Chance for Cornell, Rice, UPenn, Vanderbilt

Chance Me / Match Me
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Asian male

GPA: 3.9
5.66 weighted
SAT 1540

Rank: 4th out of 532, top 1%
Intended major: Political science/Public Policy/Something like that

Extracurriculars:
Founder and President of School Chapter of Junior State of America (JSA), national student political organization (Junior year), Texas regional cabinet member
Model UN Vice President
National Honor Society Vice President
Chinese Club Historian
Orchestra - 3 years, historian, made region full orchestra
District UIL champion for Current Events and Social Studies

-2nd Place at Science and Engineering Fair of Houston freshman year

  • 3rd Place at Science and Engineering Fair of Houston sophomore year
  • 1st Place at Science and Engineering Fair of Houston junior year
  • 2nd Place at Texas State Science Fair Junior year

Volunteering: National Honor Society 50+ hours

Classes are all very hard/AP, high As in all of them except for AP Calculus which is a B+.

However STEM AP scores are not all that great (I heard they don’t matter that much for admissions though)
AP Human Geo - 5
AP Word History - 5
AP US History - 5
AP English - 5
AP Chemistry - 3
AP Physics - 3
AP Calculus - 3

2

Id say pretty good at rice and vandy. not so sure about the other two tho.

3

Poor for the Ivies… You have typical ‘cookie cutter’ ECs and nothing makes you stand out

4

I’d pick one of those and apply ED, your chances are a lot higher, if you go RD as an Asian, it will be tough.

5

Vandy ED, best shot.

6

@MarquisdeFaux Good chances for Vanderbilt and Rice. Quite lower, but still feasible for Cornell and even lower (but still potentially feasible) for Penn.

If any of the ivies are your top choice, i d suggest seriously looking into ED to boost your chances a bit.

7

Do any of you have tips for improving extracurriculars to make it stand out more? I still have the summer.