Chance Me Please! :) Ivies + Northwestern, JHU, UChicago, & MIT

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi guys! I'm a long-term stalker, first time user of CC. I'm in my senior year and I'd like to know where I sit in the pool of applicants for the Ivies, Northwestern, JHU, Urbana Champaign, UChicago, & MIT</p>

<p>*Note: I just received my SCEA from Stanford. Rejected :(</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 770 Math, 760 CR, 790 Writing (Total: 2320)
ACT: N/A
SAT II: 780 Math 2, 780 Chem, 780 USH
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.633333
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/508
AP (place score in parenthesis): 4 in European History, 5s in USH, Chem, Lang, Calculus BC, Calc AB subscore, Psychology.
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load:Currently taking: AP Gov, AP Microecon, AP Physics C, AP Statistics, AP Environmental, AP Spanish, AP Lit
Awards: AP Scholar with distinction, JHU Engineering Innovation Program Valedictorian, California High School Speech Association State Qualifier, International Academic Competitions Mathematics Divisional Winner, NMS Semifinalist: Finalist candidate. </p>

<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars: Speech and Debate (Debate Captain, President, National Forensics League Degree of Excellence, State Qualifier in 2 types of debates, ranked 8th in California), Cello (1st chair at local university orchestra, 1st chair for school orchestra, playing for 8 years), President of Careers Club, VP & Aide to Lieutenant Governor for Key Club, Lead Presenter for Engineering Club, Founder of Science Club, Lead Volunteer at County Museum, started my own charity that performs eye surgeries for poor villagers in India (this charity is recognized & honored by Rotary Club, currently in process to attain Disney recognition, helped over 120 people get eye surgeries free of cost and growing)
Job/Work Experience: N/A
Volunteer/Community service: Volunteer with Charity, with County museum (total 250+ hours, not counting time put into charity)
Summer Activities: Johns Hopkins Engineering Innovation Program (got college credit from JHU, Valedictorian of this program)
Essays: Common App (9/10)
Teacher Recommendation: One (10/10) and another (9/10)
Counselor Rec: (8/10)
Additional Rec: Sending from Rotary chairperson in my city who sees the work I do with my charity (8/10)</p>

<p>Other
Intended Major: Engineering
State: California
School Type: Low income, low performing (that's how the state qualifies it, but last year we had 2 kids go to stanford and this year we have an ISEF 2nd place winner... Low performing seems doubtful XD )
Ethnicity: Asian Indian
Gender:Male
Income Bracket: 125k+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None</p>

<p>Thank you so much. I've really seen a lot of smart people on this website, and I would love to hear your thoughts.</p>

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<p>very high stats nice ec’s northwestern, jhu, are matches Urbana is close to a safety, and your a match for all of the Ivies accept harvard, yale, Princeton, and Columbia as those are reaches for everybody, MIT is also a reach for the same reason. But with your stellar resume you have as good a chance as anybody </p>

<p>chance me back
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1589816-chance-me-cornell-duke-johns-hopkins-northeastern-yale-harvard-bu.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1589816-chance-me-cornell-duke-johns-hopkins-northeastern-yale-harvard-bu.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Also, are there any schools you feel area match for me?</p>

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<p>UIUC: Match
NWU: High Match-Low Reach
JHU: High Match
MIT: Reach
Ivies: Most of them are Reach</p>

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<p>Overall, you have very nice stats. I don’t think the fact that you go to a “low-performing high school” will affect you that much. You seem to have many strong extracurriculars, so hopefully you are able to present these well. As you said to me, all of the ivy’s are reaches for everybody, but I think you have a decent shot at getting into a couple of them. The same goes for MIT and UChicago. Northwestern is a high match, as is JHU. Good luck!</p>

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<p>Thank you for your response</p>

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<p>Chicago: high match/low reach; the biggest deciding factor will be your essays.
UIUC: match/safety
NWU: high match
JHU: high match/low reach
MIT: Reach
Ivies: Dartmouth/Cornell/Brown are low reach. HYP/Penn/Columbia are reach.</p>

<p>Chance back maybe? <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1586531-will-chance-back-chances-mit-berkeley-upenn.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1586531-will-chance-back-chances-mit-berkeley-upenn.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Low chances for ivies, nothing stands out as truly extraordinary, which is usually rather helpful in admissions. The quantity of your E/C’s may actually hurt you, as the admissions will know that you had half-hearted dedication to each.</p>

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<p>What should I do then? Should I not mention some Ecs or should I still put them all and hope that admissions sees how far I’ve achieved in each and thus understand that I didn’t half ass a thing?</p>

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<p>Cellobuddy,</p>

<p>Your stats are definitely strong enough to get you accepted to HYP/MIT. I don’t think any of these schools are a reach for you, but whether you get selected from the pool is impossible to predict. The biggest hurdle you will face is that there may be too many candidates similar to you, thus their quest for maximum diversity in the student body will reduce your chances.</p>

<p>Regarding the ECs, you can only list 10. I would recommend following this advice from Yale:</p>

<p>[My</a> extracurricular activities do not fit in the space provided by the Common Application. Can I send a resume or activities list to further detail my extracurriculars? | Yale College Admissions](<a href=“http://admissions.yale.edu/faq/my-extracurricular-activities-do-not-fit-space-provided-common-application-can-i-send-resume-or-]My”>http://admissions.yale.edu/faq/my-extracurricular-activities-do-not-fit-space-provided-common-application-can-i-send-resume-or-)</p>