Chance me for MIT Early Action, Tufts, Pomona, Yale, Columbia, University of Southern California as Questbridge Finalist?

Demographics:

State: Florida

School Type: Small town low-level public school (about 1000 people)

Race: Asian (Vietnamese)

Gender: Vietnamese

Income Bracket: ~$22,000

Major: Either Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, still deciding

Stats:

GPA - 3.97 UW, 4.97 W GPA

Rank: 6/308 (~1%)

SAT Subject Tests: 660 Math II, 440 Biology

SAT: 1350 superscore (710 in math, 640 in Reading+Writing)

AP: AP Human Geography (5), AP World History (3), AP Drawing (2), AP US History (3), AP Statistics (3), AP English Comp (3), AP Psychology (4)

Senior Year Course Load: Dual Enrollment Composition, Dual Enrollment Intro to Environmental Science, Dual Enrollment Intro to Engineering, Dual Enrollment Drawing, Ceramics I, AP Calculus AB, AP Chemistry, AP Computer Science Principles,

Extracurriculars:

- Volunteer for two years at Vacation Bible School program at local church taking care of kids (2017-current)

- Art Club (9-10th)

- Working and helping out at my parents' salon since I was 13

- Chess Club since 11th grade

- Founder of Kendo Club (Japanese Sword Fighting Club) (11th-current)

- Selected Student Engineer for MIT LLRISE (Lincoln Laboratory Radar Introduction for Student Engineers) in this past summer where I attended lectures at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and built a radar and did a presentation on concepts to scientists and engineers

- Fixing Chromebooks for the school and county this year

- Published a music article in the local school newspaper recently

Awards:

- AP Scholar with Honor

- 2nd Place Overall at Spring Arts Festival

- The usual A-Honor Roll, Perfect Attendance etc.

- STEM Scholar Award in 11th grade (local)

- Certificate of Completion for Online MOOC Course in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Tokyo Technical Institute

Essays: Wrote about always having grown up being in the middle in various circumstances and how I grew out of it to work towards becoming an engineer, and also about how my perspectives and beliefs on people of different gender identities changed when I met a few important friends on my trip to Japan. Another short answer I wrote that I thought was great was on why I'd like to get to know Alan Turing someday and how he's influenced me and my path towards becoming an engineer.

Teacher Recommendations: My Stats teacher's letter is definitely 10/10. He knows me personally and writes the best and most thoughtful letters for me. My AP English teacher is also who I got along with very well but she gave me her letter to read and it wasn't that great, it was very short and brief, but, I can't change it.

Counselor Rec: She knows me personally as well, I'm sure it's decent. But at the same time I'm not sure.

Other: Since both my parents run a nail salon and are self employed as well with no other employees to help out, I haven't had a lot of time to participate in my extracurriculars at school for long or much. Although I could've also used my resources and time better, I feel that this is the best I got and I hope for the best for RD :')

Submitted December 07, 2018 at 01:44AM by beaux-restes https://ift.tt/2RDrgEb