Can't pay all admission fees! Will chance back!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I need to narrow my college choices since I can't pay for all the admission fees, so I need opinions to figure out what I really can get into.</p>

<p>I will chance back! Please give me feedback and critique.</p>

<ol>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>CalTech</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>UC Berkley</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>UC Davis</li>
<li>UWaterloo (Canada)</li>
</ol>

<p>Prospective major: Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Business</p>

<p>Some things to consider:</p>

<p>-Moved to current high school in 10th grade, I've moved 8 times in my life between America and Canada and several cities
-Qualify for free lunch
-Full Chinese
-First generation</p>

<p>Now on to other things:</p>

<p>GPA: 3.9 (or 3.8, our system is confusing) UW, 4.5 W
ACT: 33 (not sending SAT)
SAT: 2050....ouch. Yeah that's not going anywhere.
APs: World History, Composition, Literature, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Psychology, Environmental Science, Computer Science, Calculus BC
Clubs:
-FIRST Robotics (Director of Communications, probably going to be Director of Electronics and Programming)
-President of Math Team
-Science Fair (9th grade), Honorable Mention
-Science Olympiad (10th grade), 3rd in Robot Arm
-Key Club (prob VP)
-Computer Science (prob VP, currently secretary)
-CSF all years</p>

<p>-300+ hours volunteering, 300+ hours at robotics in less than 6 weeks
-Started up several FLL (kids robotics) teams and a FLL tournament, managed two more tournaments
-Several art awards, including Best of Show and 1st place for my photorealistic artwork
-Learned Java, C++, HTML, CAD in Creo 2.0
-Part of t-shirt cannon project for Fresno Grizzlies team, some of my own projects in generating environmentally friendly electricity
-Judo (blue belt), avid lover of tennis and badminton</p>

<p>I absolutely love love love my robotics team! I spend all my time there, learning new things relating to STEM and teaching all I can about electronics and programming. I support FLL, robotics for kids in elementary school, and I manage some tournaments and start teams. I also create other outreach events, including a robotics tour at elementary school carnivals to spread STEM to young students, and I wrote an Engineering Documentation binder that helped my team win the Engineering Inspiration Award this year. I will probably become the Director of Electronics and Programming this year. Apart from robotics, I make my own projects by reusing bikes to invent methods of generating clean energy. My parents think I should study more, but....that's not as fun....</p>

<p>I also moved several times. Born in New York, I moved to Ontario where I moved twice, then moved to Ohio, then moved back to Ontario to move twice again, and then moved to California, where I moved within the same town three times and moved schools again and again.</p>

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<p>Other things I didn’t include:</p>

<p>-Female
-Crime Stoppers’ Youth Advisory Board 12-13
-Speech and Debate
-History Day</p>

<p>Also taking AP Econ. Honors are not weighted. Fluent in Chinese, English, and Spanish. All ECs are this year only- didn’t include past years unless otherwise noted. Love photorealistic color pencil drawings. I’ve won a few awards through those, but I discovered my love of design through art and robotics fusion! I love both, but now my art talent is just a hobby.</p>

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<p>Please check with each school…many will waive their application fees for low income students. You should be able to apply to all the schools you truly have an interest in.</p>

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<p>These schools don’t, as far as I found. :frowning: Thanks for trying to help. What do you think though?</p>

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<p>I just pulled up two of your schools at random- Stanford and Cornell- and they both offer fee waivers if you qualify…sounds like you might, yes?</p>

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<p>If you qualify for free lunch, you qualify for app fee waivers from the College Board! I can’t give you a specific website right now since I’m on my phone, but it seems like it would be helpful to you. I think you have a pretty good idea already of your chances at each, I’d say the bottom 3 are safeties, Berkley is a match, and the top 5 on your list are reaches. Since you seem to have an engineering focus, a few other match schools to think of can be UMichigan and Georgia Tech. Your stats seem awesome otherwise! :D</p>

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<p>MIT: Reach
Caltech: Reach
Cornell: High match (engineering)/Reach (Dyson)
Stanford: Reach
Princeton: Reach
Berkeley: Match
UCLA: Match
UCD: Safety
Waterloo: Safety</p>

