Brown, Yale, MIT, and more...chances?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a female caucasion senior from a low-middle income ($40,000) single-parent household in FL.</p>

<p>SAT: 790 CR, 720 M, 740 W, 8 Essay (1510/2250)</p>

<p>ACT: 32 Comp, 35 English, 34 Math, 33 Reading, 27 Sci, 8 Writing</p>

<p>SAT Sub Tests: 800 Math II, 780 Chem</p>

<p>AP: 5 Calc AB, 5 Calc BC (5 AB sub), 5 Chem, 5 English Lang</p>

<p>GPA: 4.8571 UW, 3.8929 W</p>

<p>Grades: Mostly As (2 Bs, 4 B+s, rest As)</p>

<p>Class rank: 3/600</p>

<p>Classes this year:
Spanish IV Honors/AP Spanish
Bio II Honors/AP Biology
US Gov & Pol Honors/AP US Gov & Pol
English IV Honors/AP English Lit
Calculus III (dual enrollment)</p>

<p>Summer classes:
Intro to Logic and General Psychology (dual enrollment)</p>

<p>11th grade schedule:
English III Honors/AP Eng Lang
Calculus Honors/AP Calc BC
Spanish III Honors/Physics I Honors
Chem II Honors/AP Chem
American History Honors (Online through FLVS)
Latin I (Online through FLVS)
Fitness Lifestyle Design (Online through FLVS)</p>

<p>10th grade schedule:
Creative Writing III (required)/English II Honors
Calculus Honors/AP Calc AB
Chem I Honors/World History Honors
Spanish I/Spanish II
Personal Fitness (Online through FLVS)</p>

<p>Extracurricular:
[9th-11th grade] First Priority (faith-based club); part of leadership team (no officer positions were designated)
[10th-12th grade] Best Buddies President; restarted club after previous president completely stopped running it; won 2008 Chapter President of the Year and First Place Chapter of the Year (county level); earned Chapter of Excellence recognition (international level)
[10th-12th grade] National Honor Society member; 12th grade Secretary
[10th grade-12th grade] Mathematics tutoring twice a week through NHS
Winner of Local Chemistry Olympiad
Participant in National Chemistry Olympiad
Winner of Barry University Chemistry Olympiad (local competition): 5th Place Individual (Chem II), 1st Place Team (Chem II Lab)
[8th-11th grade] Private guitar lessons (should I omit this when applying? I'm not really good at playing. I gave up because it was too much of a time commitment..)</p>

<p>Awards:
[10th grade] Foreign Language Student of the Year, Science Student of the Year
[11th grade] Math Student of the Year, Science Student of the Year, Harvard Book Award
[9th-11th grade] Top Ten Percent, Principal's Honor Roll</p>

<p>School info:
Public school, block scheduling, not very competitive but strong AP program</p>

<p>Future goals:
Major in neuroscience, mathematics, chemistry, or combination of those subjects (double or triple major)
Career in science research, medicine, or education</p>

<p>Applying to:
Brown
Yale (maybe)
MIT
Duke
Emory
Johns Hopkins
U Miami
Furman</p>

<p>Concerns:
I don't think I have enough ECs, but I'm hoping that I can make up for it since I've been VERY dedicated to the extracurriculars that I am involved in.</p>

<p>So...what are my chances???</p>

<p>Thanks to those who read all of this and are willing to chance me.</p>

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<p>Does your school heavily weight honors classes in ranking? It's pretty strange that you're in the top 0.5% with 6 B's. I mean no offense, but that probably doesn't matter.</p>

<p>At any rate, there's nothing really impressive about your app [but on the other hand, few, even in the Ivy's, are really impressive].</p>

<p>I'd say:</p>

<p>Yale, MIT - Reach
Brown, Duke, Emory, JHU - Low Reach/Match</p>

<p>I think the rest would be safeties. Note that Brown has been a crapshoot amongst the crapshoot that is college admissions, as some really nice-looking apps have been rejected and some not-so-nice ones have been accepted. </p>

<p>But really, none of us [or at least the great majority of us] can say anything beyond: You've got a pretty good app and stand a good chance of getting into at least 1 of your reaches.</p>