My academics are pretty horrible… I still don’t have crucial scores like subject tests, AP, and SATs. I want to see my chances purely based on what I’ve done so far.
cpa: 4.1/4.8
uw gpa: 3.89/4
rank: 1st decile
Leadership:
Founder & Leader of Film Club
Founder & Leader of Software Development Team
Captain of JETS Engineering Team
Secretary of Debate Team
Other clubs:
FIRST Robotics (FRC) Team (4 yrs)
Internships:
Web developer at mediaBOOM (local tech comp)
Yale Discovery to Cure Program
Merit:
National Honors Society
2nd place novice division debate (qualified for states)
1st place TEAMS competition
CS (~120+ possibly more)
80h Yale New Haven Hospital
30+ Tutoring
30+ Senior Home
- many other miscellaneous tasks
Chance?:
Reach:
Stanford
Brown
CIT
Carnegie
Duke
UCB
Tufts
Vanderbilt
safety:
WPI
U of M
This is just a small list, it’ll grow and change as I get back my other scores. Thanks for your time.
It would also be interesting to find out how much academic performance matters over extracurriculars and your cv
It would also be interesting to find out how much academic performance matters over extracurriculars and your cv
Your original estimations are about correct. As of now, the schools you put under “reach” are all going to be high reaches until you take the ACT/SAT and get a decent score 2100+. Prep yourself for the June SAT or wait until August/September next year to finish that up and then decide on where you want to apply.
I agree, practice for SAT will get you up there. As for WPI, as long as you do decently well, it’s definitely a safety
Where is your home state?
Which U of M do you think it is a safety for you?
IF you score well on the SAT, you could have a chance of getting into Carnegie and UCB, but otherwise the other schools seem like big reaches to me. Good luck though.
@billcsho I’m looking at Ann Arbor right now, I know that it’s pretty hard to get into out of state (I’m from Connecticut), but a lot of seniors I know this year were accepted although a lot of them did not end up attending. It is still a really good pick for me and truth is I’ll probably add more schools and narrow my list as I get my results towards this summer. Michigan might not be a safety by then.
@polarknut @pinkisking @SternBusiness yea, I know the SATs are extremely important, I’ve gotten help from tutor and taken a lot of practices so far. I’m pretty confident that I can score a 2200+ if I really practice enough.
Thanks for all the feedback so far.
UMich isn’t a safety for anybody. It is hardly a match for OOS students either. If you want to apply to engineering, try to bring up you GPA and aim for ACT 34+.
UMich is not a safety. Very high stats out of state kid was rejected there from a very competitive school. I recommend reworking the list.
Doesn’t U of M have a 32.2% acceptance rate, though. How hard can it be to get in, especially when compared to Ivies?
For OOS applying to UMich CoE, the admission rate is comparable to lower Ivies. For UMich overall, the OOS admission rate was 27% last year and will be near 20% this year. Note that applicants are usually self selected, so the admission rate does not tell you a whole lot. You need to look at the admission stat at the same time.