Do I have a shot at T50s?
Applying for Civil Engineering Ethnicity: Turkish Gpa: 3.5 (class rank is 7 out of 30 students) Im waiting for my sat score Essays: I would say 8/10 for my main essay and 7/10 for my supplementals
Extracurriculars:
-Internship in a ornithology project abput birdwatching -Wrote an article about a local islands plastic/microplastic pollution -Played tennis for 2 years -Started CAD modelling in Fusion360 this summer -Currently leading my team and writing a paper about earthquake resilient cities and its sustainability -Partipicated in my schools art gallery and imitated the artist to tell people about the painting -Worked as an assistant in a known Turkish university's highschool engineering course -I was my school's PA technician for 2 years
Recommendation letters:
-School english teacher -A retired MIT geophysics researcher -The engineering workshop's boss
Honors:
All of them are regional sadly and they are mostly school awards for my gpa (if you finish a year with 85> gpa you get an award for that) and partipication certificates from some courses
Additionally:
-I am one of the three students that are applying for universities abroad in my school -I will apply for aid -If it helps, I have approximately 30k scholarship from my school
Posted Aug 31, 2025, 12:20 AM UTC