chance me for MIT stanford caltech, cal... etc...............

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Can you chance me for MIT, Stanford, Caltech, and Berkeley?</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</p>

<p>Senior</p>

<p>AP Chem
AP Stats
Chinese IV honors
Regular Senior Lit
AP microecon 2nd semester, regular gov 1st semester (i know our school system is strange)
Multimedia
PE 1st semester TA for AP Bio second semester</p>

<p>these are courses at community colleges
Multivariable calculus
Differential eq
Linear alg
physics of fluids, waves, thermo, optics (this is past ap physics c)
modern physics (last of community college physics sequence)</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</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 mechanical or electrical, probably mechanical.
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>oh and if you have time could you also chance for harvard and princeton and JHU? thx</p>

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<p>I guess you have as good of a chance as anybody. That’s really all anybody can tell you.</p>

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<p>I’d say in at hopkins and cal, decent chance for the rest, probably with at least one acceptance. Writing good essays will help.</p>

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<p>I don’t think you need to post on this chance forum to realize that you have a good chance at all schools. 2350 SAT, 800 on four subject tests… obviously, you’re a very strong candidate.</p>

<p>MIT - Low reach
Stanford - Low-to-mid reach
Caltech - Low reach
Berkeley - Low reach
Harvard - Low-to-mid reach
JHU - Low reach</p>

<p>Best of luck.</p>

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<p>Sorry, but what is a low reach vs a high reach?</p>

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<p>The name is self-explanatory. If a school is a ‘low’ reach, your chances are still less than a stronger applicant but better than the average applciant. If a school is a ‘high’ reach, it’s very unlikely that you’ll be accepted unless you have special circumstances, new issues arise, and/or you write out-of-this-world essays. Thankfully, none of your schools are high reaches. :)</p>

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<p>hi my name is tonywu</p>

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<p>…Because MIT is very math/science oriented, and that seems to be his strong point. And Stanford has a lower acceptance rate in comparison to MIT, though only by a small margin.</p>

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<p>why is his chance at stanford harder than his chance at mit? isn’t it harder to get to mit?</p>

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<p>…^Why did you edit that post and add another one? Lol.</p>

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<p>Do my SAT scores help as much as the summer research?</p>

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<p>I think you have everything down. Just have good teacher recs and good essays. </p>

<p>…I remember reading somewhere that the biggest commonality for accepted students to MIT was research. I think that while your SAT scores are excellent, most applicants to the schools you want to get into have fairly similar scores. I wouldn’t worry too much about the research though because it’s impressive that you were able to program and debug code for the Stanford Linear particle accelerator.</p>