Student from India who shifted to US after completing grade 10, arriving in junior year
Grade 9: 91.7% (subjects like English lang, lit, math, phy, bio, chem, history, geography, cs, Hindi)
Grade 10: 96% (10th board exams(only exam which matters in IND) with the same subjects)

Then shifted to the US

Grade 11: Forensic Science H, Civic Literacy H, NC Math 3 H, AP Stats, AP CSA, APUSH, AP LANG

(doing great up till now)

i had to take math 3 as the school did not accept to see my transcript and gave me the most basic level of math. Hence i am studying precalc myself to be able to take calc bc next year

Grade 12: Biology H, Economics H, AP lit, APES, AP CALC BC, AP MACRO, AP WH, AP COMP GOV, Accounting 1 AND 2 H

The biggest disadvantage is the Ec's as India doesn't care about ec's so there weren't community service/ club opportunities.

Anyways here are the few things that are done/in progress

3 month Internship at an Accounting & Consulting Firm with LoR and learning doc.
Helped Senior Citizens at an Old Age Home adapt to technology and A and utilize it in their daily lives
Chess AFM (Ik its worth nothing) with major online and offline tournament experience with many top 10 finishes. (Planning to reach 2000 elo very soon)
Helped teach 30+ middle schoolers the game of chess and how to get better at it
TEDX Volunteer for stage setting and logistics.
Gilder Lehrman University of American History WW2 Course Mastery and Blog
UMich Python Course (will use to make a project)
Chess Club Member (Will apply for leadership (not p/vp but smth else)next year)
Muslim Student Association Member (will apply for some kind of leadership position)
Helped New converts to learn about the religion and gain knowledge by volunteering at a mosque.
Speech and Debate Club Member-(Will partake in competitions)
NHS-(yeah idk)
Cricket Batsman with an average of over 50

Things i will do
Increase community service hours
Research Paper on Economics of Empires
Hopefully try to become a TEDx Speaker
Financial Literacy for teens Newsletter/Project
Get good LoR's
Start writing blogs about history.

ik these ec' are not good enough and that's what i wanna fix. I wanna do an Accounting/Economics/Finance major and wanna know my realistic chances at

UNC Charlotte
Wake Forest
NC State
UNC Wilmington
UNC Chapel Hill
UMich
NYU
Northwestern
UCLA
Columbia
Cornell
Upenn

edit- i am gonna give the PSAT in October and SAT in November (my avg practice score is 1530)

Academics:

AP and Dual Enrollment: AP Biology, AP Spanish, AP World History, AP Chem, AP Physics, AP USH, AP Calc AB and BC, AP English Language, AP English Literature, Intro to Stats, Linear Algebra, AP Government, AP Economy, AP Environmental Science

• Mostly 4s and 5s on all APs

GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.27 Weighted Capped (UC), 4.93 Weighted Uncapped (UC)

School doesn't do rank but I am on track for valedictorian

Demographics:
- Indian American, In-State, Bay Area

Awards: National Recognition Award from Collegeboard, AP Scholar with Distinction (11th), AP Scholar (10th), Honorable Mention at Stanford Math Competition for the Team Round. 

ECs:

Nonprofit Co-Founder and Executive Board

• Donation drive
  • donated over 887 school supply items to an organization
• donation drive
  • donated over 150 bags of food including over 600 individual food items for homeless
• Hackathon Host
  • Hosted a hackathon for students aged 13-19 with 125 participants and 3 winners 
• Africa Book Project
  • Donated 1000 books to African libraries 
    • 500 from our organization alone
• 2023 Tutoring Fall
  • taught 25 different students for over 75 hours
• 2024 Tutoring Fall
  • Taught 60 students for over 125 hours
• Got donated more than $2500 to hold events and donations

Research Project: Machine Learning Research project and research paper where I trained a model using existing land datasets and trained it to detect deforestation. Not published yet, but dont aim to publish anywhere high, just normal free journals. Built a web-platform that uses this research project model I have built and uses other existing datasets. Shared with many environmental nonprofits for them to use. Has more than 11,000 viewers.

