Chance me at schools( 1st time)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey guys, this is my first time getting chanced at a forum and I was hoping you could give some feedback for the following schools:
Stanford(probably EA)
U of Chicago
Brown (either PLME or RD)
UC LA, Berkeley, SD
UVa
Georgetown (School of Nursing)
UPenn
Duke</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Indian(born in India came to US when I was 1)
School: Mid size public school
1200 people
Not very competitive, my class is pretty smart
We are a very average high school
Bay Area California</p>

<p>Graduating: 2010</p>

<p>Transcript: Excellent
UW: 4.00
W: 4.27
Freshman year: 4.O both semesters
Sophmore Year: 4.28 both
Junior Year: 4.53 both</p>

<p>My weighted GPA is brought down by my 0 period Service Commission Leadership class and this class in our school called Advisory, part of our school’s academic system where we meet with a teacher advisor. Both go on the transcript and bring my GPA down, colleges know about our schools special academic program so they will understand that. </p>

<p>Aps and Honors: Offered at school 11, will have taken 10, tied for most in recent history of the school with a student who graduated to Berkeley this year.
AP Chemistry: Sophmore year (5)
Ap Spanish: Sophmore year (4) skipped the level before AP with a rec from freshman year teacher
AP Calc BC: Junior Year (self taught sat in an AB class since our school didn’t offer it this year and my calc teacher gave me this opportunity): 4 or 5 on BC probably 5 on AB
Ap Physics: Junior Year ( 4 or 5)
AP US history: Junior Year (4 or 5)
English Honors Lang and Comp: Junior Year ( 4 or 5)
AP Biology: Senior Year
AP Enviornmental Science: Senior Year
AP GOV/ECON: Senior Year
AP English LIT: Senior Year
The only AP I did not take would be AP music theory, they only offered it this year, and might not next.
Test Scores:
SAT I: 2250- 710 CR 740 Math 800 Writing
SAT II: Math II-800
Chemistry-800
US History-770
Physics-750
I really don’t want to retake anything.</p>

<p>Awards or Honors:
My school doesn’t give out awards so that kinda sucks, but this is what else I’ve won.
Freshman year:
2 1st place trophies in Regional Karate Tournament and 1 2nd
Sophmore Year:
1st place in Karate Regional
Drama Department Marty Acting Award
Junior Year:
Xerox/U of Rochester Technology Appreciator Award and Possible Scholarship
AIME qualifier-only 1 from my school
Chemistry National Olympiad Qualifier, best in my school out of 10 people on the Regional Test
Senior Year:
Mabye commended Scholar on PSAT
AP Scholar probably</p>

<p>Extracurricular:
My life revolves around the stage, if I’m not studying I’m probably on stage.
Fall Muscial: will be 4 years, August-November easily 15-20 hours a week of time
Spring Play: will be 4 years, same amount of time. January-April
Spring one Acts: 3 years- 5 hours a week. January-Early March
School Improv Team- we are a very well known team in the community, very competitive to get on, one of my essays will be on the experiences on this team- 4 years. Spring Show in Early May and Winter Show in December or January, 4 hours a week, every week all year.
School Choir: 3 years
Broadway Bound-an elite theatre troupe (audition only)-1 year
Karate: 3 years
Dance/Vocal lessons: past 2 years
Clubs:
Drama Club: will be 4 years, Secretary 11th grade, Pres or VP Senior Year
Quiz Kids: 3 years, Co-President
Science Bowl Club: 3 years, Co-Captain
Those are the important ones
Leadership:
Student Government Class- 11th Lunchtime Game coordinator
12th- Cares and Drives Commissioner
Executive Council( Like Class President)- 11th and 12th
Service Commission: A competitive Service Group that does Comm. Service and School Service Junior and Seniors only. 11th and 12th(Vice President)</p>

