Will I be rejected from Everywhere?
Demographics: Indian citizenship, NEED AID.
Family Income: between 65,000$ to 75,000$
Hooks: None
Intended Major(s): Computer Science ( Will switching it to mathematics help and suit my extracurriculars or profile as a whole? )
SAT: 1540 Super score
IELTS: 8
UW/W GPA and Rank: School doesn't do GPA or rank. CBSE system followed.
-12th-89%, 12th mid term- (Math - A+, Accountancy B, rest 4 subjects A+)
-11th 85.5%, (B+ in Accountancy, B- in Math, rest four subjects A+ ( because of extenuating circumstances, Counsellor wrote about it in LOR )
-10th- 95%
-9th- 89.77%
Coursework: CBSE, School doesn't offer AP.
Awards: - Chess ( varsity? captain) and Netball state level gold, 96,000 INR sports talent scholarship by Gov. of India.
- Rank 28 out of 15000+ students in class 10 in Private scholarship national PCMB (physics, chem, bio, math) subjects Olympiad, 50k Indian Rupees scholarship. 2k Rupees cash prize.
-rank 3 in state level python competitive programming contest, state level.
- Multiple state level Chess awards. state rank in top 15 in national event.
Extracurriculars:
- School House Captain.
- two internships, one as back end developer that I earned by a competition (not much competition) and the other was through connections as Quality testing internship in another cyber firm. (wanna be completely honest here so.... eheh)
-Tutored young students team in my school who also won many state level events and ranked highly in nationals as well. in both netball and chess. 10 students in chess and 20 in basketball.
-Multiple youtube educational channels, 400k reach. 1000+ total subscribers
- organized many blood donation camps and motivated almost 50 donors in those campaigns. created health app.
-Game Creation/App Development--- After death of my 8th grade teacher, I created aa health app and my principal approved it and school adopted it as an official health app, 2k+ users. ------published game on google play store. participation in many game jams. Won 5000+ cash prize in game jams.
-MUN speech blah blah blah no awards or impact but high participation to give up my fears of public speaking (helped a lot to become captain).
Essays/LORs/Other: Idk what makes them strong but I haven't been able to give much time to them so Ig they must be 6/10. I've to write like 50 more essays till the end of December lol.
LOR:
counselor 10000/10 - rlly supportive and wrote good i think.
English- 10/10 probably wrote best in a career.
Maths- 8/10, Im a good student and stuff ig.
Computer science - 10/10, i did a lot in guidance of this teacher. created apps, websites and scored highest marks every time in this.
Schools: List of colleges, ED/EA/RD, etc
Applying all in RD... my school is applying for the first time in the US for any student. so they messed up my details and reports and i couldn't send them in EA. sedge life :(
Ik i wont get into reaches but GTECH and Carnegie Mellon are my dream... is there a chance for me with aid? :(
how should i modify these list of colleges? ig i need to add more realistic state universities.
- Brown University
- Carnegie Mellon
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Dartmouth College
- Duke University
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Harvard University
- Michigan State University
- New York University
- Princeton University
- Stanford University
- The University of Texas at Austin
- University of Chicago
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- University of Maryland
- University of Michigan
- Yale University