chance a kid from midwest for top colleges

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>i was wondering if you guys could evaluate my chances for the top schools in the country for undergrad computer science.</p>

<p>I am applying to
MIT
Stanford
Carnegie Mellon
University of California-Berkeley (I applied to the college of letters and science program here instead of the engineering program)
UC Los Angeles
UC San Diego
Cornell
University of Washington
Yale
Princeton
Caltech</p>

<p>Activities:
Computer Science Club - Founder in grade 11. President for grades 11 and 12. I coordinate our activities, and we compete in American Computer Science League (ACSL) competitions.
High School Table Tennis Club - Vice President in grade 11 and President in grade 12
Table Tennis Club - participant for grades 7-12 (club in town)
Chess Club - Cofounder in grade 11. participant in grade 12.
First Robotics Team - programmer for grades 9-12
Spell Bowl - participant in grades 10, 11, and 12
National Honor Society - participant in grades 11 and 12
Math Superbowl - Participant for grades 9-12
JV Tennis - participant in grades 9-11
Varsity Tennis - participant in grade 12
Staff Parish Committee member at church - I was selected to be on this committee in grade 11
Youth Board – I was selected to be on this committee in grade 12
Church Youth Group - participant for grades 6-12</p>

<p>Volunteering through my Church - 291 hours of volunteering in high school through 2 new orleans missions trips(one during spring break of 2010 and one during summer of 2010), 1 jamaica mission trip(summer after freshman year), service projects, and service to the underprivileged - This is for grades 9-12.</p>

<p>Awards:
AP scholar - grade 11
American Computer Science League top scoring student ribbon at my high school - grade 11
Regional champions for math superbowl in our class division – grade 11
State Champions for math superbowl in our class division - grade 11
Spell Bowl Regional Champs – grades 10, 11, 12
Spell bowl State Finalists - grades 10, 11, 12
Regional Champions for our First Robotics Team - grade 10
Medals won through table tennis tournaments - grades 7-11
High School academic awards - grades 10,11
Tennis conference champions – grades 9, 10, 11, 12
Tennis Sectional champions – grades 11, 12
Tennis Regional winners – grade 11
Tennis Regional finalists – grade 12
Tennis Mental Attitude award – grade 12
Tennis Academic Excellence award – grade 12 (highest gpa on team)
Tennis Academic all-state award – grade 12</p>

<p>All A's except for freshman year when I got a B in honors english. I will probably get a B in AP English Lit in my senior year. (same teacher teaches both classes and she's really tough)
Class Rank: 8 out of 202
Weighted GPA: 12.0444 (out of 12)
I have taken and am taking all my high school's honors and AP courses. Since there were no more advanced classes to take, I am taking a college class at a local community college for dual credit.</p>

<p>I also took 4 ap tests in my junior year while only have 1 ap class.
AP US History: 2 (had a horrible class for this. teachers did not teach anything, and i decided not to self study for this one.)
AP psychology: 5
AP US government: 5
AP Computer Science A: 3 (received a 3 because did not study and only wanted to evaluate skills in Java that I learned from my high school programming class.)
SAT:
Math - 770
Writing - 570
Reading - 610
I'm going to retake the SAT, and this time I've studied my grammar and vocab and taken many practice tests. I'm hoping I can get somewhere in the 700s for writing, and I'm hoping I'll break 700 for reading.</p>

<p>SAT IIs
math level 2 - 800
chemistry - 730 </p>

<p>Pretty good rec letters talking about how I overcome adversity.(each evaluator has seen me go through different situations of adversity)</p>

<p>Hook: my father has a mental illness, and we are relatively poor so I've written about the stuff we endured as a family, and how I came out of it stronger. Plus, I've mentioned in some applications that I intend to write a book about my mother and father because they have a pretty amazing story, and my father's life is kinda like the movie, A beautiful mind. I think my family situation can help make me diverse from the other applicants.</p>

<p>For those of you who have read this, thanks and please give me some feedback!</p>

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<p>MIT - reach
Stanford - high reach
Carnegie Mellon - high match
University of California-Berkeley - high match
UC Los Angeles - high match
UC San Diego - match
Cornell - low reach
University of Washington - high safety
Yale - super reach
Princeton - super reach
Caltech - high reach</p>

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<p>I’m straight out of the LAC scene, so I don’t know too too much about any big name colleges, but I applied to UC Berkeley as well! (I actually found this thread trying to do more research on Berkeley stats.) I can’t say this for everyone, but people that have been through a lot, generally have a greater capacity for fEeLiNg and if they aren’t broken by their experiences, are wonderful resilient people. i think your essay can do a lot for you. your ecs are really interesting, and it looks like you’re taking full advantage of the platter your school has to offer. i’m gonna have to say that your sats are on the weak side. or, i mean… very tilted. almost… too tilted. but your sat 2s are naaice. dunno if this would be your thing, but you might try bowdoin in maine. it’s testing optional and really rich and one of the LACs that can actually do science, haha. being from the midwest will definitely give you a leg up there, and you don’t have to submit a test. BEST OF LUCK KIDDO! i’m rootin for yah!</p>

<p>p.s. read some nietzsche-- he was not a nazi!
you might like him</p>

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<p>holy moly. what i would do for some rice pudding right now!</p>

<p>strange craving…</p>