HYPSM: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and MIT
Background: Asian male from New Zealand (international student)
Stats: 1590/1600 SAT; 45/45 IB Diploma score; school rank 1
Honors:
2022 International Biology Olympiad Silver Medal
2022 British Biology Olympiad Gold Medal
2022 New Zealand Economics Competition National Winner
2022 New Zealand Secondary Schools Case Consulting Competition 3rd Place
2021 New Zealand Engineering Science Competition Highly Commended
Extracurriculars (I chose 5 to give a rough vibe):
Founder, Science and Engineering Student Association
Founder, New Zealand Biology Tournament
Founder, Biology Olympiad Workshop
Founder, Youth Entrepreneurship Club
Leader, Management Consulting Club
The majors for which I signalled interest are all molecular biology oriented. Financial aid has been requested for all need-blind universities, otherwise is waived. I have been deferred from Stanford in the Early Action round.
This market will be resolved in April after decisions from the HYPSM universities are released. Resolves YES if I get into at least 1, resolves NO otherwise.
Close date updated to 2023-04-01 12:59 pm
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@ShakedKoplewitz otoh my perspective is probably skewed? Most of the actual Yale undergrads I know we're significantly less accomplished, but maybe they wrote really good essays or had extracurriculars or connections or something.
@ShakedKoplewitz Yea fair enough. I agree that my race and gender is definitely not working in my favor due to affirmative action. I think being international is still overall a disadvantage since they accept proportionally less. Overall I think the main thing is how much exactly will my application be knocked down by these factors and whether or not my achievements can make up for it.