Chance Me for Stanford, Uchicago and others (ECON and/or PSYCH)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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SAT/ACT : 1500 (730 RW, 770 M) 34 ACT (I’m a junior, 1 try on both, December SAT was a shaft)

GPA: 4.93/5 w; 3.89 state unweighted (a 93 is an A)

12 AP’s (AP HUG, CHEM (huge story about this, took it sophomore year with none of the prerequisites cuz my grandpa is a chem professor and struggled but ended up with high A’s and a 5), PHYS, WORLD, ART H, BIO, CALC AB, SPAN LANG, ENG LANG, PHYS C E&M, APUSH (useless AP class btw) 4+ on all

  • Projected Senior Year course load (BC, LIT, PHYS 2, PSYCH for the AP's) Research and Philosophy cuz its interesting damn it All things considered, I have gotten 1 B in pre-calc honors and I'll have 16-18 AP's or college levels courses by the time I graduate. I'm not concerned about academic rigor.

EC’s:

Robotics President: 2016-18, VP 2018-Present

PF Debate and Congressional Debate: National Level, break rounds at every nat tournament I’ve been to, probably going to secure the Nat Bag or TOC (chances are high for being captain next year)

A hospital/senior care center volunteering club that has generated over 1000 volunteer hours in 2 years

I run the upperclassmen-freshman mentoring program at our school, matching like 300 freshman to 100 mentors.

Varsity Tennis, 4 years, trying to secure D3 recruit status

Worked 2 jobs at once (fast food, retail) for like 6 months during the school year)

I write a crap ton, published poet and I have an article coming out in the Washington Post (fingers crossed?)

I read and edit novels before they come out for the Big 5 publishing companies, notable novels include: Crazy Rich Asian (the whole series its great read it), Cursed Child, (there are more I just can’t remember)

URM/Hooks

Duke legacy and cousins at every Ivy

Indian male

250k+ (but it’s variable so situation might be drastically different next year)

Recs:

Spanish teacher: He’s had me for 4 years, basically my grandfather at this point. Should be great but he’s seen all sides of the coin so 9.5/10

Physics 1 teacher: Robotics mentor and all around stellar guy with AMAZING credentials, I’ve known him for 5 years and I’ve met his wife and daughter and grandkids 9/10

Physics C teacher: Maybe and only if the college requires junior year recs

I have 2 counselors willing to write recs, one is my assigned and the other one is the mentor for the mentoring program (meta mentor haha)

Maybe a Vice Principal if he doesn’t retire
(I would also love some help in picking whom to ask)

Schools:

(for econ IK Stanford isn’t the best but I love the West Coast can’t imagine myself anywhere other than San Francisco)

Stanford, Brown + PLME, Northwestern Direct, U of Miami Direct Med, UC Berkeley, Duke, JHU, UChicago, Columbia, Yale, Princeton +Oxford and LSE

Alabama, UNC, UVA and Georgia as safeties.

The goal is medicine; ECON+ PSYCH would be the dream combo in case I can’t cut it in med school; I’ll have a career in some field. The schools I selected have less to do with prestige and more to do with what the programs offer and where they are.

Thanks in advance; this SAT has got me shook and I’d like to know how I stack up against other 2020 bois and gurls

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Hi, I don’t really comment much on Chance threads but just know that “cousins at every Ivy” isn’t a hook and means basically nothing.

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Alabama, UNC, UVA, and Georgia are NOT safety schools. You need to rethink your whole application if you think those schools are safety. Most kids are rejected by them left and right.

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I would consider Alabama and Georgia safeties for sure UNC and UVA maybe not

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Double check, but I think that most of the places that you are planning to apply to suggest keeping recommendations to 2, max 3 (and then only if the 3rd adds something that is not found anywhere else in the application)- not the 5-6 recs you mention.

UNC and Ga Tech take 18% OOS students, including recruited athletes, so I agree with @nomansland that they are not safeties.

Your family income of $250K+ is obviously a very good income, but most of these schools are $60-70K/pa and don’t have merit aid. Can your parents afford to spend 25% of their pre-tax income on college for you? Be sure that your choices are affordable

Finally, I have to admit to being genuinely impressed at an 11th grade student who can simultaneously work 2 jobs, do professional editing for headline authors at 2 different major publishing houses, publish poetry, play a varsity sport, compete on a national level debate team, be head of the robotics team, and do 500 hours of community service/pa all at the same time as keeping perfect grades.

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Thanks! I do want to clarify the club has generated that many hours; personally, I’ve done maybe 150 total. UNC and GA Tech are certainly not safeties you are absolutely right. The school I go to considers them as such but looking at stats, these aren’t. I need to add some to the list.

Income wise, my parents don’t feel I need to be concerned about money. Their income varies but most of it is saved, we certainly don’t live 250k lifestyles.
Really appreciate the input!

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@516129 What’s Econ IK? I thought Econ at Stanford was one of tops?

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Thanks!

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@516129, I think @collegemom3717 was implying that she thinks you’re overexaggerating your ECs and school work a bit.

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Ah gotcha. Tried to clear it up.

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Quick note, cousins do not count for legacy. Only direct lineage such as parents and grandparents count.