Chance at UCs, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Asian Male
California resident
SAT: 2310
SAT 2: 800/800/790
4.0 uw gpa, hardest courseload at school
Rank 2/600
AP: all 5s, one 4</p>

<p>Honors/Award:<br>
NMSF
AP Scholar w/ Distinction
Some departmental awards at school</p>

<p>ECs
4 years of band (section leader)
2 years of baseball (co-captain)
120 hours of community service</p>

<p>Work for family business (FT summer and PT schoolyear)</p>

<p>Great recs and essays</p>

<p>Harvard
Princeton
Stanford
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UCSD
UC Irvine (ELC, safety)</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>good chances @ all. </p>

<p>I’d say in @ all UCs.</p>

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<p>i am sure you have some more ec’s and awards right? If not stanford is gonna be tough to get in.</p>

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<p>HYPs and Stanford are fickle. good chances but u never know… ur in for UCs though</p>

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<p>ECs are pretty standard. I’m not sure where leadership/impactfulness (if that’s a word) can be inferred from those ECs. Everything else is just fantastic.</p>

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<p>in @ the UC’s</p>

<p>Stats are good for HYPS, but I don’t see any uniqueness. There will be tons of other applicants with your stats (and better) applying to HYPS, you need to set yourself apart from the others.</p>

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<p>Great scores and GPA, but you’ll need more than that to get into elite privates and the top UCs. Contrary to popular belief, a high GPA and SAT don’t make all the UCs easy to get into – Berkeley and UCLA reject plenty of students like you if they can’t distinguish themselves. From what I can see, your ECs/awards are rather bland. I’d say:</p>

<p>Harvard: reach
Stanford: reach
Princeton: reach
Berkeley: slight reach (50-50)
UCLA: high match (~60%)
UCSD: safety
UCI: safety</p>

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<p>Harvard: reach
Stanford: reach
Princeton: reach
Berkeley: high match
UCLA: perfect match
UCSD: safety
UCI: safety</p>

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<p>Are you a CA Resident? If so, Berkeley is a match/safety, because for CA Residents Berkeley admission is usually much easier…their 25th percentile is in the 500’s for SAT scores, and since your SAT’s are WAYYYY above their 75th percentile, its a good match/low-match.</p>

<p>Depends though what major ur applying too. If Engineering then its a high match.</p>

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<p>Berkeley is a safety for no one. (Why in the world would you consider a university with a near-20% acceptance rate a “safety”? That’s not safe at all.)</p>

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<p>That’s misleading. In comparison to OOS, I wouldn’t say “much easier,” but “not as difficult.” But in-state is extremely difficult; with over 40,000 in-state applicants, you can see why they have to be so selective.</p>

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<p>The CR and W is 590 (yes, 1 increment from 600). The M is 620.</p>

<p>That, too, is misleading, because Berkeley doesn’t superscore the SAT. The superscored 25th-percentiles are something about: 630, 680, 630.</p>

<p>Not to mention that that doesn’t mean that 25% of the class had below a combined 1940, but rather, 25% had below a 630 on CR (but perhaps much higher on M and W), etc.</p>

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<p>I don’t think that matters a whole lot. Berkeley isn’t phased by high numbers; it rejects plenty of students with them. Plus, GPA, rigor of course load, and essays are “very important.” Scores, ECs, etc. are “important.” And unfortunately, the OP’s ECs/awards are somewhat lacking.</p>

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<p>Engineering is very competitive (considering it’s consistently ranked with MIT and Stanford), and for someone whose ECs/awards have nothing to do with engineering, it can’t be just a “high match.”</p>

<p>(Why do people pass on such bad information on CC?)</p>

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<p>in at all, but those privates are random we gotta know that.</p>

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<p>ok, thanks, guys.</p>

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<p>Update:</p>

<p>Accepted at:</p>

<p>Stanford
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UCSD (Regents)</p>

<p>Good luck to all of you…</p>