Chance Me. If you feel like looking at your average run of the mill Asian Male

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>School: Magnet HS in NJ
Rank: 1st/2nd Decile, School Doesn't Rank Though
GPA: 94 out of 100, so i'm guessing a 3.9?</p>

<p>PSAT: 229
SAT I Crit. Reading: 800
SAT I Math: 760
SAT I Writing: 730 (11 essay)
SAT I Score: 2290</p>

<p>SAT II Math Level II: 800
SAT II Chinese: 800 (kind of boring since I'm a "native speaker", but took it freshman year"
SAT II US History: 750-800 Expected</p>

<p>AP's Taken
Econ-Micro, Econ-Macro, Psych, Calc AB-Scored Five on All of Them</p>

<p>AP's Taking This May
US Gov, Comp Gov, Calc BC, Chem, English Lang, and US History</p>

<p>School only offers three of these AP's, others are ind. study^</p>

<p>EC's
Eagle Scout
Member of City Council's Recycling Advisory Committee
President of Econ Club
Comm Service VP
Other random stuff.</p>

<p>Schools that I'm looking at by Tier:
Reach:
Yale
Penn (Wharton)
Princeton
Brown
Stanford
Columbia</p>

<p>Target:
UChicago
Claremont McKenna</p>

<p>Safety:
UVA
UMich</p>

<p>Do you think, my tiering of schools (chance-wise) is fair?</p>

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<p>No its not fair. Admissions are such a crapshoot only a fool would pretend like he actually knew what to expect. I promise that you will be rejected from one of your match and one of your safety schools while being accepted by at least two of your "reach" schools</p>

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<p>I think UVA should be used as a match instead of a safety, because admissions at UVA is pretty darn competitive.</p>

<p>UMich is a good safety though. Over 50% acceptance rate.</p>

<p>And yeah your reaches are really reaches, haha.</p>

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<p>thx, do you think i should have another "safety"</p>

<p>you can never be too sure these days..</p>

<p>i was thinking maybe UNC-Chapel Hill?</p>

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<p>
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Admissions are such a crapshoot only a fool would pretend like he actually knew what to expect. I promise that you will be rejected from one of your match and one of your safety schools while being accepted by at least two of your "reach" schools

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<p>Ironic.</p>

<p>Anyway, OP, you look like you're in good shape, but bear in mind that you're competing with many other applicants with similar accomplishments and stats.</p>

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<p>You got it right except Chicago is not target.</p>

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<p>chicago is a reach. and do you have any EC's? stats aren't everything. i would add one or two schools below michigan. michigan's acceptance rate this year, (or so i hear) is going to be between 30-40%... and UVA is not a safety.</p>

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<p>yeah, what other people have said. I think you probably
will get your safeties, but... Better to be safe then sorry - how about Boston U, I think that would be a good safety ( or a school around its competitiveness.) i would be surprised if you didnt get into at least one nonsafety, but... Bsts</p>

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<p>michigan is very hard to get into for OOS. i wouldn't consider it a safety if you don't apply early.</p>

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<p>As far as my EC's go,</p>

<p>I'm an Eagle Scout, and a member of the City Council's Recycling Advisory Committee. I founded/preside my school's Econ Club. I've been on the varsity basketball team for the last two years and my school has a pretty good track record of sending kids to Chicago so I'm kind of banking on that to make it a target, but in this day and age, i agree, i wouldn't necessarily call it a target.</p>

<p>I want to double major in econ/envi studies, so my EC's are very much tailored to my future educational goals.</p>

<p>is Michigan EA or EN (early notification) i ask this because i was thinking bout SCEAing at yale, but if i did that i would lose out on EA oppurtunities, but not EN/rolling oppurtunities.</p>

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<p>bump.</p>

<p>i also started from scratch, my town's first annual reduce reuse recycle initiative, that is now held once a year on the weekend after (or of) earth day, and involves 500-750 participants, and takes several tons of waste out of the solid waste stream.</p>