Chance me for Chicago/Penn/Pomona/CMC/Berkeley/UCLA and others?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm applying for economics or finance at UPenn, Princeton, Harvard, Chicago, Berkeley, UCLA, Pomona, CMC, NYU, Carnegie Mellon, and Babson.
UC/CSU GPA: 4.18</p>

<p>Straight A's sophomore year, a B in AP chem, B+ in AP Lang, a B+ in Trig, and two B's in spanish my junior year. Looks like I'll get straight A's my senior year, except maybe a B+ in AP Calc. I have taken the hardest classes available at my school, including every academic AP except Lit and Psychology (which I signed up for twice but had scheduling conflicts both times).
By the end of the year I will have taken 9 AP exams (which is actually more than are available at my school, because eI plan on self studying AP Macro/Micro)
Scores:
SAT: 2330 Single sitting (Over a 150 points higher than anyone else at my underperforming public school)
SAT II: 800 Math 2, 730 US History
AP: AP Euro- 5
APUSH - 5
AP Lang - 5
AP Chem - 3
I expect 5's on all of my AP exams this year, except maybe APES.</p>

<p>Work: Sales associate at See's candy (one year)
Private Tutor (two years)
Business Owner (past three months)
Awards/honors:
National Merit SF, NHRP Scholar, CSF lifetime member, AP scholar with honors</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Tutoring a half dozen students ranging in age from 12 to 31, in subjects ranging from arithmetic to SAT prep
Started my own business in August. I have done over $13,000 in sales with over $4,000 in profits thus far, with an initial investment of just $1500.
Taking 6 online classes on Coursera this year alone, ranging from Principles of Microeconomics by UC Irvine, to Introduction to Finance by UMichigan.</p>

<p>Essays will be about:
1) My father's alcoholism/drug addiction and abuse
2) Starting my own business
I need help editing my essays (perhaps from people on here?), but writing is a strength of mine.</p>

<p>Teacher Rec's:
AP Lang teacher: Should be excellent. She called me the best writer she had ever had, and previously taught at a top-50 nationally ranked high school.</p>

<p>APUSH teacher: Should be even better. UC Berkeley Grad with a 4.0, and also called me the best writer he had ever taught.</p>

<p>Hooks: Hispanic, Jewish, third generation from Mexico on my father's side, and third generation from Nazi Germany on my mother's</p>

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<p>Also, does anyone know if different scholarships from the PSAT stack? For example, I won both the National Merit and National Hispanic scholarships, which both receive half tuition at USC. Would these combine for a full ride?</p>

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<p>Princeton: high reach
Harvard: High Reach
Upenn: mid reach
U Chicago: mid reach
Carnegie Mellon: mid reach
Berkely: low reach
The rest you seem to be on target
EC’s are alittle weak and GPA is a little lacking for TOP SCHOOLS, Courseload isn’t great
Test scores are solid
recs and essays seem great</p>

<p>Nice Job!</p>

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<p>Thanks for the reply!
I hope my course load doesn’t drag me down to much. My schools FAR from an academic powerhouse, so even though I took the hardest classes available, they are still quite a bit less impressive than a lot of other students on here.
I’m actually looking for help with editing my essays, so if you (or anyone else reading this) is interested, I would be immensely grateful, and more than happy to return the favor.</p>

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<p>Im not too great when it comes to essays myself so sorry. but one thing i noticed afterwards: If you are hispanic your odds are probably a decent amount higher than what i previously posted</p>

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<p>Of course, I understand.
And I really hope being hispanic helps as much as people on here seem to think. It would be really helpful if there was some sort of study researching the effect of ethnicity on acceptance rates at top colleges, or even something as simple as decision threads separated by ethnicity.</p>