What are my chances for UPenn, Columbia, Stanford, Northwestern, MIT, Caltech, CMU, JHU, Rice?

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What are the chances for an Asian with an Art/Architecture/Design interest? I’d appreciate any tips, suggestions, criticisms, and guesses.

School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male

SAT: 1570 (800 math and 770 Reading and Writing),

SAT II: Math 2 - 800, Chemistry - 800, Physics - 800 (Expected)

Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9

Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): My school does not rank.

AP (place score in parenthesis): BC Calc (5), Chemistry (5), Studio Art (5), English Lit (4), Physics - 1 (4)

Junior Year Course Load: AP Physics 1, AP Calculus BC, AP English Lit, AP Art Portfolio, Architecture
Senior Year Course Load: Linear Algebra/Multi V Calculus, AP Physics C, AP Government, AP Latin, Art Project

Extracurriculars:

  • Eagle Scout
  • Numerous Scholastic Awards in the Arts and Writing
  • Science Olympiad State Level

Student Council:

  • Founded school’s first Art club.
  • Editor for various school Art Publications
  • Art columnist for local town publications.

Sports: Lacrosse - junior varsity
tennis-varsity

Volunteer/Community service: 250+ hrs
Active participant for the AutismCure organization for the last 6 years.

Summer Activities: Attended many art related courses in the United States and abroad during the last two summers. Attended a research program.

Intended Major: I am interested some design/engineering majors, applied math or material Science. Out of those possible choices, I am not sure which one I will choose, but I would know after taking additional classes.

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Dude only 1570… smh… you’re effed. Just go to a state school tbh. And you started a club, that’s too mediocre. You need to do something like start Spacex or your own unlicensed architecture firm. Sorry dude better luck next life

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With your excellent test scores, solid GPA, challenging course load, and reasonable-sounding ECs, you stand a fighting chance of admission at each of the schools on your list–assuming, of course, that your essays and recs are up to snuff.

Though it is best to regard all the schools you listed as reaches, I think you should feel pretty confident about CMU, and I also think the odds are good that you will gain admission to one or two of the others on your list.

You might also want to consider applying to Cornell, with its strong Architecture program. You would be a very strong candidate there.

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Thanks for your response.

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Other than the popular ceramics, screen printing, and maker classes, Caltech has very little in the way of art classes and no architecture. They list some art history classes in the catalog, but I don’t see that they were offered last year. The main art outlet would be painting murals in the house (dorm) hallways and designing sets and t-shirts for the house activities.

CMU has different admissions statistics by college. If you are applying to Engineering, that is not a safety for anyone.