chance me? international stud, engineering

International Students
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<p>have lived in US for 4yrs (9th-12th)
thinking of engineering, chemical:mechanical = 8:2, nothing else other than engineering.</p>

<p>gpa 102.71 of 100 weighted (my school has 100-scale)
unweighted is about 97. (*** 100-93 probably equivalent to A, 92-85 to B)</p>

<p>SAT - 2180. (700CR 800M 680W)
SAT2 - math2 800, chem 780, US 550, Physics in December
AP - BC:5 (AB sub:5), chem:5, US:2 (I know I am showing my weakness right away)</p>

<p>Essays - decent (not very good at writing things)
recommendations- great or excellent</p>

<p>Volunteer - 221 hours currently, just turned in few more hours (expect at least about 270)
academic ECs - Math Competitions a lot (amc, aime, arml, and several regional/state titles)
-------------------------------But no usamo, very unfortunate F**K.
chem olympiad (but no further advancement since i'm not a citizen, don't even know what I got, just not even considered as a candidate)</p>

<p>Activities - math team captain, chinese club vice president (not chinese, tho; just had fun learning it),,, and random ones like recycling club, science club...
-------- Varsity Track 3yrs; co-captain, and won medals in several meets (school invitational tho; realys and individual; sprinter), JV soccer 2yrs.</p>

<p>No Work Experience.
***<strong><em>NO TOEFL taken</em></strong>******&lt;/p>

<p>what else I don't know,,,</p>

<p>berkeley, mit, stanford, caltech, johns hopkins, u of i, columbia, cooper union, cornell, princeton, washington in st. louis, carnegie (toefl needed (?)), georgia tech, michigan,
harvard (just b/c mom forces me to apply to; not even thinking about going into).</p>

<p>Wow, look how little Ive done for 4 years. but i guess there no more time to make'em up, so i'll just go with it.</p>

<p>my choices are mit, cornell, stanford, columbia, berkeley in descending order, so be mit the number one choice.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>You are in at Cooper Union, WashU, Georgia Tech, UIUC & Michigan.</p>

<p>Berkeley, Cornell, JHU are matches (so 50/50).</p>

<p>I don’t think your stats competitive enough for HYPSMC. Get a 2250+ SAT and maybe you have a shot at Caltech.</p>

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<p>Ellegee, having seen your posts crop up on several chance threads including my own a while, I’ve noticed something: you don’t think ANYONE is competitive for HYP. </p>

<p>Why is that?</p>

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<p>If you dont know something, ellegee, just dont say anything. Cooper Union most selective school in the whole US</p>

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<p>@ellegee: I don’t know if you knew this, but engineering is one of the hardest things to get into to Cornell, its kind of its specialty. As a matter of fact, its almost if not as selective as HYPSM, etc. when it comes to the engineering department. So it’s definitely not easy to get into. You can’t just chance people by the overall school because some schools have departments/programs in it that are twice as selective.</p>

<p>Examples:</p>

<p>Cornell has a 19% acceptance rate but AEM has <10%
UPenn has an 18% acceptance rate but the Huntsman program is notoriously one of the hardest programs to get into ever, more selective than HYP with somewhere around an <7% acceptance rate.</p>

<p>So don’t think that people can just easily get into schools because the school on a whole has a high acceptance rate because for most schools, you don’t apply to the whole school, you apply to a department in the school.</p>