Colleges: Amherst, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Northeastern, Vassar, UChicago, and UPenn
Location: Southern California
uw GPA: 3.87
w GPA: 4.54
ACT: 33 (E: 32, M: 34, R: 35, S: 31)
AP classes: Euro (2), US History (4), Chemisty (4), Lang (4)
SAT II: Chemistry (730) Math 1 (750) and US History (720)
Rank: 13/965
EC’s: Got an internship at Northrop Grumman for Cyber Security, 200+ hours at a local space center (teaching elementary schoolers robotics and 3D printing), I participate in SkillsUSA, won silver in a regional competition. Started a sudoku Club at my school, founder and president (I like puzzles) and 3 year Varsity Golfer, we’ve won league title in 2016.
Intended major: chemistry or any physical science
Your space hook is really unique, and your stats are a match for all of those schools! Try to avoid sending that AP Euro score if you can.
Your ECs are really interesting! I think your best matches are UChicago, Penn, JH, and Cornell. Vassar and Amherst may not have the resources you’ll want if you choose to pursue anything cyber security/astro down the road.
I think you’ve got solid chances at all of those schools, and that your chances will go up or down based on the quality of your recs and essays. Best of luck!
You seem a bit stressed…you shouldn’t be. You are in an amazing position, and I’m going to guess you might be rejected from two of these schools tops. You will have plenty to choose from though. My only advice is to try to have as many interviews as possible with these schools as you can. That’s gonna increase your chances if you are still worried.
You got some tough colleges there though. I’d make sure you create a balanced list.
Ya I definitely do, I’m from California so I’m basically applying to all the top UC’s with some safety schools. This list is just reach schools for me that I’m kind of shaky on.