US Resident, Immigrant. Moved like 5 times since 5th grade.
Live in Texas (moved here soph year), Not staying here.
Public High school, IB program.
Intended Major(s)
Double Major in Business Admin + Business Law and Minor in Engineering
Grades and Test Scores
2.84 GPA / 3.5 W
Bottom 50%
SAT 1300 (Retaking)
Coursework
IB Bio, Art, Business, Economics and Core classes.
Awards
NASA State comp award, One from the Indian Government for Entrepreneurship and about 10 pieces of art sold in auctions.
Extracurriculars
Founded a company worth a few million dollars. First gen entrepreneur. Awarded 100k+ in grants from FAANG companies.
Worked at the UN (Intern)
Worked at the World Economic Forum (AI Youth Board)
Wrote 2 books (Sustainability and Fashion)
Working with the US government on sustainability legislation (Lobbying with senators)
Refugee nonprofit changing state legislations to help remove statelessness.
No parent help, took a $500 dollar loan from my dad to start my company.
Essays/LORs/Other
Again moving, citizenship issues, family stuff caused most of my school disturbances. Prob will write about this but I don’t want to sound like a sob story.
LOR’s from business and gov teachers (Will be strong)
Cost Constraints / Budget
None. I’m paying along with a small college fund.
Schools
Reach Schools
LSE
Harvard
Stanford
New York University
UPenn
MIT
Cornell
Princeton
Yale
Brown
Columbia
USC
UCLA
UC Berkeley
UChicago
Notre Dame
Vanderbilt
GTech
UMICH
Georgetown
Duke
Cambridge
Oxford
Caltech
Northwestern
Carnegie Mellon
Target Schools
Pepperdine
INSEAD
University Illinois Urbana Champaign
UVA
ASU
MSU
Boston U
UWASH
SMU
UNC-Chapel Hill
Villanova
UC SB
UC Davis
Safeties ( Easy to get into/ Don’t really want to go)
Your EC’s are great, but your stats probably won’t get you through the first round of many of these schools. Rework your list. You don’t really have any safeties or likelies. And if you don’t want to go, it’s not a safety.
Take all of the UC’s off of your list. The minimum GPA is 3.4 for non-residents in the A through G coursework.
You’ll have trouble with the CAL states as well.
Your “strong” extracurriculars will not make up for your lack of a competitive GPA. It’s all about GPA and rigor as one of the first cutoffs.
Also, some of the UC’s and Cal states may not have full business departments.
San Diego State, the Cal Poly’s and a number of the popular California state universities are not easy to get into, so they should not be considered safeties especially since you are a non-resident, with a non-competitive GPA.
Edited to add: engineering is an impacted major. If you are not admitted directly into engineering, you can’t take the classes for them; the computer will reject any attempt to try to take those classes. There’s just not enough space for all the students that want to major in engineering. Yes, that includes minors and double majors.
This post is just trying to get a rise out of people. Don’t fall for it.
No way someone who founded a multi-million company would not know that there is no such thing as an undergrad business law major or any undergraduate law major for that matter in US colleges.
And also not aware that out of the 8 Ivies, Stanford, and MIT, only 1 has an undergraduate business program.
A reminder that CC is supposed to be a friendly and welcoming place. If you don’t have a productive answer to this chance me, just don’t post and ignore this thread.
LSE may not care about your GPA at all if you have 38 predicted, Math HL 6 or 7 (AA or AI are fine), and 1450 SAT.
Add 4 from UEdinburgh, Stirling*, Strathclyde*, Heriot-Watt*, Aberdeen*, King’s, Bath, Durham, Manchester, Bristol, Cardiff, Queen’s Belfast*, Royal Holloway*, Loughborough.
Include at least 2 *universities from the above list (3 to maximize odds - all are solid&reputable.) The Scottish universities will give you more leeway.
Personally I’d pick LSE, then UEdinburgh, Aberdeen, Strathclyde, Heriot-Watt but I could be persuaded to replace Aberdeen with Bath (because I love the city )
Why do you want to attend college? From your description you have already been wildly successful as the owner of a multi-million dollar business. If you are set on college you need a more realistic list. Your grades/test scores will likely knock you out of consideration at many (most) of the places you have listed. I can’t speak to the UK schools which may be more willing to enroll a student with a low gpa if they have a strong predicted IB score.
Also, based on your unusual profile - excellence in business activities, bad academics, and imbalanced profile - I would apply to Babson (reach), Bentley (low reach), Bryant (high match).
In my opinion, your reach and match schools are not possible with these stats.
Seriously? This is not believable. If you have a company worth a few million dollars, who did the legal work for that company. Someone your age would not have been able to do so.
Most of these should be added to your already ridiculously long reach school list.
Adding…I don’t think any of these have a very very strong chance of acceptance. And anyway…you don’t want to attend so they should be removed from your list.
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