Am I Overvaluing Myself?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>UPenn - Wharton ED, NYU - Stern, Yale, WUSTL - Olin, Cornell, Emory - Goizuete, BC - Carroll, Claremont, UCs
I can't decide whether I want to apply ED to Wharton or Stern. If I knew what my level was, then it'd be easier for me to choose. Also, I think I should take out a couple of colleges if I know for sure I'm not going to get into them</p>

<p>Californian Asian Male (typical...)
GPA: 3.71 UW
Class Rank: Top 10%
School: Competitive Public
SAT: 800 M, 750 CR, 730 W (2280 Composite)
SAT II: 800 Math IIC, 760 Chem, 630 Lit (:[)
Courses: Most Rigorous Available
10th: AP World (5), Honors English, Honors Pre-Calc
11th: AP Chem (3), AP Calc AB (5), AP Stat (5), AP German IV (3), Honors English
12th: AP Calc BC, AP Lit, AP Psych, AP Econ
I'm getting a lot better grades this year than last year or sophomore year</p>

<p>ECs:
Jazz Band: Guitar in A band for all four years
- One of the top bands in California
- Overall 50+ awards at various festivals
- Biggest festival we've played at was Monterrey 10th and 11th grade
- I've been playing guitar for about 8 years
DECA: Joined junior year
- 2nd in Norcal, 1st in State, National competitor
- 12th grade Chapter President of over 150 members
- Ran an expansionary program to increase membership from about 110 last year to 150 this year
Mission Work:
- Went to Mexico 10th grade to help an orphanage for two weeks
- Went to Costa Rica last summer to improve parts of the inner slum, built a basketball court in a drug rehab center</p>

<p>Work Experience:
- Internship at a law office last summer
- Summer job
- Small jobs freshmen and sophomore year at a sports snack bar (should I even include this in my app?)</p>

<p>Hobbies:
- Trading stock
- sports
- etc. </p>

<p>Thanks in advance</p>

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<p>you seem to have a strong overall application. A good mix of academics and extracurriculars. If you can push up your GPA and class rank, that would make you a strong candidate for everywhere (though you have heavy competition from your demographic segment: asian male).</p>

<p>I would say that you have a strong chance for most non-ivy colleges. Ivy is always a crapshoot, you never know what happens. Cornell is the most achievable I should say.</p>

<p>If you are really into finance, you should try ED wharton I guess. ED has more statistical possibilities of acceptance.</p>

<p>Coincindentially, even I am applying to wharton, though as RD. I took a gap year and spent the time setting up a small finance company here in india, and trading stock full time for the past 5-6 months.</p>

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<p>Yeah I've took a couple community college courses to bring my UW up. </p>

<p>I have no idea how my essays are going to turn out, as I'm not the greatest writer and my recs will probably seem average/above average because I go to a fairly large public school and my teachers/counselors are probably already swapped with work. </p>

<p>Thanks for your comments, I've been trading stocks on and off for a year or so, and I've been learning a lot on my own such as hedging techniques, ETFs, day trading, and basic analysis. I'm thinking of writing about that in one of my supplemental essays</p>

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<p>second opinions??</p>

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<p>Please????</p>

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<p>ugh another bump</p>

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<p>Your test scores are very good, but your GPA might be the killer for the Ivies, because there are so many competitive people applying. Your ECs are good, especially with the involvement in the field you hope to go into.</p>

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<p>Yeah. My #1 going into this thing was NYU - Stern, but I think if i could get into like Cornell that'd be awesome as well. The SAT score that I just posted was an estimate, and I have the real results now, which arent that different.
M 780
W 690
CR 800
So my M+CR adds up to 1580 composite 2270. How much do colleges care about the Writing section? Hopefully not that much haha</p>

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<p>Oh yeah, chance back please</p>

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