Chance for top schools?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a rising junior. My GPA and testing scores may not be extremely high, but my ECs are ridiculously unique. So could you chance me?</p>

<p>Weighted GPA: 4.15
School doesn't rank</p>

<p>AP's: AP CompSci A (5), AP CompSci AB (5)</p>

<p>Projected SAT/PSAT scores: 2100+ (210+)
SSATs: Math L2 (800), will take Chem and Latin at the end of Junior year</p>

<p>Freshmen Year:
* Biology (A)
* Latin II (A-)
* AP Comp Sci A (A+)
* English I Honors (B)
* World and Europe I (A-)
* Algebra II Honors (A+)</p>

<p>--- I switched schools. Freshmen year was a very small, semi-competitive private school. Now I'm at a highly competitive larger private school ranked as one of the top in the nation (well known to colleges) ---</p>

<p>Classes Sophomore Year:
* Chemistry Honors (A-)
* Latin III (A-)
* AP Comp Sci AB (A)
* English II (A)
* World and Europe II (B+)
* Pre-Calculus Honors (B+)</p>

<p>Next year (Junior year) I will be taking:
* AP Chem
* Latin IV
* Advanced Topics in Comp Sci (honors course)
* English III Honors
* US History
* AP Calc BC
* Scientific Study and Research (basically Research funded by the school. I'm entering my project into Siemen's (I'm the team leader))</p>

<p>Senior year I will be taking:
* AP Physics C E&M
* AP Physics C Mech
* Advanced Topics in Comp Sci (honors course)
* AP English Literature
* Advanced Seminar in Mathematics (honors course)
* Scientific Study and Research</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULARS (Here is where I shine :)):</p>

<ul>
<li><p>Published a book on programming for McGraw-Hill's Professional Department</p></li>
<li><p>Edited my book (see above) for translation into French by Pearson Education and CampusPress</p></li>
<li><p>Captain/President/Founder of Rocketry Club at my schools.
<em>9th Grade - Competed in largest rocketry competition worldwide, placed 64 out of 700 teams
*</em> 10th Grade - Competed in largest rocketry competition worldwide, placed 13 out of 643 teams
* 11th Grade - Competing in the competition again, also doing the Student Launch Initiative where NASA engineers hire our team to build a rocket that flies 1 mile high with a scientific payload (we are one out of the only 18 teams in the country to be selected for this)
** 12th Grade - probably same as 11th grade</p></li>
<li><p>Robotics (FIRST)
*<em>9th Grade - FIRST FRC Team Member
*</em>10th Grade - FIRST FTC Team Member
*<em>11th Grade - President and FIRST FRC Captain
*</em>12th Grade - Same as 11th Grade</p></li>
<li><p>Research
*<em>9th Grade - one lab, worked ~ 15 hours per week
*</em>10th Grade - two labs, 30 hours a week at one (paid $2000), the other ~10 hours a week
*<em>11th Grade - probably same as above
*</em>12th Grade - probably same as above</p></li>
<li><p>NJHS
*<em>President in 9th Grade
*</em>Not offered at my new school, so I wonder if this is even important</p></li>
</ul>

<p><em>Sci Bowl Team
*</em>10th Grade - Team member
*<em>11th Grade - Team member
*</em>12th Grade - Team member, possibly captain</p>

<ul>
<li><p>I also collect books for underprivileged libraries around Southern California.</p></li>
<li><p>Fencing team
*<em>11th Grade - JV
*</em>12th Grade - Varsity (all senior fencers are automatically on varsity)</p></li>
</ul>

<p>I know I'll be applying to: Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Tufts, MIT
Can you suggest some safeties?</p>

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<p>UC Berkeley, UCLA, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, Georgia Tech</p>

<p>assuming ur trying to go into engineering</p>

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<p>"UC Berkeley, UCLA, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, Georgia Tech"
Do you mean I should consider these as safeties? UCLA is a bit too close to home, and I visited UC Berkeley, and I know I do not want to go there.</p>

<p>And I want to do something with engineering, but I definitely do not want to work for someone else after I graduate from college/grad school. I want to start my own company and work for myself. So I need to get a bit of business training in, so I am somewhat swaying away from MIT.</p>

<p>What do you think my chances are for Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Tufts, MIT?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>University of Flordia I know has a great engineering program, as a safety. It's a really large school, though, and the ones you are considering are much smaller, so I'm not sure it'd fit you, but the engineering program is very nice. I think you can do better than Georgia Tech. University of Illinois has a good science department.</p>

<p>Your ECs are very very very impressive (probably some of the best I've run into on cc), but without SATs, it's very difficult to chance you. I'd say aim for 2250+ instead of 2100+. 2250 is more to par with ivys. I'd say you will eventually have a very strong shot at MIT. MIT is known for looking past the numbers and focusing on the candidate, so with your ECs, MIT would be a very good fit for you. Try taking an AP history, maybe, just for balance? Harvard and Stanford are going to want that AP history if your school offers it.</p>

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<p>I know I need more balance, but I really don't have time for another AP (which would be APUSH) junior year. I was thinking of squeezing in an elective AP history senior year (like AP US GOV)</p>