chance me applied math, public exam school, looking at MIT / Caltech / Princeton
Demographics:
- female
- NYC public exam school (Stuyvesant)
- middle income
- no hooks
Intended major: Applied Math + Econ double, Wharton M&T as the cross-admit dream
Academics:
- GPA: 3.97 UW / 4.62 W
- SAT: 1560
- 12 APs through senior fall (Calc BC 5, Stats 5, Macro 5, Micro 5)
ECs:
- AIME qualifier 2x, AMC 12 distinguished honor roll
- Stuy math team, ARML team representative
- Tutoring at the Stuy peer-tutoring center, ~100 hours over two years
- Internship at a Manhattan quant fund summer between junior and senior year (data analysis intern, real desk exposure)
- Stuy econ club, organized two industry speaker events
Awards:
- AIME qualifier 2x
- NYS Math League individual all-state
- AP Scholar with Distinction
- Stuy faculty math award (junior year)
Schools:
Reach:
- MIT
- Caltech
- Princeton (ORFE)
- Harvard
- Penn (Wharton M&T as the absolute dream cross-admit)
Match:
- Cornell
- UMich
- Northwestern (MMSS)
- UC Berkeley
Safety:
- Stony Brook
- Binghamton
- CUNY Macaulay
am i out of my mind for putting MIT and Caltech both as reaches when AIME is the strongest thing on my app. is that enough or do i need to lean harder on the quant internship in essays. be honest
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AIME 2x is table stakes for T10 STEM applicants. The quant fund internship is the differentiator. Lean essays on a specific desk project.
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12th· 33d ago
Your AIME 2x + quant fund internship is enough for ORFE specifically. They weight quant application over pure contest math. Lean the essay on a specific desk moment, not the contests. MIT is the harder reach IMO since their CS-math pool is saturated.
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11th· 33d ago
caltech is the lonelier one fr, MIT culture is closer to stuy