A Different Kind of Chance Thread: Predict Me (I'll Predict Back!)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Rather than post another vague "Chance Me" thread, I figured I'd turn this thing into an objective game of sorts. Here are the rules:</p>

<p>1) For each school I list, you must choose "Accepted," "Waitlisted," or "Rejected." Do not choose "Deferred" for early schools; predict what you think the final result will be.</p>

<p>2) Once I receive all of my results, I'll post them here. You will receive 1 point for a correct response and 0 points for an incorrect response. Whoever gets the most points wins.</p>

<p>3) Only initial results matter. If I'm waitlisted and later accepted at a school, the outcome is still "Waitlisted."</p>

<p>4) Feel free to be as harsh or as generous as you'd like. If you think your best shot at winning involves predicting that I'll be rejected from every school, go right ahead!</p>

<p>My hope is that this type of thread will lead to a lot more honest, specific predictions (instead of just "I think you have a great shot all around! Chance back!") and will be more useful to future applicants (since these threads will naturally contain results as well). </p>

<p>Anyway, on to my profile: </p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2400 (single sitting)
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: 800s on Math 2, Biology-M, Chemistry, and US History
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/300+
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5s on Biology, World History, Chemistry, Calculus BC, Statistics, and US History. 4 on Latin.
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP CS, Geographic Information Systems, AP Lang, AP US & Comp. Gov, AP Physics C, AP Human Geo, Vector Calculus (DE), Linear Algebra (DE)
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): USNCO Semifinalist & Top 3 in state, 8th in the country as part of Team VA at the 2013 National All-Star Academic Tournament, 3rd Place at 2012 WACFL Metro Finals Debate Competition (qualified for NCFL), Regional Debate Champion, NMSF, and AP Scholar w/ Distinction.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
-Debate (Team Captain, 3 years varsity, numerous awards)
-Quizbowl (Team Captain, multiple national qualifications, many individual & team awards)
-Tennis (2 years varsity, team made regional semis twice)
-Math Competition Club (Founder and President, pioneered growth of my school's math competitions from 1 in 2010 to more than 10 in 2012)
-Young Democrats (Vice President, recently volunteered for the governor's race)
-Latin Club (President, conduct monthly meetings, nothing major)
-NHS, Mu Alpha Theta, and Latin Honor Society member
[<em>] Job/Work Experience:
-Counselor at a STEM Camp for kids (just one summer)
-Private SAT and School Tutor (about 1.5 years)
-Private Tennis Coach (one summer)
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: ~180 hours through debate, NHS, Mu Alpha Theta, and Boy Scouts.
[<em>] Summer Activities:
-High School Honors Science Program attendee (7 week summer program for rising seniors at MSU, highly selective)
-VA Governor's Latin Academy attendee (3 week summer program focused on Roman culture & language)
-Summer@Brown (took a 2-week neuroscience course and earned a 97%)
[</em>] Essays: Fairly good. I had a lot of people read and comment on them. In my CA essay, I talked about my experience living overseas and how it impacted my view of change.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendations: Both should be very good.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: She knows me pretty well, so I'm guessing it should be above average.
[<em>] Additional Rec: I submitted a recommendation from my mentor at HSHSP. My counselor told me it was very positive.
[</em>] Interview: Haven't had any yet. I'm a pretty good speaker, though, so I tend to interview well.</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]</p>

<p>[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): VA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: 100-150k (asking for financial aid; I have a lot of siblings)
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Where I'm applying:[/li]-Harvard SCEA
-UVA EA
-Yale
-Stanford
-Princeton
-Penn
-Brown
-MIT
-Duke
-Dartmouth
-USC[/ul]</p>

<p>I may not end up applying to all of the above schools, so I'll just count those to which I actually apply. Predict away!</p>

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<p>UVA, USC, Brown, Duke: Accepted</p>

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<p>I suppose you don’t have to predict for every school, but at the moment, your maximum score is 4 points. Might as well predict them all.</p>

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<p>This is pretty cool!</p>

<p>Harvard- accepted
UVA- accepted
Yale- rejected
Stanford-accepted
Princeton-rejected
Penn-accepted
Brown-accepted
MIT-rejected
Duke-accepted
Dartmouth- wait listed
USC- accepted</p>

<p>Good luck!!! Chance back please? <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1577460-chance-blue-devil-duke-ed-hopeful-receive-chance-return-2.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1577460-chance-blue-devil-duke-ed-hopeful-receive-chance-return-2.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>^Oh come on. If he gets harvard then he’d definitely be a waitlist/acceptance Yale/Princeton.</p>

