Chance Me? (Columbia, Penn, Brown, Hopkins, Vanderbilt, Rice, WashU, USC, and more)

As previous posters have said, you seem like a generic Asian due to your high test scores, lack of any hook, and STEM and music focus. The Ivies in general are therefore high reaches (except Penn, which is a low reach, and Columbia, which is a mid-reach)—many applicants who look good “on paper” but don’t have some amazing talent/EC get rejected. You have a good chance at JHU, Vanderbilt, USC and Rice because those schools seem to care about objective stats a lot. WashU waitlists a lot of people at my school with high stats, but I’m not sure if that’s the case with every school. Same with Tufts. UNC Chapel Hill is hard to get into OOS, but with a 2400 you probably will. Instate you are a shoo-in. You can definitely get into UMich, NYU, Boston University, and Northeastern University, though I’m not sure if NYU, Boston, and Northeastern waitlist/reject overqualified applicants. Chance back?: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1778302-chance-an-asian-yale-duke-williams.html#latest