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<p>Well I got rejected at wharton. Very surprised I wasn't deferred. oh well. I did get accepted at UT at Austin and UConn. I just finished applying to these schools today.</p>

<p>I rewrote a whole new common application essay. Spent around 20 hours on it. It was about my freshman science teacher I had who died at the age of 34 and my experiences with him.</p>

<p>Location: CT
Gender: M
Ethnicity: Hispanic</p>

<p>Intended Major: Finance</p>

<p>I'll apply for Economics/Operations Research and Financial Engineering/Mathematics at Schools that don't offer Business degrees.</p>

<p>GPA: Weighted 4.05 80% Courses Honors/AP (Business Classes are academic)
Class Rank: Top 10% (All they tell us), G.P.A's are inflated so 7 out of the top 10 (assumed) only take academic courses or those with no rigor. Assume I'm roughly 15th.
Class Size: 275
ACT: 33 (M:36, S:35, E:31, R:28, W:30) Superscored: M:36 S:35 E:33 R28 W:32
SAT 2's: M1:760 M2:770 Chem:700
AP: Stat 5</p>

<p>Taking: AP Calc, AP Physics, Hon English, Hon Spanish (No AP offered), Business Law, Marketing 2, American Government (req for graduation), Economics</p>

<p>G.P.A for Senior Year Currently: 4.33 W 3.95 UW</p>

<p>EC's:
DECA, 2008-Present President 2010 Raised 1300$ in Fundraiser; reopened school store after 6 years
Spanish Honors Society, 2009-Present President 2010
Math League, 2008-Present Team Captain 2010
Student Government - Class Secretary 2010
Debate Club 2009-2010 (discontinued this year)
Senior Experience Design Team 2010
Football 2007, Co-Captain
Freshman/JV Basketball 2007-2009
Fresh/JV/Varsity Baseball 2008,2010 (Cut in 2009)
Summer Baseball "All-Stars" 2007-Present Captain 2007-Present
MLG Semi Profesional Halo 3 Player - Team Captain of Ranked Team (Top 40 in World)
T.A 2008-Present
Math Tutor 2008-Present
Spanish Tutor 2010
400+ Community Sevice Hours Recorded</p>

<p>Awards:</p>

<p>High Honor Roll 2007-Present
NHRP Scholar (National Hispanic Recognition Program)
National Merit Semi-Finalist
BIP Scientific Scholar Finalist (2008)
DECA 2-Time State Medalist in Finance
Math League - State Champs in 2009, 2010. On 5 man "Varisty Team" all 3 years.
MVP Award Summer Baseball 2008
18U Silver Medalist in Baseball for CT Nutmeg Games (2009)</p>

<p>Teacher Recs:
1 from Math Teacher who i've T.Aed for for 3 Years.
1 from Guidence Department.
1 from English Teacher to off set poor english scores (A-'s and 28 on Reading).
All know me on a personal level. </p>

<p>Essays: Good-Very Good
Rec's: Excellent</p>

<p>Legacy to Yale, Princeton, USC</p>

<p>Schools:
ED Penn- Wharton (Rejected)
Cornell (CAS)
Harvard - Econ
Yale - Econ
Princeton - Econ
Columbia - Econ
Brown - Econ
Stanford - Econ
Georgetown - McDonough
GW - Finance
NYU - Stern
MIT - Sloan School of Management
USC - Finance
Texas (Accepted) - McCombs
UConn (Accepted) - Finance
Notre Dame - Mendoza
Duke - Trinity (Econ)
UVA - CAS (Commerce)</p>

<p>Leave a link to your chance page. Thanks guys and girls.</p>

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<p>Schools:</p>

<p>Cornell (CAS) -low reach</p>

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<p>Harvard - Econ - All are high reaches for anyone. You have a very impressive resume,<br>
but still know that no one is a lock at these schools.
Yale - Econ
Princeton - Econ
Columbia - Econ
Brown - Econ</p>

