<p>High school senior rank 30/787
GPA: 4.02 weighted 3.7 unweighted</p>
<p>Very rigorous course load with about 10B's on transcript and the rest A's.
All AP Honor classes since 9th grade and taking math at community college:
-already completed Calculus I
-Taking Calculus II rite now (got a B, almost A)
-Planning to take Calculus 3, Linear Algebra and/or Differential equations next term.</p>
<p>AP's
World History (A-) and 4 on test
Chemistry (A-) and 3 on test
US History (B) and 2 on test
Physics B (A) and 3 on test
Calculus AB (did not take class, am taking Calculus through community college courses) 3 on test.
AP Language (B) and 4 on test.
Planning to take: AP Government, AP Literature, AP Calculus BC this year.</p>
<p>EC's and Awards
Regional Silver Medal in Mathematics for Academic Decathalon.
Team Leader Award for Academic Decathalon.
8 Consecutive terms of 4.0+ GPA Academic Awards honors at graduation
Engineering and Building Trades Academy Honors at graduation
200+ Hours Community Service honors at graduation
Science Olympiad 2 years
Mathletes 3 years
Academic Decathalon 2 years
Key Club 3 years
Summer Job at Dad's store all 4 years.</p>
<p>-Very strong teacher rec's (one from Calculus professor at college class and one from World History AP teacher/Academic decathalon coach for 2 years). Both are very well qualified (Calculus teacher has PhD in math and World History teacher/aca deca coach went to Yale)
-Very strong essay
-Interview is coming up (scheduling very soon) and I have excellent interview skills.</p>
<p>what are my chances at the following:
-MIT
-CALTECH
-UC Berkeley, UC Los Angeles, UC Davis, UC San Diego
-Cornell
-Columbia</p>
<p>p.s. i live in california, am an underrepressented minority and will be the first of my family to go to college in the united states...</p>
<p>i forgot my AP Scholar Award under 'awards'</p>
<p>and for the 3 in AP Calculus Ab I can explain: I took Calculus I at community College and did not take AP Calculus at school...the two cirriculums are very different: 5/6 free responses had to do with solids of revolution, surface area revolution, etc (things taught in Calculus AB but not Calculus I, but in Calculus II) - i took this test for "fun" really...and i cant really explain Physics B, just am not very good at Physics Standardized testing but am good at labs, applications, etc, etc...</p>
<p>As for projected SAT Scores: how would a 2100-2200 SAT or a 34-35 ACT help and for projected Sat II scores: Math: 750+, Physics: 650+, Chemistry: 690 (took a long time ago and did not take a third sat II because I thought MIT only required one math and one science...)</p>
<p>You're not getting into MIT or Caltech, your AP scores are too low, your unweighted GPA is too low, and your extracurriculars don't show any passion. You have to be outstandingly good at one extracurricular, showing a deep passion for it, to get into your reaches (Columbia, MIT, Caltech)...SAT scores are too low (SAT IIs and APs especially) and the GPA is just not going to cut it. Get some safeties that you like</p>
<p>i understand my gpa does not really match the high end of the average gpa students who go to MIT have achieved...however when i attended an MIT regional admission orientation, matt mcgann (from MIT) said that grades are only one component and you cant really judge my application too harshly from one aspect because the application is made up of several components, i mean i still have my interview, essays, and SAT scores coming...</p>
<p>and how can you say i am not passionate about one of my EC's: i am very dedicated to academic decathalon i mean i won a regional silver mathematics medal over thousands of intelligent competitors and was able to win the only two medals that came from my school...i am passionate about math and science as you can see in my ECs and i know that MIT is for me..</p>
<p>it will be tough, and i wouldn't count on getting into mit or caltech, but don't give up. just make sure to majorly (but not in a bs'd over the top way) emphasize ecs and passion.</p>
<p>i am a male sikh (an underrepresented minority) planning to major Electrical Engineering
my family is not low income they are average
and i can get a 2200 on SAT with high/near perfect Math SAT score...now what you guys think?</p>
<p>no im not
sikhs are urm
indians are orm
sikhs have been supressed in india since their beginning so they formed their own state, are on the edge of forming their own country, and have been independent of india for quite some time now. sikhs are very proud of being different and independent and you cannot take that away from me- i am an URM and that is my own preference.</p>
<p>Well, to tell you the truth, I am not certain how sikhs are categorized. They may be lumped in with asians, but maybe not. I have no idea. Sorry, can't help you there. If you talk about how you are "independent" you could very well get URM status.</p>
<p>Note: It is all how the adcoms categorize us, it is like we're sheep or something.</p>
<p>no but i can help you out
ive talked to several counselors and its my personal preference i am not an uneducated idiot, i am a very religious person who knows about my culture and i know the difference between a sikh and an indian, i am proud to be a URM because i want to make something out of myself, a very rare goal among Sikhs. my goal in life is to repay my family for taking a chance from immigrating to a comfortable and luxurious life in punjab to coming to a country with very low paying jobs and big ambitions for future generations (me).</p>
<p>No one wants to deny you of your pride in being a
Sikh, but unfortunately they are not on the list of those considered URMs at any college I've seen. Maybe they woul;d be underrepresented at some colleges in the South or MW where other asians are. There are many highly successful Sikhs in North America, many have been very successful in technology companies.</p>