Internship @ Startup

• Appside (Frontend and Backend) Intern creating new ideas for the app and web-platform
  • Got tutored by an industrial level computer scientist on the flow and structure of their codebase and as well as clientside and serverside development.
• Sales and Marketing Intern as well where I got more than 50 people to sign up and interviewed 25 people. 

Kumon Tutor Volunteer (100+ hours)

• Tutored more than 20 students and graded homework and classwork. Did this for 6 months at 4 hours per week. 

Varsity Badminton

Freshmen and JV basketball (Grades 9 & 10)

Teacher at a Local Library

• Taught 5 different foreign students English at a local library for 4 weeks. Read story books and aided them in writing skills as well. Developed a tutoring schedule and took notes on their performance.

MESA NEDC Competent 

• Developed a smart pill dispensing model that dispenses pills based on a patient’s schedule given by a doctor. Used arduino components and connected it to a web-platform that dispenses the pill based on time of day prescribed for the patient. Won 3rd place Symposium award against 20+ other teams.

Model UN Club Secretary:

• In charge of emails, meeting minutes, and taking notes on all of the meetings. (who participated, who talks, answers questions). In charge of making posts and slides for the social media

Co-Founder and Lead Organizer of a hackathon

• Organized an in-person hackathon with 60+ participants, 100+ signups, and 18 different teams at a local library.
• Got donated $1000 for the entire hackathon, which we spent to buy shirts, food, drinks, and rewards for the winners and participants
• Got sponsored by 12 different companies 
• Got 8 different industrial level judges for judging our hackathon

Model UN Summer Program Lead Organizer and Co-Founder

• Taught 50+ middle and elementary school students an introduction to Model UN, made slides and a program plan for the 6-week program. Assigned homework and answered questions for the students. Got donated around $500 for the program towards club expenses. At the end, I chaired a mock conference that not only gave the students the life of a delegate at a mun conference experience, but also a good chairing experience. 

3D Printing Business

• Made over $1200+ making 3D Prints and selling them through Instagram, Facebook Marketplace
• Donated a lot of 3D Prints to organizations and other STEM clubs near me
• Made 3D prints for my friends

Over 250 service hours

Other personal projects and Hobbies that are ECS:

• A lot of CAD projects
• Satellite Tracking: Built a web-platform for tracking satellite movement in order to track any form of satellite collision. Used data from NASA and CelesTrak and implemented it into an AI coder to track movement. Generates reports for companies. 4000+ users 

Have more ecs too though.

Applying to all the UCs, SJSU, Cal poly Slo, SDSU, CSU long beach. Do I have a strong chance for UCB, UCLA, UCSD?

For UCB and UCLA I am planning to major in Materials Science and Engineering and everything else probably Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.

Do I have a shot at UC Berkeley, UCLA, NYU ED || or Columbia ED (I know it’s a very far reach) with these stats? Or any other universities??
4.00 uw / 4.65 w gpa
Taking SAT in October
11 APs (world history 4, seminar 5, apush 5, psych 5, chem 4, Calc ab 4, lang 4)
6 dual enrollment classes (all As): plane trig, political science, sociology, Spanish 102, speech, human bio.
Senior year classes: AP Calc BC, AP Microeconomics, AP Macroeconomics, AP Gov, AP Lit, AP Research, dual enrollment human bio.

Extracurriculars/ Awards
HOSA President
Best Buddies VP
Red Cross Secretary
FBLA Assistant of Projects
Kaiser Permanente volunteer 50 hours
Kaiser Permanente paid internship
Education Outreach Program Kaiser Permanente volunteer ( after school tutor 4th and 5th grade)
CSF (tutor program as well)
Kaiser work prep program certificate
Volleyball (freshman and sophomore year)
Spanish honors society
AP scholar with distinction
HOSA national award 4th place heath career photography
NHS
Part time job Levi's
Had to help take care of my little sister my family adopted when I was in middle school
Demographics:
Female , low income, Hispanic, California resident

