Chance Me! I want to apply to the ivies, rice, duke, MIT, and Stanford!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey Guys,</p>

<p>I am a high school senior and am looking to apply to colleges this fall/spring. Before I apply, I could really use some guidance as to what colleges I would be accepted/rejected at if I apply to them given my credentials. I want to major in material science (might chance majors to another engineering area but 100% engineer) and business/econ. So here are the colleges I want to apply to...Please help!</p>

<ol>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Brown
14.Boston University </li>
<li>Vanderbilt</li>
</ol>

<p>So here are my credentials..</p>

<p>GPA: 3.87 unweight
SAT I: 2020, math 730, CR 650, Writing 640 (I will retake them again and I should get ~2150)
SAT II: Math II (800), Bio M (690), Physics (750), </p>

<p>EC:
-Boy Scouts Eagle Scout
-4 years of independent research (competed at science fairs and went to states and once to nationals)
-founded a school economy club
-founded a school tutoring club
-research internship with professor XXX for 1 summer
-competed in a science and engineering competition where you create a project and present to judges (won nationals first place)
-interned with a local race and gender discrimination organization to reduce discrimination and hosted my own campaign
-work part-time year round ~35 hrs/week
-have been a team leader in school science club and animal conservation club
-head camp counselor for an aquatic marine summer camp for little kids
-I have about a total of 500 volunteer hours</p>

<p>School doesn't offer APs only honors programs, which i am all in, but i did take marketing and econ at a local comm college. I am taking college calc, 5 years of spanish, and have taken chem, physics, and bio.</p>

<p>Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!!!</p>

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<p>You don’t really have a single safety on your list. Maybe BU is a match, but your list is too reach-heavy.</p>

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<p>Swag, a fellow Eagle Scout. </p>

<p>< 5% Chance of Admission
MIT
Stanford
Princeton
Columbia
Yale
Harvard</p>

<p>10-20% Chance of Admission
Penn (< 5% for Wharton)
Rice
Duke
Cornell
Vanderbilt
Brown</p>

<p>Here is my advice:
a) If you are serious about the schools you want to go to, aim for a 2300+ on the SAT. Work your brains off, it will make a big difference.
b) Play up the research. Write about it in your essays, combined with the national win.
c) Apply early to Cornell if getting in the Ivy League means a lot to you.
d) Get a supplemental letter of recommendation from a research supervisor. Make sure its a 11/10 letter. </p>

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<p>And your cost constraints are relevant to determine what schools you can realistically attend.</p>

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<p>If you want to be an engineer, the only Ivies you should be applying to are Princeton, Cornell, and Columbia. The others will not give you what you want. </p>

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<p>I can see that your EC’s are really nice to see on your application, but it would help if you explained what exactly it is that you do. For example, your school tutoring club. Colleges don’t just want a list of supposedly sensible EC’s; anybody can do that. The point is to see how they help you, how they make you who you are, how you have improved as a person with all the activities and so on. I’m not an expert though, I’m just stating my honest opinion :)</p>

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<p>you have like a 0% chance at any of those schools with a 2020 sat</p>

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<p>@shalooky‌ </p>

<p>What’s wrong with Havard or Brown or Penn for Engineering?</p>

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<p>Why isn’t this thread on the Chance me forum?</p>

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<p>Very impressive stats. Retake SAT for sure, to bring both CR and writing to above 700. Or take the ACT instead. </p>

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<p>If you want on get into the majority of the colleges on your list, you must improve on your SAT. They’re probably al reaches. Some of the Ivys you’ve mentioned aren’t the best at engineering, so you should consider deleting some and replacing them with safeties or other schools like UC Berkeley.
Chance me back- <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1672761-chance-me-for-stanford-university.html”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1672761-chance-me-for-stanford-university.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>@ennisthemenace‌ </p>

<p>I personally don’t have anything against those schools (except I don’t think Harvard has many engineering majors), but based on @collegestudentz’s post, it appears that he is concerned about reputation, and Princeton, Cornell, and Columbia are the three ivies that are best known for engineering (at least, as far as I know).</p>

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<p>Is your GC advising you on your list? Have you checked Naviance for your school?
The only strong chance on your list is BU with your SAT score. Did you try the ACT?</p>

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<p>you gotta have some safeties and matches…with a 2020, all those college are real reaches; i can’t chance you with ur “assumption” of getting 2150, so i will chance with ur 2020…here are my chances for you: </p>

<ol>
<li>MIT- 5%</li>
<li>Stanford- 7%</li>
<li>Rice- 25%</li>
<li>Duke- 8%</li>
<li>Princeton- 5%</li>
<li>Columbia- 8%</li>
<li>Yale- 5%</li>
<li>Cornell- 20%</li>
<li>Dartmouth- 20%</li>
<li>Harvard- 5%</li>
<li>Northwestern- 25%</li>
<li>UPenn- 20%</li>
<li>Brown- 20%</li>
<li>Boston University- 55%</li>
<li>Vanderbilt- 30%</li>
</ol>

<p>Just understand if those are the only 15 colleges u are looking at, there is a really legitamte chance that u get into 0 colleges and u end up going to Community College; when applying to colleges, be as smart as your GPA and SAT scores indicate that you are…</p>

<p>Chance me back: <a href=“http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1673885-chance-me-northwestern-duke-wustl-upenn-jhu-usc-ucla-berkeley-u-of-washington.html#latest”>http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1673885-chance-me-northwestern-duke-wustl-upenn-jhu-usc-ucla-berkeley-u-of-washington.html#latest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;