Chance for MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Caltech, Yale

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi guys! If you could chance me for these schools in the subject line, it'd be much appreciated. Thanks! </p>

<p>Profile:
Very competitive school in MA, class size 500
School doesn't rank, but I suspect top 1-2%
Indian American</p>

<p>Scores:
2400 SAT superscore (800m, 800cr, 740w single sitting)
800 SAT Math II, 770 Biology, 750 Chemistry
3.95 UW GPA
APs Taken: AP Compsci, Calc BC, Chemistry, Biology, Statistics, World History, APUSH (5)
APs taking: AP Micro, AP Macro, AP Psychology, AP Physics C</p>

<p>Big Awards/Honors: USAJMO Qualifier, USAMO Qualifier, Siemens Regional Finalist, ISEF 4th Place in Category, RSI 2012 Scholar, two published papers, Mandelbrot Competition 17th Nationally, Canada/USA Mathcamp, Internship at Math Circle</p>

<p>EC's:
Math Team (usually sweeping everything), three years of research experience, Science Bowl (National Champions), ACSL, USACO, Varsity Athletics this year, ~200 Hours of volunteering experience, two jobs, NHS</p>

<p>Recs: Good, Good, Probably good, Excellent.
Essays: Hopefully good? I think they're good.</p>

<p>What do you guys think?</p>

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<p>You look very good. However, these schools are a reach for everyone. look at other good Egn Schools with great aid for you like:
Purdue
UA
UA-Huntsville
South Dakota
Georgia Tech</p>

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<p>Disagree that these schools are a reach for everyone. These schools are actually matches for every single applicant offered admission. </p>

<p>What you are really saying is that the process is so opaque that you do not have a real handle on what is the tipping point.</p>

<p>For this OP, perfect scores, almost perfect GPA, international awards, national awards, a clear focus on science/math, and varsity athletics, trumps almost every single chance thread I have seen. </p>

<p>If all you panicking seniors cannot see the vast difference in this set of accolades and most others posted here, you are simply not being honest with yourself. This is not to denigrate other chance threads; but, every once in a while you get one that, on paper, is head and shoulders above other really really good stats. And, this is one.</p>

<p>OP, write a great essay and get good letters of rec and i would wager you will have lots of amazing choices.</p>

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<p>Wow, darn :open_mouth: that was pretty heartfelt actually; THANKS STEMIT!</p>

<p>Well, in this case, I sure hope my essays will be good… how much weight do you think they carry? Some of my other friends were under the impression that at some point, the essays were kinda used as a tiebreaker between people of similar stats; how accurate do you think this is?</p>

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<p>I’m just going to pitch in here… Your essays are as important, if not more important than your grades and SAT scores (if these are decent) because everyone applying to top notch colleges have great scores. It is the essays that help the readers distinguish one student from the next. They want to get to know a side of you from the essays that aren’t found anywhere in your resume because these top schools already know that most of the applicants (including you) have amazing stats… Hoped this helped.</p>

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<p>Look thick. Solid. Tight. Keep us all posted on your continued progress. Show us what you got man. Wanna see how far you can get.</p>

<p>In all honesty everything looks exceptional and you have a good if not amazing chance of getting into any of those schools. I wouldn’t risk it all by exaggerating or outright lying on some ECs though. That would be silly.</p>

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<p>Something in this post looked fishy when I first saw it.</p>

<p>After a year of pondering and investigating, I have come to a conclusion. You, Kirito, are a liar and a cheat, and I shall perform the noble act of exposing your treachery to everyone! </p>

<p>I was incredibly impressed when I got to the ECs section and I saw “Science Bowl (National Champions)”. Science Bowl is one of the most competitive things out there, and winning it is incredibly difficult. So I decided for fun to check out the 2012 NSB winners.</p>

<p>Back then, the winning team consisted of two seniors, two juniors, and one sophomore. Of course, you could only be one of the juniors.</p>

<p>Listen closely now, because this was where everything fell apart for you. Another extremely impressive honor of yours was your status as an RSI 2012 scholar. Therefore, I thought I could get your identity by cross-checking the list of RSI 2012 participants at <a href=“http://www.cee.org/news/81-high-school-scholars-“rickoids”-participate-research-science-institute-mit”>http://www.cee.org/news/81-high-school-scholars-“rickoids”-participate-research-science-institute-mit&lt;/a&gt; with the names of the two juniors on the winning NSB team. I opened the doc, looked for one of their names and found…</p>

<p>…nothing. Nothing! Neither of those juniors went on to attend RSI 2012, and therefore there is nobody in existence who has both won National Science Bowl and attended RSI 2012! You, Kirito, have been found out! Your deceitful ways have ruined the sanctity of the Chance Me forum! </p>

<p>I can’t believe I’m saying this, but…</p>

<p>…I hope you don’t get into Harvard. It would serve you right. </p>

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<p>its probably a ■■■■■ forum</p>