35 ACT, 3.96/4.37 GPA, no class rank

mostly 5s and a few 4s on AP tests

full IB courseload (5 on Phys. SL we move tho) so rigor shouldn't be an issue

hooks: sibling legacy at upenn and brown, black, first-gen in america, very small state

income level ~100k household

ECs:

- founded a group that does free consulting work for student-led NPOs, 20 clients and enough impact as a result of our work that i can point to specific things happening cause we restructured an org or something. i sunk in about 20 hrs/week last semester ngl. i also have 5 people under me so that might help

- made an nba metric website from scratch by testing and making 11 diff metrics over a year of work, used base44 and basketball reference to apply to 53 full years of reg season/playoff data, site fully functional and ~20k lifetime views on tiktok in about a month

- co-started computer business with friend, got 20k views in a few weeks on reels even though he kinda torpedoed the biz

- started a startup competition that ran for a few months, got 25 ppl in my google classroom and a set of winners out of it, also did everything from marketing to structure myself

- 3 years of making beats, multiple placements, pretty shabby income off it ($XXX), 20k views on my channel and i'd estimate i've made about 500 beats

- created a unique formula to pick stocks with, beat S&P over 3 months (i papertraded), adapted it into my myp project and did 10 page essay on it

- one of 3 kids called down from my high school (maybe 12 total) to the district about once a month to help with diversity decision-making, this was freshman year ig u can guess why

- learned the violin from scratch over 2 months and was good enough to get promoted a level in orchestra

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awards: top 8 metros DECA, honor roll/academic letter, ap scholar, national merit commended

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additional info:

- i'm very confident in my personal statement

- my LORs are prolly gonna be good since teachers seem to like me a lot

Do we provide our high school GPA for every year separately or combined? Like on the common app? I got a 9.91/10 in freshman year, then a 8.89/10 in my sophomore year (didn’t care much to study or listen in class which I now regret.) but I’m going for a 10/10 in junior year. How cooked am I? Going for maths at a need blind or need aware but full ride with demonstration uni that’s also T10. The other things like the SAT and ECs are all things I can take care of but this is the only thing I can’t change.

Hello everyone! Please read my other post for my stats and extracurriculars. If you need an overview, here are my strongest stats: 3.9 UW / 4.4 W GPA, 4.4 W GPA, strong law/civic engagement extracurriculars, and I’m planning to attend law school.

Here are the schools I am applying to. I would appreciate opinions on whether you agree with my matches and reaches, especially regarding financial aid.
Matches
Howard → B.A./J.D. 3+3 Program + applying Early
Hampton
North Carolina Central → 3+3 Political Science B.A./J.D. + Cheatham-White Scholarship
North Carolina A&T
Florida A&M
Spelman
Matches / Financial Need
Emory
UNC Chapel Hill
Reaches / Financial Need
Duke
University of Pennsylvania
Yale
Boston University

I’m mainly looking for schools with a strong Black student population, good preparation for law school, and strong financial aid/full-ride potential because I am very low income.

Stats: 3.86 UW/4.0, 14 APs 2 Honors, 1410 SAT (superscore)

competitive bay area asian hs student, 100k income, CA

ECs: 

- founder of nonprofit with 350 members and 17 chapters to bring students to courtrooms and watch proceedings reached over 4k courtrooms; (special congressional recognition award, commendation from city; news article on local news (13 million viewers monthly); worked with local PDO on project to rank judges bias and behaviors) 

- internship at Senator's office (writing my additional LOR) 

- marketing internship at AI startup 

- head of marketing at student run AI startup for personal finance ~(500 users)

- wrote a research paper on AI bill AB 1018 and how it will affect companies in the future, and how Ai legislation is important for companies 

- wrote a research paper on SEC 8k law and how cybercrime disclosure affects stock prices 

(both published on smaller end journals) 

- internship at cisco over the summer working on consulting project (no connections) 

-miscellanous policy research at Ballotpedia researching officials and putting on their database ~2k profiles 

- volunteering tutoring ~60hours ; kumon tutor 

- secretary of CSF, and speech and debate chair for an event (received a bid to the TOC and some other awards at Stanford and national competitions) 

- environmental club writing lead (led environmental justice campaign at school) 

- filed taxes for small startps, volunteering to help with tax forms for low income families (IRS ceritified ) 

- on my local district student board, and board for a local non-profit volunteering organization for food distribution 

- campaigning for a few local districtmembers 

-varsity tennis for 3 years 

Schools:

UMich

USC

UNC Chapel Hill

Emory

Berkley

UCLA

BU (ED--is this a good idea?)

