Chance me for MIT Caltech Stanford

Applying to College
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<p>Plz chance for these three schools</p>

<p>Intended Major: electrical or mechanical engineering</p>

<p>Freshman</p>

<p>Alg II/Trig
Regular Biology
Regular Lit
Computer Applications
PE
Chinese I</p>

<p>(freshman aren't allowed to take history)</p>

<p>Summer</p>

<p>Help teach little kids at a summer school, paid 700</p>

<p>Sophomore</p>

<p>Pre-Calc honors
Chem honors
Sophmore world lit
Sophmore world history
Chinese II
TA for regular biology</p>

<p>Summer</p>

<p>Community college C++ I
Community college Intro physics</p>

<p>Junior</p>

<p>AP Calc BC
AP Bio
AP USH
AP Comp Sci
AP Physics Mech (took the equivalent at a community college, called 4A, still took ap test)
AP Physics E&M (same community college thing as AP phys mech)
American lit honors
Chinese III
TA for Chemistry honors</p>

<p>Summer</p>

<p>Programming and debugging (mostly debugging) thousands of lines of code at Stanford Linear particle accelerator for a link and redirector. made a poster and an abstract. got paid 2000, plus im on the website with my quote and stuff</p>

<p>Wrote a physics simulation in java using gui. You can draw any figure and the program will still simulate it according to law of classical mechanics. Still working on maybe adding an object dodging algorithm</p>

<p>Senior</p>

<p>AP Chem
AP Stats
Chinese IV honors
Regular Senior Lit
AP Econ
Multimedia (basically flash, photoshop, just some cool applications)
PE
Differential Equations at community college, and plan to take more math/physics during the second semester</p>

<p>ALSO: Programming at Stanford in Image processing as an unpaid intern, 6-7 hours a week, but may go up to more hours per week</p>

<p>Grades:
All A's, except for one B first semester of APush</p>

<p>Tests:
SAT I: 2350 1 try
SAT II: 800 on math ii, physics, chem, bioM one try each
AP: 5 on every test</p>

<p>Extracurr:
coPresident, cofounder, and the one team leader for schools JETS team in the TEAMS competition from junior to senior year</p>

<p>Robotics programmer since sophomore year</p>

<p>Math club, Northern CA Championship qualifier, but this is VERY easy to get into</p>

<p>Local engineering competition where my team and i built a small car out of spare parts. we didn't win but we built a small car</p>

<p>I also will submit the physics simulation i wrote through a youtube video</p>

<p>Non sci/math extracurr:</p>

<p>Christian club
CSF (California based community service club), not very active though</p>

<p>Cross country 9th and 10th grade, varsity team participant both years, won seven medals, scholar athlete, MVP award for JV team 9th grade (yes lol, technically i was on varsity but got the JV MVP)</p>

<p>Piano, highest level in American Guild test and Certificate of Merit tests. Founder award in American Guild test</p>

<p>So, that's about it, can you chance me for those schools? I'm looking at majoring in electrical engineering.
Im a bit worried about community service though, because I barely have any. I think grand total i have less than 50 hours....</p>

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<p>PS i read physics books for fun.</p>

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<p>is it really that boring?</p>

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<p>Class rank and unweighted GPA?
You are obviously qualified for those schools with your SATs and ECs. Caltech especially is numbers-based, so I’d say that is likely. Stanford is always a guess, even for the great-stats applicant. MIT, well, they seem to like some personality and pizazz, as well as stats, so write good essays and rock the interview.</p>

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<p>our school doesn’t rank, but im pretty sure, at the very worst, top 5 students? </p>

<p>So what is it for mit caltech stanford? high reach, low reach?</p>

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<p>oh, unweighted gpa is like 3.96, i only got one b</p>

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<p>My non-psychic prediction is: Caltech: yes, MIT: yes, Stanford: waitlist or no (Just because of it’s unpredictability). Oh wait, I just read about your summer at SLAC, so I’d say that could come through as well, lets say 50/50 chance.</p>

<p>How will your recs be?</p>

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<p>wait am i reading correctly, so most likely i will get into caltech and mit, maybe stanford? im really happy lol, but could you tell me why, and how a lack of math awards will hurt me?</p>

<p>my recs, are good i guess. my lit teacher wrote a good one form waht i hear, my counselor knows me a little, but has a good impression, and my physics teacher likes me but she tends to be brutally honest :P</p>

<p>and my SLAC rec, i don’t know if its goign to happen haha. he says he really wants ot write me one but doesn’t know if he can fit in the time b/c he has a really large project due soon, more coding, good memories… :D</p>

<p>oh, and btw i am applying early for caltech and mit, does that change anything?</p>

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<p>BumpBump anyone?</p>

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<p>These are highly selective schools that admit around 10% of applicant. You will have a better shot than most, but these schools are reaches for everyone, including you. You are certainly worthy of those schools, the only question is whether they have room for you. Make sure you apply to some safeties. Write a kick-A$$ essay. Best of luck.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the input glido. Now for you 196 people, is it really that hard to give an opinion? Just take 20 seconds and write something down please!!?!?!?!!!?!?!?!</p>

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<p>Why is it so hard for you to give some opinions?</p>

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<p>MIT and Caltech, good chance but no guarantee…</p>

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<p>OK, I’ll give you 20 seconds.</p>

<p>You’re qualified for these schools, just like most of their other x thousand applicants. But 9 of 10, give or take, will be rejected.</p>

<p>So you probably will be, too.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>All of your posts have been about chancing you for these schools.</p>

<p>CC has already given you its opinion so that leaves two choices for why you keep posting:</p>

<p>1) You are narcissistic and just want people to comment on your stats</p>

<p>2) You are insecure and feel you must brag about your stats to feel better about yourself. </p>

<p>You will find out in good time whether you got in or not. </p>

<p>Until then, making repeated chance posts is pointless.</p>

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<p>Your stats are fine, but that’s only part of the admissions puzzle. You seem high-strung: I note your comment “Why is it so hard for you to give some opinions?” and Hitman’s post implies that this is hardly your first Chance thread. You will NOT get in on stats alone, except perhaps to CalTech. Stanford and MIT want to see team players who can handle stress with calmness and good humor. If the personality that comes through in these posts is the personality that comes through in your essays and recommendations, you will very likely not get in. </p>

<p>Stop obsessing, do your best, have some safety schools in mind and accept the outcome as the outcome. Inner tranquility will take you further – seek that tranquility out now before you submit your apps, and it may reflect the real you in a better light.</p>