Chance HYP?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a junior at the moment.</p>

<p>Objective:• SAT I (breakdown): Took a practice test sophomore year and scored a 2300. So I'll estimate a 2250ish. I'm studying intensively.
• ACT: Estimated 33ish
• SAT II: Estimated 800 Math II, 800 Physics, 800 US History
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.89
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School doesn't rank
• AP (place score in parenthesis): AP World History 5, AP US History 5, AP Biology 5, AP Economics, AP English Lang. and Comp , AP Calculus AB, AP Chemistry
• IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AIME Qualifier, Congressional recognition
Awards: 1st place State Economics championship, DECA finalist
Subjective:• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Debate 4 yrs. (President), Math Team 3 yrs., Key Club 3 yrs., Piano, local math league competitions, won a few local piano competitions.
• Job/Work Experience: I work for Jack Roush's company (famous car guy) as a car test driver
• Volunteer/Community service: 400+ hours total. I enjoy helping the elderly in the hospital
• Summer Activities: Past summer learned Korean at home and also some economic classes.
• Essays: Decent. Gave them to multiple people and they all said were solid. Main essay on experience in hospital with grandfather before his death, also criticized hospital system and things that should be fixed. Made several readers cry. Probably because I was crying while writing the essay :P. EC essay on piano and how it gives me intellectual freedom, but also talked about how music offers a social aspect and brings people together.
• Teacher Recommendation: Decent. Both teachers enthusiastically offered to write the recs. One should be very good, other should be good. Not sure if they were stellar though.
• Counselor Rec: Who is my counselor? Just kidding, should be okay, but I barely know him and he barely knows me.
• Additional Rec: n/a
Other• State (if domestic applicant): MI
• Country (if international applicant): n/a
• School Type: Large Public (three high schools in one location so 6000 students move from school to school)
• Ethnicity: Pakistani Asian
• Gender: Male
• Income Bracket: $30k
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First gen college student, low income, perhaps?
• Essay: According to my counselor, one of them is inspiring; it's about me overcoming my learning disability in 9th grade, which raised my GPA from there.</p>

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<p>All Reaches!!!
Because, HYP are all extremely selective, it is a crapshoot to get in</p>

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<p>Extracurriculars?</p>

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<p>9th bullet…</p>

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<p>HYP are all reaches.</p>

<p>Now I know you may ask me why they are reaches when your stats are perfect? Well, those schools always look for more than a 4.0 and 2400. Your stats seem solid, but I think don’t think you have that one factor that sets you apart from other candidates.</p>

<p>Regardless, ivy is definitely not out of reach. Additionally, you have great universities like Duke, UChicago, Tufts, Umich, Northwestern, CMU. I’m sure you’ll get in somewhere great. Goodluck!</p>

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<p>Pakistani is seen as Asian, unfortunately.</p>

<p>They are reaches.</p>

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<p>You truly have no application at this time if you have no scores for SAT I or II. Making up scores for tests not taken does not really work. I come across too many students who are shocked by real vs practice scores to have much faith in “I’ll Estimate”.</p>

<p>“Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First gen college student, low income, perhaps?”</p>

<p>Look for announcements from colleges about the push for first gen. Several Ivies publish these statistics as part of their announcements which means they consider it an admission priority. Penn is currently one of the big schools which announced it as a priority. So if you make it a point to read these announcements in April, you will know which schools are looking out for you.</p>