Hello everyone. I am new to this forum and would like to ask you to help me help my DD16 with her college search. Both my husband and I got our degrees outside of US, so we are not familiar with the process. DD is a fairly good student with only 2 Bs for her entire HS career. She is a rising senior now. She will be graduating with 15 AP classes. She has 3.98 UW GPA and 4.6 WGPA. She ranked 4/235 class as of now. Her school is very competitive. Her SAT score is 2300 (780CR, 750M and 770E). She took SAT only one time. She also took ACT her freshmen year and score 32. She will not be reporting it for the schools that do not ask for all tests. She also scored 800 on SAT Math2 (she took it twice, 720 first time). She plans to take 2 more subject tests in October. PSAT 223 in California (possible NM)
Here are her EC:
Summer research at one of the top recearch programs, not RSI though (will be entering her project into completions),
US Patent pending,
Competitive gymnast for 9 year. Competed in Junior Olympics 4 times. Retired from sport this year due to an injury.
USC Mission Engineering
Various leadership things: president of 2 clubs, officer of NHS, Acadeca, Speech and Debate. Semifinalist for our state board of Education student member position, HOBY, etc.
Has been holding part time job for internet company for 1.5 years now (15 hours per week). 42 volunteer hours.
She wants to major in computer science/ engineering and double major in business administration. Or maybe she will do undergraduate in CS /engineering and grad in business. Her first choice university is Stanford. We know this is a huge reach for everyone. So she needs to decide now where to apply EA: Caltech or Stanford. She likes both schools, but she thinks that Stanford will be a better fit for her since it encourage entrepreneurial skills. From what I researched I think she has better chances applying earlier to Caltech since Stanford does not really give any advantages to its EA applicants without hooks. It would be interesting to hear your opinion on the subject.
Other schools she plans to apply are USC, UCLA, UCB, Calpoly SLO, UCSD, Harvey Mudd and few more.
Thank you so much and I am sorry it is so long.
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