Chance Me on IVies and a few others...please:)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey! I posted something like this earlier, but since then many things have changed. I would really appreciate your input. The colleges below that have an * are ones I really want to go to....Thanks!</p>

<p>Colleges (I'm not applying to all of them, but just curious): Yale<em>, Harvard</em>, Princeton, MIT, Cornell<em>, Stanford</em>, Caltech<em>, Columbia, UPenn, WashU</em>, Vandy, Northwestern, UIUC, Purdue, Case Western<em>, GATech</em>, Carnegie Mellon, UMichigan.</p>

<p>PROFILE:
Female, Asian
Major Interest: Engineering (Undeclared)
Class rank: Top 1% out of 460
GPA: 4.852/5.0 (weighted), 4.0/4.0 (unweighted)...[but if this changes this semester cuz I end up getting a B, will it have any effect on decisions?]</p>

<p>STANDARDIZED TESTING
SAT I: 2320 (M:800, W:800 (essay 11), CR:720)
ACT: 33 (M:36, E:33, R:31, S:32)
SAT II: Math (800) and Physics (780)
AP Classes throughout highschool: 8 (Calc BC: 5, Comp. Sci A: 5, Stats: 4, Physics C mechanics:4 are the only scores I'm sending. )</p>

<p>MAIN EXTRA-CURRICULARS:
FIRST Robotics: President, Vice-president, Co-founder
Recycling Club: President and Green Initiative Officer
Tennis: Varsity, Co-Captain
Science National Honor Society: Co-Initiator
Spanish Honor Society</p>

<p>AWARDS:
INTEL International Science and engineering fair finalist, 2010
National PTA Reflections Creative Writing Award
National Merit Semifinalist (Hope to be finalist :))
A bunch of school awards</p>

<p>VOLUNTEERING/WRK EXPERIENCE
Volunteering: 500+ hours throughout high school
Paid Summer Job: jr. year.
Working on a 400 hour research project in a physics lab in a university.</p>

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<p>i think you’ll do okay…some of the ivies r prolly a reach…</p>

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<p>could you please be a little more specific Phas?</p>

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<p>Schools like UIUC and Purdue are pretty much a lock. A female in engineering is a great hook; your odds of getting in to MIT and CalTech are excellent. Harvard, Princeton and Yale might be more of a stretch; being Asian puts you up against very tough competition.</p>

<p>WashingtonU will waitlist you because you’re too strong and are unlikely to attend – unless it’s a top choice and you’re willing to “express strong interest,” it’s not worth playing their game because you can’t count on them as a safety school and you’ll almost certainly get accepted at a better school.</p>

<p>I doubt that a single B will affect your chances much unless your class rank is severely hurt – if your classmates’ GPAs are tightly clustered and your class rank drops by 20 or 25 due to this one B, then it could have some impact in one or two decisions, but probably not in all of them.</p>

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<p>Based on your profile, you should get into Caltech. Caltech is great for research and engineering (#1 in US for engineering and technology according to 2010 Times Higher Education rankings). If you intend to carry out science research in college, Caltech will really suit you as you’ll get a lot of opportunities to work with world-class professors through the famous SURF program. And if you like the idea of a smaller college (each year around 250 students enroll), low faculty-student ratio of 1:3 and a closely-knitted community, Caltech is the college for you. :)</p>

<p>p.s. my profile was pretty similar to yours when i applied to Caltech!</p>

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<p>I meant…you have good GPA and test scores, but in IVY most ppl have outstanding scores, hence they are a reach, Case is a good bet.</p>

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<p>awesome stats… you are IN in most of them.</p>

<p>I would suggest you MIT, Caltech & Stanford.</p>

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<p>Not all the schools in your list have engineering programs.</p>

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<p>You seem like a match for WashU St. Louis. As your asterisk indicates, you are very interested—just be sure to show this in concrete ways: applying for merit scholarships, possibly visiting campus, etc. </p>

<p>Good luck with your applications.</p>

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<p>umm your ECs look a bit weak but your Test scores and Rank should pull you through. However, being Asian will definately make the competition very tough. Your essay(s) will be the deciding factor at HYPSM. For the rest, you are definitely in.</p>