Chances after Stanford rejection?

Chance Me / Match Me
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Applying to 18 schools:

Penn State (Accepted in-state COE EA)
UIUC (Accepted OOS CS in Grainger w/ trash essays)
Stanford (Rejected REA)
Purdue
Georgia Tech
Johns Hopkins
MIT
Case Western
Harvard
Princeton
UPenn
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Duke
Northwestern
USC
University of Michigan
Carnegie Mellon

STATS: 1570 SAT (800M, 770 EBRW, 15 essay)
4.0 UW, 4.76 W, 12 AP classes and 5 dual enrollment courses at local university (T150 or so).
770 Math Level 2, 730 Bio E

Asian Female from small town in PA, have SAT fee waiver and free/reduced price lunch, but not necessarily low income.

ECs: (Copied and pasted from common app):

  1. Committee Leader, Global Solve for Tomorrow. Achievement Award from UN + Samsung for research & developing solutions to UN SDG 8 in team of 15. Presented work at UN Headquarters. Continuing work.
  2. Board Member/Volunteer, [redacted] Non-Profit Work with Red Cross and Gov't on renewable energy: studied energy systems, educated visitors at science center, spoke at schools about climate change.
  3. Participant and Judge/Mentor PJAS Competition Science fair style competition. Many 1st awards at regional and state level. Studied ecology, bio, chem, and physics. Mentored 15 middle-schoolers.
  4. Main Author/Head Researcher for Case Study Independently conducting case study on India's energy industry, inspired by previous work. Focus on future of renewable energy. Paper to be published.
  5. Teaching Assistant, [redacted] Art House Teach art, music, dance, and environmental classes to 60+ disadvantaged kids aged 4-18. Also helped supervise, tutor, and read to younger students.
  6. Crew, Tennis, & Cross Country team member, Varsity 1st place district champion in tennis, regional awards for cross country & crew. Versatile rower & coxswain, dedicated tennis player since age 4.
  7. Co-Founder/President KWHS Stock Market Competition Coordinate meetings, teach 5 members about market trends & investment strategies, make final financial decisions, write intensive progress reports.
  8. CFO at PFEW Business Camp $1,300 scholarship to attend. Ran mock company, represented team of 15 at events, led financial decisions. Awards in marketing & finance management.
  9. Member, Future Business Leaders of America Several 1st awards, attended regional and state competitions. Explored areas like webpage design, securities & investments, agribusiness, and finance.
  10. Volunteer, NHS and Various other projects Member of NHS, volunteered/organized events at [redacted] Food Bank and [redacted] Center, helped repaint underfunded local inner-city school.

Recs: Solid, 8/10

Essays: working with college counselor after that phat Stanford rejection, but I just feel ok about them. Maybe 6-7/10. I have anecdotes + stories for all. I will say that my JHU essay is 10/10 though. I applied on a whim and honestly its a work of art, i know this is super extra but its genuinely one of the best things ive ever written.

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bump

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I can only comment about your chances at Northwestern. You have good stats/EC, but IMO chances are pretty low at NU as it is a relatively small school and they take a high % of class from their ED applications. I think they also fill many remaining RD spots with deferred students and local IL applicants.

My D has similar stats and just got accepted ED at NU. BTW, her school list was almost exactly the same as yours.

She almost applied REA Stanford - so glad she didn’t. All her (very high-achieving) friends applied to Stanford and got rejected. :frowning: Other friends with similar high stats/EC got rejected/deferred from NU ED.

I know a pretty exceptional student who didn’t get into NU RD last year, yet got into a top Ivy and MIT, so I guess NU RD is a crapshoot…

But you never know… at least you’re in good company with the Stanford rejection…

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@scubaski1 Yep! northwestern is insanely hard to get into, maybe even more so than some ivies. a kid from my school (lower stats + ECs, maybe better essay) got in RD last year, so im keeping my fingers crossed!

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Getting into UIUC for CS is a pretty good accomplishment as their overall acceptance for CS was 15% last year and OOS was even less. Did you apply for CS to all the schools on your list and did you EA any of the state schools? For Purdue you would have a very good chance EA but if you waited for RD the chances drop as they mostly fill CS/Engineering during EA. GT and UMich are more even on their acceptances between EA and RD. GT had a similar acceptance rate for CS as UIUC last year (15% overall and 13% OOS).

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@racereer i applied as electrical engineering to most of my schools. I applied ea to Georgia tech, purdue, penn state, UIUC, and Stanford. Yesterday i got into purdue with the largest trustee’s scholarship.

according to Georgia Tech’s office of institutional research, they had a 40% acceptance rate for OOS Asian Females in EE, so fingers crossed!