Chance me for the USC, Cornell, NYU

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello all... I was just curious as to what my chances were for getting into the University of Southern California, Cornell, and New York University. Here are my stats..</p>

<p>Intended Major: International Business/Business Administration</p>

<p>Highest ACT: 30</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.85/4.00
Class Rank: top 3%</p>

<p>AP Courses Completed By Graduation:</p>

<p>AP US History
AP US Government & Politics
AP Language & Composition
AP Calculus AB
AP Literature & Composition
AP Chemistry</p>

<p>Honors: 11+ Courses, including Spanish 4 as a non-native speaking Sophomore.</p>

<p>Other Courses: </p>

<p>Accounting Principles I (dual credit, college & high school credit)
General Psychology I&II (dual credit as well)
Student Leadership (Student Government)
Honors Economics
Participated in a summer program for a local university during the summer of my junior year; took Calculus, English 1020 (highest course available), Physics, and Senior Seminar. (3.75 GPA)</p>

<p>Senior Year Course Load:
(5 weighted, 1 unweighted class)</p>

<p>AP Literature & Composition
Student Leadership
AP Chemistry
General Psychology
AP Calculus AB
Honors Economics</p>

<p>Major Awards:</p>

<p>-Academic Letter (All 3 Years)
-Player with the Highest GPA for high school soccer (2 years)
-Outstanding Academic Achievement in Business and Technology (Only 8 awarded)
-First Place in a State Extemporaneous Speaking Competition
-Second Place in a State Soccer Tournament
-Highest Academic Honor Roll (12 quarters)
-Statewide Government Competition; State Qualified. Only team in school to place in State Competition
-National Honor Society Inductee
-Second Place in a Summer Business Program; had to market, design, and present a product in front of 20+ business executives</p>

<p>Leadership Positions:</p>

<p>Captain of the high school soccer team (2 years). Lead the JV team to league championship. Undefeated.</p>

<p>Junior Class Treasurer.</p>

<p>President of the Future Business Leaders of America Organization. (2 years) Organized community service events, lead meetings, designed agendas, worked with treasurer to create fundraising ideas.</p>

<p>Ambassador for Junior Achievement (international organization dedicated to training today's youth to become entrepreneurs and successful businessmen). Selected over 115,000 students to be part of a 15 person team. </p>

<p>Student Body President of a Precollegiate program @ an acclaimed university.</p>

<p>Student Body Secretary at my high school. Took notes, organized files, maintained relations between the student government and other sponsors and organizations at the school.</p>

<p>Assistant Soccer Coach at local middle school. </p>

<p>Co-Curricular Activities </p>

<p>Junior Achievement: Spoke at two social functions in front of business executives. </p>

<p>Had an article I wrote published on their website. Starred in a commercial on how technology will help this organization. Won them a $15,000 grant.</p>

<p>Sophomore Soccer
JV Soccer
Student Government
Future Business Leaders of America
LINK Crew
President's Council
Fundraising Committee at school
UCD Precollegiate Program
Junior Escort
National Honor Society</p>

<p>Community Service: </p>

<p>Various service projects including coaching soccer (150+ hours)
A local soccer camp for disabled children (been volunteering for 3 years; 12 hours total)
Local middle school's carnival
High School Craft Fair
Freshman Showcase
Local middle school's field day
Public Library (shelving books)
Local middle school's carnival
Business Hall of Fame (setting up, since this was a non-profit event)</p>

<p>140+ Hours</p>

<p>Summer Activities</p>

<p>Business Camp (3+ years)
Precollegiate program at UCD
Recreational soccer
Selling various items on eBay to generate profit</p>

<p>Job Experiences</p>

<p>Assistant Manager/Employee at local grocery store. 300+ hours. Responsibilities included managing the store, directing shipments, assisting customers with language barriers, stocking food, and making sure customers had questions answered.</p>

<p>House sitting: watched a friend's house on various occasions. Checked up on the house three times a day, fed dogs/cats. Made sure that nothing died. lol.</p>

<p>Accounting Internship with an accounting/finance institute. Sorted financial payments, totaled ledgers, balanced income statements. 20+ hours</p>

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<p>USC: reach
Cornell: high reach
NYU: low reach</p>

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<p>NYU and USC are reaches. Cornell is a high reach. Please get me back.</p>

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<p>USC is not a reach for this kid if it’s a low reach for me at a 3.59 GPA , 28 ACT, and 1950 Superscore SAT.</p>

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<p>Your ECs are good, but remember you can only put ten most meaningful ones on your Commonapp; there’s really no need to list everything. Your ACT, APs, and course loads seem to be a little bit weak.
So,
NYU-match (cas), Reach (stern)
Cornell- high reach
USC-high match</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/apply/documents/FreshmanProfile2013FINAL.pdf[/url]”>http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/apply/documents/FreshmanProfile2013FINAL.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>“Average” GPA for admits, 25th%-tile ACT, 20% admit rate. Treating USC as anything other than a reach is a risky decision.</p>

<p>Cornell is effectively the same (statistically speaking). </p>

<p>NYU, with a 35% admit rate and a 75th%-tile ACT of 31 is probably a match.</p>

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<p>I would say StarWarsMan is a high reach with those stats on their own</p>

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<p>thanks for your input. you brought up a good question: which 10 EC do you think i should put on the common application?</p>

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<p>I think I’m a low reach.</p>

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<p>I think you can get into NYU. Not sure about the others but you should be fine</p>

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<p>Reaches at all</p>

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<p>It seems like you are really passionate about soccer, as you have done it for so long. That will look good. </p>

<p>I would say you will probably get into NYU, be wait listed at USC and be rejected from Cornell. Feel free to prove me wrong though, just a guess.</p>

<p>You seem like someone who actually has a life off-paper. Schools like that.</p>

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<p>I was accepted by Cornell RD, awaiting NYU and USC! Thank you for everybody for commenting!</p>

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<p>yeah EC’s matter a lot so i’m not surprised you got in. chance me back at <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1626482-chances-for-mit.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1626482-chances-for-mit.html#latest&lt;/a&gt;. Cornell is a nice school. </p>

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<p>@Brusah FANTASTIC JOB!! :slight_smile: Just goes to show that people on here (myself included) are pessimistic. </p>

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<p>Congrats on Cornell!</p>

<p>Cornell and USC are two of my favorite schools too :)</p>

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<p>Wow if you got an early write from Cornell I’d say you’re a shoe in at both the urban schools. </p>

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