Chance Me for Upper-Level Universities? I Chance Back!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>School:
"Super" (ranked top ten by Newsweek) Magnet High School
Maggie L. Walker Governor's School</p>

<p>GPA:
~3.7-3.8 (unweighted)
~4.2-4.3 (weighted)</p>

<p>We don't rank, but I'd expect I'm in the top 10%, or at least top 20%.</p>

<p>Tests:
SAT I- 2330 SuperScored (M-800, CR-780, W-750) = 1580/1600 (Non-SuperScore)
SAT II- US History (750), will take others soon and expecting mid-high 700s or 800s on each (Math II, Chemistry).
AP- US History (5) in sophomore year, have 6 more just in junior year and 5 in senior year and expecting at the minimum 4s on all
PSAT- Will be a Semifinalist based on my score (229). I'm guessing I'll be a Finalist too.</p>

<p>Classes:
Note- All other classes are at least Honors level.</p>

<p>Sophomore Year-
AP US History</p>

<p>Junior Year-
AP US Government
AP European History
AP Micro Economics
AP Macro Economics
AP Chemistry
AP Calculus BC
VCU Discrete Math (dual enrollment in a nearby full-sized university)</p>

<p>Senior Year-
AP Comparative Government
AP Psycology
AP Human Geography
AP Environmental Science
AP English Literature
VCU Math Modeling
(Very Prestigious) We The People
Mentorship at the local Federal Reserve</p>

<p>Extracurriculars/Awards:
Most Relevant-
Communications Officer and Treasurer for Investment Club
Competitive Paid Internship at Banking Institution
Mentorship at the local Federal Reserve
Competing (and probably winning) the state/national Federal Reserve Challenge</p>

<p>Less Relevant-
-National Honor Society
-National French Honor Society
-National History Honor Society
-Varsity Golf Team Captain
-Co-Historian and Secretary for Club Asia
-Officer for Model Congress/Government
-Chair for the GSMC (Governor's School Model Congress)
-200+ Hours of Community Service at state's Science Museum
-Third place in Senior Microbiology at Metro Richmond Science Fair
-Stockholm Water Award in Research
-Invited to play saxophone twice in prestigious nationwide woodwind festival
-Played piano semi-professionally for 7 years and was state-ranked in Virginia </p>

<p>Universities:
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)- Early
University of Chicago- Early
Stanford University
Harvard/MIT/Princeton (Yeah Right)
University of Virginia (Backup/In-state)
William & Mary (Backup/In-state)</p>

<p>Thanks everyone! I'll try to chance everyone back!
Leon</p>

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<p>Your GPA is somewhat average for the schools you listed. But given the fact that your high school was like one of the best, I think your fine. SATs look fine for the schools you applied. I think your pretty much in at all except for Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Princeton, and MIT. But even for those schools it looks like you have a decent chance. I would say 75%. Good Luck! Now please Chance Me!:</p>

<p>Current School: UC Irvine</p>

<p>Current Major: Business Economics</p>

<p>Applied Major: Business Economics @ UCLA (I am a transfer student)</p>

<p>GPA: 3.92, (3.933 including Winter '10 grades)</p>

<p>Extra Curricular Activities: UCI Entrepreneur Society Active Member since Fall '08,
Currently Participating in SCORE (Counselor’s to America’s Small Business) workshops with certificate upon completion. Dean’s Honor’s list all quarters. I’ve done Extensive Volunteer-work throughout High School (They allowed you to list this on the application, but I don’t know how much they care about it)</p>

<p>Work: Internet Marketing and Sales position at a Small Business for ~4.2 years (2006-present, 12 hours a week)…grew the business by over 30% in terms of profits.</p>

<p>Prereqs: All Done.</p>

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<p>William and Mary is not really a safety school. I’d say it’s more of a low target. I’d suggest that you get a safety school lest you receive rejection letters from all of your schools (I’m not saying this will happen, but it happens every once in a while).</p>

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<p>@sandaboy
Looking pretty good. Assuming that you’re in-state, you should be able to get into UCLA.
Your extracurricular activities + work experiences are impressive too.</p>

<p>@Jaddua
Yeah, I didn’t really mean for W&M to be a safety school, but what would you recommend for an in-state safety school for Virginia?</p>

<p>Thanks,
Leon</p>

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<p>All Reaches</p>

<p>UVA and William and Mary are matches.</p>

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<p>@NuclearPakistan1</p>

<p>Really? I thought UChicago would be a medium-high match.</p>

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<p>I’m going to bump this a bit. :)</p>

