Chance Me (Harvard, Yale, Duke, etc..)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>What are my chances of getting into:</p>

<p>Harvard
Yale (They deferred me but gave me an interview right after the deferral..eh?)
Princeton
Duke
University of Pennsylvania
Emory
Washingtion University of St. Louis
University of California: Berkeley</p>

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<p>Sex: Female
Ethnicity: Asian (I wish I were black...)
GPA: 3.989 UW, 6.362 W
Rank: 1% out of 696 students</p>

<p>SAT I: 1510/1600 or 2200/2400 (Too late to retake it...>.<)
SAT II: 760 Biology E, 720 Math IIC</p>

<p>AP's Taken:
AP English Lit - 4
AP English Lang - 4
AP World History - 4
AP European History - 5
AP Computer Science A - 4
AP Spanish Lang - 2
AP Human Geography - 3</p>

<p>AP's Currently Taking:
AP Macroeconomics
AP Microeconomics
AP Calculus BC
AP U.S Government</p>

<p>IB's Taken:
IB Spanish SL - 7 (I'm hoping this balances out my low score in AP Spanish)
IB Mathematics SL - 5</p>

<p>IB's Currently Taking:
IB Biology HL
IB Art Studio HL
IB History HL
IB English HL
IB Theory of Knowledge</p>

<p>EC:
Mu Alpha Theta (Math Honor Society) - two years
Model United Nations - two years
Asian Heritage Club - two years
S.H.A.P.E (Site Visit Coordinator) - one year
Amnesty International - two years
Varsity Badminton (Girls Doubles A, Girls Singles A) - three years</p>

<p>Volunteer:
Chinese New Year Festival - two years
Greater Miami Youth Symphony (Third Chair Violist) - one summer
University of Miami Bone Transplant Lab - one summer
Trick or Treat for UNICEF - two years
Made my own website... - three years</p>

<p>Awards:
Summa Cum Laude
AP Scholar with Distinction
Silver Knight nominee (They announce winners mid-January...oh boy)
Principal's Honor Roll
Varsity Athletic Award
Honorable Delegation Award (Gulliver Invitational 2007)
Honorable Delegation Award (FIU Conference)
Honorable Position Paper (Global Classrooms 2007)</p>

<p>Essays are decent, but I guess they could be better. Recs are pretty good too, but my teachers didn't seem to say much, except for one, and he pretty much regurgitated the whole resume I sent to him for inspiration. I'm slightly concerned about it...</p>

<p>But yeah, any comments are welcome! Thanks!</p>

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<p>You don’t need a 4.0 to get into Harvard and Yale.
Don’t listen to the guy above me.</p>

<p>You have the grades and decent SAT scores, but I don’t see anything else that stands out.
In-state for Berkeley?</p>

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<p>Mike Jones is just a piece of ghetto trash. Go back to rapping, you fool.</p>

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<p>moderator, please delete Mike Jones’s post</p>

<p>first, I’d like to say you have a very well-thought out list of schools… a healthy combination of reaches and matches.<br>
i’m sure you’ll get into Emory, probly not scholars. and you’ll get into UC too with your GPA
The Ivies will be reaches, however.
I know you wish you could have another chance to retake your SAT, but they are within range.
Your EC’s are lackluster.
Good job being honest with yourself about your recommendations and essays. For Ivies, these are very important, and lacking in these areas will hurt you.</p>

<p>Good luck at Wash U and Duke. I’m most curious about how these 2 will treat you.</p>

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<p>You don’t. Your username, an African American rapper, won’t make me believe anything you say.</p>

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<p>great SAT’s, rank, gpa, and a rigorous courseload…</p>

<p>you’ll be like 99% of the other applicants, i have no doubt that great recs. and a jaw dropping essay will get you in…bonne chance!</p>

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<p>who doesn’t… But anyway you have a shot like everyone else so cross your fingers and pray to God, Allah, Lucifer, or whatever.</p>

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<p>You’re going to need another SAT II for Princeton. They require three.</p>

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<p>HYMPS (in your case HYP), as nearly anyone on CC will tell you are reaches for everyone and i seriously doubt anyone can give you a good guarantee of an acceptance at anyone of those places (it’s really up to the adcoms). that having been said, you;re taking an extremely rigorous courseload and are doing well in them, you’ve got the ECs. So if your essays and recs and any good, you’re on the right track.</p>

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<p>You’re a match or Emory and UW. You better demonstrate and individual passion for HYP and Duke. There are kids with stats 10 times as better who get rejected. </p>

<p>Don’t feel bad though. With your high school record, 99% of all schools would be happy to have you.</p>

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<p>Gaffe - I live in Florida, so that’d be a no. Is that bad?</p>

<p>Vandan - It’ll be e) all of the above. You can never pray too much. ;P</p>

<p>Roxxy - You almost gave me a heart attack. I totally forgot that I took a third SAT II in English Literature (ended up with a 710) until you mentioned the Princeton requirement. But yeah, thank you for the reminder!</p>

<p>Thanks guys…For a second, I was gullible enough to believe in what Jones said…shame on me! The rest of the responses are pretty much what I’m expecting from the real colleges…Glad for the reassurance of actually getting in somewhere out-of-state.</p>

<p>As to safe schools, I didn’t think I’d need to mention them (University of Miami and University of Florida) here cause if they’re really the safe schools I said they are, I wouldn’t need to chance them.</p>

<p>Thanks again for all the responses…^^</p>

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<p>For state schools, admissions is easier if you are in-state.</p>

<p>WashU is a crazy waitlist (ab)user if you do not show demonstrated interest. Emory is just a step or two down in intensity.</p>