chance me @ ivy-league caliber..

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<li>Okay I'm applying to all of the ivy leagues (most are reaches of course) - i got deferred from Yale SCEA</li>
<li>So Gimmi individual/separate chances FOR Princeton, Brown, Upenn (CAS), and Dartmouth</li>
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<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): CR (710), Math (740), Wr (800)
[</em>] ACT: Not submitted
[<em>] SAT II: Chem (800), Math II (780), Bio (710)
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.76
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 4/193
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): World History (5), Bio (5), US History (5), English Language (4)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): Nope
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Chem, AP English Literature, AP Government, Band, AP Calculus AB
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Frederick Douglass And Susan B. Anthony Award, All-County Band (NYSCAME/SCMEA) Every Year Since Fourth Grade, Selected for Boys' State (Couldn't Attend, Bad Timing)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity Cross-Country, Winter and Spring Track, Band, Jazz Band, Honors Ensemble, Orchestra, Tri-M: Music Honors Society, Nat. Honor Society, Habitat for Humanity (Treasurer), Mathletes, Knowledge Masters, Natural Helpers
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Worked at a pool Store last summer, Worked at a Retail store 2 summer's ago, Currently Tutoring Four Students During the School year
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Performed with Tri-M at a Nursing Home, Volunteered at Elementary School Talent Shows, Built Homes with Habitat for Humanity
[<em>] Summer Activities: Nothing Special-Just the work Experience
[</em>] Essays: Common App one was decent, Common App short answer was very strong, my Princeton Supplement was really strong..
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Both were very strong
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Strong, she likes me for some reason..
[<em>] Additional Rec: None
[</em>] Interview: Only had a Princeton one --> Amazing: we talked for about an hour and got along very well.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Undecided (Econ/Bio/Music)
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NY
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): USA
[<em>] School Type: Public - Semi-competitive but Small..
[</em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: Average
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Just my music
[</em>] Strengths: Music
[li] Weaknesses: Im stupid and didn't make a music supplement../couldn't attend Boys state/dropped spanish (my foreign language) at the end of sophmore year (but completed four years of it)/didn't take physics[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Thanks so much for reading! - Happy holidays/Good luck to everyone on CC: all very nice ppl</p>

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<p>Fairly typical stats/ECs of a really competitive Ivy applicant </p>

<p>Princeton - High reach
Brown - Low Reach
Upenn (CAS) - Reach
Dartmouth- Low reach</p>

<p>Yale - 40% chance of acceptance
Harvard - High reach
Columbia - Reach
Cornell - Low reach</p>

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<p>Penn is not more selective than Brown and Dartmouth. Its less selective.</p>

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<p>yeah i thought so as well - more please</p>

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<p>Decent chance. </p>

<p>HYP, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, penn in that order.</p>

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<p>Switch Cornell and Penn IMO</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t even list the Boys’ State thing because delegates are a dime a dozen to these schools. I’d say that your chances aren’t really better than the others, but not much worse. All of them are reaches… espec. because you’re unhooked.</p>

<p>That’s great that you got through the Princeton Supplement… from what I’ve heard, it’s a beast!</p>

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<p>ahah yeah it was obnoxious. i did the wilson quote too which i must say came out really well…</p>

<p>and for some schools i actually kinda do have hooks bc of my aunt’s connections:

  1. Harvard: my aunt’s on the faculty
  2. Penn: my aunt got her phd from here and was the Chief Editor of the magazine
    and 3) Brown: my aunt worked here for 9 years and knows tons of ppl</p>
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<p>bump10char</p>

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<p>how could you say that, emory is a reach…my SATs stink</p>

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<p>I hope you have some other, safer schools on your list. You have a reasonable shot at getting in one or more of the Ivies, but it is possible that you wont get in to any of them.</p>

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<p><em>wrong topic</em></p>

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<p>You’re not getting into Princeton (I mean, its prestige can’t possibly dip that much in one year)</p>

<p>Brown, Penn, and Dartmouth are reaches.</p>

<p>But yo, good luck. Btw, I hope you applied to some other top 20 schools like Notre Dame, Northwestern, Georgetown, etc. Those schools are more of a match for you I think.</p>

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<p>Unrecruited athletes are a dime a dozen. So are piano players, kids who worked at the local soup kitchen, and straight A students. That doesn’t mean the OP’s EC is automatically worthless.</p>

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<p>I would say with your stats, you’ll get into at least 2 or 3 of them =)</p>

<p>Chance mee back at <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/645152-these-colleges-reach-me.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/645152-these-colleges-reach-me.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I agree 100% w/ Hunt #11 post.</p>

<p>Get some safeties Acceptd. And good luck!</p>