Chance Columbia/UPenn/Cornell/CMU/UMich/Northwestern/Georgia Tech/RPI

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Schools: Columbia (Fu School), UPenn (School of Engineering), Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, University of Michigan- Ann Arbor, Northwestern, Georgia Tech, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute </p>

<p>Year: 11
State: Maine
Gender: Female
Race: Caucasian
Major: Engineering</p>

<p>-Unweighted GPA (4-point scale): 3.84 (our school has a 7 point grading scale, so a 92 is a B)</p>

<p>-Weighted GPA (5-point scale) -- don't have any sort of weighted GPA at our school</p>

<p>-Schedule- I have taken the most difficult schedule possible. Sophomore/Junior/predicted Senior Year all AP and Honors classes with the exception of Spanish 2 and 3 in sophomore year and 4 in junior year. I will hopefully do an engineering internship at a research lab either during the summer, senior year, or both. Have done an independent study in ecology and will do one in economics next year.</p>

<p>-class rank/size- ranked 4th (unweighted rank) out of 100 students</p>

<p>-SAT/ACT scores -- Writing -750- Critical Reading -760- Math -790-</p>

<p>-SAT II scores- Am taking SAT IIs in a few months, Am going to take 4 of them, should do well, have gotten above 700s on all the practice tests</p>

<p>-ECs --
Elected Student Council
Varsity Spring Sailing <em>team captain</em>
Club Fall Sailing
Interact <em>treasurer and then president</em>
"Varsity" math team
Spanish Club
Pit Orchestra
Model UN
Student representative on a school committee to prepare the school's curriculum for our 10 year inspection.
Chosen to be the only student representative on the district's service learning committee, a board of about 40 members. Was elected to be the chair of a subcommittee and have worked on surveys and forums to change the service learning curriculum for the freshmen. </p>

<p>-Volunteer-
over 100 hours
work as a regular volunteer at the local food pantry's non-profit second hand store.
Random hours from national park service, helping at the library, working at school events, etc.</p>

<p>-Employment -- Worked at a clothing store the summer before junior year 40 hours a week the entire summer and 25 hours a week into November to raise money to go to Costa Rica for a science/humanitarian trip.</p>

<p>-honors/awards --
honor roll- every semester
took 2nd out of 50 teams in a statewide environmental engineering competition</p>

<p>Hook: lived in rural, native Alaska for the first 13 years of my life. Went to a school that was entirely taught in the native language, Yup'ik, and I am completely fluent in that.
I am also interested in going into engineering, and as a female, that is somewhat rare.</p>

<p>Essay: Something about Alaska, because that really defined who I am. </p>

<p>Recommendations:
I've had teachers approach me saying they would love to write recommendations. A lot of them are the advisers on the clubs that I am on, so know me as a leader as well as a student.</p>

<p>*The schools I want to go to are all such selective schools and impossible to get in to. While I was working this fall while doing all of my extracurriculars I messed up in school for a few weeks and subsequently got three 92's, dropping my GPA a lot. I just was wondering if these schools are out of my reach because of that blip. I have gotten all A's or A+'s and I just was wondering if you could chance or give opinions on if I should lower my standards or have more safety schools.</p>

<p>Also, I know my schedule/EC's are a little random and not engineering specific, but I have used high school to test the waters and figure out what I want to do with my life. Do you think that the randomness will look bad or be a sign that I am enthusiastic and passionate?</p>

<p>Basically, I just want to know if I am looking in a good range or if you think these are out of the question and should focus lower*</p>

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<p>Ok. youre in to upenn, cornell and rpi in my opinion. i had friends to get into each and your stats are much better. chance me? <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1102490-transfer-chances-northeastern-fordham.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1102490-transfer-chances-northeastern-fordham.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Solid academics, solid EC’, and love your hook.</p>

<p>Columbia (Fu School)
UPenn (School of Engineering)
Stanford
Northwestern </p>

<p>^^will be your challenges, but I would say you have a good shot at at least 1 or 2. </p>

<p>Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, University of Michigan- Ann Arbor, Georgia Tech, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute </p>

<p>^^ You should have excellent chance for positive admission outcome at these schools.</p>

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<p>Low Reach - Columbia, UPenn, Stanford, Northwestern
These are generally reaches for everyone so yeah. </p>

<p>Match - Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, UM: Ann Arbor</p>

<p>Safety - Georgia Tech, RPI</p>

<p>The match and reaches could change depending on how well you do on your subject tests.</p>

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<p>^^^</p>

<p>GT and RPI are just as competive as Michigan. Don’t think any of those three are true safety schools for anyone. Don’t get me wrong I think you have an excellent chance to get in but not quite safeties.</p>

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<p>I’m going to disagree with you. I know quite a few subpar students who got into both these schools. By subpar I mean less than 1900~ and like a 3.4~ GPA nor have any spectacular achievements or contributions.</p>

