Chance Me: NJ, 100 WGPA, 1500 SAT, engineering

Chance Me / Match Me
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Demographics

  • US citizen
  • New Jersey
  • Average (for central jersey) public high school
  • Gender/Race/Ethnicity: asian female
  • Harvard legacy
  • Rare chronic skin condition that dropped grades and forced me with quit most ECs from late freshman year.
  • Banking most my apps on the fact that AOs like my ECs lol.

Intended Major(s)
Comp engineering, mech engineering, environemntal/civil eng, philosophy, electronic music/music production, chemistry

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores

  • Weighted HS GPA (incl. weighting system): 100/around 108?
  • Class Rank: none
  • SAT Scores: 1500 sat 750 M 750 EBWR

Coursework
*AP Micro, AP Macro, AP Physics 1, AP Human Geo, AP CSA, AP Lang, AP CSP, Dual enrollment English IV, everything else 90% honors, current math: regular calculus

Awards
HS Soccer team freshman year

Genius verified artist

Multiple signed record deals with some of the biggest independent distributors and electronic music labels

Strongest deadlift and sqaut at local powerlifting gym for weight class.

Extracurriculars
Music producer
RIAA (Gold) & Recording Academny (Grammy) recognized artist, tens of thousands monthly listeners, millions of lifetime streams, multiple spotify/apple music top chart placements

Taekwondo
Former #1 ranked sparrer in the world for divions, 7x national champion, many state and norhteastern NA district champ, team USA.

Church Volunteer
Spent 10 hours a day during a few weeks in the summer as activities cordinator for my church’s VBS.

HS Philosophy Club Co-president this year

Live performer/DJ
Multiple playouts at Rutgers frats, parties, and club venues for audinces in the hundreds. Supported by the biggest asian nightclub in NYC.

Professional gaming
Former semi pro csgo player, top ranked <top 3% in Rainbow 6, League, CSGO, Valorant. Peak #3 north america in clash of clans. In game leader.

John Hopkins CTY
Java summer course at CTY program.

PC Building
Started company building and servicing pcs. Over 20+ clients, multiple new builds, and even more serviced.

Powerlifting
500lb deadlift, 415 sqaut, and 225 bench at 170lb. ~40lb short of qualifying for USAPL Nationals. Around 350 DOTS score.

Essays/LORs/Other
*pretty strong (reviewed by many ivy league english majors)
*LOR from chem, visual arts, and cs teacher, along with taekwondo coach, semi-famous music artist with work experience.
*About the psychological affects of music, connecting it to my everyday life, past and future.

Cost Constraints / Budget
None really

Schools

  • Safety (certain admission and affordability)
    *Rutgers (got in)
    *Binghamton (got in)
    *SBU (got in)

  • Match
    *Northeastern (RD)
    *UW Madison (got in)
    *NYU Tandon (RD)

  • Reach
    Majority of my schools
    *CMU (RD)
    *GT (ea rejected)
    *Harvard (rea defered)
    *UMich (EA defered)
    *Vandy (RD)
    *Cornell (RD)
    *Yale(RD)
    *NW(RD)
    *USC (RD)
    *Rowan University (RD)
    *Hood University (RD)
    Applied to reaches for a lot of different majors, changed my mind a lot thorughout process.

Really appreciate advice and chances at Harvard and CMU/NW as I got deffered and have legacy and applied for music programs very specific to what I have been doing with my extracurriluars for the later. Dream schools are Harvard & CMU. Thanks in advance.

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Others can help you better if you specify:

  • Unweighted GPA (every weighted GPA can have different weighting, so others outside your school do not know what yours means).
  • What major you applied to for each school.
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  • My school doesn’t have unweighted GPA unfortunately
  • CMU (Environmental/civil eng and electronic music)
  • NEU (CompEng)
  • NYU Tandon (CompEng)
  • Harvard (Philosophy, Music)
  • UMich (CompEng)
  • Vandy (CompEng)
  • Cornell (Philosophy, Music)
  • Yale (Music, Chemistry, Biochem)
  • NW (Music BA)
  • USC (Civil Eng)
  • Rowan & Hood (Judaic studies)
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Congratulations on your acceptances. At this point, it’s a wait and see on your pending applications. Except for Rowan and Hood, the rest are reaches so just wait and see.

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If you think you might want to study engineering, you should probably go to a school where you are admitted for engineering. Of your possible majors, that is the most selective one at most places, and it may not be offered at all these schools. And transferring out of engineering into another major is generally easier than transferring in to engineering (varies by school).

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You should be able to calculate an unweighted GPA from your grades.

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When you say your medical condition caused your grades to drop, by how much do you mean? It’s impossible to tell by your weighted GPA. Do you have almost all As, As and Bs, more Bs than As…?

Your SATs are on the low side for CMU engineering. If your grades are a mixed bag, that’s going to be a really tough admit. Schools care first and foremost about academics. For most applicants (outside of Olympic medalists/famous actors/etc.), their academics will have to clear a school’s bar before ECs can set someone apart.

Harvard might give more leeway for an interesting activity, but CMU will be hard core about showing academic strength.

You have some nice acceptances. Anything is possible at this point — hold tight and ride it out!

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Seems like strong grades and middle 50% SAT even at CMU. With those unique ECs, I think you have as good a chance as any. It’s probably better to be going in Eng plus music because arts at a school like CMU might be as hard or harder to get into.

But, no one really knows. Anyone on CC will tell you that acceptance to the top 20 schools is extremely difficult and cannot be counted on by grades or scores. They could accept five or 10 times as many students as they do and have top caliber classes, but they only accept 5 to 10% total, less in some desirable majors.

I know someone with similar stats to you who did not get it to any Ivy but ended up at CMU and we know people didn’t get into any of those schools at all.

So, just be mentally prepared to go to a targetschool and if you into your dream school that’s great

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