<p>Thanks for all the help so far!</p>

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<p>I’m not good at chancing for top schools, but my best friends brother just got into Wharton. He has a 4.0 UW, 4.something above 4.5 Weighted. He is literally a genius. He organized DECA and FBLA at his high school, and is now an executive officer in each club. He’s recognized nationally for perfect grades, and being a excellent member of the commnity. The kid has no social life, he is either studying, or watching the stock market channel. So unless you are like him, or your great grandparents donated a building to Penn, good luck.</p>

<p>So for Wharton, no.</p>

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<p>All things considered, you have a very impressive resume. However, a lot of the schools you are applying to are, to a large extent, toss-ups. You will definitely get into your two safeties and I would be confident about UChicago as well (make sure you write stellar essays though). The rest are pretty tough. Getting into Wharton is right up there with Harvard, MIT, and Princeton and Stanford is certainly not a sure thing. I do, however, believe that if you apply to all of these top schools you should get into at least one…but I am no expert. Good luck</p>

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<p>You said “yeah right” to a few schools. Don’t think like that.</p>

<p>You have a GREAT resume. Great scores, very good grades, great ECs. You have a decent shot to get into one of those (I know similar students with similar numbers who got into Princeton). </p>

<p>Wharton, Stanford, MIT, Yale are reaches of course, but I wouldn’t be surprised if you got into one. Its a bit of a crap shoot, but you have a chance.</p>

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<p>Dude, you’re EC’s are EXTREMELY impressive in my opinion. Test scores/GPA aren’t bad either, but write a good essay and you have a 75% shot of getting in. Either way it’s a crapshot for everyone.</p>

<p>Mind PMing the details of the fed. reserve stuff your doing? I’d be interested in doing that in a couple years.</p>

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<p>I think you have a decent chance into getting into most as you seem to have competitive ECs that will definitely demonstrate your interests and your ability to take action on your interests.</p>

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<p>Thanks everyone! I’ve chanced everyone who posted a link back.</p>

<p>Any more opinions?</p>

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<p>You’re a really good contender for all the schools you’ve listed! Believe in yourself… You seem very intelligent and ambitious. Good luck! :]</p>

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<p>Very impressive stats and ECs. You’ll be among the top for the state schools. But the HYP schools are reaches for everyone. I wonder why I never hear about the Maggie Walker GS, I could’ve applied there.</p>

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<p>Dear leonwho,</p>

<p>As you requested, I incorporated your scores, GPA, leadership, and extracurriculars into a systematically devised function of calculatory means that I developed to precisely calculate percent chance of admission to various universities in the US and abroad. The results are as follows (these are the percent chances that you will be accepted at the below named institutions of higher educatory education):</p>

<p>The University of Pennsylvania Wharton School: 14.230%
University of Chicago: 70.007%
Stanford University: 11.866%
Harvard College: 10.310%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 8.222%
Princeton University: 12.845%
University of Virginia: 67.893%
The College of William & Mary: 72.309%</p>

<p>Please note that these are only derived from my own personal formula which seems to accurately predict admissions chances pretty well. Hope that helps!</p>

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<p>Haha wow, I feel like I am in a similar boat as you. I think you can definitely get into Chicago early, a match. Penn might be tricky, but if that internship might push you over the top for wharton, still its wharton (low reach?). ahhh, HYPS, everyone always asks yet the response is always the same, its a crapshoot. Sorry, I can’t say much else other than reach. UVA and W&M are the classic safety schools where I go too, but this year we got shafted by UVA, only about 250 kids made it in (300 usually). Just be careful.</p>

<p>Chance me back? <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/898730-chances-duke-penn-cornell.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/898730-chances-duke-penn-cornell.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Again, GPA is good. ECs are great. I would like to point out, HYP has loads of these applicants. When it comes down to it, you’ll have to put together a excellent subjective part to the application.</p>

<p>and chance me please?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/910736-second-opinion-chances-top-schools.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/910736-second-opinion-chances-top-schools.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I’d say you have a good shot, for all of the schools, as good as any other competitive applicant. You have some very finance/business related EC’s that will definitely help for wharton, are you considering applying to Stern at NYU, i talked to a professor at Wharton and he said Stern and Michigan are right up there with Wharton, of course Wharton is still the best.</p>

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<p>Just apply as an international japanese student. Worked for me. Also, make sure once you get in you keep being a ******bag about it. Colleges really like that. Lastly, make sure you get a teacher fired and miss an interview…</p>

<p>If you do all of that, you are pretty much guaranteed</p>