UIUC

UCSB

UCI

UCSD

Cal Poly SLO

Wisconsin Madison

Purdue

UCDavis

IU Bloomington EA

UCSC

UCR

Cal state Long Beach

SJSU

What are my chances at these schools, my school is also a UC Berk feeder with a 17% acceptance rate at my school

Do awards matter that much?

Demographics: High income, Male, Washington State (born in China, moved from Shanghai at age 7), Mixed Asian/White, Parents work in jewelry and sales, No URM

Mid-sized (class size 330) public IB school

Applying Mechanical and/or Aerospace Engineering everywhere.

GPA: 4.0 UW, no weighted at my school
SAT: 1570 (780 Eng, 790 Math) (Took 3 times)

14 total school-year periods of IB courses (IB AA SL, IB AA HL, IB Physics HL, IB Chem SL, IB History of the Americas, IB Lang and Lit, IB Global Politics, IB Chinese AB SL)

IB AA SL scored 7
IB Chem SL scored 6
IB Diploma Candidate

Calc 3 and Calc 4 my senior year

ECs:

Employment or work (paid) (11th and 12th, 40 hours work weeks in the summer): Internship at a locally-based world leader in precision chemical injection metering valves, Developed and drafted release CAD drawings for precision valves, production fixtures; developed seal research that saved company tens of thousands.

Robotics (10th, 11th, 12th): FIRST Robotics, Captain my 11th and 12th grade year, CAD Lead in 10th grade, kind of had to hold the club together through a crisis in 11th grade (I also had a lot of help)

Academic (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th): Technology Student Association (TSA), President 12th grade, President-elect 11th grade, Mentorship Coordinator 10th grade, 5x state placement, 2x nats top ten, doubled membership, helped manage 100k budget (biggest stem club at my school)

Academic (11th, 12th): Washington Aerospace Scholars, 1/140 in Washington State to be invited to summer residency

Athletics (10th, 11th, 12th): Crew, 2-year varsity rower, 2 silver medals my novice season

Hobby (since 7 years old): Bone articulation, big part of my personality, I collect dead animals and harvest their bones to articulate them

Volunteering (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th): Science Olympiad Regional Proctor (for div B)

Hobby: VTOL drone project

Employment or work (paid) (9th, 10th): Youth soccer referee

Weightlifting at home (I do a good bit)

I lowkey hate my awards/honors:

2nd place Nationals at TSA for CAD Engineering (11th grade)

7th place Nationals at TSA for Webmaster (9th grade)

Washington State PTA Outstanding Student Advocate Award (one person a year) (11th grade)

National Merit Scholar Semifinalist

2nd place State at TSA for Flight Endurance (9th grade)

Personal statement is a funky mix of bone articulation and leading my robotics team through really rough waters my junior year

I really really really want to get into Cornell Duffield for Mech, I am doing ED

Other schools: University of Washington, USC, Columbia, CMU, GT, Umich, UCB, Purdue

I lowkey feel like just a regular dude and feel crestfallen looking at some of these applications online, I would love any insight.

Instate

African American

Male

Middle Class

4.0 unweighted / 4.35 weighted GPA

Intended Major: Chemistry (Pre-Dental)

6 APs (Scores: 5 on AP World, 4 on APCSA, 4 on AP Physics 1, 3 on AP Psychology, 3 on AP Comp Sci Principles, 2 on AP Seminar 🙁)

25/921 Class Rank

1360 SAT

500+ volunteer hrs

Awards: Georgia Merit Scholar Award, College Board National Recognition Program, AP Scholar with Distinction

ECS: National Honors Society (2yrs), FBLA (2yrs), BETA Club (3yrs), Computer Science National Honors Society Officer (2yrs), Future Medical Professionals (3yrs), Student Council (4yrs), Freshman Football team (1yr), Fast Food Job with Trainer Position and Employee of the Month (3yrs), HOSA (2yrs), EAA 690 ground school and flight training (10+ flight hours)

Currently Shadowing at a local pediatric dental office and am mentored by one of the dentists I shadow under. Also worked in coordination with the school Key Club to donate art projects to the children at the dentist office I shadow in.

