Chance an Asian for UPenn, Columbia, MIT, Others

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Well, college app season has officially started (for me at least) and I was wondering what my chances are for a couple of top schools.</p>

<p>I go to a large public high school that sends sends 5-6 kids to HYPSM schools each year.</p>

<p>Here are my stats, will I sink or float?</p>

<p>SAT: 780 CR, 800 Math, 710 Writing (2290 total)
SAT II: 800 Math II, 780 USH
GPA: 4.0 Unweighted/ 4.5 Weighted
Rank: 5/1000ish
APs: English Lang (5), Calculus BC (5), HGAP (5), Stats (5), Spanish Lang (5), Chinese (5),Comp Sci (4), APUSH (4)</p>

<p>Awards: National merit, National AP Scholar, various science fair awards</p>

<p>EC's/Leadership
- 2 Summers of research at reputable universities
- 2 published papers in peer-reviewed journals
- Co-founder of school's math club
- VP/Pres. of science club
- 2nd place at State Science Fair
- 2nd place at ISWEEEP (an international Science Fair)
- 6 years of instrument
- worked in an accounting firm for 4 months
- independent math research
- taking Multivariable Calc. + Linear Algebra at local univeristy next semester
*(small) possibility of Siemens regional finalist </p>

<p>I think my recs should be relatively good - most of my teachers like me. Essays will really good too, I will start working on them once schools post them</p>

<p>I am interested in business/finance but will be alright with engineering as well (i realize my EC's are heavily math/science based - will that hurt me for schools like Yale and Wharton?)</p>

<p>What are my chances at:</p>

<p>-UPenn SEAS - with my stats, should I apply here ED and try and get a lock, or should I try my luck for more difficult schools
-Wharton (if my chances are good, i might apply here over SEAS, considering it is the dream school for everyone who wants to do business)
-Columbia SEAS
-MIT
-Princeton
-Stanford
-Yale
-Caltech
-Cornell
-UChicago
-WUSTL
-Duke</p>

<p>Pleasee chance me, all opinions welcome. Thanks!</p>

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<p>Hi, I’m going to admit right now I’m new and not very good at this, but I hope I can help :slight_smile:
Try to take maybe one more SAT II.
I’m not sure if you should retake the SAT or not- most of the points you lost were in the writing section, which is a very coach-able section (it’s all memorizing grammar) and can be easily surmounted with studying (unlike reading, which is harder to learn) but then, you did really well at reading and math, and writing isn’t really that important of a section. It’s your decision.
You have pretty good ECs from what I’ve seen. I think you should try a higher school like HYPS for EA</p>

<p>Good Luck!!!
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<p>Your SAT’s fine, anything over 2250 is generally the same to any college. You should try taking the SAT II for lit, chinese, and spanish. Awards are ok and EC’s are a tad below average. Some schools only want CR and Math so you’d have a 1580/1600 which is very good. Nothing stands out of the EC in my opinion other than the math interest, but anyone applying to the same schools as you would be the same. Math essays can be very interesting or very dull. I would have a couple math teachers see what they think of it before you apply.</p>

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<p>thankss for the chances guys!! bumppp</p>

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<p>^ Ignore the chronic ■■■■■.</p>

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<p>Your science fair and research participation will take you a long way. You are academically strong and your EC’s sound decent as well. However, since your EC’s aren’t all that diverse, you might have some trouble at:
Princeton and Yale. Perhaps you should apply SEAS to both schools. </p>

<p>Btw, if you become a Siemens Regional Finalist, that will help you all the more. Let me know how that turns out =D. </p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>OP, everything looks solid.</p>

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<p>thanks for the chances.</p>

<p>^^gethenian, i’ll be sure to let you know :]</p>

<p>^silverturtle, do you think I have what it takes to go for HYPSM (RD) or should I play it safe and apply ED to Penn/Columbia SEAS.</p>

<p>bumppity bumpp</p>

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<p>I would ED to only the school you would be very happy to go to if accepted. (within reason)</p>

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<p>That should not be the mentality. Apply ED only if that school is your number one choice; if not, don’t. You are a competitive applicant for any school.</p>

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<p>^ hmm, well my 1st choice is actually MIT, but my UPenn is a close 2nd. I think I have comfortable chances at Penn but not so much for MIT, so maybe ED’ing Penn is my best choice…tough decisions ahahah.</p>

<p>anyways, thankss for the comments!! more chances welcome :]</p>

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<p>Any differences in selectivity between Wharton and Penn are negligible. Don’t apply ED.</p>

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<p>WOW. This guy (or girl) has been published TWICE. That’s amazing. Those alone will seriously bump up your ec quality.</p>

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<p>Looks pretty solid</p>

<p>-UPenn SEAS - with my stats, should I apply here ED and try and get a lock, or should I try my luck for more difficult schools Low Reach
-Wharton (if my chances are good, i might apply here over SEAS, considering it is the dream school for everyone who wants to do business) Reach
-Columbia SEAS Reach
-MIT Reach
-Princeton Reach
-Stanford Reach
-Yale Reach
-Caltech High Match
-Cornell Match
-UChicago Match
-WUSTL - In
-Duke -Math</p>

<p>Its likely you will get into one of the CYMPS</p>

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<p>Given your tech background, I STRONGLY encourage you to look into the Jerome Fischer M&T program at UPenn. It is a very competitive and extremely prestigious program that lets you graduate with two bachelor’s degrees in four years–one from Wharton and one from SEAS.</p>

<p>While a school like Caltech has a very strong engineering program, you are unlikely to get any exposure at all to business/finance and you will probably find the students there to have different interests than you.</p>