Can i get into any schools?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi, I can't sleep so here it goes (trolls, please be funny, don't be annoying)</p>

<p>About me:
Asian American male (taiwanese; 1st generation american)
Attend a competitive public California high school</p>

<p>GPA: 3.971UW, 4.323W
Class rank: ranked 6th or 7th out of 550 students
AP tests: biology/stats/calcAB/physB/USHistory: 3/5/5/4/3
PSAT 223 (should get NMSF if not NMF)
ACT: 34 (34E / 36M / 32R / 33S)
SAT (bad, but unfortunately must submit): 650 R / 800M / 700 W = 2150
SAT2: math2 800 / bio(M) 740 / Physics 780</p>

<p>12th grade classes: Chinese 4, English 12, AP Chemistry, AP compsci, AP psychology, AP US government, Honors economics</p>

<p>EC: (yes, it's lackluster)
Swim team varsity 3 years so far, all league 3 years, NCS 3 years, captain next year (verified with coach @ end of junior year)
Year-round swimming 7 years, won several minor awards
Worked as swim coach 2 years during summer
Active interact club member 3 years
Regional Physics bowl finalist
Personal tutor 2 years
active math club member 3 years
2-time AIME qualifier (I heard Wharton loves math?; AMC10B 138/150, AMC12B 88.5/150)
Did mathcounts in 8th grade, placed 11th out of around 400 students in northern california
AP scholar with distinction
I emphasized the situation with swimming in my common app EC elaboration essay, so hopefully my lack of EC's can be explained through that. My HS mainly focused between math and swimming. </p>

<p>Major: economics
schools: UCLA, UCSD, UC Berkeley, UChicago, Columbia, Penn, MIT, USC, Stanford, (Do i have a shot in hell at yale? i didnt apply there yet)</p>

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<p>Your stats are good for any Asian. Your main EC will probably be swimming, since most Asians aren’t active varsity athletes for anything but tennis or golf. Thing in 8th grade doesn’t really matter. But still, I doubt having EC’s revolving solely around swimming and math will do you good (math has been completely synonymous to Asians nowadays).</p>

<p>UCLA-mid-reach if in-state, a mid-high reach if out
UCSD- good chance, low reach
UC Berkeley- same as UCLA, just, more
UChicago- mid-high reach
Columbia- high reach
Penn- mid-high to high reach
MIT- high reach (most Asian prone school in the states!)
USC- good chances, mid-low reach, reach if out state
Stanford- high reach</p>

<p>Sorry if all the middles and highs are confusing you.</p>

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<p>UCLA-Match
UCSD- In
UC Berkeley- Match
UChicago- High Match
Columbia- Low/Mid Reach
Penn- Mid-Reach
MIT- high reach
USC- Match (Possibly with Merit $)
Stanford- high reach</p>

<p>Don’t submit your SAT. Your ACT score more than compensates.</p>

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Misleading title. You can get into a large number of good schools. If you are saying you may not be able to get into any schools, you are saying that of many others, too.</p>

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<p>thumpy bumpy. Hopefully the title is an attention grabber</p>

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<p>Thanks for the news report captain obvious. Surely the OP can get into her local community college, but she means schools as great, or greater than the ‘strength’ of her app.
Unless you actually were confused, quit ■■■■■■■■.</p>

<p>Though, to the OP, I’d try racking up some leadership positions in some of those activities before you apply anywhere.</p>

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<p>i don’t mean to be mean but…
F<strong>K YOU! how dare you say that a 2150 is bad? HOW DARE YOU? i don’t care if this is college confidential or whatever, it is not f</strong>kin bad! 92% if not more of the kids in this country would KILL to have that grade.</p>

<p>and once again- F**K YOU</p>

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<p>^I agree with NervusBreakdown.
I have a 2160 and I’m ECSTATIC with it. And I’m applying Duke ED. Anything over 2100, in my eyes, is Top-20 material barring you have a solid GPA/ECs/Recs/Essays. The curves on some of the SATs are so ridiculous that one student might have a 40-point advantage over the other student because he/she got 1 more math question right. Every point above 2100 is gravy; it means nothing. So **** and get over yourself.</p>

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<p>^Nobody is arguing that a 2100+ SAT score is bad, and certainly nobody is defending the curve system, but in regards to the schools that the OP is looking at, a 2100 will be in the bottom quartiles. In this case, if you think that having a lower SAT score than 75% of the students on campus is “bad”, then that’s a fair assumption to make.</p>

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<p>… You two needa get hold of yourselves. No one said a 2100 was bad, but compared to the OP’s PSAT and ACT scores, they aren’t stellar.
God, NervusBreakdown, you’ve made no mistake in choosing your username.</p>

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<p>^Actually, if you look on the OP’s original post with his SAT score, the first word in parentheses is “bad”. Just saying.
I have got a hold of myself. I’m not in a raging fit, I’m just saying that people on this site need to calm the f*** down and take a deep breath. A 2150 is a very solid score, and even if he got a better score on the PSAT or ACT, that doesn’t mean he has to complain about it. I’m just saying this as an ego thing, y’all need to tone it down a lot or you’re gonna be in for a lot of rough surprises soon.</p>

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<p>Just submit your ACT not your SAT, it converts to a higher score.</p>

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<p>WOW YOUR EC’S SUCK. ): god, these college confidential kids! There is nothing wrong with your extracurriculars; you’re better off than 98.7% of America! also, swimming will definitely set you apart from other math-oriented Asian boys and Stanford loves athletes (:
the UC schools are probably safeties, and USC too. UPenn and UChicago are reasonable, everything else is a high reach?
good luck on your apps!</p>

<p>if you could, chance me? i’d really appreciate it (:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/989818-chances-highly-competitive-schools-will-chance-back.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/989818-chances-highly-competitive-schools-will-chance-back.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I don’t think anyone on here realizes that a 2150 is the freaking 98th percentile.</p>

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<p>Alright, the OP meant that the 2150 is relatively low compared to his ACT and PSAT scores. Perhaps the OP is just smarter and screwed up this one time and got a lower score than expected. Suck it up if you can’t get over it, and stop derailing the thread.</p>

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<p>sorry guys im being overly humble</p>

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<p>I got 1 B out of all my classes, and I’m ranked 11/490. found out today. Fu<em>cking school does not weigh classes when determining class rank, extreme bullsh</em>it. but will this hurt my chances</p>