Chance for Harvard and other schools

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Race: Middle-Eastern (Kurdish), U.S. Dual Citizen
Gender: Female
I go to a International School (Private school - very small, 250+ students)
Prospective Majors: Neuroscience</p>

<p>GPA: 4.30 (my school does not offer unweighted)</p>

<p>All IB Clases:
(IB Diploma Candidate)</p>

<p>Not going to list 9th and 10th grade classes</p>

<p>Junior year:</p>

<p>HL Chemistry
HL Biology
HL Math
SL Anthropology
SL French A
SL English A</p>

<p>My school does not offer AP classes, but I took the AP French test (5)</p>

<p>ACT: 32</p>

<p>SAT Subject Tests:</p>

<p>Bio M: 760
French (reading only): 770
Chem: 710</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<ul>
<li>Active member of the United Way Board of Directors - youth intern (9th-11th), have organized fundraiser around my school for it ($1000+), participated in important board decisions</li>
<li>MUN (9th-11th) (President) - Best Delegate Award and Distinguished Delegate</li>
<li>Timmy Club (9th-11th) (President) - community and service club that raises money for kids in South America - I'm one of the leaders of the club; help to arrange most of the events, very active --> I got to go on a 2 week service to the Dominican Republic to help communities</li>
<li>Technical Director of Crew for 2 musicals and 1 play (9th-10th grade)</li>
<li>VEX Robotics Club (10th -11th) - co-president; we won city championships last year and went to the world competitions (City Championship 2013, Semi-Finalists 2014, Think Award) </li>
<li>GSA Club (10th -11th grade)</li>
<li>Volunteered and raised money for TEDxIndianapolis and TEDxYouth ($5,000), helped with decision making</li>
<li>Worked in a neurology lab this summer that specializes in panic disorder, and I will work there again this summer. The paper we published is going to be in Nature Medicine, I will be listed in the acknowledgements</li>
<li>I've done a lot of selective summer programs: Nanotechnology Camp at IUPUI, GERI (Gifted Education Resource Institute) Camp at Purdue, EDGE Camp at Purdue (Girls Engineering Camp)</li>
<li>School on Wheels - (10th-12th) Tutoring homeless children</li>
<li>I have over 1,200 hours of community service </li>
</ul>

<p>Awards (excluding the ones I mentioned above)
- Indiana Federation of Music Club Junior Festival 2012 – Regionals for Piano: Superior (Playing Test), Superior (Theory Test)
- Invited to Indiana State Honors Recital 2012 for Piano
- Community and Service Award – 9th grade
- Semi-Finalist in local televised trivia game
- High Honor Roll and High Honor Board 9th-10th-11th grade (each semester)
- Carson Scholarship recipient
- French and Humanities Award at my school</p>

<p>I skipped 8th grade</p>

<p>And I'm fluent in 4 languages (French, Spanish, English, Turkish)</p>

<p>Schools I'm applying to:</p>

<p>Harvard (SCEA)
Brown
UChicago
Purdue
Princeton
Amherst
Northeastern
WashU
Dartmouth
UCLA
UC Berkeley
Pomona
Stanford
BU
IU (already got accepted into honors college there)</p>

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<p>Also for awards:</p>

<ul>
<li>Best Poster at graduate level scientific conference + $100 check</li>
</ul>

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<p>Hello?</p>

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<p>Bump</p>

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<p>You dont have a chance for the ivies with only a 32 act score, but you will get into the rest.</p>

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<p>I disagree.
32 ACT isn’t surely super competitive, but it definitely isn’t a zero chance score. Her GPA and ECs are good, and if she pulls out perfect essay she does have a chance.</p>

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<p>@Wizard09‌ Well I don’t think it completely eliminates me. I looked on Harvard and a bunch of the other ivies websites, and I’m within their range. </p>

<p>Plus my essays are killer. </p>

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<p>I think you look amazing…and the 32 DOES NOT knock you out…there was a great thread last year of kids who applied to harvard EA and were waiting for the results to arrive…one girl had a 30 ACT…and she was dinged & dissed by everyone in the thread…and she got in!! That had a big impact on me (I was new to CC then) and made me realize how hard second-guessing can be…</p>

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<p>Sorry maybe i worded myself wrong. You do have a chance but not a very good one. There are many more highly qualified applicants and test scores are what colleges look at the most.</p>

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<p>@Wizard09‌ While I might have a lower chance, I think there’s more to the process than test scores. </p>

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<p>Wizard09 has a habit of making negative categorical statements like ‘you don’t have a have a chance’ to many different students. I wouldn’t pay attention to it and yes, of course there is more to the process than test scores.</p>

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<p>Isnt that the point of this site? Are you delusional?</p>

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<p>Ivys are really tough to get into, and even a million ECs won’t guarantee admission (unless they’re really really amazing). But looking at your application as a whole, I would say you have a shot, but the schools are still a high reach.</p>

<p>As a previous poster has mentioned, make sure you write a stellar essay if you want to really stand out. I’m pretty sure it’s too late anyways to retake any standardized tests, so put a lot of effort into the common app essays and short answers!!</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>Also don’t listen to some of the people here, I really think you have a chance, even if it’s really small.</p>

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<p>Harvard (SCEA): very high reach
Brown: high reach
UChicago: high reach
Purdue: you’re in
Princeton: very high reach
Amherst: reach
Northeastern: you’re in
WashU: low reach
Dartmouth: reach
UCLA: high match
UC Berkeley: high match
Pomona: low/mid reach
Stanford: very high reach
BU: yes
IU (already got accepted into honors college there): yes </p>

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<p>IU undergrad with IUPUI (IU Health) or IPFW Medical school is your ticket. IUPUI is a hub for Midwest programs and IPFW has a Medical school attached but has has direct access to clinical rotations.</p>

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<p>Wow, thanks guys! I’m a great writer, so my essays are kind of the bomb.</p>

<p>Harvard, UChicago, Amherst, and Brown are my top choices. </p>

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<p>I think that your background is unusual enough for you to have a definite shot at all of the colleges on your list, including Harvard and Stanford. A female, with a strong STEM background, perfect GPA, Kurdish nationality, fluency in Turkish, and a powerhouse resume of extracurriculars will be forgiven a point or two on her ACT. You won’t get in everywhere, probably, but they will all consider you a very serious, attractive candidate - more so than people who spent the time you spent on your ECs prepping for multiple test seatings.</p>

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<p>If she’s a minority, even if she is an international, it will be a boost along with otherstuffs. </p>