9 APs all 5 including AP chem. cal bc, bio stat. eng
gpa 98.5 uw 102.5 weighted. skipped 10th grade
job: lifeguard, camp counselor/sailing instructor
volunteer: rehab hospital for 200 hrs over 3 years, sailing camp for 100 hrs
sports competitive sailor
summer reseach at local college
team lead for 1st robotic, outside school selective orchestra 1st violin,
not a lot leadership due to no one knows she skiiped a grade when those election taking place
many school award, merit honor for society of women engineer
biomedical engineer
interested
Princeton
Johns Hopkin
Notre Dame (double legacy)
northwestern
georgia tech
purdue
Duke
U mich
I mean she’s great but she skipped a year and not sure how it impacts. And those schools are reaches anyway.
Where’s the most important school - the safety ?
Any budget concerns?
As an fyi, Princeton and Notre Dame are not ABET accredited in the major. They may have classes and Princeton has a club but they don’t have the major.
I suggest you add a safety - and given the major, there’s many fantastic choices that very well may lead to a similar outcome.
A Pitt or UAB as a like school environmentally to Ga Tech, a UMN as a Michigan sub, and an RPI or WPI as a sub for the Hopkins/Dukes of the world. Case Western too but not assured.
I shouldn’t say those I mentioned are subs but a complement to your list and all are accredited in the major.
She has SUNY stony and Bing as well as Wisconsin for safety. ND even though not have BS for biomed, they have for grad school and has wide selection of courses for bio med, and the dean is actually a biomed prof, my daughter had a tour with few yrs back,
With unhooked applicants to the most selective US colleges, it is usually not possible to get beyond the assessment that the applicant seems competitive. Refining the odds further is typically not really possible in any meaningful and reliable way. And I would say your daughter does in fact seem competitive for even the most selective colleges on her list.
I note it is possible your HS has the information to do a bit better than that. Like if they track prior applicant data for these colleges, that data may have at least some useful insights to contribute.
She is an excellent candidate for any school. But I don’t think anyone here can reasonably chance her. For the elite schools, there are simply more very well qualified candidates than there are spots available. Much will depend on things we cannot and should not see on a site such as CC including essays, LORs, etc.
That said, ND does value legacy so that would be a plus if she is fine with a mechanical engineering major.
I concur with the posters who suggest that your daughter find a safety – which I consider to be a school where admission is guaranteed and which can be afforded (I wouldn’t necessarily consider Wisconsin as a “safety” for an engineering admit). Also, Section C7 of the Common Data Set for Notre Dame reveals that “alumni/ae relation” is considered as an admission factor, but it is not an “important” or “very important” criterion. Further, “religious affiliation/commitment” is an “important” admission criterion as well.
Regarding Purdue, here is a link the the Purdue Data Digest: https://www.purdue.edu/datadigest/. Look at the links for “Applications, Admits, and Matriculations,” and “New First-Time Beginner Profile”; I think that your daughter would be competitive for admission there.
My concern would be the grade skipping. For the record, I don’t know how it will be seen. So she might ask. The reason you gave sounds off because there’s always alternatives to finding higher level classes.
Does she have the requisite English, foreign language, social science needed?
Also please review each for secondary admission to ensure sue can study what she wants. Purdue has, for example, so you’re not guaranteed the desired major, etc.
She does, she had 7 units math (she triple accelerated in math) , 6 unit science , ( double acceleratied in science and double science this year , 4 in SS, English and foreign languages, she could graduate this year and she will meet requirements and get Advanced Diploma in NY, like I said, she ran out math and science to take,
Skipping a grade will probably hurt her, whether the counselor provides the reason or not.
Her record is commendable, but very typical of students applying to the schools you mention. Her activities are the usual sort for high achieving kids from well-resourced areas. She doesn’t seem to have anything to make her application pop, unless there is some things within her activities that aren’t obvious from your descriptions.
I don’t mean that she won’t get into any of these schools. She could. But this list is far too reach-y, and Wisconsin isn’t a safety for her.
Is she graduating this year or is she asking for next year?
Her brother does not have anywhere close to her stat with less class took got accepted to u mich, Purdue and Wisconsin, , so that is where I got those are target and safety, it does not make sense for her to stay extra, she has NOTHING to take in math nor science, she will be done cal 4 end of this year and that will be math requirements for most engineering major in colleges, so WHY stay extra year? She has ap bio/chem college physics done, so WHY stay , so if your kids this accelerated, what will u do?
As I said I don’t know the impact but I would have her make an appointment with an admission counselor, say that I’m planning to graduate in three years and ask the impact. There could be maturity concerns - having a I assume 17 year old with 18-21 and not in class. I don’t know. It’s why i’d ask.
I honestly don’t know the answer.
All people have said is to add a safety. You have the two SUNYs - both strong. If the student is ok at one of those, then nothing to question or get worried about as they’ll have a satisfactory home.
OP I’m confused by all the comments worried about graduating HS in three years. I am not a huge fan of skipping grades but I skipped two grades myself and have undergraduate and graduate degrees from Ivy League schools. And I was not the youngest in my class. I went to Brown undergrad and one of my classmates younger than me was in PLME (one of the toughest Brown admits). ETA- Another kid I’m my class who also started college at age 16 went got his first job at McKinsey at age 20 and then went to become Governor of his state.
Granted I’m old so maybe it’s a bigger deal these days but definitely not way back when. Anyway you say you have safeties and as long as you do you are good!
I think your daughter is great, and one year for a girl is not maturity concern to me at all especially for a younger sibling who is so advanced. My youngest was always youngest in the class (right at cutoff) with some kids older than her by the whole year , but she is significantly more mature than her 2 older siblings.
Maturity concerns are usually for boys who are significantly younger. I remember a kid in GaTech at age 13 or 14 back when I was in college. That was wild among 19 and 20 years old in engineering classes. He obviously couldn’t connect to his classmates.
Focus on good fit in college for her more than prestige.
Thank you for many of the kind words, I have to stay away for a day to come back because I was really disturbed by all the negativity with my daughter skipping grad. It was not our choice, in fact, school suggested since she was in 5th grade and we have pushed back because well, she is my youngest, I want to keep her a bit longer, … I guess I am not understanding why the perspective from so many that a kid should be punished because they are smart, when top school says that they want to see kids challenge themselves, and it sounds like a conflicting story that they punished kids challenging themselves to the point they have to skip a grade? I don’t know, but truthfully, I been a principal engineer and my husband a executive of a top engineer company, we know too well that undergrads does not make any difference, I am simply curious what is her chance to get in, different schools, I guess I got more than what I asked
At this point I would not worry about skipping as it is a done deal. Again, ask the guidance counselor to note: 1) the reason for your D skipping a grade and; 2) that skipping was recommended by the HS.