Chance for UPenn, Cornell, Duke, UMich, Darmouth,

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Gender: M
Race: Asian (Indian)
Bilingual
State: NY
College Class Year: 2012
High School: Public
Major: Business
Income: Low income (2 older sisters in medical school) (Tuition is not a big deal for me!)</p>

<p>My ACT score is 33
MY SAT score is 2000 (not going to send it)
SAT Subject tests (will take in Nov.): Math 1= 700+; United States History = 700+ Math 2= 680+</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA- 90.13
Weighted GPA- 94.16
School Ranking: top 10 percent of my Senior Class (948 people)</p>

<p>AP Tests:
Sophomore Year: World History (2) (not going to send lol)
Junior Year: Biology (5), United States History (5), </p>

<p>Senior Year Course load:
Business Enterprise (honors) (going to go to a city wide competition, hopefully nationals; these competitions will be in spring 2012 though)
AP Government
Anatomy + Physiology (honors)
AP Art History
AP Calculus BC
English (non-honors)
(Only took honors or AP classes from the 9th grade; (took 2 non-honor classes, just for Spanish lol. And senior year English because that is all my school offers) </p>

<p>Program:
I’m in a science and math program called Carl Sagan. It’s the best program my school has to offer. We do research on plants, write research papers, present at science fairs etc. (Applied to the New York Science and Engineering Fair: one of the 200 accepted out of 1000 applicants. Did not go pass the preliminary rounds. If I went to the round after the preliminaries, I would have met Obama lol) </p>

<p>Sports:
Varsity Volleyball – 11/12 (co-captain)</p>

<p>Clubs/Teams:
President of Chess Club - 2 years
Key Club - 3 years
Red Cross Club – 3 years (Secretary 12th grade)
Math Team – 2 years </p>

<p>Volunteer work:
Hospital Internship – 110+ hours
Religious program – I play the drums for religious music - meets every Friday for 4 hours (I’ve been in the program since I was 10)<br>
Temple – I participate in youth programs at my temple – I go every Sunday for 4 hours (I’ve been going to my temple since I was born, literally lol)</p>

<p>Honor Societies:
National Honor Society 2 years</p>

<p>Recommendations:
1) AP Biology teacher (got a 5 on the test, 88 in the class) I am very close to him, He is also a supervisor in Carl Sagan (the math/science program I am in) where we bonded a lot. We are basically have a friend relationship, student/teacher relationship only during class.
2) The Assistant Principal of Math. She was my teacher for Trigonometry during my sophomore year. She will write only good things about me </p>

<p>I guess my major weakness is my UNWEIGHTED GPA : (
Also would will my Extracurricular load hurt me?</p>

<p>What are my chances for: (ALL RD)
DREAMS:
UPenn - Wharton (#1 choice <3)
Dartmouth - Tuck
Cornell - Johnathan
UMich - Ross
NYU - Stern</p>

<p>Match/Safties:
PSU
Northeastern
Boston U
Binghamton
(CAN YOU ALSO HELP ME WITH OTHER SCHOOLS TO APPLY FOR SAFTIES/MATCH)</p>

<p>I WILL CHANCE BACK :)</p>

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<p>bumpppppppp</p>

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<p>Penn, Dartmouth, and Cornell are all going to be reaches (they are for most people)
NYU Stern and Mich - Ross should be high matches.</p>

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<p>I agree. Michigan and NYU are probably high to mid matches. You dont have a great shot at Wharton, but still a shot. Since your applying to business you need to show strong math skills… I would say for Wharton no lower than a 730 on the sat 2s. Good luck :)</p>

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<p>Will my gpa bring my chances down? :/</p>

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<p>GPA doesn’t matter. What classes and how well you did. You might get into Dartmouth, but your safeties are fine.</p>

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<p>What dasdui said is only partially correct because what classes you took (the most difficult schedule your school offers) is what most students applying to the top tier schools took. </p>

<p>So, in that sense, GPA matters.</p>

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<p>you can’t major in business at Tuck. Tuck is a graduate school. They do offer several undergraduate classes but it’s not like Wharton</p>

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<p>I have a couple of question. Please give me your feedback! THANKS! :slight_smile:

  1. I’m currently in my senior year, and I’m not doing well (ATM, a 70 average) in AP Calculus BC, which I think is the hardest course my school offers.</p>

<p>2) Are Honor classes really considered rigorous courses? I think they are pretty easy. </p>

<p>3) This is irrelevant to chances but I had a question, can I take the ACT in december? and will the scores be ready by january 1st?</p>

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<p>As posted up above, my gpa is not great, but the following is a list of my classes from 8th grade (the high school classes I took) to my senior year.</p>

<p>8th Grade (in my Junior HS) (I don’t think they are considered honors in High School buy when I took them in JHS, I was in all honor classes):
Algebra 1: 88
Earth Science: 93
Spanish year 1: 85</p>

<p>9th Grade:
**English year 1 (H = Honors) **: 90
Global History year 1 H: 90
Geometry H: 90</p>

<p>Sciences: (I had the same teacher for both of the classes listed below, she didn’t like me, I didn’t like her :/)
Living Environment H: 80
<a href=“Freshman”>b</a> Science Research H (The class affiliated with the best program my school offers; also ranked high in all city schools)**: 85<br>
**Spanish year 2 Regular (not H) **: 90</p>

<p>10th Grade:
English year 2 H: 93
AP Global History: 91 (2 on the AP test)
Algebra 2 & Trig H: 90
Chemistry H: 89
Chemistry Lab R: 89 (school only offered regular)
Spanish year 3 R: 96
<a href=“Sophomore”>b</a> Science Research H**: 97</p>

<p>11th Grade:
English year 3 H: 85
AP US History: 85 3 on AP test
Pre-Calculus H: 88
AP Biology (Grade includes the lab grade for that class): 88 4 on AP test
<a href=“Junior”>b</a> Science Research H**: 100
Spanish year 4 R: 99
Health (One semester only) R: 92</p>

<p>12th Grade: (Grades are predicted for 1st marking period; school has 6 marking periods all together)
English year 4 R: 95
AP Government: 88
AP Calculus BC: 70
Anatomy & Physiology R/H (not sure): 92
Business Enterprise R: 93
AP Art History: 90</p>

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<p>bummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmp</p>

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<p>please respond!</p>

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<p>please enlighten me!</p>

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<p>Your unweighted GPA is a little low, but fine for the Ivys! I think you have a chance at UPenn, but I would apply early because it really does show them it’s your top choice! Good luck!</p>

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<p>thank you, any other feeeeeeeedback?</p>

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<p>Apply to MORE SAFETY schools. UPenn, Cornell, and Duke seem a reach based on your academic scores.</p>

<p>UMich seems like it will take you.</p>

<p>I also have two older sisters in med school but Im trying to get into University of Florida… still kinda hard with a 38% acceptance now</p>

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<p>What other saftey schools should i apply too?</p>