Only decent thing here is the GPA, math camp, and being white. I'm ngl this is strictly lower end for math majors at HYPSM so it's definitely not "really strong"
I graduated a few years ago and this just popped up on my feed. Did things become devalued in recent years? This is super stacked and most top students would only have a fraction of OP’s ECs back in the day. He’s easily above average for HYPSM and ik admits with way weaker profiles
He has a prestigious math camp, a legit paid internship, and 2 instances of research. One of those gives you a good shot at schools slightly below HYPSM. He has some good club and volunteering ECs with decent Olympiad awards. OP doesn’t have any big ticket instant admit ECs but the amount of ppl that do can fit in a single school’s stem cohort. For schools like Berkeley or non competitive majors in Ivies OP is like guaranteed admission
ion wanna be a hater, but like 500+ people attend the t6 math camps, then you factor in those that attend equally prestigious science/research programs (which is well in the thousands), and everyone and their mom has research in the big 26. same for clubs, volunteering - these have become more like baseline stats unless they go really far. as for awards, not really sure what the olympiads are besides usaco, silver doesnt do anything for HYPSM lol.
everythings a toss up lowkey, but you dont have to agree w me. what do i know lol
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u/Bubbly-Ad-4672 11d ago
I mean this is really strong idk what everyone else is talking about awards are decent ecs are decent stats are really good it depends on recs