Chance Me for Ivies + Top tiers

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hi, I’m a senior and am wondering my chances for the Ivies, MIT, Barnard, Stanford, JHU.
I’m currently applying through Questbridge National College Match, and have ranked Stanford, Princeton, Yale.

Profile:
Female
Asian
Immigrant

GPA: 96.87/100 weighted
93/100 unweighted
8 APs total

3 Bs freshman year but otherwise all As.
Currently take 4 APs and two community college classes. For my first quarter, i received a 84 in ap calc, 86 in ap lit, and 89 in ap gov.
*number 2 public school in the state

SAT: 1520 (740 math 780 English)
*subject tests are in the process
APs: 5 ap Lang, 4 apush, 3 ap stats

Awards: Questbridge College Prep Scholar
QB Finalist
Gold + bronze for regional science fair
Two scholastic writing awards
A presidential scholarship to a local college
Model UN conference award
National Honor Society

Extracurriculars:
Telluride Association summer Program Cornell 2017
Founder and president of feminist club at my school 10-12
Girls who Code summer immersion program 2016 11
Vice President of girls who code at my school 11-12
Tutored at a local Boys and Girls Club, did over 130+ hours at a local science center 10-11
Member of Model UN 10-12
Science Research Club (see awards above) 10-11
Part of Columbia University’s Coding Club 11

Hooks: low income, TASP?, girl in STEM

Im applying as a CS and Philosophy major.

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TASP is definitely a notable achievement which will make schools give you another look. overall very strong profile. i say you have a good chance at the schools you listed, though all of them are still reaches (jhu should be a low reach). good luck and chance me back!

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I would’ve said your app comes off as relatively unexceptional until I read you did TASP. Matching is rather difficult, so I’m not too sure about those schools, but you’re still a viable applicant. I think JHU is an easy acceptance though.

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bump

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All of these schools are reaches but you have a pretty competitive profile. I could see you getting into a few Ivies

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Make sure you use your essays to say why attending TASP was significant for you. I’m sure you are skilled at writing essays, since I believe that’s the main selection criteria for TASP.

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TASP will undoubtably help. And yes, do talk about what you got out of the experience.

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I’m doing a combination of Computer science and humanities, so a lot of my essays focus on how tasp made me more passionate about the humanities and how i want to combine the two. do you think that’s a good path?

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I’m doing a combination of Computer science and humanities, so a lot of my essays focus on how tasp made me more passionate about the humanities and how i want to combine the two. do you think that’s a good path?

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@LoveTheBard @Ynotgo

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@collegedream101 - Yes, that sounds like a good approach. Were you going to talk about it in the Common App essay or in the supplements?

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Great work！I would say that you have a good chance for getting into at least one of them. However, all those schools are reaches for everyone, please also consider some other options just in case…

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@LoveTheBard I focused on them in my supplements!

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@kcasssuu of course, I do have match/safety schools. I just didn’t list them here haha

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@collegedream101 - good plan. There’s so much to talk about with respect to TASP (the intellectual piece, diversity, community, self-governance, etc. etc., – it lends itself to answering a number of different prompts). That said, you probably only want to talk about it in one place and showcase some other activities and experiences elsewhere.

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@LoveTheBard yes that’s why I didn’t talk about it on my common app essay, so I could talk about it in my supplements