Chance for Duke, Yale, etc..

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello, my friend is applying to the following colleges this year:
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Duke, UChicago, UPenn, Cornell, John Hopkins, Stanford, Columbia, UF, and more. Here are his stats:</p>

<p>SAT: 2260
ACT: 34
SAT II: Chemistry (770), Biology (740), American History (760)
GPA: 3.96 UW, 4.87 W
AP: World History (3), Euro (5), Psych (5), US History (4), AP Lang (5), AP Lit (5), Macro (5), Government (5)
IB: chemistry, math studies, american history, english, latin, and film studies
Awards: Coca Cola Foundation Scholarship, Questbridge, Bank of America Leader, NMSQF, Millenia Scholarship, Jack Kent Cooke foundation college scholarship</p>

<p>EC: Model UN, Debate (president), life smarts, brain brawl, Biomedical organization (president), NHS (president), golden eagle ambassador, junior class (president), senior class (president), student government (president)
Volunteer: over 550 hours
internship: naval research internship (earned $7100)
essay: really good
recs: amazing
income: less than 35k
gender: male
anything else? knows three languages, first out of all his family to go to college</p>

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<p>Here, you should read this: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1525399-if-you-asking-your-chances-ivies-other-top-schools.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1525399-if-you-asking-your-chances-ivies-other-top-schools.html&lt;/a&gt;
Your friend isn’t that different from an average Ivy League applicant. His first-generation status may help him out, but in the end, these colleges are still a reach for him. Also, could your friend explain his reasons for applying to almost every single Ivy League?</p>

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<p>^Agreed. He’s definitely a qualified candidate, but no one on CC can, with certainty, tell you what’ll happen behind those admissions office doors. Good luck though!</p>

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<p>He has an amazing resume, and solid chances at all those schools. However, they are the best schools in the country and you have to realize he isn’t a lock at all of them except UF. That said, he will probably get into a little over 1/2 of them. Good Luck! Obviously a hard worker who had the odds against him.</p>

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<p>he said thanks.</p>