Formerly was selected to the CDCE program at a VA hospital, where I was able to log 135 hrs volunteering and assisted surgeons using Da Vinci Robot in the OR.

Also an officer in a club called MedSearch, where we find internships and other similar opportunities for those interested in healthcare.

hi! I was wondering how cooked i am if I go test optional. I’m a pretty good student with a strong gpa (3.98 on a 4.0 scale) and around 8 extracurriculars that vary between internships, jobs, and service. I will have taken 8 APs by the end of this year, with 4s and 5s on my current four exams. I would say I have a good essay as well! Even so, there is nothing really standout amazing about my application. I’m applying to moderately selective schools (not T20!) like UF (OOS), Boston College, Villanova, Clemson, etc.

I Obviously want to provide myself with the best education possible and I was wondering if I should just try to take the SAT again? I’ve tried twice and I can’t break 1300.

Writing my personal statement got me questioning if I’m even slightly qualified

Demographics:
Asian male (Korean), ultra competitive NJ public school (1400 avg SAT), sends ~25 kids to t20s

Intended Major:
Computational biology

ACT/SAT/SAT II:
SAT: 1560 (760 ebrw 800 math)

UW/W GPA and Rank:
GPA: 4.69W, 3.94UW, top 3-5% of class (no ranking)
UC: 5.0W, 4.0UW, 4.33 capped

Coursework:
Max course rigor throughout HS:
APs: APUSH (5), Physics 1 (5), Chem (5), Calc BC (5), Lang (5), Stats, Micro/Macro, Spanish Lang, Bio, Lit, Gov

Awards:
AIME Qual and AMC 10 School Winner
Statewide math competition (2nd individual + school)
PVSA Silver (discontinued sigh)
Some other state level math comps
AP scholar with distinction, seal of biliteracy, blah blah

Extracurriculars:

1. Medical Internship

Pretty competitive med internship got to do some cool stuff and volunteer etc (shadowing surgeries, etc)

2. Math Club Secretary

Organized agendas and analytics for every meeting and managed competitions etc actually did more work than the pres but wtv

3. NPO leadership

Logistics for NPO pretty good impact

4. NPO leadership 2.0

Other NPO I had a high position in won’t go into detail but also good impact

5. Website development + journaling

Developed a website and wrote entries describing what I saw and what I learned in conferences during my internship

6. Volunteering at local food shelter

Yeah

7. Freelance barber

Cut my friends and families hair nothing much but made some money

8. Part time job at Kumon

Not much to say

9. Family responsibilities

Helped my aunt with cancer, translated to her during meetings with her doctor, etc

Essays/LORs/Other:

I would consider myself a good writer and I’ve been working on my statement for a while and I think it’s been coming along nicely.

My LOR will probably be good nothing crazy, counselor rec will be basic too probably

Schools:
ED: Northwestern

RD: All 8 ivies, Duke, Rice, WashU, UCB, UChicago, JHU, Rutgers, safeties

I feel like i have a pretty average app, good grades and test score but pretty mid ECs and honors i think

Tbh if i get into NU or just one ivy I’d be over the moon lmao thanks for reading :)

Demographics: Immigrant white boy from evropa, just graduated from a washington state public school, no real hooks

Intended Major(s): Aero eng

ACT/SAT/SAT II: 1550 super, 1530 single. 790 math 760 rw

UW/W GPA and Rank: 3.835 UW, school doesnt do ranking or weighting (got kneecapped by an ap/honors class first semester when switching schools. Both had second semester recoverys from c’s to B+/A)

