Chance Me for Brown, Pomona, Williams, NYU, Berkeley, UVA, Emory

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Demographics: East Asian

Intended Major: Economics or Comparative Literature

Academics:
GPA: 97.5/100 - upward trend (95 freshmen year to 99.5 junior year)
SAT: 1490
ACT: 33 / superscore: 34
SAT subject: Math 2 (790), US History (790)
APs: Lang (5), APUSH (5), Calc BC (5), Psych (5), Physics 1 (4), Euro (4)

Senior Course Load: AP Mirco, AP Macro, AP Stat, AP Lit, AP Spanish, College Finance, AP Bio, AP US Gov

Extracurriculars:
Creative Writing: Scholastic Art & Writing national medal and 3 regional gold keys, NCTE National Honor, published in various literary journals & anthologies, attended two selective writing workshops

Editor-in-chief of school’s literary & art magazine

Online editor of school’s newspaper

DECA: Top 10 at states

Blogger w/ following of 36,000+

Part-time instructor @ Kumon

Volunteer at animal shelter

Recommendations: counselor, physics teacher, and english teacher. My english teacher’s is likely to be very good.

Schools: UVA (EA), Northeastern (EA), UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, CUNYs, NYU Stern, UMich, Emory, Bowdoin, Pomona, Williams, Amherst, Brown

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@morrissey00
UVA (EA),- Match/ High Match
Northeastern (EA), - Match
UC Berkeley, - High Match/ Low Reach
UCLA, - High Match/ Low Reach
UCSD,- Low Match
CUNYs, - Low Match/ Safety
NYU Stern,- High Match
UMich, - High Match
Emory, - Low Reach
Bowdoin,- High Match/ Low Reach
Pomona, - Reach
Williams,- Low Reach
Amherst- Low Reach/ Reach
Brown- Reach
Emory has a great quantitative social sciences concentration, you should look into it.

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What state are you from? The acceptance rates for in state/out of state vary at UVA and UMich; I’m not sure if they vary with any of the UC schools but there’s a strong chance they do.

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UCB and UCLA are reaches for all. Being Asian, the bar is higher for you. I would say you have a good shot at UVA, Emory, NYU. All bets are off for the others. You have the stats, but you’ll need more than this.

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@preppedparent
UCLA and UCB have lower stats than the aforementioned three.
Emory, Amherst, and Brown have the highest SAT avgs on OP’s list.

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@seaotter17 I’m applying from New York

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Do you think my ECs are strong enough? I feel like they do not really show any leadership.

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preppedparent says that to all who apply to UCB/UCLA, obviously from California and highly biased toward UC schools.

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not from California at all, from East Coast actually. But UCLA has the most applications of any school, and UCB is not just about stats. UCB uses a holistic approach. And by the way, it’s ill advised to make assumptions.