Chance Me Ivies/Other Schools

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Chance me for:

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UPenn, Brown, Stanford, UChicago, Northwestern, Berkeley, WUSTL, Rutgers, Duke, NYU, Tufts, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, UCLA, Wake Forest University, Dartmouth, College of William & Mary

Unweighted GPA: 4.00
Weighted GPA: ~4.26

SAT: 2290 (one-sitting; might retake in October for 2300+)

SAT Subject Tests: Math II (780), Chem (750)

APs: 5 APs (don’t know my scores yet)

Extracurriculars & Awards:

-Soccer (4 years, Captain;
Soccer regionals 3rd place (9th);
Soccer regionals 3rd place (10th);
Soccer regionals 2nd place (11th);
Soccer All-State 2nd place (11th);
Soccer All-State 3rd place (10th))
-Band (4 years, Section Leader)
State Band 1st Chair;
All State Band (4 years);
State Youth Orchestra 1st Chair
-Key Club (4 years, founder, president)
-Robotics Club (2 years, founder, president)
-MUN (4 years)
-NHS (3 years)
-Student Council (1 year; President)
-Engineering Club (2 years)
-Mu Alpha Theta (2 years)
-Science Competition (Made it to State competition)

Work Experience:
STEM research at a university (2 years)
Research at a university on MRI for 10 weeks
Volunteer: 100+ hours & still working

Ethnicity: Asian
Income: 80,000~100,000

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I think retaking the SAT is not likely to do you any good whatsoever, and any time spent prepping for the test will take away from other much more valuable activities. Better to put extra effort into researching the schools, learning more about them, and crafting quality applications.

My opinion, of course, and surely some will disagree, but…

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I am guessing you are from NJ?.

Are you playing club soccer or just high school?

I think your chances as an Asian make applying to a California UC are very low. Two reasons, first is local competition and second a kid from NJ will not be viewed as someone that will attend being its 3,000 miles away. William & Mary I think you could be surprised and not get in because you are OOS.

The rest of your list is good but you are applying into a hornet’s nest of high stat Asian kids where the schools are already saturated.

Wake Forest is a great choice as is Dartmouth. Vanderbilt would be a smart reach rather than one of the Ivy you have listed.

You might also consider Notre Dame as a reach and Boston College rather than the UC’s.

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@BatesParents2019 Thank you. So what do you think my chances are for ivies?

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Also, I am thinking of applying to Yale, Princeton, or Harvard SCEA so please chance me for these schools, especially! Thank you

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Average no better.

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Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UPenn, Brown, Stanford, UChicago, Duke, and Columbia are reaches, Johns Hopkins and Dartmouth are low reaches, and the rest range between high-match to low-match.

I was wondering whether you could do me a quick favor as well: could you rank the schools in terms of your level of interest in them? Thanks.

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@puzzled123 Thank you for your response.

  1. Yale
  2. Harvard
  3. Stanford
  4. Princeton
  5. Columbia
  6. UPenn
  7. UChicago
  8. Brown
  9. Duke
  10. Dartmouth
  11. Berkeley
  12. Northwestern
  13. Johns Hopkins
  14. WUSTL
  15. Tufts
  16. NYU
  17. UCLA
  18. Wake Forest University
  19. College of William & Mary
  20. Rutgers
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Ivies/Chicago/Duke: Average chance like everybody else, nothing against you but just way too damn competitive.
Berkeley, LA: Be prepared for virtually no financial aid and with your income, I don’t know if your family can swallow the 55k/year price tag. Good-great shot at anything except Berkeley engineering.
NYU: Great shot but once again it is stringent on financial aid and NYU costs 75k~ a year so…
WUSTL: Idk about their financial aid but I like your chances there a lot as you have great stats and some research done.
I don’t know about the other schools.

Make sure to find some safeties meaning that you can absolutely afford the school if you decide to go. A lot of your schools on here are quite expensive. Is there like an instate option for you?

Are you perhaps good enough to be recruited for soccer? It seems that you are quite good, so possibly you could try to get in through athletics?

One tip: You have a lot of EC’s, try to narrow them down to make a theme stand out. It seems that you are well-rounded which is good, but try to find what really excites you most. Is it math, science, music, soccer, international policy?

Also, you might not want to do this as you have high goals, but applying ED to one of the ‘lower’ schools on your list like UPenn, JHU etc. will significantly increase your chances and I think you should be able to get into one of those schools that offers ED.

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@rdeng2614 Thanks for your response. Do you think that the fact that I live in Europe due to my dad, who works for the military, improve my chances for the more competitive schools such as Yale/Harvard/Stanford/Princeton for ED?

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@NParker Yale/Harvard/Stanford/Princeton only have SCEA, no ED. I actually have no idea if that ‘helps’ if your dad is in the military. I honestly don’t think so, but in your essays you can write about your experiences in Europe and how you adapted and grew out of this unique opportunity of being abroad.

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Don’t apply ED unless you know that the financial situation will work out, which at your income is not a sure thing (though you might get some aid.) Perhaps EA or SCEA. Your stats are great, as are your activities. I agree that retaking the SAT would be largely pointless - no school is going to turn you away on account of a 2290. You have a good range of schools there - I’m taking it that Rutgers is your safety - but are you seriously going to apply to 20?

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@albert69 No I have to start narrowing down the list, but those are the schools in mind.
@rdeng2614 Do you think my extracurriculars are too bland?

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@NParker They’re not bland but you have a lot going on. Try to find the activity that interests you the most and focus your app on that one interest. It’ll help differentiate you from the thousands of others who might also have sports/music/debate etc… on their resume.

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@rdeng2614 Thanks for your advice! I’ll try and focus on sports and music in my application.
@ypmagic Even though I’m an asian, <2300 is not going to affect my chances?

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@NParker 2290 is perfectly fine for Ivies. Even if you had a 2400, your chances would not change.

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@ypmagic I guess that is true. Thanks for the advice

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Since you made the regional squad for soccer, consider making a highlight tape and sending it to a few of the soccer coaches at the schools you are interested in. You might not be one of their top candidates, but ivy league recruiting requires that they take at least 1-2 kids per year with high academic index. Yours might be in a situation where a coach might recruit you simply for the high AI.

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@sgopal2 Do you think that getting recruited for sports is my only shot at ivies?

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You are an unhooked asian. Your scores are pretty good, but there will be plenty of students with higher scores. This puts your chances of acceptance at an Ivy at probably between 5-10% at each school.

Try to get recruited, this will significantly increase your chances. If the coach will support your application then your chances of admission rise to 50-60%.