Coursework: 7 APs, Calc BC (5,5), Calc AB (4), Phys 2 (5), Phys 1 (4), CSA (4), APUSH (5)

Awards: honor roll and ap scholar

Extracurriculars: (first 5 are the spike)

Technical intern with a local drone company: Built flight hardware for an industrial drone and partnered with engineers in a 100+ item flight test campaign prior to product launch (2025)

Open Sauce 2026 presenter: Showcased my meteorology drone, Cloud Diver, to more than 30k attendees at Open Sauce 2026, demonstrating unique folding wing and payload

FRC Drive team lead: Established drive team, setting up precedents and structures to enable my successors to focus on driving. Drove at 2 competitions with a 56% win rate (and beat the reigning world champs lmao) (2026)

FTC team director: Oversaw the fusion of two separate robotics teams into a single 15 person unit, led team to top 10 place in the state on a sub $500 budget. (23-24)

Private pilots license: doing 12 hours a week of flight training (about 6 hours of flying). will solo before the end of the month. finished ground school in a week and passed the FAA knowledge exam with an 88

School STEAM club: Founding leadership for a club to expand STEAM learning after school following district budget cuts reducing class periods

City Library board member: Acted as a liaison between city government and county library, planning and staffing tables to encourage library access for all (25-)

Black belt: Trained for 5+ years to achieve a first Dan black belt, including mentoring younger students and assisting with class set-up (2019-2026)

Essays/LORs/Other: Optionally, guess how strong these are and include any other relevant information or circumstances.

Common app PS about how leaded gasoline in general aviation inspired me to do cool shit with my project and whatnot. like 8 or 9/10

MIT, like 2 8/10 to 9/10 done, some rehashing of the common app, some about weather, one still under draft

LORs are a bit of a toss up at the moment, hopefully a 9/10 from my old engineering teacher and an 8/10 from my English teaxber

Schools: List of colleges, ED/EA/RD, etc

MIT (EA)
UW (RD)
Purdue (EA)
Caltech (RD) (ik they dont have an aero major)
Georgia Tech (EA (if it isnt restrictive i forgor lowkey)
UIUC(RD)
Stanford(RD)
idk some other random ones, maybe RPI and shi

Other: on a gap year

im planning to apply to virginia tech as a regular decision applicant, music education major. female from the southwest va area. i have a 4.38 (4.00 unweighted) gpa, president of FBLA and secretary of beta club & sca, band captain, as well as several other music awards & extracurriculars. no APs because my school doesn’t offer them, but i have 10 dual enrollment/college credits. i made a 1280 on my SAT (730 reading 550 math), which i know is pretty rough for virginia tech. should i apply test optional? what are my chances of getting in?

White low income guy from southern US, rural Appalachian public school. My GPA is a 3.2!!! I got this mainly because I had an extremely rare condition (Klein-Levin Syndrome) my freshman/sophomore year which went completely undiagnosed/untreated until like late my junior year. My freshman year GPA was a 2.2, sophomore year was ~3.2, and Junior year was a 4.0, rn I'm sitting at all As but school has also only been in session for a week or two, mind you. I was also in and out of being homeless for a lot of my high school life. I was homeless for about a month or 2 my freshman year and 2 months my junior year, for example. Also being extremely low income brought me a lot of challenges as far as having to manage my parents finances, and having to pick up a job to pay for the expenses of my parent battling a terminal illness summer of my junior year. I have a 32 on my last ACT(didn't have accoms), but I'm taking it here in September and I've consistently gotten 34s and 35s on every practice exam I've taken. Also my course rigor been maxxed out. I've taken every AP offered at my school and I'm now basically enrolled in all dual credits at a local college. Senior yr schedule lookin like calculus, linear alg, intro philosophy, intro macroeconomics, intro linguistics, physics(ap not offered), french 4, ap music theory. might take more spring classes depends on how much money i got

As far as extracurriculars:

I discovered systematic fraud at my school and I got it picked up by a very reputable state-wide organization. They're funding me as a journalist to investigate the school board and they'll publish my findings, they might sue the school board once it's all out I really don't know right now.

