<p>You have some great debate awards and leadership position, your grades are excellent, and your SAT is right where it needs to be. In addition, geographic diversity means that, I presume, you will have less competition than if you lived in, say, NJ or Cali. </p>
<p>I am certain that you will get into one of your top five choices. (If you go to the prestigious Lakeside school, btw, I think you might have it even easier)</p>
<p>Your singular focus on economics gives you direction; I don’t have that. Debate adds more dimensions.</p>
<p>At a first glance, you look like a candidate who will change the world, someone who will rise to a position of political or economic (or both) power. I think such candidates appeal to Princeton and Harvard and Wharton in particular, while I think MIT attracts the more SciTech-loving people while Yale attracts more artsy folk. Of course, that was a complete generalization, and every college wants to increase diversity, etc.</p>
<p>Final word: you have excellent chances. I am certain that you will get into Cornell, and that you will get into one of your top choices.</p>
<p>Haha no I don’t go to Lakeside. 
I wish I did though. I’m surprised you know of that school. I live in the middle of no where haha.</p>
<p>Well, a suburban nowhere.</p>
<p>Thanks man! Nice 2400 btw, definitely jealous haha.</p>
<p>With this much tryhardness you wont get in anywhere. Whats the point of loading up classes and extracurriculars? No offence but I cant really seem to find your specific point of interest.</p>
<p>Hi, I was sent here from xia0amei’s thread.</p>
<p>Your profile looks good - real good - but you know that. I know a student that currently is an undergrad at Dartmouth and graduated two years ago (he was the president of chess club before I was). Your profile reminds me a lot of him. That being said, FOCUS ON YOUR ESSAYS. You’ve done everything you can with the numbers and the EC’s, but you need to put yourself over the top and the essays would be the perfect place to do so. I am very good friends with the Dartmouth student’s girlfriend (er, was at the time) and whenever I mention him she ALWAYS notes how incredible his essays were and how hard he worked to make them special.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I am not the person to ask for advice about actually writing a good essay. I thought I would just throw this in to give you a little comparison. Sky is the limit for you. I wish you the best of luck!</p>
<p>Side note: I didn’t read the 3 pages of thread before this, sorry if I repeated anything someone else already said.</p>
<p>Hey thanks for chancing me :)</p>
<p>WOW, your resume is awesome!</p>
<p>Princeton: low reach
MIT: mid reach
Harvard: high reach
Wharton: mid reach</p>
<p>Youre definitely bound to get into at least one of these schools, just have a strong essay and good recs 
Good luck!</p>
<p>No problem for chancing you! Thanks for the feedback.</p>
<p>Thanks for chancing me my desi brother! </p>
<p>Your application kicks ass. You gotta give kids like me a chance for Wharton haha. Naturally, the ivies are always reaches, but I’d be shocked if you didn’t get into at least two or three of your top choices. Relax, and good luck.</p>
<p>Wow, I’m literally impressed by your stats! Not only you have great GPA and SAT scores but fabulous EC’s and awards! I think you are an amazing applicant. I honestly can’t think of anything that I can suggest to improve your app. </p>
<p>I think you have a great chance at all of the schools, but cannot guarantee that you will get in…After all, they’re IVY’s. Good luck!</p>
<p>Makes sense…thanks! I guess at this point I have to figure out how to fit my ECs into the Common App (and figure out which unimportant ECs I have to cut…fun.). Thanks for the feedback all!</p>
<p>Your application is incredible. You have a great GPA and test scores and your ECs are insane. Also all of your awards are incredible. I would be surprised if you didn’t get into one of your top choices. Just write killer essays, have solid recs, and wait for all of the acceptance letters to come in the mail.</p>
<p>For choosing ECs on the common app: choose the ones where you made the most impact and the ones that you care about most. I also suspect you will have trouble fitting your awards into the common app as well.</p>
<p>Harvard: reach
Princeton: reach
Dartmouth: low reach
Wharton: low reach/reach
Cornell: high match
Vandy: low reach
MIT: low reach
Pomona: high match/low reach
Stanford: reach</p>
<p>Wow this is impressive. First of all, I commend you on all you’ve done. Second of all, I commend you for having the patience and recollection to write it all up! It sounds kinda crazy but it looks like your testing is your weakest point of your application…and that’s with a 2280 SAT. If you perform well on your SAT II’s I have no doubt that you’ll get into over half of these schools. </p>
<p>Just be sure to make the things you mention on your application concise and each one matter as if it was essential and life-changing; that’s what colleges of this caliber are looking for. I can certainly see your interest in public policy, economics and law. I would suggest not applying to M&T. I’m also curious why you put Pomona among that list but not CMC, Williams, Swarthmore or Amherst. Also, you should look at Columbia!</p>
<p>P.S. I can’t reply to a PM since I don’t have enough posts. But I don’t live anywhere near you haha I’m much farther south!</p>
<p>You are awesome! I’m not in any position to evaluate your chances but reading through your accomplishments academically and EC-wise I am very impressed/inspired. </p>
<p>But living in Washington does give you a regional advantage. Schools love to claim regional diversity. </p>
<p>Also do you know where you plan on applying early or if any schools stand out to you?</p>
<p>Oh yeah, I plan on applying early to Princeton. Princeton is my top choice, along with Penn, by far. I love those two institutions.</p>
<p>I’m not applying to many schools because I only want to apply to the ones I really care about. However, I do think schools like Williams, Swarthmore, and Amherst stand out to me along with any of the Claremont schools. Look into those maybe.</p>
<p>You should have seen my face while I read all that… It was a dead stare as I realized how inferior I am.</p>
<p>Dude, you are not inferior at all!</p>
<p>I would spew more unbridled compliments, but you’re up to your neck in them so I’ll let it be.</p>
<p>If you want to clinch (well, Ivies can never be ‘clinched,’ but you’d get as close as possible) some top choices, laser focus your essays on your character and personality. Duh, your ECs say enough, but you’ll need to come off as a ‘normal high schooler’ who has more ammo in his social cannon than “Hey! I have 2.86 x 10^13 ECs!”</p>