Chance Junior for a variety of schools

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>In addition to chancing, could people recommend a school (or schools) for EA or SCEA (I don't want to do ED)?</p>

<p>Schools (in order of preference):
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
Dartmouth
Columbia
Harvard
University of Michigan
MIT
U Chicago
Brown
Duke
Berkeley</p>

<p>Thanks everyone!</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2380 (780CR, 800M, 800W, 12E)
[</em>] SAT II: 800 Math IIC; taking US History and Chem
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 (most rigorous courseload)
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 10% (school only does deciles)
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): taking US History, Chem, BC Calc, Stats
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C, AP Lit, AP Span Lang, some non-AP social studies class, Math at Stanford University
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): CA State Tournament Qualifier in Policy Debate, USAJMO Qualifier, 4th Place at So Cal Championship in Black Belt Sparring, NMSF (probable – 240 PSAT), Silver President’s Award in Community Service
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Policy Debate (9/10/11/12, President of the Speech and Debate Team, Captain of the Policy Debate Team, CA State Tournament Qualifier, finalist at District Tournament and first alternate to Nationals, Top Speaker at SCU Invitational, organized and taught at summer speech and debate camp fundraiser), Math Club (9/10/11/12, USA Junior Mathematical Olympiad Qualifier – Score: 27, 3 x AIME Qualifier – highest score: 9, National Winning Team – 4x4 Competition, National 3rd Place Team – Mandelbrot Team Play Competition, 2nd Place Open Division in Santa Clara Valley Regional Competition, Mandelbrot Competition West/International Region Individual Leader-board), Karate (since 4th grade, Black Belt, 4th Place in Black Belt Sparring at So Cal Grand Championship), Cross Country (9/10/12), Track (10/12)
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Silver President’s Award in Community Service for working at a monthly fundraiser booksale, phone banking for the 2008 Obama Campaign, teaching debate to novices, and a lot of miscellaneous service activities
[</em>] Summer Activities: Debate camps (9/10/11), worked/organized summer speech and debate camp fundraiser (10/11, raised $30,000)
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA (Bay Area)
[</em>] School Type: very competitive Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Algerian-American
[</em>] Gender: M
[/ul]</p>

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<p>You have as good a chance as anyone for these schools. I would think u should definitely get into Mich, but all the other schools are crapshoots for everyone. Try to make sure ur EC list doesnt look like a laundry list of random positions. Try to emphasize ur passion in debate.</p>

<p>As for the EA SCEA question, your top choice, Yale, has SCEA, so I would think it’s pretty obvious to go for that.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the advice.</p>

<p>As for EA, since it’s non-binding, I wanted to apply strategically to a school where I’d get a significant boost. Would applying SCEA to one of HYPS be best (if so, which one)? Or should I go the U Chicago/MIT/Caltech EA route? Thanks again!</p>

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<p>You won’t get a significant boost applying SCEA to HYPS or any other ultra-selective school, but you might get some boost at UChicago or Caltech.</p>

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<p>Are you saying that UChicago and Caltech aren’t “ultra-selective?” Because these are two of the most difficult schools to get into.</p>

<p>You won’t really have a much better chance applying to any of these schools EA cause they are all elite. However, next year you might have a slightly better chance than years past because Harvard and Princeton are reintroducing their SCEA programs, so more kids will apply early there than say Yale or Caltech</p>

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<p>Correct; I think of them as “very selective” and not quite as hard to get into as HYPS. UChicago and Caltech are more self-selective; UChicago appreciates the love (I don’t know if Caltech does); HYPS don’t care a whit about the love.</p>

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<p>Just wondering, what is “the love”. Sounds like some crazy hippie thing. lol</p>

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<p>“The love” is applying ED, to a lesser extent (or not at all) EA.</p>

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<p>Gotcha. I totally agree.</p>

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<p>Very good chances at all of them
Did you get USAMO this year?</p>