chance based on current acceptances?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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accepted to slo for materials engineering, ucsd for chemical engineering, ga tech for materials engineering, and i got a likely letter for UCLA.

seeking chances for UCI, UCB, CMU, columbia, MIT, Boston university, and Northeastern

Objective:
SAT I- NA
ACT-35C one sitting (36E, 34M, 35R, 35S, 24W)
SAT II’s: Math II (780), MBio (740), Physics (730)
Unweighted GPA: 3.65
Weighted GPA: 4.14
capped GPA: 4.12
Rank: School doesn’t rank
AP’s taken: Bio (4), Eng Language (4)
Senior Courses- AP Latin 4, AP Physics C, AP Literature, AP Calc BC, AP Micro/Macro, Science and Religion, History of Los Angeles
first semester grades (in order of classes listed): A-,A,B,A-,A-,A-,[spring]

Major Awards (USAMO, intel, etc…): no major awards
-Various awards for high scoring on National Latin Exams and Junior Classical League state convention tests

Subjective:
Extracurriculars
-11-12 Stage Crew of theatre program, I run one of the followspots
-11-12 club lacrosse team, we play against varsity level teams and other clubs

-9-12 President of the Gamer's Club, we discuss gaming in popular culture and professions in gaming industries, became president in 12th grade

Job Experience:
-9-12 Not sure if this would count but ran an ebay shop selling electronics to pay for my high school tuition
-10-12 PayPal reconciliation, reconciling PayPal payments with their invoices

Volunteering:
-9-12 Service at dog adoption clinic, walking, feeding, answering questions about dogs
-12 Tutoring and daycare at a k-8 catholic school
-12 I spent a month out of school to volunteer at a school helping the teacher and students. I still had morning classes and some afternoon classes.
-10 Community service trip to new Orleans with school, various works (cleaning garden for sisterhood, cleaning school for new year, cleaning horse stables for horse sanctuary)
-9 high school placement test tutoring, tutoring 7th and 8th graders in math, english, vocab for a placement test

Teacher Recommendations: AP Bio teacher and regular US history teacher, am on good terms with both of them so i think it will turn out well. Latin teacher also for MIT.
Counselor Rec: He said he spent the most time on mine, so I hope it will be good. I have an excellent relationship with him, I talk to him the most about college and issues and I always bring him a sample of the desserts I make for classes.

Essays:
-Common App is ok, feels a bit weak, it’s about how I revived my school’s gamers club with tours of big companies and tournaments and fun stuff because i really
-GA tech im doing the make your own class and talking about how budget cooking needs to be a class so people can learn how to sustain themselves without relying on food halls or restaurants
-mit i talk about cooking, dog adoptions, struggling with social skills, taking risks from video games, and materials engineering
-columbia i talk about cooking and about how i want to help legitimize a collegiate e-sports scene at Columbia
-UC talked about reviving school gaming club, baking, dog adoptions, and social skills with theatre.

Other:
prospective major: Materials Science and Engineering
Strengths: Test scores, STEM classes, being blacc, taking the most advanced courses available to me senior year
Weaknesses: English (straight B from 10-11 grade while i was getting A or A- in every other subject), Theology (B+ avg),
no crazy amazing EC just the stuff that i am personally passionate about, GPA for reach schools, writing score for ACT LUL
State: CA
School Type: Private religious
Ethnicity: African American
Sex: Male
Income Bracket: 200k
Hooks: URM

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I don’t see how you won’t get into BU, but your UW GPA is a bit low for Columbia/MIT, and your UC GPA is a bit below average for Cal. That ACT might make up for your GPA at Cal, but your ECs also don’t show much STEM involvement for MIT. However, with Cal, CMU, MIT, Ivies, it’s a crapshoot for everyone soooo
Good luck and enjoy the ride?

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Your UW GPA is pretty low for top schools, and your ECs aren’t that focused, but your ACT is good. Common app being weak may be an issue.
I’d say:
UCI: Accept
UCB: Waitlist
CMU: Reject (I hear engineering is super hard)
Columbia: Reject
MIT: Reject
Boston university: Accept
Northeastern: Accept

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^ that’s probably pretty likely

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  • got a rec recommendation from Berkeley
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@writergirl0316 straight facts, shes right @LookAtThisNet

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Hey! Your GPA as most pointed out is weak and I disagree that you can make up for this loss through ACT or any other aspect of your application. Usually, GPA is more important because of it evaluates you over a longer period of time and a larger scope. More importantly, as I said before it is an independent part of your application. So, I would say keep ready for whatever may happen. However, your ACT is strong and you don’t need to worry about that. It will give you a fair advantage. Your ECs aren’t focused, but they certainly show involvement and initiative to help yourself and relieve the pressure on your parents/guardians. So I’d say:

UCI: Accept
UCB: Accept
(The rec request doesn’t mean much from the admissions point of view apart from the fact that they may want to confirm some activity or know more about you. I know people who didn’t get them and still got in)

CMU: Reject (The CIT and SCS are really weird)
Columbia: Reject
MIT: Reject
Boston university: Accept
Northeastern: Accept

Keep up the work no matter where you go for college! It’s nice to know about you! Best of Luck!

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You guys have been very accurate so far lol. In at UCI NE and BU and reject at MIT, BUT I actually did get into CMU for CIT and MCS