<p>Senior, Korean Female, Above-Average Public School
Out-of-state for both schools</p>
<p>GPA: 4.0 unweighted, 4.7 weighted (...err but my senior year gpa is looking like it might end up a 3.71 first semester, if that changes anything) SAT: 2300 (730CR, 800M, 770W) SAT II: 800 Chemistry, 800 Math 2, 750 World History AP: Physics C, Calc BC, Chem, Euro, English Lit, World Hist all 5's Senior year schedule: AP Psych, AP English Lang, AP Bio, AP Spanish, Multivariable Calc, History</p>
<p>ECs
-Science Olympiad (9-12): president; won >20 medals total from state/invitational tournaments plus a medal at Nationals last year
-Speech & Debate (9-12): secretary; compete in LD debate, octafinalist at multiple national circuit tournaments & several speaker awards and medals on the local circuit
-Science Research (10-12): worked in a lab during the summer
-Key Club (10-12): treasurer; we do community service
-Tutoring (10-12): tutor middle school students
-Physics Team (10): couple awards at state competition
-Student Govt (11): webmaster
-Piano (9-12)
-Cross-Country (9-11)</p>
<p>Awards
-National AP Scholar
-National Merit Semifinalist (probably--I'm well above last year's cutoffs)
-3x AIME qualifier
-USA math talent search honorable mention
-1st place in Chemistry category at county science fair
-Honorable mention at state piano competition</p>
<p>I say you have a great chance at MIT, I know several girls who have made it into MIT with far less impressive stats than yours, Caltech, I’m not sure it’s a very tough school to get into, but 3x AIME qualifier is a + for these schools</p>
<p>a girl from my school got into caltech this year and she had the same stats as you and did cross country too (well she was also valedictorian too). i think you have a good chance@ excellent grades and scores. now just write a good essay and i think you will have an awesome chance at both. good luck!</p>
<p>I think you have decent chances at MIT and Cal Tech because you are a “STEM FEMALE” and 3X AIME qualifier.</p>
<p>(If you were an Asina male, they are very very high reach schools.)</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Wait!
“my senior year gpa is looking like it might end up a 3.71 first semester, if that changes anything”
What are those classes? Physics or Math???</p>
<p>I would not give much credence to of the posters that claim that it is signficantly easier for females to be admitted to MIT or Caltech. It is just a myth. Female applicants to MIT as a group are signficantly more self-selecting than male applicants. I know because I interview MIT applicants as an Educational Counselor and get the annual statistics from the admissions office. A lot of MIT male applicants are simply not qualified which is much less true among female applicants. The female applicants I interview are, on average, much stronger the male applicants. </p>
<p>3XAIME is good for any applicant. Just qualifying for the AIME is tougher than getting an 800 on the math SAT. If you got a score higher 3 on any of the AIMEs I would mention it. Most AIME qualifiers don’t even get that high a score.</p>
<p>If you have pursued research on the same project over several summers I would definitely provide some detail and get a recommendation letter from your research supervisor. </p>
<p>For the science olympiads, I assume your awards are team awards but that is still worth discussing as MIT in particular is big on collaboration and teamwork.</p>
<p>You have a pretty good chance, since you’re female, qualified to AIME 3x, and have National AP Scholar.</p>
<p>Being a male seems a whole lot tougher for Caltech, I got waitlisted → rejected even though I had qualified to AIME 5x and USAMO once. In the end, I chose MIT. Caltech and MIT have a little rivalry, somehow both schools have a beaver as their mascot.</p>