Chance for California Schools! Thanks!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Thank you so much for helping me! I will chance back :)
White/Caucasian
Public School in NJ: 700 students
UW GPA: 3.84
W GPA: 4.09
UC GPA: 4.07</p>

<p>SAT: Math=710 CR= 650 W= 670 TOTAL: 2030</p>

<p>AP Tests: 5: Micro
4: Environmental</p>

<p>9-11th grade: 4 Honors courses
2 AP Courses</p>

<p>12th Schedule: AP Calc, AP GovPol, AP Macro, Honors Lit 4, Human Development or AP Psych, Academic Internship Program</p>

<pre><code> *Concussions forced me to have to take a less demanding schedule (constant headaches, memory, concentration). My concussive syndrome improves every year though. **Explained in additional information on Common App*8
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<p>Essays: 8.5/10</p>

<p>Recommendations: 9.5/10</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>PACERF: Protecting Students from Concussion through Edu. Research. Fund.
- President and Founder
- Numerous lectures at school,small sports events,liaison for concussed students
- 10th, 11th, 12th
Hunterdon Medical Center Hospital: Fundraising
- Director of Student Involvement
- Created many successful fundraisers + website
- 11th, 12th
Somerset Therapeutic
- One on One mentor for a child with autism. Taught him basketball and life skills
- 2 hours/week for 10 weeks + still in contact with him
Roberto's Kids
- Collected thousands of dollars worth of equipment and sent to P.R
Dream Elite Basketball
- General Manager for travel high school basketball team
- 10th, 11th, 12th
FBLA+FLDC Member
- 10th, 11th, 12th
Internships
- Two summer internships
- Financial firm internship in senior year</p>

<p>SCHOOLS:
<em>No particular order</em></p>

<p>Claremont McKenna College
UC Irvine
Occidental
UC San Diego
USC: University of Southern California
UCLA
Berkeley
Stanford
Pitzer College
Wash U St. Louis
University of Miami
Pomona College</p>

<p>Thank you so much for helping me! I will chance back :)</p>

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<p>Admit Rate < 10%</p>

<p>Stanford - This is a lottery ticket application - a long shot (very, very unlikely)</p>

<p>Admit Rate < 20%. IMO that makes these schools reaches regardless of your stats - there are just too many chances for them to say no when they’re rejecting 80+% of applicants.</p>

<p>Claremont McKenna College - You’re the average admit
USC: University of Southern California - You’re the average admit
Pomona College - Reach because of low admit rate and your SATs are at 25th%-tile
Wash U St. Louis - Same as Pomona </p>

<p>The UCs. Your stats give you have a chance at all of them; in the cases of UCLA, UCB and UCSD it may come down to how competitive you are versus other OOS applicants. Also realize that financial aid beyond loans may be very difficult to find at state schools.</p>

<p>UCLA - Match
Berkeley - Match/Reach though slightly lower admit rate than UCLA
UC Irvine - Match/borderline safety
UC San Diego - Match</p>

<p>The Rest</p>

<p>Pitzer College
University of Miami
Occidental</p>

<p>I think all off these colleges fall into the Match/borderline safety situation. </p>

<p>My one real concern with your list (without getting into the financial aid question) is that I don’t see one drop dead for sure safety school. I think its highly likely that you’ll get into UCI, Miami and Pitzer but nowhere do I see an absolute definite yes.</p>

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<p>Fantastic chances at all the schools. I disagree with the above poster that you need a drop dead safety school. For you colleges like Pitzer and the university of Miami constitute those.</p>

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<p>Thank you so much for your help!</p>

<p>If you had to say a % on my chances at Claremont McKenna, USC and UCLA, what would you say each percent would be?</p>

<p>I assumed that UCI was my safety, although it is a great school. Do you have a california school that you could suggest as a safety for me?</p>

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<p>bump bump bump</p>

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<p>University of Miami is not a safety the average SAT is ~2030</p>

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<p>I mostly agree with vinceh, but you really need a safety school in that. None of those are true safeties…</p>

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<p>If you had to say a % on my chances at Claremont McKenna, USC and UCLA, what would you say each percent would be?</p>

<p>Can you suggest a Cali safety for me?</p>

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<p>Statistically speaking the decisions are independent of each other so there’s no point to putting a percentage on your chances at any school. The decision is a binary - yes/no, admit/reject - so knowing/guessing that you have a 73.6% chance at UCGomorrah is pointless.</p>

<p>In my opinion you have an “average” chance of getting accepted. What does that mean? It means that in my opinion your stats are certainly competitive and I wouldn’t be shocked if you got into all three schools. It also means that because of the competitive nature of admissions at these schools there are people with your profiles that get rejected. </p>

<p>I think you have a good chance at CMC though your SATs are a little low - they love leadership which your profile has. I think there’s a good chance at USC but with the change to the CommonApp applications are way up so it’s hard to know how they’re adjusting they’re criteria. UCLA is also a good possibility because it certainly doesn’t hurt that you would be paying full OOS freight.</p>

<p>Unless these schools are overstocked with concussed 3.84/2030 SAT candidates you’ll probably do OK. As for California safeties places like Chapman, USan Diego (not UCSD), Loyola-Marymount and Redlands come to mind but I don’t know enough about them to be sure.</p>

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<p>Are all of these schools affordable to you (ie are your parents rich)? Remember you always need a financial safety school unless your parents are rich and willing to pay a ton.</p>

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<p>You may have a good chance of getting a merit-aid from Chapman.</p>

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<p>Yes, all schools are financially feasible. I possibly wont be applying for financial aid; will that help my admissions chances in any way?</p>

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<p>Thanks for chancing me. Anyways, I think you have a really good shot at USC, UCLA, and Miami. Get your SAT up to a 2100 and you’ll have an even better chance at Pomona, Berkley, & Stanford! I’m not familiar with the other schools so I can’t give my insight there. Good luck!</p>

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<p>I think you have a really great chance at all of the schools you’re applying to; your GPA helps a lot!</p>

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<p>I think you have a great shot of getting into the UC’s. Stanford is a reach. I dont know much about the other colleges sorry!</p>

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<p>I think you have a great shot at these schools espsecially considering the Extracurriculars. they have a common theme to it (medical from what I see) and I think they’ll like that.</p>

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<p>Claremont McKenna College: reach because of your standardized testing score…maybe ED?
UC Irvine: good chance
Occidental: good chance
UC San Diego: good chance
USC: University of Southern California: reach, maybe ED
UCLA: good chance
Berkeley: slight reach
Stanford: its a reach for everyone basically
Pitzer College: reach maybe ED
Wash U St. Louis: reach
University of Miami: slight reach
Pomona College: reach
I feel as though your standardized test score is a little low. Maybe take it again in October?</p>

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<p>i agree with vinceh 100 percent</p>

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<p>your extracurriculars are great and they put on par for most schools, except ponoma is a little but of a reach and stanford which is getting more competitive each year</p>

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<p>Stanford is a big IF for everyone. Your stats make you VERY competitive nonetheless. QUIT WORRYING, you’ve got every university on your list in the bag for yourself; you’ll be fine! good luck come admission season :)</p>