Chance me for MIT

lazyafazn
Mon, 30 Oct 2017 22:11:29 +0000

Stats:
Class rank: 3/499
GPA: 3.98 unweighted, 4.5 probably i think weighted never checked
Courses: 10 APs, 5’s on all but 2, taking college lv linear algebra atm
SAT: 1550 first time 1560 second time, (800 math, 760 reading, 8/12 essays)
ACT: 35, 32/35/36/36 cuz i figured i would score better on sat second time so I took it for fun, didn’t realize how many problems were in math so I left around 10 blank by accident
public high school pretty meh ranking

EC:
did all the volunteering ones for all 4 years, NHS, historian in key club
volunteered in panama (built a court over a week) and china (Taught english for a week)
mainly Knowledge bowl (3rd and 2nd in region past 2 yrs)
and Science Olympiad (1st in state in multiple events, 4th at nationals in one event)
Did state science fair in fresh and soph year, won 1st in category both times but didn’t qualify for ISEF
junior varsity golf freshman year, c team tennis junior year
was vp of math club in soph year but it was only 4 people large so…
National merit scholarship semifinalist 1490 score
went to MIT for selective summer course this summer (90/400 accepted, 50 with full rides including me) called BWSI
also went to UMBC for an internship (4 weeks long) Afterwards, should be a decent rec letter
also play a lot of video games wonder if i should list that (diamond 3 league, legend hearthstone)

Letters:
all should be pretty meh, might have a decent one from my math teacher who’s known me for 3 years and i’m one of the top performers in her class/actively participate

Essays:
ugh having a lot of trouble writing them cuz im really bad at writing but hopefully should be above par by the end

Demographics:
100k+ income, chinese, male, washington state

definitely doing either CS, Math, Physics or EE in college, currently my list is

MIT: reach
Ivies + stanford: reach
Berkeley: match
GTech: match
Carnegie Mellon: match
Harvey Mudd: match
UW: safety

does that sound about right or am i overestimating my chances. what other good cs schools are there?

thanks