<p>Summer Activities:
Between 8th and 9th:
The Pajama Game musical at Community Theatre
Between 9th and 10th:
Bye Bye Birdie Musical at Community Theatre
Chemistry General at Community College
Between 10th and 11th:
Cosmos summer Program for Math and Science at UCSC
Between 11th and 12th:
Research Program at UCSF Medical Center on Leukemia with a professional team.</p>

<p>Teacher Recs:
Will be fantastic. My Relationship with my teachers is astounding. I can talk to them at any time, about life, the school system, and they ask my for my personal advice on things and how to run their classes at times. They know me and my personality as an astute thinker, one who never gives up, has a absolutely love of learning that keeps awake till 3am reading the AP chem. Textbook and how I am deeply involved in our school’s community at the same time while helping classmates raise their grades by tutoring during my free 7th periods.</p>

<p>Essays:
This is the hard part to say right? I am confident about my ability to churn out excellent essays, my teachers will give me fantastic feedback, but here are some of my topics:
I have lived with Alopecia and autoimmune disease since 4th grade that made me bald. Though this seems like a sob story, I will use it as a spring board to gain confidence in any situation, shown by my ability to perform on stage in front of hundreds of people with no 2nd thoughts
One will be on the lesson of improve
One will be on my conflict between my very religious side of Hinduism and my very rational, academic side and how the rational and irrational combine to influence my conscience.
I am very interested in chemistry and breathe it every living day, and I will right about this on the brown supplement, and I know my calling is to help people since I do it so much at school, so that is why I want to become a doctor and study medicine. </p>

<p>Okay guys, I hope I didn’t forget anything, thank you for taking the time to read it, I appreciate it sooo much. And im sorry if it sound braggy, im just trying to paint the best picture possible to colleges.</p>

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<p>oh and my class rank is 1/about 315</p>

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<p>Wow. Great Stats and EC’s! Might want to retake SAT I if you are able to though. You have an excellent resume and you sound like you have good ideas for essays too. You and I have a lot in common. I also participate in community theatre and ballet and want to go into medicine.
chance me back? <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/729823-chance-southern-belle-engineering-schools.htmlStanford(probably%5B/url%5D”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/729823-chance-southern-belle-engineering-schools.htmlStanford(probably</a> EA)</p>

<p>In my opinion
U of Chicago- low reach/match (especially if you have creative essays)
Brown (either PLME or RD)- reach
UC LA, Berkeley, SD - safety
UVa- match (since you’re OOS)
Georgetown (School of Nursing)- match
UPenn- reach
Duke- reach</p>

<p>I’d guess that you get into at least 1 of Upenn, Duke, or Brown, but it’s so random at those that it is hard to say for sure.</p>

<p>Best of luck!</p>

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<p>any body? i know its long, but please try to at least skim through it, i promise I will chance you back=)</p>

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<p>You certainly have exhausted your curriculum and performed extremely well in the hardest classes your school offers. Your ec’s are also very superior. In my opinion, however, you should not put all of those ec’s on your transcript. Just pick the ones that really meant something to you, and maybe a few others just to show your flexibility. You have a great overall transcript.</p>

<p>University of Chicago- I would say 80% chance. It has a much higher admissions rating than Ivies, and you would be superior candidate.
The others are all around 50-80% I would say. There are no guarantees for anyone, but you have as good a chance as anyone. Probably the hardest one on this list is Stanford, and it is a crapshoot for almost everyone. But I would say your chances there are very decent, like 50%.</p>

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<p>U of Chicago- match, but they put an inordinate emphasis on the essays so be sure to rock them
Brown (either PLME or RD)- reach
UC LA, Berkeley, SD - safeties bc you’re in state
UVa- match (since you’re OOS)
Georgetown (School of Nursing)- low match
UPenn- low reach
Duke- low reach
Apply to Harvard! You’re super human.
Oh and since you have so much interest in the theater why not apply to NYU Tisch, that’s a very renowned school for theater and you would be right on Broadway!
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<p>chicago- you are right. my ECs will be split between-theatre and science things, but yea, dont want to put everything on there.</p>

