Chance for caltech/MIT etc

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Male, Asian</p>

<p>SAT: 2300
SAT II: 800 Chem 800 Math II
GPA: 4.330 weighted, 4.000 unweighted
Rank: Top 1% </p>

<p>APs:
-USH (5)
-Physics B (5)
-Chem (5)
-Calc AB (5)
-self-study BC (5)
-Lang and Comp (5)</p>

<p>Senior Year:
-AP English Lit
-AP Stats
-AP Bio
-AP Physics C
-AP Economics
-Work Period</p>

<p>Awards:
-state math contest top 3, x3 years
-AIME x2
-USNCO top 150 honors, semifinalist
-Science Bowl top 16 nationals, 1st regionals
-couple state scholarships for piano, and placed at state competition
-(most likely) nat'l merit</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
-club and high school soccer (7+ years, 2 year varsity letter)
-piano (8+ years, also teach student, do charity work)
-Science Bowl (treasurer x2 years, president and captain now)
-library volunteer work (50+ hours)
-coach middle school mathcounts and sciencebowl
-work in experimental physics at a lab with published work lol etc
-NHS member lol</p>

<p>Summer Activities:
-took Calc III (A+)
-lab work</p>

<p>Schools I'm looking at:
Caltech
MIT
Harvard
Princeton
Rice
Berkeley
Harvey Mudd</p>

<p>Chances? financial aid don't matter, looking at majoring in engineering probably or science-related</p>

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<p>Good chance at all those schools</p>

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<p>…chances anyone? hellllloooo</p>

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<p>Since your non-academic ECs are not outstanding, your best chance may be with Caltech.</p>

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<p>Solid chances here at Tech. Your resume seems to match that of a typical accepted student. You’ll probably also get into maybe 2 or 3 of the other schools on your list but with no guarantees at all.</p>

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<p>Apply to all those schools. If anyone has a chance you do. But just know that all of them are reaches for EVERYONE. What you need to do is add some matches and some safeties.</p>

<p>If you are applying to engineering, don’t waste your time with Harvard. It is not and never will be known as an engineering school. </p>

<p>Also apply to Georgia Tech, Michigan, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (they have 15 different engineering programs), Stanford, UC Davis, UC San Diego, Virginia Tech, Cooper Union, Purdue, and several others that strike your fancy.</p>

<p>Know what you are getting into at Harvey Mudd College. HMC could be an awesome experience and the students are truly exceptional. However, they only offer one ABET accredited engineering major. Harvey Mudd is first and foremost a very rigorous liberal arts college. It is also a very, very small school with only 750 students and about 150 -175 entering freshman each year.</p>

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<p>I am not firmly rooted in what major I want to go in, it could shift from engineering to science of some sort (chem, physics related, etc), idk.</p>

<p>would like to go to caltech, first choice actually. i’d like to go there…div3 ftw.</p>