Chance me at 20 schools

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Objective:

New SAT: Not submitted
Old SAT: 2140 Single Test, 2200 Superscored
Unweighted GPA: 3.98
Weighted GPA: ~4.2/5
Class Rank: Top 10% of 150
AP: Physics, US History, World History, Lang and Composition, Biology
Senior Course Load: Classes at community college instead of my HS - Not a ton of hard ones to be honest, but relevant to my goals.

Subjective:

Sports:
Nopeeeee

Other ECs:
Key Club 9-12, President
DECA - Secretary, heavily involved, gave speech in front of 4,000 at state conference
Couple of others, not listing here.

Job/Work Experience: (MAJOR KEY ALERT)

***Owner/founder of a web-store that sells a certain type of product, over $60,000 in sales
Entrepreneur, sell collectibles, single highest brokerage was for over $20,000 to a private collector
Worked a 3AM-8AM shift over the summer
Work currently as a part-time waiter in a Chinese restaurant, have to translate orders to Mandarin (lol)

Volunteer Work: Decent amount from ECs, nothing crazy though

Summer Activities:
Business related stuff, again.

Essays:
Common App: 9/10. Story about how I started and grew my business, and got contacted by an investor for more funding.
Misc. College Essays: I really got in to the groove with these, they’re all pretty unique and grandiose and fancy, I feel like a young

Recommendations:
Teacher Rec. #1: 9/10. Foreign language teacher, haven’t read it but I’ve always had a really good relationship with him and he said he spent hours on it.
Teacher Rec. #2: 8/10. Math teacher, we like each other, touched on how hard I worked on a group project, most groups made a 5 minute long presentation but ours took an entire class period and we even did a second showing due to how much everyone liked it.
Counselor Rec.: 9/10. Counselor is my DECA advisor, so we know each other very well TOUCHES ON BUSINESS AGAIN

MORE MAJOR KEY ALERTS!
*** Additional Rec 1.: 11/10. From the investor in my company, AMAZINGLY WRITTEN, says he wants to follow my career and stand by as a mentor and investor in my future.
Additional Rec 2.: 10/10. From a client that purchased $20,000 of goods from me, talks about how I’m one of the most professional businesspeople he’s ever spoken to, even though I’m only 18, and wishes to continue working with me.

Other:
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
State: CA
Income: $100,000+
Intended Major: Entrepreneurship/Business stuff

*Note: My intended angle is my love of and experience with entrepreneurship, as is shown through my business experience, choice and involvement with clubs, and recommendations.

SCHOOL LIST:

UCLA
Berkeley
Claremont McKenna
Carnegie Mellon
Cornell
Yale
Dartmouth
Duke
Emory
Harvard
Princeton
Rice
Stanford
Notre Dame
Upenn
USC
Vanderbilt
WA University in St. Louis
Wesleyan
Brown

I know this is excessive, but YOLO!

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UC GPA capped/weighted and fully weighted? https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/

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Your academic stats are good, but as an RD applicant to the IVY/Nescacs and other top schools you listed I would say that absent your unique business success you would not have a chance at any of those. However, given the uniqueness of your entrepreneur story you could be an interesting candidate to a school who is likely to have an application reader who empathizes. This most likely rules out the more liberal east cost schools like Brown, Wesleyan, and Yale. Similarly Harvard, Princeton and Stanford are going to have exceptional applicants with even more impressive life achievements and higher grades and other hooks, so those are out. The non East Coast top schools like Vandy, Rice , Duke, are all tough to get into and I would say your odds are low, but probably better than the aforementioned ones. So out of your list, and excluding the CA state schools I would say your best bets in probable order of admission are USC, ND, CM, Emory and WashU – those schools I would say your odds are 50/50 all the other schools are going to be much tougher. Your odds would have been significantly better if you had applied ED rather than waiting for RD.

good luck!

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So many sweeping generalizations! Trying to second guess who is going to read your file is a losing strategy. The OP will find sympathetic readers at every school and IMO, at those schools in particular.