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Admissions Advice

Not a chance me --> just want to know if my profile is too stereotypical to get into t20s

Demographics: Male, South Asian, Private School, NJ

Hooks: None

Intended Major(s): CS, Music? to princeton

ACT/SAT/SAT II: 36 ACT

UW/W GPA and Rank: Very small class, so we don't do rank but I'm at least in the top 6 out of 55 people. 100 point scale GPA --> 97.5 UW, 100 W

Coursework: AP CS A - 5, AP Calculus AB - 5, AP Human Geography - 5

PENDING: AP Calculus BC, AP Computer Science Principles, AP Literature, AP US History

SENIOR YEAR COURSELOAD: 5 APS + Multivariable Calculus College Course

Awards: Spanish National Honors Society inductee, PSAT Semifinalist/Finalist, AIME qualifier, Cum Laude (Top 10% of school academically), Awarded Scholarship to RIT as a junior, Top 50 nationally in Carnegie Mellon's picoCTF

Extracurriculars:

Stem Related:

2x Summer programs for CS with UT Dallas and NYUResearch Intern with QSRI (2022 Summer)

Personalized research internship with NJIT, might get paper published (2023 Summer)

President/Co-founder of Computer Science Club (3 years)

Top 7% of chess juniors in the state, rating aroung 1500

AIME 8 in 2022-2023 school year

Head Volunteer/Organizer for free Python program which taught 20+ middle schoolers

Speaker at International CeCCRe conference about the applications of AI/ML in Dentistry in the summer of 2022

Created various neural network models in Python using the Tensorflow dataset, including a Convolutional neural network which could analyze and predict whether skin cancer was benign or malignant with a 90%+ accuracy (don't mind this one too much, its easier than it sounds)

Paid Internship in Software Engineering (2023 Summer)

Non-Stem Related:

Co-Captain of Varsity Tennis Team (we're not good)

CJMEA Regions Choir 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024?

NJMEA All-State Choir 2023

Played Piano for 6+ Years, ABRSM Certification up to Grade 7

Honors Choir Section Leader

Learned Indian Classical Carnatic Music for past 7 years

Essays/LORs/Other:

The essays I have planned should be pretty decent, 7/10.

In terms of LORs, I am receiving one from my math teacher which should be a (6/10), CS teacher (6/10), and college counselor (8/10).

School List:

ED to Columbia for CS or REA to Princeton

EA:

Georgia Tech

U Michigan

Purdue

UIUC

MIT

CMU

Rutgers

RIT

UT Austin

U Maryland College Park

U Colorado Boulder

RD (based on rejections as well)"

Brown

Caltech

Cornell

Princeton

UC Berkeley

U Washington

UT Austin

UCSD

USC

UCLA

Northwestern

Thanks a lot for your help guys!

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a year ago[edited]

Since you are asking whether your impressive exhaustive list of stats, ECs, honors, awards, and work experience going to disqualify you from attending T20 schools, it's still a "chance me" question if you asked the question in reverse or backward. You should fill out a CollegeVine profile and run it against T20 schools and see how strong or weak you are as a candidate rather than bending the rules here. Good luck (r e d d i t chance me forum seems like what you are looking for).

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Unweighted GPA: 3.7
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SAT: 720 math
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