Chance a dreamy junior?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi!</p>

<p>I'm a caucasian female junior, and I want to apply to:
1)MIT
2)Caltech
3)Princeton
4)Harvard
5)UC Berkeley
6)UWaterloo
7)McGill
8)Stanford
9) University of Washington, Seattle (safety)
10) University of Michigan, Ann Harbor (safety)</p>

<p>possibly applying to some other safeties.</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT Scores (cr-640, w-640, m-780) 2060, these are from a year ago, I'm aiming for 2250-2300+ after summer
PSAT - 219
SAT II (Math II-800, Physics - 800, taking US History in June, aiming for 750+)</p>

<p>GPA: 3.911 (unweighted)
Class rank: 78/500
Super competitive school. </p>

<p>AP Classes: Calculus AB (BC exam) 5 (sophomore year),
this year: AP Physics B, AP Chemistry, AP Statistics, AP US History</p>

<p>Next year: AP English, AP French 5, AP Psychology</p>

<p>I'll also take some advanced classes in CompSci and Math in a local community college next year. </p>

<p>Many local and regional math awards.</p>

<p>Statistical research experience (project winner) several times. </p>

<p>I'll probably have really good letters of rec from my teachers.</p>

<p>ECs: table tennis (4 years), clarinet (4~5 years), math contests (4 years), karate (3 years)</p>

<p>Participation in math summer programs</p>

<p>Other: jumped 2 grades, school diploma (homeschooled 8 years) from Russia (fluent in Russian)</p>

<p>I posted this before, but I updated my stats.
Please chance me and suggest what I have to work on! Thank you very much !</p>

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<p>Get your rank up fast and get some good SAT I scores. Your EC’s are a bit weak, like nothing significant really. Jumping 2 grades isn’t going to help you at all, meaning they won’t think you’re mature enough. Unless you live in Michigan, I don’t think Ann Arbor is a safety.</p>

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<p>You should volunteer a lot more but try to stick with one volunteer program instead of doing multiple things.</p>

<p>Your stats are looking pretty good. </p>

<p>I am unsure about the class rank situation tbh. </p>

<p>chance me?
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<p>I can’t really raise my class rank all that much since I go to a super competitive school, and 3 Bs in my entire hs career already gave me this class rank :frowning: I’ll try to do whatever I can, though.</p>

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<p>I’m in a similar situation class rank wise. Interesting to know how it affects you come admission time.</p>

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<p>I think that your chances really do depend on the class rank situation. If all 77 people ahead of you apply to those schools, your chances probably aren’t very good. If many/most are going to state schools, it should really improve your chances. Your ECs aren’t spectacular, but at least you’ve been doing them for a while. That’s good for you as far as commitment. Good Luck</p>

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<p>Well, about 20 ish people go to ivy leagues in my school, about 70 to UC berkeley, every year. Btw, my mathematics achievements are much more interesting, but I’m not really listing them now b/c I’m lazy. So do I have any chance at Caltech or Princeton (dream schools)?</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t say that you don’t have a chance, but they are so competitive that getting in is a crapshoot, unless you are a recognized genius. The class rank situation may raise their eyebrows, so I would be sure to explain that your low rank is solely due to 3Bs, and you can try to make a really insightful essay about skipping grades and the social and intellectual ramifications, blablabla. I’m very happy that I don’t go to your school, because it seems ridiculous.</p>

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<p>Your school is not super competitive in the eyes of colleges if 20 out of 500 go to ivies. It’s competitive, but there are many schools that send 30% plus to ivies and they are the super competitive. A school where that many people get all A’s is one with amazing grading inflation.</p>

<p>At many of your schools fewer than 5% were not in the top 10% of their class. They are highly likely to be recruited athletes, URMs and development candidates. Even legacies won’t get into these schools if they are not top 10%.</p>

<p>Next, your SAT scores in CR and W are well below the median at most of these schools. Calc AB for MIT and Caltech is not going far and why no math senior year? You will be competing with kids who have taken college linear algebra and MV calc.</p>

<p>Bottom line is that you would be wise to add schools between the super reaches and safeties you currently have.</p>

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<p>Well, I might have underestimated the number of kids that end up in ivies, my school is in top 50 in the nation. I don’t think my rank is due to grade inflation, but rather to the super -college-obsessiveness of my 80% Asian school. </p>

<p>I took calc AB because I was already jumping 2 grades in math, but I made up by self studying for the BC exam, and got a 5 on it. </p>

<p>Furthermore, unfortunately I’m not a legacy, URM, super athlete or anything, but I am very passionate about mathematics. I’m also planning to bring up my SAT scores to 2300+ and believe I will be able to do that because the ones listed are over a year old and do not reflect my abilities as of today.</p>

<p>hmom5, what kind of safeties would you suggest?</p>

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<p>Schools you might consider, not safeties but not such extreme reaches:</p>

<p>-Harvey Mudd
-CMU</p>

<p>Really, geometry is pretty standard in 9th grade in schools that are not very competitive now, so calc AB in 11th grade is not seen as much of a jump. If you want to compete with the kids applying to MIT level schools you might consider college math classes this summer and in the Fall. How about AIME too?</p>

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<p>No, I took Calc in sophomore year, last year. I was the only sophomore my teacher ever saw in her AP Calc teaching career. I made AIME this year, USAMTS last year and this year (bronze and silver), and numerous regional math awards, as well as consistent math circle participation. Although I might not be a MOPer, my love and achievements in mathematics definately shine in my application.</p>

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<p>oh, and I am taking college classes in math and cs next year in a community college along with business math in school, whcih is the last and only class that i haven’t covered in the math curriculum in the school.</p>