Chances at Emory, Upenn, BU, Hopkins, Brown, WF, Case Western, UMich, NYU
Race: White (middle east origin)
gender: male
GPA: 3.83/4 unweighted, 4.0 weighted (my school uses an extremely weak weighted scale, counting an A- a 3.66)
SAT: 1420 (670 RW, 750 M)
AP Exams: so far, AP Lang (4), Macroeconomics (4), Government (5)
No Subject tests: (planned on it but couldn’t due to covid)
Freshman year: One honors class and the rest standard
Sophmore: all honors
Junior: 3 aps, 2 honors
Senior: 5 aps, one honor
(our school only provides one ap in freshman and sophomore year)
Qualities: Moved 5 times within my childhood including in my freshman year. I highlighted this in my essays. Syrian Nationality and have been to the country multiple times and wrote about this as well.
EC: Anatomyx Online Program, Harvard University (2 months with a certificate of recognition), Chester County HealthCare Academy (45 hours with national certificate), Future Business Leaders of America, Spanish Club, Yearbook Club, (Section Leader), National Honor Society, Orchestra( 5 years), Basketball, (Point Guard), COVID-19 Masks, Volunteer( Founder), Paoli Hospital, Volunteer, Refugee Assistant (Founder), Volunteer, Target, (Cashier)
Awards: Distinguished Honors, High Honors, Who’s Who in World Language, National Recognized Certificates in two health programs.
What are my chances??? I’m really hoping my unique story stands out!
You’ve shown amazing improvement throughout your High school career demonstrated by you one honors class in freshman year to 5 aps your senior year. Moving isn’t very unique unless your story has some other element or is written really well but with the right essay, it could play to your advantage. Your ECs are also good. You seem to be a really good and well rounded student student. Assuming your essays were good, I think you have a good chance at Case Western, Wake Forest, and possibly Emory. Boston and UMich are a little bit of a reach but you definitely still have a solid chance at admission. Michigan is extremely competitive, especially in business if thats your major so its hard to chance anyone for it. UPenn, Hopkins, Brown, and NYU are reaches for just about everyone and I wouldn’t say your in the top tier of their applicant so I wouldn’t count on those schools. Keep in mind, that I don’t know your full story and no one else does so take everything with a grain of salt.
Although public schools are supposed to accept most of their applicants from in-state, they probably like to accept some out-of-state due to the higher tuition.
No, that is still an extremely competitive major at UMich but I believe they admit based on school, not major. It is extremely hard to get into UMich as an out of state applicant so I would not count on it ( its still very hard even as an instate applicant).