<h2>Stanford - Econ</h2>

<p>Georgetown - McDonough?
GW - Finance ?
NYU - Stern - low match
MIT - Sloan School of Management -high reach
USC - Finance - match, for a legacy no doubt.
Texas (Accepted) - McCombs (Nice, UT is a great school)</p>

<p>Notre Dame - Mendoza - high match
Duke - Trinity (Econ) low reach
UVA - CAS (Commerce) match</p>

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<p>bumpppp 10 char</p>

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<p>What Army said. The Ivies and Stanford are never predictable. The rest are either low reaches or targets. Good luck.</p>

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<p>Good application, but don’t put things like JV sports and honor roll on it, it will just look silly. Numbers are on par with Ivys, so you’re good there. And with the URM and legacy, you should have a well above average at a lot of those schools. Good luck.</p>

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<p>I disagree about the Jv sports because they are still time consuming. Any other chances?</p>

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<p>looks like a solid application. the only thing is that your sat subject tests are on the low side which somewhat calls your academics abilities into question… especially since you declared your major in a math related field. however, that’s just one thing… i’d say you have a great shot at getting into one of HYPSM</p>

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<p>Schools:</p>

<p>Cornell (CAS)
Harvard - Econ reach for anybody chance decides
Yale - Legacy+selectivity=much higher chance of getting into the harvard and slightly higher than princeton
Princeton - you have a slightly higher chance of getting into princeton than harvard because of your legacy
Columbia - Econ
Brown - Econ see hvd
Stanford - Econ see hvd
Georgetown - McDonough
GW - Finance certainly
NYU - Stern likely
MIT - Sloan School of Management chances similar to stanford
USC - Finance certainly
Notre Dame - Mendoza certainly
Duke - Trinity (Econ) likely
UVA - CAS (Commerce) certainly</p>

<p>GL</p>

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<p>You have a great set of stats, though I agree with completegraph. You also have some interesting ECs which will look great to admissions. I think you are good for all non-Ivies, and have a good chance for Duke. About Harvard and the Ivies - I agree with GoalBates. And I agree with you about JV sports. I did JV soccer for my first two years of high school and it took up so much time that I dropped it to pursue other interests. I hope admissions will see my reasoning for quitting. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1058297-could-i-get-into-middlebury.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1058297-could-i-get-into-middlebury.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I like your EC’s…I lol’d at the Halo, but hey, it totally stands out. I think you should put JV sports, they are a time commitment, and people have reasons for not continueing. You will probably get into at least a few reach schools!
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<p>Cornell- reach(ish)
Harvard – unpredictable (for anyone)
Yale – high reach
Princeton - reach
Columbia – reach (depends actually-I don’t know much about Columbia)
Brown - unpredictable
Stanford - unpredictable
Georgetown – high target/ reach
GW – easy in
NYU - likely
MIT – so competitive/ unpredictable
USC – easy in
Notre Dame - likely
Duke – so competitive/ unpredictable
UVA – easy in</p>

<p>Some Comments: </p>

<p>Let me start by saying you’re obviously a bright kid and deserve to get into many of these schools. But, you are by no means “extraordinary.” It’s hard to say if Harvard will be looking for an average kid (avg for Harvard) to fill the class- or another Mark Zuckerberg. </p>

<p>Your SAT IIs are very good. Your cumulative GPA is not spectacular. But, on the other hand, you’re doing very well this year, so that will help. But, I see that you don’t have too many AP classes (3 if I’m correct). And, although all your honors classes seem to be in math or finance-related classes, Ivy league schools of Yale and Harvard’s caliber want kids good at everything. I say that not as criticism- but just as a fact. I’m pretty much in the same boat as you. </p>

<p>I’m oriented towards the humanities/ politics and know nothing about econ-related extracurriculars, so I’m not qualified to comment on those (or really anything else on here haha). But, we’re similar in the sense that we’re good, competitive applicants but not the BEST out there. </p>

