Apps aimed and fired. Whatever. Predictions? Few Ivies, other good places.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Heyy. Happy new year to you all!</p>

<p>Well, Ive already been deferred from Cornell (good thing), accepted at PennState University Park & Rutgers (safeties), and I'm waiting on my other decisions including the schools listed below. I'm goin' for civil/arch engineering. Half of them are total crapshoots, but whatever. I also added NYU Stern. Hey, I'm good for any NYC school. Plus, I'm kinda in business now, so it'd help me.</p>

<p>ED Cornell (Deferred, yay because it's cold and I heard chicks are stuck up...)
Penn State (In)
Rutgers NB (in)
Princeton
University of Texas at Austin
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Stanford
Georgia Tech
Columbia Fu Foundation
NYU Stern
University of California at Berkeley
Cooper Union NY</p>

<p>SAT: Superscore 2060 (700M 660CR 700W 10 Essay)
ACT (good s**t): Composite 33 - 34 English, 33 Math, 31 Reading, 34 Science, 32 Writing
SAT II's: Physics 650
Math IIC 690
(Unrealistic because I realized I had to take them a week before the test date, bad situation, don't think they accurately measure my skills and I mentioned this in Addt'l. Info)</p>

<p>GPA: Right around a 4 weighted, 3.7 unweighted.
Classes: Most rigorous curriculum: All honors and AP classes.
APs: Soph: AP Macroeconomics-4
Junior: AP Spanish Language-(Couldn't take test, strange circumstance)
Senior: AP Physics (Well, it's not AP, but its the same coursework/load and I plan to take the test)
AP Calculus AB
AP USH
AP Microeconomics</p>

<p>EC's- National Honor Society
Spanish Honor Society
F.I.R.S.T. Robotics Team, member of founding team as senior
designer/engineer. We won the NJ regionals and won a Rookie
all-star award, after which we went to the world champs in Atlanta.
Morning TV show, I created a lot of attractive, professional grade Flash
Intros which really got everyone talking!
Habitat for Humanity
Volunteered at Libary for about 200 hrs.
Perhaps one or two more as the year goes by.</p>

<p>Work experience(significant!)</p>

<p>Worked in a construction company all four years of high school. I started as skilled labor(electrics, plumbing, carpentry) and moved up to more professional jobs. I am now a project manager, sales consultant, in marketing, and I've created a website for our firm (G4S</a> Construction, give me some opinions, will ya?). It's a serious job in which I've used a lot of stuff I learned in school. I'm also given full-scale responsibilities, like some sales presentations and crew management, no easy stuff. I can run most machinery, including excavators and large tractors, skid steers, and tools. I hope colleges look at this as a much more involved employment as opposed to something like working in a supermarket (nothing wrong with that, but my job's way more intensive!)</p>

<p>Special considerations, if any:</p>

<p>Come from a low-income family for where we live. I'll do the EFC thing today with my folks, but I expect it to be at most $2,500. I work very hard to support it. I used to work around 30-35 hours a week before, now due to the housing slump, that has increased to near 35-40 hours, taking away some time I could've used to study, play lax, etc. I heard the Ivies+top schools have a hard time attracting lower income kids, so I'm hoping that since I mentioned it, it'll will help me. I worte about it in the add'l. info section and mentioned a snippet in my essay.</p>

<p>Thanks dudes, and I wish you all the best of luck!</p>

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<p>Hi ^^ i'm an international student...so i can't say much... anyway... helping u bump this up...</p>

<p>err.... ur stuff looks pretty great except for ur SAT... but I think that ACT makes up for it doesn't it? = = i'm not sure...</p>

<p>okay so i didn't say anything meaningful...ignore me.......</p>

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<p>You actually brought up a great point that I bet a lot of people are asking. Do colleges like the ones I'm applying to use your better score or do they see both your scores? My GC couldn't answer this.</p>

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<p>u have a lot of stuff going on... work experience and ECs sound really good, but the numbers are a little lower than where you want to be. But then ACT is pretty good. well im no expert at this, but here it goes:</p>

<p>Cornell - match..?
Princeton - reach
University of Texas at Austin - safety/low match
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - safety
Stanford - reach
Georgia Tech - low match/safety
Columbia Fu Foundation - reach
NYU Stern - reach/high match
University of California at Berkeley - eh.... match?? high match?
Cooper Union NY - not familiar with this one</p>