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<p>^^^</p>

<p>Every school has outliers. Just take a look at the data as a whole. RPI’s 25th - 75th percentile SAT was 1280-1450 last year with ACT 26-30. Cornell is about 1290 -1500 SAT
with 28-32 ACT. RPI and GT students are close to Cornell caliber and easily on par with Michigan.</p>

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<p>I think other than Penn, Columbia, and Stanford, </p>

<p>You have a good chance of getting in.</p>

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<p>Whatever, I’m rating based on what I learned in my senior year and how others did around me. In general, it isn’t ranked as high and nearly everyone that I know that wanted to go, got in. And I’m not talking about a few, like 10-15 for both. I’m done talking here, he asked me to chance him and I did.</p>

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<p>@rico2: cornell’s act range is 29-33 according to collegeboard, and plus, that’s only going to get higher in the coming years.</p>

<p>if you want proof type in cornell collegesearch and click on the first link</p>

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<p>You have really good stats and you certainly show leadership. I’d say you have a good chance at all of these schools.</p>

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<p>I believe you are well-qualified enough to get accepted to Cornell, University of Michigan- Ann Arbor, Georgia Tech, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Carnegie Mellon, UPenn and Northwestern. Stanford and Columbia are universally coin flips. Good luck!</p>

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<p>University of Michigan, Northwestern, Georgia Tech, and RPI are schools that you are very well qualified to get into. UMich offers very good connections as undergrad, so out of those colleges, if you get in all of them, definitely consider that. Your testing is solid and EC’s are solid, just study up for those SATII’s. Make sure you get a good range of tests (math, science, socialstudies/English).</p>

<p>Cornell and Carnegie Mellon are schools that are gonna be a somewhat reach for you, but if you perform well this year, you’ll have good chances.</p>

<p>A lot of people haven’t considered that your school is on a seven point scale and that you lived in Alaska for the first 13 years of your life. These factors should give you a boost.</p>

<p>Stanford
UPenn (School of Engineering)
Columbia (Fu School)</p>

<p>Are reaches, but they are gonna depend on what you do from now up until you apply to college if you are a junior. Good luck!</p>

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<p>Apart from Stanford and Columbia, you have a good shot at all others. </p>

<p>Taking into account that hook, I have a feeling you might just make the cut to either of the two as well. Makes you ‘jump out of the page’.</p>

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<p>Female in engineering, 2300 SAT, Top 5% of class, captain of a sports team and a very different life experience that stands out from the crowd. I wouldn’t be surprised if you got into every last one of them and get early acceptance “likely” letters from more than a few.</p>

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<p>I suggest adding MIT and Princeton to your list. My daughter has just been accepted to MIT & applied to and/or looked into many of the schools on your list. Your GPA WILL NOT be an issue, as long as it continues to be mostly A’s. Your ECs show leadership & enthusiasm for life & are in line with what admitted students to all these schools list. </p>

<p>Your recommendations and essays will be critical, both for getting into the reach schools and for getting generous scholarships from schools that have merit aid. The whole process is very time consuming & expensive, and for students like you with many ECs and tough academics, you’ll want to prioritize the list so you can spend the most time on the applications that are most important to you. And you’ll want to give your recommenders sufficient time to write detailed personal recs. </p>

<p>So start looking at the schools (websites, info sessions, & campus visits) as soon as you can and try to narrow down the list based on your preferences for academic programs, location, etc. Consider the full range of majors offered at each school, so that you have acceptable options if you find that engineering isn’t for you.</p>

<p>Also, be aware if financial aid is an issue, the schools in this list are either (1) so extremely selective that no one can assume they get in or (2) they don’t guarantee to meet full need & the competition for the merit dollars has been extremely fierce this year. So make sure you also apply somewhere that you can be guaranteed admission and can definitely afford.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>Columbia-Reach, but I think you have a better chance than some other applicants.
UPenn- Same as Columbia
Stanford- See above
Cornell- High Match
CMU- High Match
UMich- Match
Northwestern- High Match/Match, kind of in between the two.
Georgia Tech- Match
RPI- Low Match</p>

<p>Your resume is very good. You have a very interesting hook and I’m sure your essay will really stand out. You have demonstrated a lot of leadership through your ECs, even if they are a little random. I think that you have a great chance at all of these schools, even Stanford, UPenn, and Columbia.</p>

<p>Thanks for chancing me earlier and best of luck!</p>

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<p>Just to balance your expectations, and contrary to assessments made by HandyHue and LJGoBlue, I think you will find that Northwestern University is likely a more difficult admission challenge than either Carnegie Mellon or Cornell.</p>

<p>Again, I think you have reasonable chances at all of your choices.</p>

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<p>Columbia-Reach
UPenn- Reach
Stanford- Reach
Cornell- High Match
CMU- High Match
UMich- Match
Northwestern- High Match/Match
Georgia Tech- Match
RPI- Low Match</p>