Chance me for Stanford and Brown?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Race: Middle-Eastern (Kurdish) - I'm a persecuted minority in my own country? That's gotta get me some points
Gender: Female
I go to a International School (Private school - very small, 250+ students)</p>

<p>GPA: 4.27</p>

<p>All IB Clases:
(IB Diploma Candidate)</p>

<p>Not going to list 9th and 10th grade classes</p>

<p>Junior year:</p>

<p>HL Chemistry
HL Biology
HL Math
SL Anthropology
SL French A
SL English A</p>

<p>ACT: 30
but will take again to hopefully get up to 33-35</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<ul>
<li>Active member of the United Way Board of Directors - youth intern (9th-11th), have organized fundraiser around my school for it ($1000+), participated in important board decisions</li>
<li>MUN (9th-11th) - Best Delegate Award and Distinguished Delegate<br></li>
<li>Timmy Club (9th-11th) - community and service club that raises money for kids in South America - I'm one of the leaders of the club; help to arrange most of the events, very active --> I got to go on a 2 week service to the Dominican Republic to help communities</li>
<li>Technical Director of Crew for 2 musicals and 1 play (9th-10th grade)</li>
<li>VEX Robotics Club (10th -11th) - co-president; we won city championships last year and went to the world competitions</li>
<li>WorldQuest Club (10th-11th) - memorize facts about countries/current events and spew them out on a test; we got second place last year</li>
<li>Going to start a Math Club this year - president</li>
<li>GSA Club (10th -11th grade)</li>
<li>Volunteered and raised money for TEDxIndianapolis and TEDxYouth ($5,000), helped with decision making</li>
<li>Worked in a neurology lab this summer that specializes in panic disorder, and I will work there again this summer. Next year, I will submit my paper to Siemens. The paper we published is going to be in Nature Medicine, I will be listed in the acknowledgements </li>
<li>I've done a lot of selective summer programs: Nanotechnology Camp at IUPUI, GERI (Gifted Education Resource Institute) Camp at Purdue, EDGE Camp at Purdue (Girls Engineering Camp)</li>
<li>School on Wheels - (10th) Tutoring homeless children</li>
<li>I have over 1,200 hours of community service (for real)</li>
</ul>

<p>Awards (excluding the ones I mentioned above)
- Indiana Federation of Music Club Junior Festival 2012 – Regionals for Piano: Superior (Playing Test), Superior (Theory Test)
- Invited to Indiana State Honors Recital 2012 for Piano
- Community and Service Award – 9th grade
- High Honor Roll and High Honor Board 9th-10th-11th grade (each semester)
- Carson Scholarship recipient
- French and Humanities Award at my school</p>

<p>I also skipped 8th grade? Does that help in any way?</p>

<p>And I'm fluent in 4 languages (French, Spanish, English, Turkish)</p>

<p>These are the school I'm thinking about applying to:</p>

<p>Harvard
Brown
Pomona
UC Berkley
Yale
BU
Purdue
Northeastern
UChicago
Northwestern
NYU
UCLA
UC Irvine
IU</p>

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<p>Hello?</p>

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<p>Oh yea, you have a good chance of getting into all of those schools. </p>

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<p>I am not an expert or anything, but assuming your ACTs go up:</p>

<p>Harvard- moderate match
Brown- match
Pomona- low match
UC Berkley- match
Yale- moderate match
BU- safety
Purdue- low match
Northeastern- safety
UChicago- match
Northwestern- match
NYU- safety (non- Stern), match (Stern)
UCLA- match
UC Irvine- safety
IU- Safety</p>

<p>low match = matched, easier for you to get in
high match = matched, harder for you to get in
safety = easy for you to get in
match = probably get in
moderate match = matched, a little harder</p>

<p>^^I hope I got those right.</p>

<p>Keep in mind that for schools like HYPMS I doubt almost anyone gets more than moderate match</p>

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<p>Grades are good. Extracurriculars are OKAY, they don’t necessarily stand out to me, mostly because you lack leadership positions. Even for the math team (which you’ll be starting next year) it will not look that great, because you are starting it your senior year and didn’t work on it for at least two years of high school. Your test scores simply aren’t good enough at this point to get you into the most competitive colleges you have on this list. Retake them again and see. Also consider taking the SAT and especially SAT Subject tests (where you can demonstrate your fluency in French and Spanish). At this point with these standardized test scores, here is my best estimate of your chances:</p>

<p>Harvard- Super High Reach
Brown- High Reach
Pomona- High Reach
UC Berkeley (provided you live in CA)- High match, if you don’t live in CA- Low Reach
Yale- Super High Reach
BU- Match
Purdue- Low Match
Northeastern- High Match/Low Reach
U Chicago- Reach
Northwestern- Reach
NYU- Reach
UCLA (in CA)- Match, (not in CA)- High Match
UC Irvine- Safety
IU- Safety</p>

<p>Good Luck! Chance me back:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1662544-chances-at-harvard-yale-princeton-mit-brown-columbia-dartmouth-tufts-duke-amherst.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1662544-chances-at-harvard-yale-princeton-mit-brown-columbia-dartmouth-tufts-duke-amherst.html#latest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>bump</p>

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<p>I agree with @235423‌ who has given you good advice. The only thing I might do is switch the chances of NYU and UCLA (OOS). Since you signified that you are international, the UCs can be significantly more difficult to get into since they must accept a high percentage in state.</p>

<p>I heavily disagree with @yikesyikesyikes‌ . Schools like Harvard, Brown, and Berkley are ALMOST NEVER considered matches, even for students with extraordinary stats and extracurriculars, and I certainly wouldn’t put Stern as a safety. You have some impressive accomplishments, in particular with your Extracurriculars, but it is extremely difficult to get into those schools, and even tougher for international students.</p>

<p>Also, you need to bring your ACT score up. A 30 is below average at many of these schools and you want it to be able to reflect your abilities. So study and work hard on that, or consider the SAT. I don’t think being Kurdish will do anything specifically to help your chance of admissions because the demographics box is really general, unless you have been really impacted in some way, which you can write about in an essay. As for skipping eigth grade, while very impressive, it will not affect admissions because you will be held up to the same standards as the other freshman applicants.</p>

<p>Good luck and godspeed. I wish you the best, but I just didn’t want you to walk in there with misrepresentations of how hard it is to get in</p>

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<p>@shawnspencer‌ </p>

<p>I believe that the OP said international school, which does not necessarily mean that she is an international student. They are two very different things. I could be wrong though.</p>

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<p>Harvard, Yale, Brown, and Chicago certainly aren’t matches lol. You’re a great applicant, but won’t be a sure shot. </p>

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<p>@shawnspencer‌ @yikesyikesyikes‌ Yea, I’m a US citizen, not an international applicant</p>

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<p>@235423 Yeah and I have leadership positions in all the club I’m in and on my board. So I guess you’re quite wrong.</p>

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<p>Also my SAT Subject scores are:</p>

<p>French: 770
Biology: 760
Chemistry: 710
Literature: 690 (probably won’t submit)</p>

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<p>@oystershelleatme‌ I think an international student is someone out of the state? Not sure though…</p>

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<p>@kommyjones27‌ No, an international student is someone who is not a US Citizen and is a applying to an American university. I am NOT an international student. I only go to a international school</p>

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<p>Stanford and Brown are out for you right now. You will have a pretty good chance if you get your act up to a 32+.</p>

<p>please chance me back! <a href=“http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1663039-chance-me.html#latest”>http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1663039-chance-me.html#latest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>@oystershelleatme‌ That would definitely help if you could explain your leadership roles (what position you serve in for each)!</p>