HI! I am getting really nervous and stressed out about the college process and just want to make sure that with my stats that my list of schools is appropriate.
My stats:
I live in MD.
GPA: 3.89 (unweighted) and 4.65 (weighted)
ACT: 33 composite- 28 English (10 on essay), 32 Reading, 35 Math, 36 Science
SAT 2: Math 2: 780, US History:740, Physics: 680 (will retake)
IB Diploma Candidate at on of the top IB Magnet Schools in the world.
APs: Gov 4, US History 5, Macroeconomics 5, Microeconomics 5, Lit 4, Enviro 4, BC Calc 4
IB SL: Enviro 6, Chinese 5
Extracurriculars:
Competitive Cycling- race both Cyclocross and Road for 6 years. Cat 4 in Road and Cat 3 in CX. MD State CX Champ for my respected Age category. Equivalent to a varsity Sport.
Team America Rocketry Challenge; founded and competed in this club for 4 years.
National Chinese, Science Honor, and History Honor Society.
History Club
Extra Info:
Essay will be about the special relationship with my physically disabled sister.
Want to do engineering integrated in a liberal arts curriculum.
Schools I am thinking about:
Dartmouth College (have legacy)
Brown University
Rice University
Williams College
Carnegie Mellon
Michigan
Virginia
Tufts
Wash-U
University of Southern California
Northwestern
University of Pittsburgh
University of Maryland
UVM
Would any other schools work well that I am not thinking about? Thanks for your help!!!
My parents will pay if the school is considered academically better than UMD or I get a scholarship. So, they consider Michigan to be academically a stronger school.
Further suggestions might depend on what colleges you have considered so far but have not specified (of course you can’t include everything in an OP). My initial thought in terms of “engineering integrated in a liberal arts curriculum” (in terms of schools you haven’t listed) is the University of Rochester. Don’t overlook Cornell either.
Beyond that, I think you are stacked too heavily in state schools. You are likely to get into several or all of them, you might as well decide on a couple of your favorites now and consider applying only to those.
Academically, you are close to a flawless applicant and your application will be widely appropriate. Not incidentally, you bothered to demonstrate a nice breadth in your selection of SAT subject tests.
i definitely think you could get into any of these schools! harvey mudd is another liberal arts school known for its engineering program, so that’s another possibility. any of the claremont schools would be fair options. best of luck
Williams/Columbia 3-2. Why not Columbia. Just Columbia? That and Stanford would be my top 2. Put another way, why Brown? Second the Harvey Mudd suggestion!
Maybe cut down on a few of the top schools(1 or 2) so you have more time to write supplemental essays for a few top schools instead of several top schools
ItsJustSchool the reason for Williams/Columbia would be that I really do not like big cities that much. I like Brown because the freedom of the curriculum between the engineering program and the liberal arts program is ideal. I could major in engineering, but easily take philosophy classes for example. Same with Brown, Rice, and Tufts. I do not like Harvey Mudd because it is more of a straight up engineering school and it seems there is little opportunity to explore majors outside of the math/science world. Issue with Stanford is it is far.
