Chance Me (Aerospace Engineering) [international, 8.1/9.0 GCSE]

Chance Me / Match Me
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Demographics

  • US domestic (US citizen or permanent resident) or international student: International Student in Canada from the UK
  • State/Location of residency: Alberta
  • Type of high school (or current college for transfers): Catholic High School
  • Other special factors: (first generation to college, legacy, recruitable athlete, etc.)

Cost Constraints / Budget
(High school students: please get a budget from your parents and use the Net Price Calculators on the web sites of colleges of interest.)

Intended Major(s) Aerospace Engineering with a minor/ double major in Computer Science/Engineering

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores

  • Unweighted HS GPA: (calculate it yourself if your high school does not calculate it) 8.1/9.0 in GCSE
  • Weighted HS GPA: (must specify weighting system; note that weighted GPA from the high school is usually not informative, unless aligned with the recalculation used by a college of interest, such as CA, FL, SC public universities)
  • College GPA: (for transfer applicants)
  • Class Rank:
  • ACT/SAT Scores: 1600 SAT (hopefully)

List your HS coursework

(Indicate advanced level, such as AP, IB, AICE, A-level, or college, courses as well as specifics in each subject)

  • English: GCSE English
  • Math: (including highest level course(s) completed) Took Calculus in 11th grade in GCSE Further Maths
  • Science: (including which ones, such as biology, chemistry, physics) IB and GCSE Physics, GCSE Chemistry and Biology (Higher)
  • History and social studies: GCSE Geography (Higher)
  • Language other than English: (including highest level completed)
  • Visual or performing arts: Music/Piano
  • Other academic courses:

College Coursework (Transfer Applicants)
(Include college courses taken while in high school if not included above.)

  • General education course work:
  • Major preparation course work:

Awards

NASA International Space Apps Challenge Hackathon

Hamilton British Math Olympiad (Top 500 in UK)

Andrew Jobbings Senior Math Kangaroo (Top 700 in UK whilst taking the exam a year early)

Bronze CREST Research Award

Extracurriculars
(Include leadership, summer activities, competitions, volunteering, and work experience)

STEP (Cambridge University Math Entry Exam) tutoring in 10th and 11th grade whilst teaching 12th graders

GCSE Further Maths Tutor

Math Olympiad/Orbital Mechanics Content Creator:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Newton-s1b
Tiktok: TikTok - Make Your Day on @sirisaacnewtonii

Piano (One of the youngest winners of the Best Solo Award for my school music competition for playing Réminiscences de Don Juan in 7th grade)

Essays/LORs/Other
(Optionally, guess how strong these are and include any other relevant information or circumstances.) LORs to be written whilst essays are relatively strong

Schools
(List of colleges by your initial chance estimate; designate if applying ED/EA/RD; if unsure, leave them unclassified)

UC Boulder

Georgia Tech

UT Austin

Purdue

Stanford

MIT

If a scholarship is necessary for affordability, indicate that you are aiming for a scholarship and use the scholarship chance to estimate it into the appropriate group below; also, for colleges that admit by major or division, consider that in chance estimate.

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When do you plan to take the SAT? (or are you waiting on results from the October SAT?)
Are you already in your last year of high school applying to colleges this year?

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You’ve omitted some very critical pieces of information.

What is your budget?

Have you taken any foreign language?

When are you taking the SAT?

Are you a senior? If so, your LORs should be finished by the end of the month so you can make any EA deadlines. Will they be done by then?

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What is your status in Canada? Would you be considered domestic or international if you were to apply to universities in Canada?

Do you know what your rank is in your high school? For Stanford and MIT, I am inclined to ask: How close are you to being the top student in your high school either overall, or in mathematics and physics?

The other question that comes to mind is: Are you also considering the University of Calgary, and/or other universities in Canada?

And the questions asked by @Momofthree24 are also important.

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Add RPI to your list.

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Just curious, how did you get 12th graders willing to choose to pay you over other tutors when you yourself hadn’t taken STEP yet?

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They didn’t pay me, it was a school STEP prep club/class.

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I took Spanish and French in school, I’m not applying for early action, I’m applying for regular decision, I am a senior, I’m taking the SAT November 8th, my budget is only $35,000 (I think).

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I’m a senior who is taking the SAT November 8th

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I would be considered domestic if I applied to Canadian universities (Permanent Resident)

I ranked 6th best math student of all time at maths at my school despite being in 10th grade and doing Cambridge Tripos Maths (self-study)

I’m considering University of Toronto, UBC, UCarleton, etc.

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Then that eliminated the public schools on your list. Whether you can get in is irrelevant since you can’t afford them and won’t get meaningful (if any) aid.

It’s also pointless to ask for chances to schools with a 2% international acceptance rate, like MIT and Stanford, particularly when you have no scores. You may get in. You may not. But fortunately you have excellent and affordable options in Canada. Good luck

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That’s why I put 1600 SAT to check my chances If I got said score.

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The Canadian choices aren’t as good as the US ones.

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But you don’t have a 1600, so users here can only go with what they see. And given that it’s October, having no scores and wishing and hoping for a 1600 isn’t a strategy

Regardless, a strong SAT score gets you into that 2% acceptance range; a much lower score knocks you out of that range.

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How about my other attributes: extracurriculars, awards, etc. ?

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Are these actual or projected? Your other thread was asking about the NASA hackathon. Did you participate? What were your results?

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They’re going to be released, but for the sake of calculations, top 900 in the world.

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All other extracurriculars, I’ve gotten the results for

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They’re actual

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Thanks for confirming. Forgive my skepticism, but I find it hard to believe a senior who has an eye on MIT and Stanford has not yet taken an SAT or had his LORs finalized by now. Why the delays? Applying early does help at some schools.

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