Chance Me for Harvard, Yale, Columbia

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I’ll be applying to college with these stats, even tho they arent like erm true rn
Mainly, I am looking to apply to Northwestern, USC, UPenn, Georgetown, maybe Yale (The columbia harvard yale stuff was just clickbait sorry ladies and gentz (i am evil) )
If you think my ECS are weak? It’s kind of too late in my life but if u could offer advice on how to better sell myself id love that! THANKS <3
SAT I: 1550
ACT: 35
SAT II: 800 Math II, USH 760
Weighted GPA: 5.036
Unweighted GPA: 3.998
Rank: 1 out of 189
AP: AP World (4), AP Euro (4), AP US HIstory (5), AP Biology (4), AP Calculus AB (4), AP Literature (3) (D:)
Senior Year Course Load: English 4 Honors, Environmental Science Honors , Technical Theatre 3, AP Government, AP Psychology, AP Calculus BC, AP Chemistry, Mock Trial

Major Awards: National Hispanic Scholar, AP Scholar With Distinction, Saguaro National Park Sustainability Award, College Prep Scholar
Extracurriculars:
Green Club (Founder and President)- Working on getting rid of styrofoam in district, Led project to map out towns edibles tree for Refugee foundation and food bank, Conservation work
Science Club ( Secretary 2017, President 2018)- State Science Olympiad every year, hosted own invitational tournament, taught underclassmen laboratory techniques for science projects, raised money for research
Math Club (Secretary 2017, Vice President 2018)- Founder of Mu Alpha Theta, Math competitions, Started tutoring program for disadvantaged students
Youth in Government (Vice President)- Founding member, organized walk outs, organized support for red for ed, protests on anti-evolution teaching in district
International Thespian Society/Drama Club: Honor Thespian, Consistently ranked best high school theatre department in Arizona, participated in all school shows, Primary sound designer/engineer
Summer Activities:
University of Arizona Research Apprenticeship: Year-long apprenticeship in hydrology (UA is #1 in Hydrology) studying effect of human impact on water quality. Won Saguaro National Park Sustainability Award for work.
Biotechnology Laboratory Experience for Arizona Students: Internship, summer intensive course were taught latest biotechnology techniques
Youth Engaged Stewardship: Youth leader. Conservation work at Las Cienegas (Tucson and Vail’s primary water source) the Cienega Watershed Partnership,and the Bureau of Land Management partnership. Restored pond for habitat Arizona endangered species including Gila chub and leopard frogs. Organized volunteer day. Mapped sacaton grassland vegetation for BLM.
KEYS Research Internship: Prestigious, highly competitive University of Arizona internship. Worked 300 hours in a professional UA lab to deliver our own projects to highly-respected UA faculty. Studied drug encapsulation under a Ph.D.
Volunteer Work:
Iskashitaa Refugee Foundation:
Sahuarita Food Bank: Volunteered every weekend for 2 years
Hooks: First-generation immigrant, low-income, hispanic, partially deaf (Yes and I do sound design LOL)

Im thinking of applying as global health major!

THANKS AND HAVE A GREAT DAY

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Awesome work! @fatimacubillas.

I hope you get into one of the schools you want!

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Hook will help a lot, I think you could honestly get into HYC even though you don’t wanna go.
Your EC’s are pretty strong, though if you don’t get published for your research that might be weird. Academics are also good. Def a competitive applicant.

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Your essay and rec letters will matter a lot, but you will likely be competitive. How have others at your high school done over the past few years as far as applications to these top-level schools are concerned?

Based on your GPA and test scores, you are a smart enough to realize that especially HYC, but really all of the schools on your list, all turn away thousands of competitive applicants every year.

I think you have a reasonable shot at getting into at least one of the schools on your list, but I would not be shocked if you were denied at multiple schools on your list based solely on the numbers game - too many applicants for too few slots.

Best of luck.

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yeah, lol im in the crapshoot category (WOO!). im also planning on doing the National College Match! do you think that will help with my stats? If you know what that is?

And thanks! :slight_smile:

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Personally I think you might be right above the crapshoot category considering you are URM and have a spike in environmentalism. I don’t think the national college match really gives you that much of a boost in admissions based on a quick search, the finalist percentage was pretty high (1/3) and it’s only for one college, it seems.

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Wow!! You have a shot!!!

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Are you really first gen - in that your parents didn’t attend any college? That’s a big hook these days, along with your URM and low-income. Three hooks (colleges might combine urm and low-income into one) with your stats is pretty unique. Your work on the green club and organizing walkouts will be important too, adcoms love that kind of stuff. You’ll need a third SAT 2 for Georgetown, if you’re serous about applying there. USC, - you’re in. Georgetown, Northwestern, Penn, you have a really good chance of getting in to one of those three, but it’s kind of hard these days to predict which one. I would seriously consider applying SCEA to Stanford or Yale, and see what happens. Good luck!

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You are a competitive applicant. Your stats and ECs are great. Your URM hook will probably help your application. Write amazing essays and you could get accepted to any of these schools