 volunteer hours for hospitals, dementia clinics, coaching sports, food banks, etc
Set up free after-school tutoring program to help struggling kids.
You may not be able to get admitted to yale and cornell because your gpa may be slightly less than the average there. You have a pretty good shot at Berkeley, Rice, and JHU. Honestly, if you can improve your ACT by 1 point, that’ll put you around the 75th percentile at cornell and yale so I wouldnt be worried
Yale- High Reach
JHU- Reach
Cornell- Reach
Rice- High match
UC Berkeley- match
If you want to, I suppose you could retake. However, it is a holistic approach, and if you’re confident in you’re writing abilities and ECs you should be fine. That being said, your ECs are pretty decent. Quality over quantity I suppose. Just make sure that your interests radiates throughout your application.
@teddiecruz 2230 and 2300 barely has any difference. They don’t care as long as you prove you are capable, which you already have. Save your money for something else.
Johns Hopkins: High match/low reach
Ivy: reaches
Berkeley: low reach/high match
Rice: Low reach/high match
My friend got into Yale this year with a 33 on the ACT. People well over the 2300s got denied to Yale, UChicago and all the ivies. Those few points do not make much of a difference. Get a higher SAT II score instead