My unweighted GPA is a 3.97 and weighted GPA is 4.25. AP classes include: AP Euro, AP Calc BC, AP Stats, and AP Physics (not including 12th grade classes). I also went to COSMOS at UCSD for the biodiesel program in the summer after 10th grade, started a mock trial club in my school, and competed in the AMC 12 and advanced to AIME. My SAT is a 1590 (800 in math and 790 in reading/writing). I want to major in mathematics or applied mathematics. Assuming I haven’t yet began 11th grade (and these are my projected stats), what should I do to add to my resume and increase my chances??
Shoot for a 1500 SAT/34 ACT, assuming you lack any big hooks. And even with a 1500, these are high matches at best.
What do these three have in common that you like? Whatever that is or those things are, find some less selective schools that also offer them – matches and at least one safety. If you tell us what you want, we can help you fill out your school list.
@prezbucky oops yeah forgot to include it in the original post, but my SAT is a 1590 (800 in math and 790 in reading/writing). Would these change my chances much?
You wrote that they were your projected stats. Does that include the SAT, or did you actually already take the SAT and get a 1590? Also, what in what extracurricular activities have you engaged. For every college which has holistic admissions those are extremely important.
Even then, nobody can actually calculate your chances beyond the very general reach/target/safety.
In any case, as @prezbucky wrote - those are all reaches, and high ones at that, except CMU, which is “just” a reach, unless you decide CS instead of applied meth, and then it also is a high reach. You need to to start finding out which colleges fit you, regardless of their “prestige”.
Stats seem good. Work on ECs (look at prestigious summer programs) write excellent essays.
Lol at ‘applied meth.’ It’s the equivalent of the ‘clam fart’ thread a few years back.
@Hamurtle Maybe it wasn’t a typo?
OP, in another post you mentioned that you were accepted to COSMOS this year as a sophomore. So are your stats real or projected? I’m going to assume that you will be a junior this coming fall and all of you activity besides COSMOS are projected/hypothetical.
@Hamurtle All of the stats (SAT, COSMOS, and AMC/AIME) are real. The projected stats are only my cumulative GPA (because I haven’t started junior year yet).
“Maybe it wasn’t a typo”
@MWolf we don’t judge here, applied meth and applied math are all welcome!
@pranova14 If you keep on doing what you have been doing for the past two years, you will have a wide range of colleges from which to select, and you will be competitive for colleges with low acceptance rates
You haven’t started your Junior year yet, so stop worrying about acceptance chances to any college. Only a small fraction of you time and energy should be spent on your college years. You have two more years of high school left, so focus of enjoying them and doing your best.
PS. Don’t forget to do the PSAT/NMSQT this fall. If you got a high SAT, you will likely ace the PSAT, and being a National Merit finalist or Scholar can be helpful, and would cost you no more than the cost of the PSAT and the time it would take you to register to move on to finalist from semifinalist (your existing SAT would be your verifying score).