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<p>Many schools will waive your fee if you have an income <60,000, you are on free/reduced lunch and/or your counselor fills out a form saying you can’t afford the fees. Depending on your income you may want to look into QuestBridge…</p>

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<ul>
<li>pull up your sat if you have the resources. if not, it’s fine.</li>
<li>not sure how being chinese or whatever will do whatever to your application…???</li>
</ul>

<p>Seeing that you are strongly focused on robotics, may you mention your innovations in the field of robotics please? :slight_smile:
Also, have you tried connecting different fields of studies together? For example, robotics and photography??</p>

<p>Do something innovative, and you will stand out instantly. It’s not that hard seeing how you already have several years of robotic experience.</p>

<p>My gut feeling is that you will get into MIT from what I see. Good luck!</p>

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<p>Oh! I had no idea I could get fee waivers. Thank you guys! I am also applying through Questbridge, and I’m dreaming about getting into MIT.</p>

<p>I’m still looking for feedback and chancing back people if they share their links. Apart from just saying what is reach/match/safe, could I get more detailed responses about why and what I could do? Thanks! :)</p>

<p>Innovative…well, I’ve done the typical electricity bike generator and I’m designing other things in CAD right now. This idea is going to be secret for the time being. :wink: Sorry! But I’ve won the Volunteer Award in robotics and Member of the Month for Key Club. I keep forgetting to add things. :o</p>

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<p>If you have the time:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1522028-chance-mit-cornell-cmu-etc-will-chance-back-d.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1522028-chance-mit-cornell-cmu-etc-will-chance-back-d.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Innovative means new things that people didn’t thought about before. You don’t necessarily have to achieve that as of yet, but make sure you show:
PASSION, INTELLIGENCE, INNOVATION and CREATIVITY during your interview with the MIT alumni…it really gives you a chance to show all that you’ve learnt in robotics! Think wild! That’s what MIT wants!</p>

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<p>I would say you should definitely try UC Berkeley, Stanford, and Cornell. Overall, very strong statistics.</p>

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<p>Chancing back here :)</p>

<p>Strong stats and a very focused resume! I would say that MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and caltech are reaches due to the fact that they are crapshoots. The rest would be matches (iCal and Berkeley) and the others safeties.(basically agreeing with @catria)</p>

<p>Show your passion and I’m sure you’ll do great! Schools want to see that!</p>

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<p>Chancing back!</p>

<p>I’d say leave Princeton off your list if you’re going into engineering. It doesn’t strike most people as an engineering focused school, even though it has a strong program. As for the other schools, I’d say definitely leave Caltech, MIT, and Stanford on the list, since they’re good matches for you, and they have good programs.</p>

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<p>MIT: Reach
Caltech: Reach
Cornell: Reach
Stanford: Reach
Princeton: Reach
Berkeley: Match
UCLA: Match
UCD: high match
Waterloo: high match</p>

<p>You said you know CAD. if you mean auto cad, then stress that fact! that’s a necessity in engineering, and if you know it, then they’ll love it. Make sure to not leave that out!</p>

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<p>I’d say you’re good for caltech and cornell and that you have a good chance of getting in, along with Berkeley. As for UCLA, i’m confident you’ll get in.</p>

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<p>MIT: Reach
Caltech: Reach
Cornell: High match
Stanford: Reach
Princeton: Reach
Berkeley: high Match (subject test scores are needed for engineering)
UCLA: high Match (engineering is hard here just like Berkeley)
UCD: Safety
UWaterloo: Safety</p>

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<p>MIT- High Match/Reach
Caltech- High Match/Reach
Stanford- Reach
Princeton- Reach
Cornell- Match/High Match
Berkeley- Match/High Match
UCLA- Match
UCD- Safety
U of Waterloo- Safety</p>

<p>You have a phenomenal resume, and should get into at least one of MIT/Caltech/Cornell/Stanford/Princeton/Berkeley</p>

<p>Chance me back :)</p>

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