Chance Me for CompSci/EnvSci - CMU/MIT/Cornell/Princeton/Stanford (yikes!)

I think your chances are reasonable at most/all of the places in the list. Your math strength is on the light side for some of the tippy top ones if you are hitting Calc BC only in senior year. The raw material is mostly here. You really need to write good essays. And it is not about creative writing. It needs to showcase your personality in an authentic way. Prune the EC list. Showcase your non-STEM awards along with the ISEF and other national level STEM awards. The narrative about yourself should be coherent. The only missing thing that we wouldn’t know, and the college judging you would know, is course rigor and the strength of your reccs. The reccs need to be effusive.

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