CC Case Study #5

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>These seem like a pretty cool idea so here's another one for you guys to take a crack at and then see where he got in afterwards:</p>

<p>White male</p>

<p>SAT: 1550 (780M, 770V)
Rank: 5/450
SAT IIs: All low to mid 700s</p>

<p>Toughest course load at school (suburban public, noncompetitive)</p>

<p>ECs/Misc.:
National Ocean Sciences Bowl: National Champions
Math Team: 2nd in state, few individual awards
Boy Scout/Eagle Scout
JETS - State champs
Science Olympiad - State champs
Marching Band
National Merit Finalist
Rensselaer medal (highest math + science average)
A couple other science/math activities without major recognition</p>

<p>Applied to:
MIT (EA)
Tufts
Cornell
UPenn
JHU
BU
RPI</p>

<p>I'll post the results at 11 EST, good luck.</p>

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<p>Why do people post, "what are my chances" with 1500+ SATs and great class rank? Do you need stroking? </p>

<p>OK, I'll bite. You have a good chance at all these schools period. JHU, BU, and RPI and even Tufts shouldn't be a problem unless you mess up the essay. Cornell should be a shoe in too. UPenn and especially MIT are always a bit dicey for everyone of any stat. You never know about these two schools.</p>

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<p>MIT: Deferred, Accepted
Tufts: Accepted
Cornell: Accepted
UPenn: Waitlisted
JHU: Accepted
BU: Accepted
RPI: Accepted</p>

<p>oh BTW, what state is this person from?</p>

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<p>MIT (EA) - accepted
Tufts - accepted
Cornell -accepted
UPenn - rejected
JHU - accepted
BU - accepted
RPI - accepted</p>

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<p>Taxguy doesn't understand the point of this thread.</p>

<p>MIT - Deferred, Waitlisted
Tufts - Accepted
Cornell - Accepted
UPenn - Accepted
JHU - Accepted
BU? Is this Brown? Brandeis? Because of ambiguous school name...Rejected
RPI? - No idea what this is. Accepted.</p>

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<p>these are your stats</p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=85983%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=85983&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>BU is Boston University - sorry that's what everyone uses BU as where I'm from. RPI is Renseallaer (sp?)</p>

<p>State is Rhode Island. Is that an advantage? I'm not really sure myself because even though its in New England there aren't going to be many applicants from such a small state.</p>

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<p>These are not my stats! These are my brother's. Check out his post from two years ago on the old forums:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.collegeconfidential.com/discus/messages/757/15066.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.collegeconfidential.com/discus/messages/757/15066.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>PYgo its not just whre your from everyone knows BU is Boston University</p>

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<p>and RPI is Renessaler Polytechnic Institute fyi, itsonlyrock</p>

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<p>MIT (EA) - accepted
Tufts - accepted
Cornell -accepted
UPenn - waitlisted
JHU - accepted
BU - accepted
RPI - accepted</p>

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<p>Maybe add Princeton and Duke, just to better hedge your bets?</p>

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<p>No no no. </p>

<p>Slipper: these are the stats of someone who already applied and got into college. The point is to guess and see if you can actually predict where the person got accepted/rejected.</p>

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<p>i have a question...just wondering...why does everyone think he'll get accepted at MIT but waitlisted or rejected at UPenn. Isn't MIT tougher to get into?</p>

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<p>My only guess is that they think that applying early will give him an advantage, but I'm not sure. Statistically, I think you are right though.</p>

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<p>Any last takers? I'll post the results in about 15 minutes. Doesn't look like too many people had interest though.</p>

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<p>Ok well if your interested here were the actual results:</p>

<p>MIT (EA) - Deferred then rejected
Tufts - Accepted
Cornell - Accepted
UPenn - Waitlisted
JHU - Accepted (and attending)
BU - Accepted
RPI - Accepted</p>

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<p>Accepted into all but MIT</p>

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<p>Also ppl should post more of these. I gives high schoolers a look at people's app who get accepted into competitive colleges. So they can weight they own chances.</p>

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<p>Ahhh crap...I was so close....he was rejected from MIT not accepted.....oh well...</p>

<p>How is your brother doing now, Pygo? Did he do the Biomed program at JHU?</p>