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<p>Based on what I have seen previously on CC (I am going to spend the rest of my life withering on this website) I think you have a good chance. Your SAT and grades are really good, and your ethnicity doesn’t hurt. Your EC’s are good (not phenomenal like some people, but they’re still good!). What’s your passion? If you can include it (and how involved you are in it) in your essay, and talk about how you succeeded despite the difficulties, then you will probably get in! Good luck :)</p>
<p>Would you mind not really “chancing” me, but giving me some advice on my post? Thanks!</p>
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<p>Excellent chances at all schools.
Being Hispanic is a huge hook.
For all intents and purposes, you have a 2600 on the SAT. Congrats. </p>
<p>Chance me back. I’m the Michigan Ross thread</p>
<p>That’s not true. </p>
<p>You have as good a chance as anyone, which isn’t a good chance, since the acceptance rates are vanishingly low.</p>
<p>But, you can’t get in where you don’t apply, and you are “in the running,” which isn’t bad.</p>
<p>Good luck to you.</p>
<p>What’s not true? The fact that she is a very qualified applicant?
And yes, being Hispanic is an advantage, whether you like it or not.</p>
<p>Can you please chance me in my thread? It’s the Michigan Ross one.
Thanks</p>
<p>@legooo poetgrl is right. I really don’t have anything too great on my application except for scores, which if above that for typical admit don’t actually mean anything. My ECs suck for HYP even for URM from with limited resources, and Hispanic isn’t the hook you think it is. Please don’t respond if you are going to give generic or nonsensical answers or just get the hopes up anyone who doesn’t know better. </p>
<p>As a conclusion, any comments?</p>
<p>HYPM, Cambridge: High Reach (probably going to apply only to Princeton and just there for fun)
UPenn, UChicago, Cornell: Reach (I don’t like UChicago as much anymore.…)
UF: Match (…maybe a safety, but there has been some doubt that it could be my safety.)</p>
<p>That leaves me with four schools. Does anyone have any additional suggestions for me to apply, preferably “low reaches”—safeties are more complicated—that would be good general (pure) mathematics programs?</p>
<p>Okay legooo, I can’t resist. You are going to imply poetgirl doesn’t know what she is talking about (’‘Excellent chances at all schools.Being Hispanic is a huge hook’’… is not true) and then beg somebody to chance you? Isn’t that funny? </p>
<p>I agree op is a very qualified applicant. . Good luck. Don’t waste time here on ‘’ chances’’.</p>
<p>^^ Let’s not turn this into a Let’s-hate-legooo party. At least he tried and sometimes trying is worth a single person’s correction and some time being ignored. I actually did chance him and make serious considerations only because he asked to be chanced for one school, and I didn’t want to break the promise in the title. </p>
<p>Legooo, poetgrl has examined the thread much more thoroughly and has been a part of the discussion from early on in the thread. I have a feeling you are here just to get someone to chance you.</p>
<p>Okay: Yes, I will admit that that is partially true. I AM here so people can chance me. HOWEVER, I am also here to assist people. I’m not going to ask people to help me unless I help them.
And of all people, you should not complain. I would give a lot to be Hispanic for college admissions purposes. You should be secretly laughing right now, realizing the advantage you have over Asian folk such as myself.
