@lookingforward
thanks for your responses. They are stern but helpful.
First of all, prestige obviously isn’t everything – getting a higher GPA at a lesser-known university is definitely better than a lower GPA at a well-known one (if it’s to a significant extent). The reason that I put some college names up there is just to see where I stand right now because my goal is to go to a fairly prestigious school; again, it isn’t everything, I know. And yes, I am obviously adding safeties and considering the cost of schools (I am dumb but not that dumb).
Judging by your response, I’m guessing that you do not think my resume is competitive enough for many prestigious universities. I will obviously do more research on this in the future, but in your first response, I feel that you added suggestions that were impossible for me to implement at this stage. For instance, you critiqued my 4’s on some of my humanities AP’s, which I can’t retake.
I feel that it doesn’t really matter whether I pursue medicine or computer science as extracurriculars in high school, as getting into a good undergrad program that offers good CS and pre-med reqs is the only thing that matters. What I do from there isn’t impacted by my high school activities.
“You don’t seem familiar with considerations when picking undergrad colleges to apply to, esp with med school hopes, figuring IF you match what they want.”
That being said, I have given considerable time into picking the right activities for a major in computer science and also put time into getting “familiar with considerations when picking undergrad colleges to apply to.” Could you clarify how my application doesn’t show these things?
“You’ve named colleges with fierce competition. You have to go back and learn what they value and look for, what impresses them and how to show it. They tend to prefer full depth and breadth/rigor in cores. Not just stem. That includes foreign language.”
Could you clarify which part of my application gave you this belief? I think my extracurriculars are decent (not great) for CS and partly for medicine and my classes have been chosen to suit my interests/skills. I have taken 4 years of Spanish and am “relatively” well-rounded.
Thanks.
Note: Sorry, I’ve been awake for 20 hours so some of this may not make sense but I hope you get my point.