Chance me for Caltech/Harvey Mudd/MIT and Ivies?

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Hey guys- I’d love if you would chance me for Caltech/Harvey Mudd/MIT in particular, but also Stanford/Princeton/Ivies in general.

Current GPA: 4.0 (unweighted), 4.7 (weighted) - took all honors classes, and AP Calculus and AP US History in 10th

Extracurriculars:
Founding President of Math Club
Founding President of American Sign Language Club
Head of Design (9th and 10th) then President (11th) of Figure of Speech <- School Literary Magazine
Member of Robotics Club
Member of local Swim Club

SAT: 2310

AP Tests: all 5’s
-AP Calculus
-AP US History
-AP Microeconomics
-AP Macroeconomics
-AP Biology
-AP Chemistry
-AP World History
-AP Composition

Admitted to MathILy (advanced math camp at Bryn Mawr)
Took Multivariable Calculus and Linear Algebra this year at a local university
Volunteered with a feminist organization in conjunction with a science camp for middle school girls, where I was a counselor working with electronic engineering.
Relatively fluent (definitely not native, but close AP-level) in Spanish and Chinese, thanks to amazing teachers and an engineering summer camp in China
Native-level fluent in American Sign Language (my sister’s deaf)
I have advanced coding skills in HTML & CSS and Java, and some experience with jQuery, JavaScript and Python.

I’m a junior, so I’m going to do other things next year as well- I’m going to participate in USAMTS, but I don’t know if I stand a chance at doing well- also, I’m taking a course this summer for the AMC. Next year, I’m probably taking Topology or a similarly difficult math class at the university, IB Physics (AP not available), AP European History, AP English Lit, and AP Spanish (I’ll also take the AP Chinese test, if I end up having time to study for it), and honors everything else, probably continuing with my current extracurriculars.

I haven’t done much volunteering-wise, and I haven’t done student research or anything like that. I know I’m strong academically, but I feel like my extracurriculars aren’t exactly outstanding, so I’m not sure where I fall chance-wise. I’m pretty sure I can get strong recc’s (maybe one from my professor), and I plan on spending quite a bit of time on the essays. I want to go into Applied Math, potentially double-majoring in Computer Science. Also, I’m a girl, which seems to give me a marginal advantage according to admissions statistics.

Sorry this was such a long post. Thanks for reading! What do you guys think?

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Those schools are hard for anybody and not likely. However you have good stats so you have a shot. Good luck

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Are you female? I think that gives you a little boost at those schools. I think especially for CalTech your SAT needs to be higher, though it is of course great. Have you tried the ACT? What about your SAT 2 scores? Those need to be tiptop. Good luck, you look like a strong candidate.

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You have a good shot at Harvey Mudd and lower Ivies. The others are worth applying to.

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You have the stats for all the schools you listed, however Ivies are extremely competitive and therefore you never really know who will get in and who won’t. It’s worth applying to them. Good luck!

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Being a girl helps a lot at Caltech from what I’ve heard from a good friend (who is a girl at Caltech) they want a class thats ~50/50 but the applicant pool is so skewed towards men that they have to give women an edge. Ivies/Stanford are obviously hard for anyone but you do seem to be strong on paper.

I think the fact that your sister is deaf and you are the founder of the ASL club at your school is a very compelling story. The next step, what could really push you into a frontrunner position for HYPS+, is what have you accomplished as president of that club? Could you organize events to promote awareness or outreach on a large (even national) scale? Could you write about how growing up with your sister has made you see (or hear!) the world differently from anybody else. Find out what you love to do, find what makes you unique, mix them together, and push the results to the extremes. That’s the closest I could come to a formula for top-tier admissions success.

I always like to say this at the end of posts, but remember to enjoy high school as well, I think if you can show that you were happy doing whatever it was you did during high school, that goes a long way as well. I think it’s what got me into Duke (where I am a freshman).

Good luck and best wishes!