Chance Me: ED for UPenn and EA for MIT, UIUC, Georgia Tech, Rutgers Honors for Computer Engineering

Chance Me / Match Me
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Obv none of these are safeties schools like for most who apply, but do I have a slightly higher chance than the average applicant in these schools.

Race/gender/income: Indian male with both parents making 90-100K per year

Stats:

Rank: 1/197

GPA: weighed: 4.44, unweighted:3.94

Sat (super score):1520(800M,720R, 18 Essay)

SAT Subjects: Math 2 (790)

AP classes: CSP(5), CSA(4), Stats(5), English(4), Calc AB(4), Physics(did not take), Micro (12th grade), APUSH(12th grade), Literature(12th grade)

Essays/supplements: solid I think but idk how to judge since essays are subjective

Letter of recommendation: Computers teacher: Great ; Entrepreneurship: Good

Extracurriculars:

TSA (4 years): Reporter sophomore year and then co-president Junior year; 2nd place Music Production at State Conference(10th grade), 3rd place essays on technology at State Conference(10th grade), 2nd place at state leadership conference (10th and 11th grade), 1st place (11th grade) and 2nd place (10th grade) Regional award at TSA STEM competition

YLDP (4 years): 100 hours of volunteering as a youth leader since 8th grade

Music Business (1 year): Created a music business company in summer with 3 friends in which we sell music beats as well as work as affiliates to distribute beats from few producers around the world. Company has a website, social media platforms, and licensing. Only $300 since we started only this summer but maybe more as we are picking up steam this month

Cross Country/track (4 years): 1st team all-division(10th and 11th grade), 2nd team all-division (9th grade) in Cross country, 1st place team divisional champions (10th and 11th), 7 varsity letters in total from XC/track likely to be 10 varsity letters by the time I graduate

FBLA (2 years, 3 if runs this year): 4th place regional award in Cybersecurity competition; potential leader if club runs in near future despite COVID-19.

Math Club (4 years): Team MVP 9th and 11th grade, Secretary in 11th grade, 4th place team ranking in division which is the highest finish by our school

STEM for kids ( 2 years, 3 if runs this year): part of club teaching STEM activates to elementary kids, about 40 hours teaching; had possible leadership position but Covid-19 took out most clubs

Physical Therapy Volunteering (2 years): Volunteered around 60 hours in summers of 10th and 11th grade, and would’ve this summer if not for COVID-19.

NHS (11th and 12th grade)

Spanish Club (3 years): Added bc I only have 2 years of Spanish classes

Awards/Honors:

Amazon Web Services Cloud Practioner certified

2nd place TSA State Leadership Conference (twice)

TSA Essays on Technology 3rd place

FBLA 4th place regional Cybersecurity

Choosing between either Outstanding Academic Achievement Award ( basically a highest gpa award in grade; won all three years), 1000 activity points award, or AP Scholar award

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There’s a range of schools there.

For the more elite schools, yes, your chances may be above average, as you’re in a pool with the matching/fully-qualified applicants as opposed to the big reach/stretch/give-it-a-shot applicants.

For somewhere like MIT, the former pool is very large, so those with your profile may have a 9-12% admission rate rather than 7%.

Penn’s not far off that, with UIUC and GA Tech probably giving you a more substantial bump. But as you said, certainly not safeties.

For Rutgers admission you certainly have a very positive profile, but I don’t have info on their Honors program.

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Are you instate for any of the public’s? If you are OOS for UIUC, that may be the biggest reach.