Chance me for the ivies?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi everybody! I'm getting nervous now that we're a few weeks away from hearing back from everywhere, so I thought I'd post this here. Thanks for any help!</p>

<p>Colleges I applied to:
-Stanford SCEA (rejected)
-Northeastern (accepted)
-Univ. of Washington
-Duke
-Claremont McKenna
-Harvard
-Yale
-Princeton
-Brown</p>

<p>-Unweighted GPA:
4.0</p>

<p>-Weighted GPA (5-point scale, honors = +0.5, AP = +1):
4.50</p>

<p>-# of AP/IB/honors courses:
9 AP, 6 H</p>

<p>-class rank/size:
12/406</p>

<p>-SAT:
2380 (800 M, 780 CR, 800 W)</p>

<p>-SAT II scores:
800 Math II
740 US History</p>

<p>-AP scores:
5 - AP Calculus AB
4 - AP World History
5 - AP Calculus BC
5 - AP US History
5 - AP English Language
5 - AP Computer Science</p>

<p>-ECs:
-Student Body President. Was ASB Class Treasurer for three years before this.
-Microsoft HS Intern. Worked at Microsoft summer after my junior year, one of 17 interns in my area. Worked on an actual team in Microsoft Research.
-Math Team member, won multiple state competitions as a team in junior and senior years.
-4 years baseball (2 varsity)
-6 years rec soccer</p>

<p>-employment
Microsoft HS Intern (mentioned above), 40 hours/week, 9 weeks during the summer
Collabera - working on the same project I worked with at Microsoft, helping to produce an intro to programming book.</p>

<p>-honors/awards
AP Scholar with Distinction
National Merit Finalist (PSAT: 239)</p>

<p>-short explanation on recs/essays
One rec was from my CS teacher who recommended me for MSFT, probably very good. Other rec was from my LA teacher who I had for two years, probably average-good. Essays were good - nothing special, no major hooks, but well-written and articulate.</p>

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<p>Nothing I see jumps off the page, but you seem like an extremely smart student who academically would fit into any college in the world. I bet that you’ll get in to most of those colleges.</p>

<p>Chance me back!</p>

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<p>Your academics are awesome! I wouldn’t worry too much about not getting into Stanford reflecting where else you’ll get in, they’re so random in whom they pick…you have a great shot at getting in everywhere else. You have really good diversity in your ECs, with leadership and athletics and academic activities. Schools love that.</p>

<p>Good luck! Hope this helps somewhat :slight_smile:
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<p>So, does the G stand for your high school or your name? Haha. </p>

<p>Unfortunately, I don’t reckon that this chance thread will tell you anything more than you already know, considering you listed four of the colleges most volatile when it comes to admissions. (Five, if we’re counting Stanford.) UW, you’re of course in, and I doubt you’ll have any trouble being accepted to the honors program as well. Claremont McKenna and Duke are excellent schools in their own rights, but given your stats, I’d say your odds for them are very favorable, too. That leaves us with the Ivies, of which there isn’t much to say. Brown has been trying to build its engineering program(s) within recent years, so considering you’re a computer science hopeful and it’s traditionally the easiest (“easiest”) of the four to get into, your odds there are probably greatest. Conversely, given that Princeton has the most highly regarded CS program of the four, you’ll have stiffest competition there. Ultimately, it will probably simply come down to essays and what the admissions officers at one school see in you that others do not.</p>

<p>Question, any volunteering they’ll see on your app?</p>

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<p>Essays will make or break your app(s).</p>

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<p>You’re definitely in at UW, and you have decent chances at Duke and Claremont McKenna. Brown is a mid-reach and the rest are all high reaches; the Microsoft internship sounds really nice but you don’t have much else in the way of extracurriculars or awards.</p>