Chance a Rising Senior

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>First, I define tier one as Ivy League, Oxford/Cambridge, Stanford, MIT, CalTech, Cal Berkley, University of Chicago, Duke and Schreyers Honors College at Penn State.</p>

<p>Prospective Major: Double Major; Nuclear Engineering and Middle Eastern Studies</p>

<p>Stats:
Weighted GPA: 4.78
Unweighted GPA: 3.98
2380 SAT (M 800, CR 790, W 790)
Top 10 of Class of 700, so around top 1.5%</p>

<p>Male, non-URM
No legacy at any of these schools, but education was instilled in me as a necessity as my father has a Ph.D. and is a Professor, and my mother has an MBA.</p>

<p>SAT II
Chemistry: 800
Physics: 800
US History: 800</p>

<p>EC's:
President of chapter; KIVA Micro-finance Charity
President of chapter; National Forensics Honor Society
President of chapter; Pennsylvania Bar Mock Trial
President of chapter; Model United Nations
Polar Ambassador: Educated students across the country about ocean acidification and its effects on aquatic life. My LE teacher was selected by the NSF to go to Antarctica to do research on polar acidification.</p>

<p>Extra's:
National Latin Exam: Summa Cum Laude 4X Latin I, II, III, IV
Semi-Finalist Princeton Forensics Tournament; Public Forum Debate
Semi-Finalist Harvard Forensics Tournament; Public Forum Debate, State Finalist in Mock Trial- Best Advocate and Best Witness (Top 12 out of >300 schools)</p>

<p>Research experience at Penn State. Worked with a Professor who is in the process of curing Leukemia, his preliminary data has been collected on mice with his treatment having a 100% survival rate.</p>

<p>AP's: 5 on all, and A's in all college classes, so 6 AP + 5 PSUmath + 3 Classics= 14 overall college level classes, with all 5's or A's</p>

<p>5, AP USH
5, AP US GOV
5, AP Physics C: Mechanics
5, AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism
5, AP Lit
5, AP Lang</p>

<p>5 Math Classes through Penn State:
Math 41, Math 140, Math 141, Math 230, Math 231</p>

<p>3 Classics Classes through Penn State:
Greek Civilization, Near Eastern and Egyptian Mythology, and Introduction to Middle Egyptian & Hieroglyphics</p>

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<p>Wow, your resume is impressive. Your grades and scores are all top-notch. Just make sure to show passion for your chosen majors by relating your EC’s to them, and you have a really good chance! Speaking of chance, would you chance me for Princeton? Thanks a million and good luck!
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<p>Thanks, I chanced you.</p>

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<p>Wow, an incredible resume, especially strong on academics. I’d say shoot for Cambridge. I’ve been there and its beautiful plus probably the best school on earth. Chance me back? Thread is “Oh might CC gods…”</p>

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<p>Great scores and GPA, EC’s are stellar and not excessive. They could be more geared towards intended major, but that is okay. However, classes taken through Penn State show your academic interest which is good.</p>

<p>I have heard from a few friends to be careful about taking dual enrollment classes. They say this because if you earn a certain amount of credits, you will be required to apply to other colleges and universities as a transfer student. I do not know the validity behind this though.</p>

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<p>with the amazing resume you definitely a good chance to all of those schools. i say shoot for mit or cambridge!! please chance me!! thank you sooo much!!
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<p>Can I have your stats? These are great. Now can you chance me please? Thanks. And I think you have a good chance at all of those. If they turn you down, then they made a mistake…</p>

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<p>Thanks to everyone who has chanced. I have had a change of heart many times through my High School career, starting with finance in freshmen year (hence the KIVA), followed by wanting to become a lawyer (hence Forensics and Mock Trial), and more recently, to become a diplomat, as evidenced by Model UN. However, I still feel like all these are connected, and tat I can weave these together, with finance having an increasingly international scope, and KIVA also being a charity, it acts as one of my community service, serving its duty. Forensics and Mock Trial may be geared towards law, but effective speaking skills are necessary, especially with more languages vying for attention in the international arena; if you can’t speak properly, more often than not, people won’t talk to you. An example of the affects of Forensics: Model UN is infinitely easier. The research takes me half the time it takes the entire team, and my speaking skills & people skills are better. I will hopefully tie all of these into my essay.</p>

<p>@nosleepforme
I hope that’s not true. The great thing is that if I go to Penn State, I can graduate with my BS and my MS in four years, I wouldn’t have to take math, or any General Humanities, or International Cultures. I have 28 credits from Penn State, but I wouldn’t be applying as a transfer because I was never a full-time student at Penn State, I was a non-degree student.</p>

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<p>Your numbers are very similar to what I had two years ago.</p>

<p>This is what I think.</p>

<p>HYP: High Reach (It is not you! They are HYP.)
Columbia, Penn, Dartmouth, Brown, Chicago, and Duke: Reach (Again, it is not you. They are reach schools for almost everybody.)
Cornell: Very solid chances
UCB: Great chances</p>

<p>Penn State: Safety</p>

<p>You will get into some great colleges. Do your best then hope for the best.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

<p>Non URM means non ORM either. Right?</p>

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<p>And,
MIT and Cal Tech: High reach</p>

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<p>Thanks 20more. I know MIT and Caltech are high reaches because I didn’t do any math competitions, and I now regret it. I feel like I am a balanced person though (in the eyes of the adcoms), as I have the math (Asian…) but I also have the liberal arts in the Classics, something I truly love but there’s not career in. </p>

<p>Thanks everybody for the chances!</p>

<p>And let me add Imperial College London to the list, I have been doing some research and that looks like a sick place to go to school.</p>

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<p>Bump Bumpp</p>

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<p>Bump Bumpp</p>

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<p>Bump Bumpp</p>

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<p>Bumppppp bump</p>

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<p>Bumppppp bump</p>

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<p>Bumpity bump</p>

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<p>Everything looks good. Solid chances most places. Make sure you take a math subject test if you’re applying to MIT/Caltech.</p>

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<p>If you can get your BS from Penn State so soon, why don’t you aim for Penn State for undergraduate and apply to Ivy Leagues and other reach schools for graduate school? I’m sure based on your performance in high school that you will preform just as well, if not better, at Penn to be a shoe in for your reach schools.</p>

<p>Just a thought.</p>

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<p>@nosleepforme</p>

<p>I have been considering that, and if I get into one of the schools I am applying to, I will be in quite a dilemma. If I graduate in four years with a MS as well, I can apply to several programs and still be competitive.</p>