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<p>-Harvard SCEA: Accepted
-UVA EA: Accepted
-Yale: Accepted
-Stanford: Accepted
-Princeton: Accepted
-Penn: Accepted
-Brown: Accepted
-MIT: Waitlisted
-Duke: Accepted
-Dartmouth: Accepted
-USC: Accepted</p>

<p>Incredibly impressive. Admission at Harvard may very well depend solely on your essay.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1578899-final-chance-thread-emory-ed-yeaaah.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1578899-final-chance-thread-emory-ed-yeaaah.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I’ve known so many people who have applied to HYP and almost nobody gets in all three.</p>

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<p>I’m with YeahBuddy on this one. It’s pretty unlikely that I’ll get into any of the HYP, let alone all three. </p>

<p>Even so, I appreciate your optimistic assessment, tyrtle! I can only hope you’re right.</p>

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<p>Well did they all have perfect grades? I’m sure he’ll make atleast two</p>

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<p>Hey Studious,</p>

<p>YOU’RE GETTING REJECTED EVERYWHERE, YOU CRETIN.</p>

<ul>
<li>Gram</li>
</ul>

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<p>Thanks, Gram, you too. <em>blows kiss</em></p>

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<p>First off, I think this idea is really cool… I was planning on doing one closer to the RD. Here’s one from last year with the results posted: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1480299-not-chance-thread-guess-where-i-actually-did-didnt-get.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1480299-not-chance-thread-guess-where-i-actually-did-didnt-get.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Harvard SCEA - accepted
UVA EA - accepted
Yale - accepted
Stanford - rejected
Princeton - waitlist
Penn - accepted
Brown - waitlist
MIT - waitlist
Duke - accepted
Dartmouth - accepted
USC - accepted </p>

<p>Here’s mine:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1569509-chances-georgetown-ea-ucs-stanford-others.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1569509-chances-georgetown-ea-ucs-stanford-others.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Forgot to add that I’ve gotten A’s in micro and jazz history at CC</p>

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<p>Lol this a pretty cool idea.</p>

<p>Awesome academics and awards, and decent ECs. I’ll predict you’ll get into at least one of your top four choices. But that’s cheating isn’t it. Oh well:</p>

<p>Harvard SCEA - Waitlisted
-UVA EA - Accepted
-Yale - Accepted
-Stanford - Rejected
-Princeton - Accepted
-Penn - Accepted CAS, waitlisted if Wharton
-Brown - Accepted
-MIT - Rejected
-Duke - Accepted
-Dartmouth - Accepted
-USC - Accepted</p>

<p>Chance back? Actually, can you do the same kind of thing for mine, instead of the typical reach/match/safety bs: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1508837-chance-princeton-upenn-jerome-fisher-ivies-etc.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1508837-chance-princeton-upenn-jerome-fisher-ivies-etc.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Like I said, I definitely think you’ll get into one out of three. I chose Harvard just because you’re applying SCEA. If you had applied to Yale or Princeton Early I would have said that you would get in there.</p>

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<p>You’re highly qualified for all of these schools, amazing scores by the way.
Harvard SCEA - accepted
-UVA EA - accepted
-Yale - waitlist or accepted
-Stanford - waitlist
-Princeton - rejected
-Penn - accepted
-Brown - accepted
-MIT - waitlisted
-Duke - accepted
-Dartmouth - accepted
-USC - accepted</p>

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<p>@Aquasands: You can only choose one result for each school, so for now, I’ll put you down as Waitlisted for Yale.</p>

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<p>-Harvard SCEA - Waitlisted turned to Rejected in RD
-UVA EA - Accepted
-Yale - Rejected
-Stanford - Accepted
-Princeton - Accepted
-Penn - Accepted
-Brown - Accepted
-MIT - Rejected
-Duke - Accepted
-Dartmouth - Waitlisted
-USC - Accepted</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1572861-chance-me-i-will-chance-back.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1572861-chance-me-i-will-chance-back.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Harvard SCEA: Rejected
UVA EA: Accepted
Yale: Accepted
Stanford: Waitlist
Princeton: Rejected
Penn: Waitlist
Brown: Accepted
MIT: Rejected
Duke: Accepted
Dartmouth: Accepted
USC: Accepted</p>

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<p>@Harrovian: Do you mean Deferred then Rejected for Harvard? You can’t be waitlisted in the early round.</p>

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<p>Bump/Update: My interview went exceptionally well. She told me she’d give them her highest recommendation and was very enthusiastic about being my advocate.</p>