Chance me for HYPSM, Berkley, Columbia, Dartmouth - will chance back

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hey, I’m currently I junior in high school and I was wondering if you could chance me for HYPSM, Berkeley, Columbia and Dartmouth

GPA: 3.9 (unweighted), 4.5 (weighted), top 10% ranking (school doesn’t issue rankings)
SAT: 2350
SAT II: Math 2 - 800, Physics - 780

Demographics: White, STEM female, immigrant from eastern europe
High School type: public

Junior Course Load:
-differential equations (already took BC, multi variable, graph theory and linear algebra)
-AP Gov
-AP Econ
-AP Bio
-AP Lang
-AP Stat

Previous AP Scores:
5s on BC Calc, Physics C Mechanics, Physics C E&M (took both in 10th grade), Computer Science

ECs:
-Math Team - competing member of A team (in the top 6 scoring students on math competitions) (9-11th grade)
-Robotics - co-captain, head of modeling FTC team, qual’d to Worlds (10-11th grade)
-Computer Science Olympiad Club - co-founder (10th grade)
-Women for Women club - treasurer (10th grade)
-JV/Varsity Debate Team (9-10th grade), novice captain, lincoln douglas and public forum
-science olympiad club (9th-10th grade)
-piano and flute player(recitals, competitions)
-Columbia University Science Honors Program (since 10th grade)
-slalom skiing (9th-11th)
-competitive rock climbing (7th-11th)
-literary magazine editor (10th grade)
-jv track team (9th grade)

Volunteering:
-Average 15 hours a week at local observatory, STEM public outreach (11th)
-Average 10 hours a week peer-tutor in physics and math (10th-11th)

Awards
-State ISEF science fair - 1st place in chem/material science, finalist in statistics (10th grade)
-Octofinalist at two national circuit invitational tournaments (junior varsity and varsity ld) (9th and 10th grade)
-Qual’d for AIME twice (once via AMC 10 (9th grade), once via AMC 12 (10th grade))
-2nd place on National French Competition (9th grade)
-Finalist in French Poetry Competition at William Patterson U. (9th grade)
-Nominated for membership at American Chemical Society (10th grade)
-AP Scholar

Other
-interned at NASA JPL material science lab (11th grade)
-did research with a mentor from Bell Labs (9th and 10th grade)
-first person in school’s history to skip from honors geometry into BC Calc on basis of exam scores (9th grade)
-fluent in 4 languages
-rec from Stanford Physics Professor
-finished school’s math program (top 250 ranked school by newsweek) by 10th grade
-comfortable programming in python, java, ruby, fortran, basic and C++

Thank you so much for your help!

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Holy crud, that stuff’s impressive. Unfortunately, HYPSM, Cal, Columbia, and Dartmouth are frequently called “crapshoots,” which is probably 100% accurate. But still. Wow. So much math happening. I’m going to say that you will definitely be a competitive applicant. Also: What level do you climb at? Which languages?

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Are you in state for Berkeley? If not, it’s super expensive so that’s something to think about. Great stats, but unfortunately all of those schools are crapshoots, but I think you have a great shot.

Chance me?
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1811593-chance-me-for-upenn-and-others-will-chance-back.html#latest

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Who can say with these schools? People with horrible stats have gotten in, and people with great stats have not. I think you have a good chance, but apply to safeties and a few real matches, so you can have a wider range of schools, not just crapshoots like these.

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@awesomepolyglot I haven’t set any national records or anything on that scale but I’ve climbed >5.11 grade (>V6 in bouldering) since I was 13. I speak fluent Russian, Ukrainian, Polish (immigrated from eastern Ukraine and have polish ancestry) and English, currently learning French. My life is mostly dominated by math rather than linguistics though if that wasn’t clear, haha

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Nice. Occasional V4 and 5.11, consistent on V2(yikes) and 5.10. I lost by one problem in my last bouldering comp to a girl who had been climbing for less than 2 months. >_<

I’ve been climbing for 5 years…

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I’ve been there many times. I feel like there’s always somewhere who is younger and better at climbing…getting your own inferiority slammed into your face over and over can get very irritating at times haha

I really love climbing though, gotta say. @awesomepolyglot