Chance me! I'll chance back!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a senior and want to major in CS</p>

<p>If you can please chance me for as many of the following as are possible. I havent decided yet xD I will chance you back just as thoughtfully</p>

<p>MIT
Stanford (early action)
Carnegie Mellon
Harvard
Cornell
UC Berkeley
Toronto
Princeton
Caltech
Columbia
Georgia Tech (early action)
Illinois
Michigan (early action)</p>

<p>probably will do Stanford, Mich., GA Tech early action</p>

<p>Grades: 3.89 unweighted GPA, could someone tell me how to calculate weighted? with honors, AP counted as 5 it is 4.54. Top 10% (but not top 5%) of class (unweighted) in a rural HS that sends 10ish kids to top colleges every year. However I moved from a different high school after 9th grade which was when I got almost all of my Bs.</p>

<p>Courses
English: Honors English 9-11, AP English 12
Math: Honors Geometry, Honors Algebra II/Precalc, Multivar calc and linear algebra, self studied AP Calc
Science: Honors biology, AP chem, biology, physics, compsci
History: World history 9th, APUSH, and APGOV (12th)</p>

<p>also got As in two college compsci courses</p>

<p>Test scores
AP tests: calc BC (5), physics C mech. (5), chemistry (5), apush (5), CS (5), biology (4)
SAT: 800 math 760 reading 720 writing
SAT II: 800 math 2, 770 chemistry, 740 physics</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
[ul]
[<em>] math competitions:
did the AMCs (American mathematics competitions), USA Math talent search, and ARML
was on my states ARML A team and qualified for AIME both in 9th,10th, 11th grade
best results: bronze USAMTS, 114 AMC 12, 8 AIME
[</em>] programming competitions:
I do pretty well in these, and do a lot of them frequently. USACO silver division and topcoder division 1 if anyone knows about them
[<em>] online classes: i started taking a lot of online classes from coursera in junior year and they were amazing
[</em>] chess: i play tournaments ocassionally, rating is 1500s, not much unusual
[li] tennis: JV, 2 years since i suck lollolol[/li]club tennis 2 years before that
[/ul]</p>

<p>Essays: gonna be great, I am really passionate about the stuff that I do
Recommendations: will be good, but not as much as essays
Other: upper middle class, white male, parents went to college</p>

<p>what i think are strengths: passion, curiosity about academic things
weaknesses: i'm not very active in school or have a lot of formal ECs... I'm more of a learning for the sake of it person, like when doing math problems</p>

<p>Thanks for reading! I'll chance you back! :D</p>

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<p>To calculate your weighted GPA, multiply your AP and weighted courses by 1.1 to receive your weighted grade per class. It should raise each class grade very close to 10% higher.</p>

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<p>Harvard, Princeton, Caltech, MIT, and Columbia are reaches (HP high reaches probably). Cornell low reach. UC berkeley high match. The rest you’re most likely in.</p>

<p>The only problem I see is no leadership or initiative. You play chess occasionally and “suck” at Tennis. The math competitions are very nice but they could have been supplemented by ec’s that require more time in and out of school.</p>

<p>You’ll need essays that’ll make an adcom fall out of his seat in amazement to get into some of those reaches but you’ll probably get into a great school come April. I also noticed that you are upper middle class. If your parents don’t want to pay for college also apply to good schools where you will get showered with merit money.</p>

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<p>I agree with marioandluigi about pretty much everything, except I’d put MIT in the high reach pool as well. Good luck.</p>

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<p>I’d never give out high reach as verdicts unless it’s clear that it’s unreachable.</p>

<p>MIT: Reach
Princeton: Reach
Stanford: Reach
CMU: Reach
Harvard: Reach
Cornell: Reach
Berkeley: Match
Columbia: Reach
Caltech: Reach
Toronto: Safety (the safety line in computer science is ~2150 for a 3.89 student; no financial aid but ECs aren’t taken into account at all)
UIUC LAS: Low match
UIUC engineering: Match
UMI: Match
GA Tech: Low match/Match</p>

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<p>the reason there are no “leadership” activities is that I preferred to focus myself on activities that were actually interesting rather than just going to Key Club or NAtional Honor Society or something generic at my school. I was actually the one who introduced American CS League contest and USA physics olympiad in my school which got a few people to join, which hopefully counts as initiative.</p>

<p>i guess it is hard to convince people that math/CS comps take a lot of time and effort. As I said i’m not a formal ECs type guy; using the time to learn a lot math/compsci is very fun (not <em>just</em> doing the competitions).</p>

<p>the reason I said I suck is that I am stuck at JV 2 singles this year which I was a little mad about. but i’m a very tennis-y person too.</p>

<p>thanks for the feedback guys :smiley: keep it coming</p>

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<p>Definitely a reach for all of these schools. Your scores are very good too. Write some awesome essays and wow those admissions officers and you’ll be set!</p>

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<p>reach for all? :frowning: that’s unfortunate</p>

<p>anyone else???</p>

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<p>You have a great SAT score and your GPA is great as well. I believe you are a match for UIUC and GA Tech. The early action for GA tech may increase your chances exponentially, but if you really are great on your essay material, than your personal statements should boost your chances significantly. For the colleges like Harvard and Cornell, I would say reach. But overall, your background is decent, your SAT will be of great use.</p>

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<p>First off Good job on your accomplishments, especially scores, and grades. EC’s could be better but you should be fine anyways: </p>

<p>MIT: High Reach
Stanford (early action): High Reach
Carnegie Mellon: low reach
Harvard: High Reach
Cornell: Low/mid reach
UC Berkeley: low reach
Toronto: match
Princeton: high Reach
Caltech: Mid reach
Columbia: High Reach
Georgia Tech (early action): low match/match
Illinois: Safety
Michigan (early action): Match </p>

<p>Good luck, man! </p>

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<p>I would agree with everything Catria said. I do think that your extracurriculars being related to CS will help you tremendously, but on the same token, I believe that admissions officers won’t think you’re “colorful” enough because of that. Good luck!</p>

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<p>bump!!!</p>

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<p>anyone else??</p>

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<p>UIUC and GA Tech are matches, Michigan and Tornonto are high matches and the rest are reaches. Overall, I think you are as competitive as any other student in your top colleges. Good Luck! Chance back please? <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1544121-chance-duke-ed.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1544121-chance-duke-ed.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>thanks! chanced you back</p>

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<p>please please chance</p>

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<p>With ~ 3.9 GPA and 2280 SAT, you are a match for Berkeley. I’ve heard they don’t look much into EC’s unless you have subpar stats. Low matches for GT and UIUC. CMU is probably a match as well since it’s about as hard to get in as Berkeley. I don’t want to chance you for the rest since I haven’t looked into them that much although I think you should know which ones are reaches. </p>

<p>I’m also applying to Georgia Tech. Chance me?
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<p>bump!</p>

<p>pleasee give some helpful suggestions! I will chance you back!</p>

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<p>please chance me :(</p>