Your post has raised significant concerns for me on a couple of different fronts.
You describe yourself as “mid stats” yet as @tsbna44 has mentioned, you have a 34 single sitting score with a 36 superscore, a 4.0 UW GPA (4.7W), and you’re the class salutatorian.
A 34 composite score is at the 99th percentile, and a 36 is at the 100th percentile. Your worst single sitting score is better than 99 people out of 100, and your super score is the best possible (source). And yet you have three sobbing emojis after posting about a score in the 99th percentile.
You’re ranked #2 out of 383 students, so that’s in the top 0.5% (i.e. 99.48% percentile).
The average high school GPA is a 3.11, or a 3.56 for academic courses (source). You have a perfect 4.0 GPA.
You describe yourself as “alright” at coding, yet you’ve won first place in a national coding competition, you’re top 5 in the world out of 40k in another coding competition, you’ve coded a game that is making you more than $10k/month, and multiple other signs that you’re an excellent coder.
I feel quite confident that less than 1% of people have ever been recognized on the news for something positive in their lifetimes, whether it’s the local news or not. Yet you have five sobbing emojis because the recognition was not at a national level.
In looking at your post, a few possibilities arise in my mind:
- You honestly don’t think of your accomplishments as being pretty amazing.
- You are intentionally downplaying your accomplishments so that people can talk about how wonderful you are.
- You know you’ve done some awesome stuff but don’t want to sound like a braggart.
If you don’t think you have amazing accomplishments, then I would think about why. Are your standards that high for yourself? Are someone else’s standards that high? What kind of internal talk do you use? Additionally, I would seek professional help to help you work through some of these issues and to see if there are any underlying biological causes for them.
If this is a situation of case #2, just don’t. It smacks of insecurity and bragging at the same time and is very unattractive.
If this is a situation of possibility #3, a Chance Me/Match Me (like your college application) is a place to mention your accomplishments as facts. It’s like saying, I have brown hair and brown eyes. Nobody is going to judge you for just stating the facts. Now saying, I have gorgeous brown hair and soulful brown eyes is going over the top, but just listing what you’ve accomplished is not bragging, it’s just what you’ve done (very well).
Why am I going on about this? If this is a case where it’s situation #1, I really want you to get help because it’s a very unhealthy mindset and I want better for you. If it’s #2 or #3, this is a place to learn how things come across to others, and as smart as so many are, sometimes people need things explained in very clear language so that they don’t make those kinds of mistakes in the future.
Also, as indicated above, you’re a 99th percentile or better kind of kid. Meaning that your performance is better than 99 out of 100 others. Imagine how those 99 other people are feeling if you’re denigrating your awesome accomplishments? So if someone’s at the 90th percentile, or 60th, or 30th, or 5th, how do you think they’re feeling about themselves and what they do, if the 99th percentile accomplishments are only “mid” or “alright?”
It may also make them feel as though you’re looking down on them, and that’s a surefire way to not be as successful in life as you want to be (as when you get out in the real world, you will be working with people with a variety of skills and levels, and you will not get the teamwork and cooperation needed from folks that feel as though you’re looking down on them).
If you feel this way about your heritage, this really saddens me and is something else I would discuss with a professional counselor.
So you came here for a Match Me/Chance Me and you’ve now gotten this message that does virtually none of that (I’d call UMN an extremely likely admit, Purdue a toss-up leaning towards likely, and the rest as low probability schools). But I think this is a message that you, and others, need to hear. I’ll be back with some other colleges you may want to research.