<p>Good luck to you and PLEASE chance back!</p>

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I’m not sure if you should have put this on. Nothing against videogames- I even play them myself (mainly starcraft2)- but could seem like a “waste” of time by adcoms. Colleges don’t want people who are going to be playing videogames tons, but rather interacting with their campus.</p>

<p>That said you are very qualified and upenn wharton is notoriously difficult to get into, so you have good chances at every school besides probably harvard/yale/princeton/mit.</p>

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<p>Your GPA, Rank, ACT and SATIIs are on par, though not impressive for schools like HYPSM. Also your ECs are good, but rather generic and don’t really show a passion for business. Alot depends on your essay, which unfortunately seems quite standard too - sorry to say, but far too many write about deaths.</p>

<p>Cornell- reach
Harvard – high reach
Yale – high reach
Princeton - high reach
Columbia – reach
Brown - reach
Stanford - high reach
Georgetown – match/in
GW – in
NYU - match
MIT – high reach
USC – in
Notre Dame - match
Duke – reach/high reach
UVA – match</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>You’re ACT, rank, and too few APs are the downfalls. </p>

<p>Schools:</p>

<h2>Rejected/WL</h2>

<p>ED Penn- Wharton (Rejected)
Harvard - Econ
Yale - Econ
Princeton - Econ
Columbia - Econ
Brown - Econ
Stanford - Econ</p>

<h2>Accepted</h2>

<p>Cornell (CAS)
Georgetown - McDonough
GW - Finance
NYU - Stern
MIT - Sloan School of Management
USC - Finance
Texas (Accepted) - McCombs
UConn (Accepted) - Finance
Notre Dame - Mendoza
Duke - Trinity (Econ)
UVA - CAS (Commerce)</p>

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<p>i agree with most of the above. those ivies are reaches for any applicant, although you may have a better chance because of your legacies. stanford is also difficult to know, but USC and NYU are likely, i think. good luck</p>

<p>chance me?</p>

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<p>Compared to average hispanic applicant to these schools (what I’ve seen on CC), I thought I looked a lot better. So, I’m hoping my URM status at some of these ivies to come through.
I know stanford has a lot of hispanics, I only applied because I’m from Connecticut, so I don’t know how many applicants there would be from my state.
I thought my essay was very unique considering he was only 34(it’s not like I’m writing about a death in the family. I thought a death of a teacher would be a lot more memorable.)
Also, I linked halo to meeting people all around the world when I had interviews and they seemed really interested in that. Plus I made a good sum of money from it as well.</p>

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<p>I’m surprised you were rejected from Wharton.</p>

<p>Cornell (CAS) - accepted most likely
Harvard -if it’s anything like Wharton, rejected
Yale - waitlist
Princeton - waitlist
Columbia - solid chance but still most likely rejected
Brown - probably in
Stanford - because you were rejected I would say unlikely
Georgetown - I don’t know enough about Georgetown
GW - In
NYU - Probably in
MIT - Unlikely
USC - Probably in
Notre Dame - In
Duke - borderline rejection
UVA - match</p>

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<p>Cornell- yes
Harvard - no
Yale - maybe
Princeton - maybe
Columbia - maybe
Brown - yes
Stanford - maybe
Georgetown - yes
GW - yes
NYU - yes
MIT - maybe
USC - yes
Notre Dame - ye
Duke - maybe
UVA - yes</p>

<p>Chance me please </p>

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<p>Hey, Thanks for chancing me
HIGH REACH
HARVARD
MIT
YALE
PRINCETON
STANFORD</p>

<p>REACH
CORNELL
COLUMBIA
BROWN
DUKE</p>

<p>IN/MATCH
UVA
NYU
USC
GW
GEORGETOWN
NOTRE DAME</p>

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<p>Bump 10char</p>