Chance for Princeton, MIT, CMU Engineering, UChicago, Northwestern, Yale,

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello all! I am working my way through the college search and it would be appreciated if a few of you could give me my chances at the above schools (as well as Dartmouth, sorry).</p>

<p>4.70 GPA on school weighted scale (doesn't send underweighted to colleges), 4.1 on standard weighting scale
AP Euro, APUSH, AP Chem, AP Calc AB, AP English Literature, AP US Gov't, AP Physics (Only three others in my class have are taking this many)
Eleven additional honors level courses (Again, about the maximum you can take)
Top 10% in class (School doesn't send exact rank) of 219</p>

<p>800 CR
790 Math
690 Writing, 10 essay (Some advice on how much the listed schools look at writing would be nice, considering I get really high English grades relative to everyone else but then this)
1590/1600, 2280/2400
Taking SAT Math 2, US History, and Chem</p>

<p>4 on Euro, reasonably expect at least 4 on APUSH and Chem and taking the rest next year</p>

<p>Forensics (President)
Drama Club (President)
Newspaper (Assistant Editor and Head Writer)
NHS VP
Scholars Program: This is a special invitation-only program at my school modeled on UChicago's, consisting of a colloquia sophomore year, a seminar and case study junior year, and a major thesis project senior year. About fifteen people are in each class.
There are many other minor ECs including a large variety of service work</p>

<p>Awards: Dozens of local and national forensics awards in LD debate, nominated for a Gene Kelly Award for Best Supporting Actor in musical theater, a few academic awards and will more than likely be a NMSF (219 on PSAT in PA)</p>

<p>Recommendations will be great. For my essays, I plan on studying Chemical Engineering, and I am going to write how my brother's health problems have pushed me toward that field.</p>

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<p>Umm, why are you asking to be chanced? Are you trying to make seniors on here feel bad about themselves to boost your self-esteem?</p>

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<p>U Chicago does not offer any engineering, have you looked closely at their chemistry program to see if it fits your interests? As for chancing, you’re def a solid candidate, but these things can be a total crap shoot, especially MIT, Princeton and Yale. Based purely on what I observed in my senior class this year (just graduated), CMU would be the least hard to get into. U Chicago is prob going to be harder to predict because of a combination of over enrollment the last two years (meaning they should accept less students next year to balance out the college) and rising popularity. Can’t really comment on Northwestern. Regardless of what happens though, you’ll prob go to a great school and enjoy a successful future. Best of luck!</p>

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<p>@suprafreshkid: CC is full of amazing kids like Snoopy82, and the vast majority don’t post these threads to boost their self-esteem or make others feel bad…the worst part is then seeing a good chunk get rejected despite their qualifications.</p>

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<p>@PMCM: Thanks for the input! Yeah, the crapshoot comment is exactly why I’m asking for chances: I’m a good friend of the college counsellor at my school and watching this years college process made me realize how awful the whole process really is. For example, a kid with a 2360 and comparable grades to mine got in to UChicago but was rejected flat out from Brown, Princeton, Penn, and Cornell… granted he didn’t have many if any ECs but still, it is so random.</p>

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<p>Well, I’ll say this, you’ve stuck to and stood out in your EC’s and that’s more impressive than the “sampling” method that other applicants employ. Again, though, there will be many other applicants who have also shown a deep commitment to their EC’s, so it all just goes back to a crap shoot scenario. Based on fit, my superficial guess is that Yale would look very favorably upon your theater and debate work because those are EC’s that its student body tends to gravitate to. I’m not going to include CMU and Northwestern because they have distinct theater programs, so no idea how they would view you as an engineering applicant.</p>