<p>mvingi- i’ve thought about HPY, but none of them really appeal to me, i might end up doing Harvard, but Stanford, Chicago, Brown are my top 3 schools. As for tisch, i want to do community theatre, but my primary focus will be chemistry and then going to med school, i cant do theatre professionally.</p>

<p>on that note, should I emphasize my interest in medicine or highlight my passion for theatre more?
thanks guys and if you could, chance me at- JHU, Northwestern and Columbia</p>

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<p>I think you have very good odds at all the places you listed, but Stanford and UPenn might be high reaches for you. You do come across as a little arrogant in your writing (no offense or anything…) so you might want to work on toning that down a bit in your essays. Your ECs/GPA are great, and your SAT score is fairly solid, which imo gives you great chances.</p>

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<p>I would definitely emphasize the theater over the medical stuff because medical programs will have 24215255 kids saying they’re interested in medicine, but not many who are interested in medicine and theater</p>

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<p>Fire bunny u are right, in all truth, im not that cocky of a person, so i am probably going too far in this whole college app thing, just because im not that used to having to talk about myself, and im overcompensating. i think its a philosophy that i learned from theatre- its always easier to bring down a level of character/movement/passion etc. than it is to increase, so i feel that your advice is exactly what i needed, just talk about myself about who i truly am, not the superficial way it seems to be here.</p>

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<p>No i get what you’re saying, and I’m sure you’re a chill person in real life :stuck_out_tongue: But anyways, if you can write a poignant essay without coming across as the damn elitist everyone hates, you have- as I said before - good chance :slight_smile: Good luck!</p>

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<p>since u’r interested in medicine, why don’t you apply to some combined dual degree bs/md schools - ur stats and ECs are good enough, although you might need some more shadowing, hospital volunteering, research, etc.?</p>

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<p>excellent academics, very nice EC’s. i would say low reach high match for all except stanford because there ridiculously picky. Picky as in a girl form my school had 2400 SAT, AP Scholar in the country, 3 years of research experience, GPA of 4.77, president of interact and spanish club at our school, and got rejected =(.
i personally think you have a better shot simply because your more well rounded!
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<p>i’ve thought about the combined, the PLME in brown, one in UCSD, but my major is gonna be chem, and after 4 years of undergrad, i might not want to go into medicine as a doctor, so i want to keep my options open.</p>

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<p>hisairness- your math/science targeted ECs and awards make a compelling case for MIT, but stanford would want to see a much more rounded you, so I would say focus on the music too for stanford because they love to see you have passion. for JHU, i say you are quite solid, and should have a very strong chance there. if you want to up the CR score sure, it might be nice to, 2250 is a solid score though and these schools have so many more important factors.</p>

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<p>well im not quite sure why people like you ask since youve never made any mistakes in your life and your test scores are perfect or near that but ya its all about the essays, try to find one thing about yourself thats interesting and write about that. The goal is that the admissions person gives you a nickname like Tennis kid or piano god or something like that and chances are if they give you a nickname they will remember you and you will stand out and thus probably get in. those schools are reaches for everyone on earth, but you have as good a chance as any if you make yourself shine in the essays so GOOD LUCK!!!</p>

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<p>shoot your stats are incredible! I am wondering how your school weights though to have gotten a 4.5 something?</p>

<p>Stanford(probably EA): reach
U of Chicago: match/in
Brown (either PLME or RD): high reach (plme is so hard to get into)
UC LA, Berkeley, SD: in all
UVa: in
Georgetown (School of Nursing): low reach
UPenn: low reach
Duke: mid reach</p>

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<p>Bob- my school gives 4 points for an A, 5 points for an AP a. SO i have 7.5 classes, one class is counted as half as every kid in the school takes it for 4 years. i have 4 ap As so 20, 3 A’s so 12, and the half class A is 2. so 34/7.5 classes is 4.533333.</p>

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<p>any more guys? I will chance you back</p>

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<p>… any more guys?</p>