Chance me for HYPSM + Ivies and more

<p>Hello, Thank you very much for chancing me!</p>

<p>Sex: Male</p>

<p>Fresh GPA: (3.71uw, 3.71w) <- my counselor screwed up and gave me all uw classes which gave me no motivation to try =/// kinda my fault
Soph GPA: (4.00uw, 4.57w) (1 AP and 1 AP self studied)
Junior GPA: (3.86uw, 4.71w) (6 APs)</p>

<p>AP Scores:
AP Gov(3), AP Physics B(5) <- Soph
AP Calc BC, AP Chem, AP Physics C: Mech, AP Physics C: E&m, AP Comp Sci, AP Lang, AP Macro, AP Micro (All Pending) <- Junior
AP Env Sci, APUSH, AP Lit, AP Bio, AP Stats <- Senior</p>

<p>ACT Score:
Comp: 34 (Retaking should be 35/36)
English: 32
Math: 36
Reading: 33
Science: 34
Essay: 10</p>

<p>SAT II Scores: Total (2400)
Chem: 800
Physics: 800
Math II: 800</p>

<p>SAT I Scores: Taking in Fall (Should be 2300+)</p>

<p>Extracurricular:
-SeaPerch Club - Founder/President (Sponsored by MIT + Navy)
-Scholastic Bowl(9,10,11,12)
-Math Team(9,10,11,12)
-Science Olympiad (9,10,11,12)
-National Honor Society (11,12)
-WYSE/JETS (9,10,11,12) (Math/Science competition club just for Illinois State sponsored by U of I Urbana-Champaign)
-Fermi Lab Saturday Morning Physics Lectures
-Debate Team (10,11,12)
-DECA (11, 12 - Vice-President)
-Volunteer at local food pantry, 100+ hrs
-JV Track(9,10)
-Varsity Track(11,12)</p>

<p>Summers:
-Attended Michigan Introduction to Technology and Engineering (Summer 2010)
-Research Intern at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory(Summer 2011) - Will publish a paper on my research and enter Intel and Siemens Science competions</p>

<p>My recommendations from my teachers and counselors will be absolutely amazing. I am also planning on getting a recommendation from my mentor (she has a Ph.D) at Fermilab since she personally offered me that she would if I needed it.</p>

<p>Awards:
-United States Physics Team Semi-Finalist(2011) (Top 300 in the nation) - will try to make camp in 2012 (top 20)
-3rd - Financial Analysis - DECA State
-AIME Qualifier
-3rd - Physics - WYSE State Comp. [I also hold awards at Regional and Sectional Levels
-3rd - Math - WYSE State Comp. but I won't list them here]
-5th - Chemistry - WYSE State Comp.
-1st - JETS Nationals (Team Event)
-2nd - Scholastic Bowl State Sectionals
-2nd- Astronomy - Science Olympiad State
-3rd- Mission Impossible - Science Olympiad State
-3rd Geometry - Math Team State
-1st - School Math Team at State
-AP National Scholar (Very likely)
-National Merit Commended Scholar</p>

<p>Please chance me for engineering (I'm obviously not doing that many SCEAs and EDs, just want to see where my chances are the best at):
Harvard SCEA
Princeton SCEA
Yale SCEA
Stanford SCEA
MIT ED
Brown Engineering ED
Columbia SEAS ED
Penn SEAS ED
CalTech
Cornell Eng.
U of I - Urbana
UMich, Ann Arbor
University of California, Berkeley</p>

<p>Thanks for chancing me, will chance back!</p>

<p>Good luck in your research paper or US physics thing. If u do well, ur prob. a walk-in at HYPSM.</p>

<p>bumppp 10 char</p>

<p>You’re actually a lot like myself :slight_smile: I am also in Illinois (though a year younger than you) and i have won awards for Sci Oly, ICTM, WYSE, etc as well. Believe it or not im also an AIME qualifier and Physics Semifinalist, haha! And if it isn’t creepy enough, i have the exact same SAT II scores as you…anyway, i think that with all your research and extra curriculars, and of course test scores, you’ve a great shot at Ivies. Your GPA is your weak point, but hopefully they will look past that. Good luck twin!</p>

<p>any insights are appreciated :)</p>

<p>You screwed your gpa and you dropped from soph to junior year not a great trend. Class rank/gpa will hold you back from HYPSM as they want the top students (unless there is a hook). What is your ethnicity? Asian would be even worse. You should have more matches though U Mich/U of I are solid schools.</p>

<p>Hi! the schools (Ivies, MIT, Stanford, etc.) up until U of I are reaches, with a few matches (like Cornell). Your GPA is weak, but your scores and extracurricular achievements make up for it. However, based on your awards (which are indeed impressive), it seems like you lack character outside of school-related subjects. That being said, one-sidedness isn’t bad, especially if you can publish your research into a highly respectable journal or make the Physics Team.</p>

<p>The other schools on your list from U of I down are low matches to safeties. Good luck, and please chance me back!</p>