<p>Still deciding where i want to apply early to, I am probably going to do ECE but having a liberal arts education to go with that is important to me as well.</p>
<p>SAT 1: 730 Reading, 750 Writing, 790 Math=2270
SAT 2: 770 Chem, 790 Bio M, 800 MathII</p>
<p>GPA: Freshman year 3.0 (0/1 honors classes available)
Sophomore year 3.7 (1 AP, 1 honors classes)
Junior year 3.9 (3 honors classes, 2 APs)
Senior year: Most likely 3.8 (5 APs, 1 honors class)</p>
<p>EC's: Co-President of MUN chapter with multiple awards at big school conferences, NHS, Performed in a couple of School 1 Act plays, Member of my schools Improv Troupe, Have programmed 2 apps for android (currently going through the process of submitting them), JV/Varstiy XC/Outdoor Track </p>
<p>Voulenteer Work: approx 200 hours in between volunteering at 5ks, peer tutoring and voulentering at an Orphanage for the disabled in Sudan (my home country)</p>
<p>Essay: About how my time at the orphanage got me to get my **** together after sophomore year.</p>
<p>Hooks: African American(1st generation immigrant) in engineering?</p>
<p>You want us to tell you that you will get into all those schools, right? Otherwise, why would you even ask us for chances for undeniably reach schools?</p>
<p>The only issue I see is the low freshman year GPA. Do really well first quarter senior year. These schools are a reach for anybody so I’d still say reach but best of luck!</p>
<p>Perhaps, but probably not. For the most part, people post chance threads for top schools because they’re legitimately curious about whether not they have a chance at all. As mostly rising seniors, we’re not all masters of the college admissions process yet, so how do we know if we should even bother applying to a school like Princeton? For example, I posted a chance thread for Harvard, Yale, and Brown (among non top-20 schools), and I didn’t make it in order to boost my ego; I actually didn’t know whether my courseload, ECs, and scores were good enough to warrant applying to those schools at all. </p>
<p>Therefore, for Ivy chance threads and the like, there are 3 possible responses one can give:
I wouldn’t recommend applying here, as your stats/ECs/etc. don’t quite reach the target range for that school.
This school is a very high reach for you, but with some amazing essays/recs/etc., you could still possibly get in.
Your profile looks great–you have just as high a chance at admission as any other highly competitive applicant. </p>