Chance at top schools and Harvard?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>b]Objective:**[ul]</p>

<p>[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2400 superscore - 2350 single sitting (800 M, 800 WR, 750 CR)
[</em>] ACT: Not available
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Chem, 800 US History,
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8x
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 15%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Euro (4), Calc BC (5), Psychology (5), English Lang (5), US History (5), Human Geography (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): Not available
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Statistics, AP English Lit., French 4 Honors, Latin Literature Honors, AP Art History, AP Chemistry
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commended, 2 x Gold Medal - National Latin Exam (one is a perfect score on the NLE), National Qualifier and State Awards for Business Professionals of America, 2 x State Champion in Latin
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Indoor Track and Field (4 years), Outdoor Track and Field (4 years), Cross Country (3 years), BPA (3 years and an officer position), Links (volunteer organization, officer position + 3 years), Investment Club (3 years, leader of section), Origami Club (tentative co-president), YPA (treasurer + 3 years).<br>
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: None
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Volunteer a local community center and tutoring. Will have accrued 200-300 hours by senior year.
[<em>] Summer Activities: Traveling + some math/science thing (not really prestigious)
[</em>] Essays: Good
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: She loves me
[li] Additional Rec: Good</p>[/li]
<p>[list]Other[/ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): IL
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): USA
[<em>] School Type: Newsweek Top 100 (very competitive public high school)
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None</p>

<p>This is for one of my friends who asked me to do this. </p>

<p>Here is what he is looking at: UChicago, WUSTL, Harvard, Duke, Northwestern, UIUC, UPenn, Brown, Cornell, Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, UC - Berkeley, UCLA</p>

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<p>Academics are the best they can be as far as SATs go; however, taken at face value, gpa looks a little weak. But i’m guessing it’s more due to grade deflation than poor academic preformance. Right off the bat, Harvard is a significant reach - something probably mainly the highest academic achievers at your high school have a shot at. However the rest are within grasp as you have demonstrated leadership on top of your good academics. You’re in Vanderbilt (scholarship), CMU, UIUC, UMichigan, UCB, and UCLA. Very good shot at Northwestern, WUSTL, UChicago. Decent shot at Duke, Penn. But I’m kinda suggesting these chances as though your gpa/rank would be perceived the same as a top 2%er at a decent, only slightly competitive public high school b/c I honestly have no perspective on how good your gpa/rank is within your school. How did other kids with your gpa/rank in other years do?</p>

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<p>My GPA isn’t in the top-tier of the school mainly because I took all non-honors classes as a freshman (grade deflation is also an issue, but not as much), a result of moving into a new school with no option to take placement tests. The people around my rank normally go to UIUC, Northwestern, and other colleges of the same prestige; and most, if not all, of the Ivy League acceptances are those with GPA’s of 5.9x or recruited athletes.</p>

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<p>Ok, thanks for the perspective. Didn’t realize people can get 5.9s! Given that academics are such a huge part of the top school admissions formulas, I would place Duke and Penn as notably higher reaches than I initially thought. Would also move NU, WUSTL, UChicago, down into the “decent” shot category, and the others more as low reaches. Your SATs are solid which could compensate a little.</p>

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<p>The rank will make most of these schools impossible. If you’re not top 10%, you need to be an athlete or URM. The state schools and CMU are the only possibilities I see here.</p>

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<p>So the upward trend of my GPA, coupled with the fact that my guidance counselor would most likely explain that I couldn’t take any honors classes during my freshman year, wouldn’t make up for it?</p>

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<p>Whoops. I was accounting the weighted GPA’s instead of the unweighted. I have around a 5.7x weighted GPA and a 3.8 unweighted GPA. The kids in the top-tier have about a 3.9 unweighted and and a 5.9 unweighted.</p>

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<p>Where is the focus?</p>

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<p>The ivies and peers accept under 5% that were not top 10% in their class. The few percent they’ll do this for (as it impacts rankings) meet some institutional need.</p>

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<p>Can you elaborate on that?</p>

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<p>Thank you for responding. I appreciate your insight.</p>

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<p>Lol you put that it was for your friend, but used first person …</p>

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<p>“Can you elaborate on that?”</p>

<p>I see nothing in EC’s that stands out. Origami club?? I think the Ivies won’t care about this at all, unless you are a specifically craftsy person, but you seem to be going for Math/Science.</p>

<p>“Lol you put that it was for your friend, but used first person …”</p>

<p>I would be shocked if anyone created an account to ask a question just “for a friend”. But does it really matter? I mean, who cares if it’s his dog. He just wants you to give an opinion based on the information provided.</p>

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<p>Lol, just pointing something out. anyway, it seems your a good applicant stats-wise, but nothing stands out.</p>

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<p>great SAT score, little bit low on the GPA, and ORM will hurt you, but I think that you’ve got a good chance at Vanderbilt , CMU, UIUC, UMich, UCB, and UCLA. Better chance at at Northwestern, Washington U in STL, UChicago, and I would say reaches for the rest.</p>