<p>so these are my haphazard guesses. i might be totally wrong, so... anyone else?</p>

<p>nice work on the company website, btw</p>

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<p>They look at whatever score you send them.</p>

<p>If you took the SAT or the ACT more than once then when you send them your SAT/ACT scores they will look at them all.</p>

<p>You choose whether they look at your SAT or ACT. Unless they only look at SAT</p>

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<p>Wait, so for the schools where I had to send the SATII (score report would include SAT's) and a also sent the ACT (for example I sent my ACT and SAT to Columbia) they'd take both into consideration? That sucks. I wish they only took the better one. My ACT kicks so much more buttocks compared to the SAT. </p>

<p>Since I got deferred from Cornell, I'm wondering whether or not the same will happen at Berkeley. Any other good engineering schools that could be a match for me?</p>

<p>Thanks for the feedback on the website. I've tweaked it a bit and made it more appealing. Haven't got a lot of comments on it so I appreciate feedback.</p>

<p>Any other predictions?</p>

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<p>bump, bump, bump it up</p>

<p>Soooo, ACT or SAT? Anyone got an answer?</p>

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<p>I will literally hand you a toasted muffin through the computer and save you fifteen percent off your car insurance if you post.</p>

<p>Of course, that's a complete dramatization, but you get my point.</p>

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<p>Cornell: high match (to which school did you apply, if you have a second choice it helps)--also if you e-mail your admissions rep, it might help and then I think the school would be more of a match and you would get in.
Princeton: high reach
University of Texas at Austin: in
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: beyond in
Stanford: high reach (although you are engineering,
Georgia Tech- in
Columbia Fu Foundation: high reach (do you live in the tri-state area, if so you HAVE to visit)
NYU Stern-reach (only b/c business school is top five in the country; again you HAVE to visit if you live in the tri-state area)
University of California at Berkeley- high reach (they only take about 7%oos)
Cooper Union NY-high reach (they only accept 10% of the students who apply, basically you have to come off in your app that they will never ever find someone like you)</p>

<ul>
<li>the construction thing is really interesting and maybe almost a hook, i mean most of these deadlines have past, but you could always e-mail your rep at the school and play that up with your engineering background</li>
</ul>

<p>*also do you go to a competetive high school that sends lots of kids to top 20 schools, bc if not, you could play that up too</p>

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<p>Your work experience is definitely a hook; good for you!</p>

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<p>when the collegeboard sends your scores they send the latest 3 SAT dates, and the latest 3 SAT II dates. The colleges will see all your scores, but which ones they choose to look at is up to them
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<p>Some of the ivies have been known to only look at SAT scores when you send in both SAT and ACT - sure they say they will accept either, but its easier for comparison to just look at the SAT. Hopefully I'm wrong :/</p>

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<p>When you got dererred at Cornell, it petty much tells you schools like Princeton and Stanford are highly unlikely unless you sent different (and much better) essays and recs. As your sats are low fortop schools, those would ned to be unusual. Once you get below the top 15 it's pretty simple, if all your stats would have been 75% last year you'll get in.</p>

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<p>Well, some of my essays to the other schools were refined and they did look better. (In fact, I wrote a sentence in my Cornell Engineering essay with "infinitismally" ehich in fact should've been "infinitely". Wasn't pretty) Also, I think I answered the supplement questions a lot better for the other schools, including and notably Columbia's.</p>

<p>I don't know what my teachers wrote for me, but they're both teachers that know me very well personally (about how I work in construction and that I live in a refrigerator box) and like me a lot, so I assume they wrote good stuff. </p>

<p>My GC also knows that I live in a refrigerator box and that I work in construction, and I peeked at the first line of that rec one day (trust me, I just caught a glance), and it said something along the lines of "rarely does a student so hardworking, charismatic, and motivated enter my office...blargityblarg"</p>

<p>Well, if Cornell was a semi-no go, then I guess I can't exactly expect acceptances, let alone deferrals from the top 15 according to ceebrown. I think I'd like Berkeley, though, and it's not in the top 15.</p>

<p>Que sera, sera, I guess.</p>