chance me (college admissions)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hello! I am currently a senior in high school, and I was wondering what my chances for UPenn (business), Harvard (UD), Princeton (UD), Cornell (business), Columbia (UD), Yale (UD), Northwestern (political science), NYU (business), Wellesley (economics), UChicago (political science), UC Berkeley (business), USC (business). The parenthesis after each school is the major I applied to, and UD is undecided.

I am a middle class/upper-middle class Asian female. I attend one of the top ten public high schools in California where it is quite competitive academically.

GPA: 3.95 unweighted, 4.4 weighted

Classes:

Freshmen (not allowed to take APs):
Alg 2 honors, English 9 honors, Biology (no honors offered), Health/Civics (required and no honors offered), PE (required), Spanish 3

Sophomore (only APs offered are AP Chinese and AP Music Theory):
PreCalc honors, English 10 honors, Chemistry honors, World History honors, PE (required), Spanish 4, Marketing (no honors offered)

Junior:
AP Calc BC, English 11 honors (no AP English offered), AP Physics 1, APUSH, AP Spanish, AP Music Theory

Senior:
AP Statistics, AP Lit, AP World History, AP Biology, Gov/Econ (required and no honors offered), Leadership 2

Stats:

AP exams: I received a 5 on all the AP exams I took. In addition to the APs I took in school, I also self-studied:
8th grade - AP Chinese
Freshmen - AP Microeconomics, AP Macroeconomics, AP Environmental Science
Sophomore - AP Human Geography, AP Comparative Government & Politics, AP US Government & Politics

SAT (sophomore): 1590 (800 math, 790 English), writing: 8, 8, 7
ACT (sophomore): 36

SAT Subject Tests:
Sophomore - Math 2 (800)
Junior - Spanish with Listening (780)

School Clubs:

Speech & Debate
9-11: Member
12: Secretary

Mock Trial
9: Member
10: Publicity Officer
11: Secretary
12: Vice President

Interact
9: Freshman Representative
10: Secretary
11: Treasurer
12: Co-President

Model United Nations
9-11: Member
12: Secretary

Investment Club: member all four years
Music Benefit Performance Club: member all four years
DECA: member all four years

Summer Camps:
COSMOS (summer before sophomore)
NYU Summer @ Stern (summer before junior)
CA Page Senate Internship (summer before senior)

Jobs:
Media Manager & Head Photographer for High-End Restaurant (all years of high school)
TA at math tutoring place (junior and senior)

Community Service:
Music Benefit Performance Club (all four years), taught Chinese children English in Taiwan (summer before sophomore, junior, and senior), service events on a monthly basis

Extracurriculars:

Dance: 10 years of experience, ballet & character, competition team (8th-10th), awards below
Piano: 11 years of experience, accompanist at church, awards below
Debate: 4 years of experience, awards below
MUN: 4 years of experience, awards below
Mock Trial: 4 years of experience
DECA: 3 years of experience, awards below
Research: 2 years of experience, freshman & sophomore

Awards:

Dance:
Freshman - RAD G6 Distinction, Gold Ranking (2nd highest) at regional competitions
Sophomore - RAD G7 Distinction, Gold Ranking at regional competitions
Junior - RAD G8 Distinction

Piano:
Freshman - Simply Music Level 18 Graduate (complete program)
Sophomore - Certificate of Merit (CM) Level 9 Graduate
Junior - CM Level 10 Graduate

Debate:
Freshman - Undefeated at Local Tournament
Sophomore - Finalist at a National Circuit Tournament, TOC Silver Bid, States Wildcard
Junior - Finalist at 2 National Circuit Tournaments, TOC Silver Bid, States Wildcard
Senior - Finalist at 2 National Circuit Tournaments, TOC Gold Bid, States Wildcard

MUN:
Sophomore - Research Award, Honorable Mention at Major Conference
Junior - Research Award, Outstanding Delegate at Major Conference

DECA:
Sophomore - DECA ICDC (International Competition) Qualifier
Junior - DECA ICDC 3rd Place

Community service:
Gold Presidential Award (freshmen, sophomore, junior)

Academic:
National Merit Finalist
National AP Scholar

Recommendation Letters: Probably just average.

Essays: I think my essays were fairly strong.

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Congratulations on your HS achievements.

I can’t chance you, but have you been accepted/deferred/denied anywhere yet?

Have you applied to an affordable safety school?

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You are a strong applicant but this is a list of all reach schools. Hopefully you have your safeties locked up and applied to some match schools as well.

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You’re really go-getter in the ECs department. Mock Trial, MUN, DECA, S&D, Investment Club… Quite business-focused.

There’s not much any of us, including you, can do at this point, but I believe you’ll get into at least one of those high reaches, likely Berkeley.

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I also think your ECs are pretty good. Do you have any advice for freshmen in high school?

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@daunt18 Thanks! Is there a specific area of my application that you feel is not strong enough for the schools other than Berkeley, or did you just not mention the other schools because they are statistically harder to gain admission to?

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@sadpotato I think the main thing is to find what you’re interested in and pursue extracurriculars in that area. Also, have fun and make sure you love what you’re doing! Good luck! :slight_smile:

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@oatmilk Thanks! Good luck to you, too.

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Are you a twin?
The reason I ask is because your profile appears to be very similar to another post that appeared yesterday by a ”@flaxmilk”.
Having two logins is a violation of the terms of service (TOS) for college confidential.
If you are a twin, and I apologize.
If not then, not liking the previous responses to your question, under a different post is not going to change much.

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@“aunt bea” Hi, @flaxmilk and I are twins and we attend the same school, hence the similarity of our posts.