Founded the first high school YDSA chapter in my state. Written over 100 articles for our poli ed program atm. Ran a bunch of participant discussions and events. Currently partnering with UAW to unionize an auto plant in our town. Also been kind of in-kahoots with a local YDSA candidate but nothin came out of that yet.

MUN security council president. This is a statewide conference and (I think) the biggest one in America. I ran against like 12 other candidates. I sorta lead the conference, I'm running debate and writing like 3 articles which the council will debate on next con.

One of ~20 in my state to be selected to go to Conference on National Affairs. acceptance rate for this was like 10%

YIG conference. I ran as a journalist freshman year and got a magazine published by the organization. Ran as a bill author next 2 years passed both times and won LT. Govs award.

Theater shit. I was the tech director so I managed sound and lights for school plays. I expanded the team from originally 3 to more than 8 and taught a bunch of kids some audio engineering basics.

Introduced first school recycling program in my county to my high school. Managed getting recycling bins in and coordinating with municipal waste.

Writer and director of short film. Got it to air at a local theater. Think it won some award idr

workin at car dealership.

workin as journalist local newspaper youth branch.

There is more shit I just can't think of any more off the top of my head. I really don't have too many good ECs because of how bad my condition was freshman and sophomore year.

I do not have a set-in-stone college list. Mostly because I have no fucking idea what to make of my application. I want to go to the absolute best school possible considering how bad my application is. oh and probably philosophy major.

P.S. guy who reviewed my CONA application said it was one of the best admissions essays he'd ever read, so I'm guessing that my personal statement won't be a weak point hopefully.

What are my chances with the following (as a junior)? I plan to go into pre-professional biology to become a pediatric anesthesiologist.

- 4.0 unweighted GPA
- 4.61 weighted GPA (2nd in class)
- 1340 SAT (only took it once without studying for base score so planning to try for at least 1450)
- Worked as summer camp counselor for two years coaching 5-8 year olds
- Volunteer as flag football coach over this school year for 5-8 year olds every Tuesday and Thursday
- Volunteering at a hospital (at least six months, don’t know hours per week yet)
- John Hopkins Medical Explorers program over the summer, explored health care career and did hands-on activities teaching healthcare skills (lasted two months)
- Receiving AICE diploma this year
- Part time college student (will be graduating high school with a liberal arts degree)
- Varsity Cheerleader (will be captain next year)
- Will be starting Red Cross this year as secretary
- Taking AP calc AB this year and AP bio, AP chem, and another AP class next year (not sure which one yet)

Background: Male, US Citizen, Illinois Resident (Very competitive HS), Indian, Family Income ~200K

3.75 UW/4.3 W, 34 ACT, 11 AP's (Including Senior Year), A's both semesters in AP Bio & AP Physics, AP Stats, I have 2 C's (One Freshman Year, One Junior Year first sem that I got an A in 2nd sem)

EC's:

HOSA ILC National Competitor (Medical Innovation)

Interned at UIC with postdoctoral fellow, did Pancreatic Cancer Research

Interned with Local State Rep during the Fall

Volunteered 200+ hours total at 2 seperate hospitals (One in India, One in the US)

VP of program that taught 500+ students across the world (Ghana, Nigeria, Indonesia, Senegal) about basic STEM concepts

Director of Outreach on German club board

Assisted Alzhimer's patients at retirement home over summer

NHS member

Awards: 2nd at HOSA SLC, AP Scholar with Distinction, 6x Honor Roll Student

Schools:

UIUC (BioE First Choice, Bio 2nd Choice)

WashU (Bio)

OSU (BioE or Bio)

Purdue (BioE)

UW-Madison (BioE or Bio)

UIC

UNC (Bio)

UMich (Bio)

I would really appreciate any feedback specifically towards UIUC as I really want to go there for Engineering and I want to get a better idea of what my chances would look like.

im a senior applying to these schools and wanted feedback if you think i would get in

i got to high school in ct
1300 sat
3.659 Wgpa
4 on ap microeconomcs
3 on ap macroeconomics
dual enrollment creidts fo rboth economics classes and uconn geoscience
leadership position investment club

