Chance me for T20's

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hey guys, I’m currently a rising senior who wants to possibly get a masters and Ph.D. in economics or go into Wall Street and make some bank one day.

College List:

Georgetown (EA) Accepted!
Amherst
Brown
Cornell
Dartmouth
Duke
Northwestern
UC Berkeley
UCLA
Williams
Yale

3.84 UW (with a great upward trend, all A’s since 2nd trim. of 10th grade)

4.25 W

Most demanding course load

  • 5s on all APs

Have also taken 1 online coursera class in microeconomics and took a special topic with a teacher at school about microeconomics.

1550 SAT (750 R&W, 800 M)

760 on Chem. Subject Test

770 on Math 2 Subject Test

Extra Curriculurs:

African American Affinity Group (Member 11th, Co-Leader 12th). This club meets once every two weeks and discusses any issues for African American students on campus and is a place where a minority on campus feels like a majority for once.

Admission Ambassador (Member 11th, Chair 12th; Chair is an incredibly selective process in which around 20 kids apply for 6 positions). This past year, I gave tours to prospective students about my school and helped at almost every single admissions event. The chairs meet once a week and coordinate with the admissions office to make the experience great for prospective students.

Students for Equality and Justice (Member 11th, Co-Leader 12th). This club meets once a week to discuss any social issues ranging from gun control in the United States to Affirmative Action. The organizing committee meets once a trimester and plans out what the topics will be for each week in the trimester.

Varsity Soccer (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th)

Mock Trial (9th, 11th, 12th) We didn’t have enough members in 10th grade to field a team. Reached playoffs in 12th grade.

Film Analysis Blog (10th, 11th, 12th). I write two-three editions every week, ranging from film reviews, previews, and analyses of classics. I do this out of pure enjoyment, but it is quite time-consuming.

Kumon Worker (11th, 12th). I work part-time at Kumon for around 2-3 hours every Saturday and help correct children’s work. I plan on gaining more hours and hopefully to around 8-10 hours per week at the beginning of my senior year.

Science for Kids (11th, 12th). Every Wednesday, for the last two trimesters, we welcome kids from neighboring schools and teach them about science in a fun and interactive way. This program is reserved to only 10th-12th.

Love for the Glove (11th, 12th). This AIDS prevention event happens every year at our school and attempts to raise awareness about STDs, while fundraising money. I was able to raise around $100, helped decorate the event, created bracelets for the first time in the event’s history, and also created the laptop stickers.

11th Grade Summer: Carnegie Mellon Pre-College Summer Program on a full scholarship.

Hooks:

African American

First-Gen

Low Socioeconomic Status.

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You’ll get into most of these schools, and will have some nice choices with respect to the study of economics:

https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.uslacecon.html

https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.usecondept.html

Based on what you’ve written, I’d say that Dartmouth, Duke and Northwestern seem to most suit your interests and goals.

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You’ll get into a majority of the schools on your list. The problematic ones are going to be the UCs since they give little to no aid to OOS and 65,000 a year may not fit your budget.

I would say that a private school with a good chance of financial aid will be cheaper in the long run than any UC. Given that you are URM with a high GPA/standardized test scores, any of the private schools would likely give you a good financial aid package.

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No one can say if or where you’d be admitted. Much will depend on the rest of your app, supps, LoRs and interviews.

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I don’t believe in Chance Me threads as we truly don’t know what Admissions offices are thinking, but you have scored above (1540 on the SAT) which I have seen to be the Magic Number. In the last 3 years, I have seen 3 African American students reach that score (or higher) in my area which I believe is in the top 100-150 African American standardized test takers in America and those 3 students got into every single college to which they applied. The student with a similar profile last year got into 5 Ivy’s and every other school as well. So you will probably have some nice choices once your decisions come out. Good luck in your college admissions journey

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Your toughest admits might be UCB and UCLA since it appears they place the greatest weight on GPA among your group. Also, these schools, as pointed out above, typically will not be affordable for an OOS student in need of financial assistance – however, I don’t see that your state of residence has been specified.