Chance (4 chance) super involved female 4 Ivies!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'll chance back!!</p>

<p>Hi I am a female who will be applying to engineering schools in the fall. I have a pretty good feel for the non-IVies that i'd like to apply to, but please chance me for Upenn engineering, Princeton engineering, Cornell engineering, columbia engineering, and duke engineering.</p>

<p>don't have final SAT/ACT yet...
projected SAT: 2300
projected SATII Math2: 760, Physics: 780</p>

<p>Just at the bottom of top 10% of a 500 member class of competitive high school.</p>

<p>Speech and Debate team 4 years
-Public Relations officer Junior year
-Vice President Senior year
-Qualified to 3 National Tournaments & was a state champion
-Taught a debate mini-unit to elementary students</p>

<p>-Submitting very high quality art portfolio as a supplement to colleges</p>

<p>-National Teen Alzheimer’s Association Board
-i do projects/awareness/articles</p>

<p>-Trumpet
-Jazz 4 years
-Wind Ensemble 3 years
-Principal Chair
-Teaching private trumpet lessons
-own mini band that i started; we perform at charitable outlets</p>

<p>-Health/diabetes awareness Club
-Started it
-President
-(hopefully influencing local health curriculum)</p>

<p>-School Newspaper 4 years
-Editor senior year
-Started my own blog newspaper (really comprehensive and intense w/ a staff, etc)</p>

<p>-Volunteer through a mural association, i paint free murals in various locations
-3 hours a week helping Japanese immigrant family assimilate and understand their new lifestyle (helping kids with homework, mom with mail and appointments, etc)</p>

<p>-National Honors Society
-Vice President</p>

<p>-Girl Scouts for 12 years
-Achieved Bronze, Silver, and Gold Award
-Still continuing my Gold project after earning my award, spreading it, allowing other teens to get involved</p>

<p>-Director of Media Affairs for a non-profit that has been featured on CNN and Asia News</p>

<p>-Interning this summer at a design company
-hopefully publishing a poetry book</p>

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<p>Your stats are fine, but your ECs indicate that, while you want to study engineering, you haven’t done anything that is related to engineering. They are impressive, though!</p>

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<p>It seems like your ECs are geared towards international relations than engineering as blondebamf said, though they are good. What’s your gpa, because as it stands, bottom of 10% doesn’t seem good. 3.9+ and/or top 5% is somewhat important for such ivies. The female in engineering advantage might help. But, pending gpa, i would still say those are reaches.</p>

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<p>Hi. The internship i have this summer is going to include learning how to use engineering software, and it combines engineering and design. i am also attending an engineering summer camp.</p>

<p>my gpa is around a 3.75 unweighted</p>

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<p>With a 3.75 gpa, it would be tough to get in the top schools you plan to apply for as Academics is the #1 criteria. With those ECs, I wouldn’t completely rule those schools out of questions, but I wouldn’t be too optimistic. Just write a good essay connecting one or a few activities that you are passionate about to your love for engineering.</p>

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<p>It depends on your ability to embellish and massage your sporadic (but lengthy and impressive, don’t get me wrong) list of ECs. Try to partake in some ECs related to engineering to show your passion, and really display interest in the schools you’re applying at, as this may help make up for your slightly lower than average (for the schools you mention) GPA and class rank. </p>

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<p>Great EC’s and “average” academic things as far as these schools go. I think you have a decent chance because of your ECs. If you were an athlete it’d be even better. Try improving those scores, although they are already good.</p>

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<p>Female for engineering is a definite plus, and your EC’s are impressive, but it’s been pointed out that they’re not geared toward Engineering. Cornell and Duke are probably slightly more reasonable that Princeton and UPenn, and that’s a pretty high projected SAT score considering you’re in the bottom 10%. If you actually do end up with a 2300, I’d say those are reasonable reaches. (Reaches only because Ivies are reaches for everybody.)
Try to focus some ECs on engineering maybe?</p>

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<p>Really good ECs, but at those really high level schools, some people have absolutely unbelievable ECs. Maybe you could add a few engineering-related ECs this year, because right now you don’t show much of a demonstrated interest in that field.</p>

<p>Also, your UW GPA is a bit low, but the ECs might be able to make up for that. Good luck!</p>

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<p>I think OP meant that they were at the bottom of the top 10%. I doubt any school would have a 3.75 GPA in the bottom 10%.</p>

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<p>Oops, yeah, I know that’s what she meant!</p>

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<p>How are you projecting your SAT’s? That’s a tricky game. Don’t depend on PSAT; I’m Nat. Merit and was disappointed by that methodology.</p>

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<p>Yeah, my PSAT was towards the bottom of acceptable scores for National Merit for NY (or at least I hope so, unless come this September the NY score raises by a few), but my actual score was much higher. Contrastingly, I know kids who had 230+ on PSATS but ~2100 SATs. Don’t leave it up to your PSATs to project a score and then assume you are fine. Study!</p>

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<p>Just browsed over the response sand am going to call BS on most of that. Ivies do not “need” top 5% – it helps, but top 10% is the norm (and top 20% is still possible). Assuming you somehow manage to get your projected SAT and SATII scores (I guarantee you won’t get a 2300 – you’ll either get 2000-2200 or right at the 2380-2400 mark). Again, your interests don’t seem to indicate engineering, but that isn’t necessarily a terrible thing. Work well on your essays and interviews and you could get in to an Ivy/equivalent school. Could.</p>

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<p>thanks for the advice everyone! i actually just got back my sat results and i got a 2310! post your link if you want me to chance back :slight_smile: if i ed to upenn, would there be a chance, or is it a waste of ed?</p>

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<p>ED at Penn is not a waste of an ed. They accept 1/3 of ED students and are noticeably less selective than they are with the RD applicants.</p>

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<p>Well depends where you want to ED. At Wharton, they definitely don’t accept 1/3 of ED kids. More like 13-14% rather than the usual 10-12%. It’s probably roughly similar with SEAS.</p>

<p>But at CAS, it probably is worth it, because they accept a good portion of ED kids.</p>

<p>But it’s NOT “wasted” if it’s where you truly want to go.</p>