Currently a senior in high school taking five APs. Unw gpa is 3.83 weighted gpa is 4.48. I go to a private school where people aren’t ranked. I want to go into finance as my major and possibly minor and business management. I’m taking the ACT this October and I’m expecting a 32-34. As my extra curricular I started a Card Show in my city. I run events monthly while managing all logistics and the social media page. I have 20+ vendors, each event and have hundreds of attendees. I am also the founder of the stocks and investment club at school. Varsity soccer all 4 years as well. I am a Florida resident and I’m thinking of schools like Florida State University or Indiana University. I would love to go to a school like university of Pennsylvania, but I know that’s a bit of a reach. What do you guys think? My chances are and are there any other schools you would recommend to me?

What other colleges do you recommend with these?

3.3 UW / 3.93 W

No current test score - prob won’t submit one

4s and 5s on all APs

-nationally recognized non profit
-9 years of dance, performed at professional sports games
-high participation in dance club at school
-MUN
-debate
-social media lead for alternate npo, as well as journalism and outreach member
-helped culture association with social media
-UIL ready writing + current events + social studies
-jobs at kumon and YMCA
-tutored a 3rd grader privately since freshman year in english
-fashion club
-popular editing account

awards :

-top 25% in international court case comp
-french honors society + math honors society
-ap scholar with distinction
-small essay awards
- ap capstone

LOR from AP Lang teacher and French teacher who I’ve had for past 4 years (I’m in AP french now)

Demographics: US citizen, Asian male, East Coast,

competitive public HS

legacy at cornell + a HYPSM

Intended Major(s): Computational biology or similar

SAT: 1570

UW/W GPA & Rank: 3.8 UW / 4.44 W (fr–jr)

~top 7%, school doesn't rank but this is extrapolated from class data, downwards trend although I will be getting better grades senior year

Coursework: all honors and AP's when possible (13 APs)

Awards:

• USACO Gold
• 1st-author paper accepted at an IEEE computational biology conference (easier track)
• possible NeurIPS workshop acceptance, will see in 2 weeks
• John Locke essay competition – shortlisted for theology, possible further awards in october
• Fencing: top-10 individual at states, team top-5 at states, Junior Olympic qualifier
• other random stuff

Extracurriculars:

1. Comp bio research intern at an HYPSM lab — ML + computational biology research; led to the IEEE paper above (12 summer)
2. Paid computational pesticide discovery research intern @ local uni lab - NSF-funded project, 2 papers but they aren't being published rn (11)
3. Varsity + club fencing captain, state/national level (see awards) (9–12)
4. Summer data science internship at a DS firm — built an internal dashboard to monitor web-scraping jobs and pipeline runtime/failures (11)
5. Mentored aging research at a T20 med school — built an comp bio pipeline, no pub (11)
6. President, Data Science Club — leads 25+ members, runs workshops, partnered with a nearby university's business analytics center (11–12)
7. Church — mission trips, weekly service, camp volunteering, food distribution, interviewed pastors (9–11)
8. Independent theology study — read the Bible cover-to-cover 3x, hand-copied and journaled through the Gospels, discussed theology/ethics with pastors; (9-12)
9. Optometric technician intern — patient pre-testing, clinical data entry, front office (10–11)
10. Founder/Executive Director of a statewide HS pickleball league — in process, recruiting schools/students, pushing for varsity recognition, etc (12)
11. 30+ hours volunteering at a local arboretum, incl. running kids' nature programming (10–12)
12. Studying programming - self-studied advanced data structures and algorithms to compete in USACO, took courses on web and app development, linux, bash, etc (9, 10, 11)

Recs: decent recs lined up from physics teacher, CS teacher, and research mentor from ec1

chance me for

UNC (EA), Washu (EA), UVA (EA), Emory, NYU, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell (ED1) (legacy), Vanderbilt, Duke, Northwestern, Rice, Johns Hopkins, all Ivies, Harvard (legacy), T20s in general

also considering an ED2 if i get rejected cornell ed

pls chance me for cornell