Rate my stats! (upcoming senior)

momprof9904
Tue, 17 Jul 2018 02:51:36 +0000

I am a math professor and so am somewhat familiar with what places like the Ivies and MIT look for in their future math majors - you will be competing with applicants who have won top tier math competitions and/or other equivalent honors (e.g. independent research and finalists at ISEF etc.) I don’t see any math EC’s of that level in your post. And just advancing to Calc BC in your sophomore year isn’t going to impress the tippy-top universities. A lot of students accelerate in math that way. And you are also in a competitive demographic (Asian- American?)

I would treat these top universities as reaches and plan accordingly. UCB and UCLA have excellent math departments, but I hear that admissions there too are highly competitive. Cast a wider net - you are a very good student with very good stats , but the reality is that the very top universities have a huge surplus of such applicants.