That said, I have no more intention to further communicate via this thread.</p>
<p>Okay12etc, I think you may have missed my point. But hey ; I bumped your thread.</p>
<p>No, I knew what you were saying. I just have other issues with what legoo was saying. I was hoping I could overlook this person’s picking fights with other people because I had other issues with what legoo was saying.</p>
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<p>lol dude you’re a hispanic with a 2400. You’re getting into every single one of those schools</p>
<p>Obviously amazing test scores lol, pretty average ECs though, which could be a weakness. Many people apply to these schools with the same scores as you and you have to set yourself apart. Even still i think being hispanic could potentially make up for that. UF could definitely be a safety school. good luck!</p>
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<p>OP, I have an important question for you: assuming you get admitted into any one of these schools, would you be even somewhat interested in attending it? If the answer is yes, please do yourself a favor and apply to every school on your list.</p>
<p>Of course, it is absolutely impossible (and stupid) to assume you’ll get admitted into one of those colleges. However, you certainly have the objective stats to get in – though you may not be a particularly * likely * admit, the fact remains that you will be very * competitive * in the process. Don’t sell yourself short. The only way you know with 100% certainty that you won’t be admitted into one of these schools is if you don’t apply at all. And, the more you apply to, the more you increase your chances of being admitted into at least one of them and finding the school that is right for you.</p>
<p>This past year, I was rejected from Yale, Princeton, Stanford (with legacy), and Northwestern, and was waitlisted at Brown. </p>
<p>I was accepted by Harvard.</p>
<p>The lesson to take away from this is that, even if it is unlikely that you get into any individual college, it is not impossible. Of course, don’t get your hopes unjustifiably up, but also don’t be scared away from applying. If you are a competitive applicant (which you will be) and you think that a Harvard, or a Yale, or a Cambridge, Princeton, or MIT would be a good fit for you, then apply, apply, and apply. The worst that can happen is that you get rejected, in which case you move on with life at another wonderful college filled with similarly once-in-a-lifetime experiences.</p>
<p>That’s just my two cents. OP, I wish you the best of luck, as you seem like a kind, humble, and intelligent young person.</p>
<p>P.S. Look into Harvey Mudd. It still is very competitive, but I have only heard good things about it.</p>
<p>^^ College applications aren’t free and do take time. Energy and money put into applying to HYPM and similar schools—they are not even really dream schools or maybe I would still have serious considerations—is probably better spent elsewhere. The worst that can happen is that I slip into HYP enter on the appeal of prestige and financial aid and flunk out.</p>
<p>Harvard- High Reach
Yale - Reach
Princeton - Reach
MIT - Reach
Cambridge in the UK- low reach
Cornell - high match
UPenn - high match
University of Chicago - low reach
University of Florida - safety</p>
<p>I put Harvard as a category above the rest because, in my experience, their acceptances have been more erratic than the rest. I think UK schools care more about scores, so you should have an excellent chance for Cambridge.</p>
<p>Your EC’s are not amazing, but most of the effect of EC’s is based on how you craft your application around them. Your scores, within the context of college demographics, should get you into at least two of the schools I listed as reach/high reach.</p>
<p>EDIT: If you don’t mind me asking, why are you taking multiple courses in the same subject? For example, you have both Spanish III and AP Spanish, Math III and Calc BC, Honors Lit and AP Lang.</p>
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<p>This is true – though I’d argue against this line of thinking. First of all, the money. This past year, I applied to 17 different schools, and the admissions fees did add up. However, the fees are typically between $50 and $90, and, when all added together, are miniscule compared to the absolute cost of college (which in itself may be a sad reflection of how expensive college has gotten). If money is an urgent concern, you can always apply for fee waivers. In addition, as you probably well know, most of the Ivies have a great reputation for financial aid, so if you get into one and choose to attend, it could actually save you a large amount of money in the long run.</p>
<p>In terms of the time, that is a much less tangible and thus more difficult quantity to weigh. In my experiences, though, additional college applications really don’t take much time to complete once you have the Common App out of the way. Harvard, for example, has a supplement that you can literally fill out in 5 minutes (for the optional open ended essay, I just copied and pasted an essay I had written for another college app). All told, I, a very slow worker, completed the majority of the different college supplements in the span of four days – and though I don’t recommend finishing all of your supplements in such a short period of time, it still goes to show how it doesn’t take much time.</p>
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<p>Once again, I’d disagree with this claim. * If you make it into HYP, I am 97% sure that you won’t flunk out * . (97% is the 6 year graduation rate at Harvard; 87% graduate in 4 years). At these schools, hardly anybody “flunks out.” I hate constantly referring to the fact that I just went through the admissions process myself, but let me tell you two of the things I learned that may help you:
- Your perspective completely changes on colleges from the time you apply to the time you hear the admissions decisions. Once you have the acceptance letters in your hand, making the decision about where to enroll becomes much less about prestige and more about fit. Of course, each person is different, but I think most people who are ultimately admitted to selective schools have the maturity to not simply enter into a college for the appeal of prestige.<br>
- Selective colleges are not simply looking for the most qualified applicants – that’s why rejections should never be taken personally. They are looking for extremely qualified students who the admissions office believes will also fit into the school. Thus, if you happen to make it into a Harvard, Yale, or MIT, it’s not simply because you were qualified, it’s because the admissions committees at those schools believed that you could thrive there. </p>
<p>So much can change during your senior year. That’s why I’d encourage you to apply to schools that you even just * might * be interested in attending; because, in six months’ time, you might fall in love with a college you currently barely know of. In other words, don’t overly limit your options unless you are sure you wouldn’t be happy at Harvard or Yale.</p>