u/Sorry-Concern-3772

worried about my gpa/where should i ed?

Gender: Male

Race/Ethnicity: Asian

Residence: cali

Income Bracket: high

Type of School: large public - avg sat: 1290

Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): none

Intended Major(s): idk

Academics

GPA (UW/W): 3.93/4.71 -- might get a b this semester so lowk could drop to a 3.91

Rank (or percentile): school doesnt rank

# of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: aps: 15

Senior Year Course Load: ap physics c, multivar, ap gov/econ, ap lit, ap psych, ap stats, ap bio, linear algebra

Standardized Testing

List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

SAT I: 1560

ACT: 36

AP/IB:15 aps, all 5's, except 1 4

Extracurriculars/Activities

List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.

research internship worked with a PhD - where i got most of my papers

another research internship with another PhD

president of an nonprofit managing 200+ youth volunteers and reaching over 10,000 students, over 1M+ raised

founded a bioinformatics camp that has raised over 50,000, and reached over 1k+ students

president of a nonprofit that raised over 20k for instrument makers

more experiences, but trying not to dox myself, and i dont think those were too impactful

Awards/Honors

List all awards and honors submitted on your application.

ICLR workshop acceptance

ICML workshop acceptance

Neurips workshop - expected

EMNLP main accpetd

USACO plat

aime qual

2nd internationally for an instrument

pvsa lifetime

all the ap awards or whatever

this is my app right now. what im worried about is i might not js get 1b, posisbly even 2b's ngl thats the absolute MAX. prolly even 0 b's if i lock in but calc bc and chem are touching me rn. that would bring uw down to a 3.90 flat. the schools im aiming for are like stanford/mit/caltech tier. is there any school that i can ed to, which i would be guaranteed at? i still really want to rea stanford but ik its very unlikely ofc. something like a brown ed, or something idk

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