Chance me PLEASE!!! Penn, Duke, Brown :)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Thank you for reading and hopefully leaving a reply for this post</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Asian (US citizenship)
High School: top 10 high school in Pennsylvania
GPA: 3.87
SAT: 2270
Math: 800
Reading: 740
Writing: 730
SAT II's
Math IIC: 800
Biology: 780
Chemistry: 790
Korean (lol): 800
AP's
Calculus AB/BC: 5
Biology: 5
Chemistry: 5
Psychology: 5
EC's
Model United Nations for 2 years
Key club for 2 years
Volunteered Habitat for Humanity
Found the Flag football club
Taekwondo 3rd degree black belt
Swimming 2 years varsity
Soccer 2 years varsity
200+ hours of volunteer (HFH, Hospital)
Played piano for 11 years and Clarinet for 7
AP honor student in school
Recs/ Essay
Got excellent recs from really close teachers and I tried my best to write a distinguishable? essay.
Applying
UPenn
Duke
Brown
Univ. Washington St. Louis
Northwestern
Cornell
JHU
U Michigan. Ann Arbor</p>

<p>PS. I'm planning for Biology or Pre-med as my major + I have a 3.87 cumulative GPA with my freshman year average being 3.62. I do have a great improvement as time went, but is 3.87 a bit low for Ivy schools and the ones I am chancing for?</p>

<p>THANK YOU!</p>

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<p>Your credentials look great. Your GPA looks great to, although being Asian is a slight set back. Your ECs are a little generic, average. Have you won any awards, if so it could definetly help. So basically, your academics are outstanding but your ECs don’t stand out as much.</p>

<p>UPenn, Duke, Brown, and Cornell are all high reaches. The rest seem like lower reaches. Best of luck. Care to chance me. Thanks</p>

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<p>What’s your rank?</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t call them low reaches IMO, definitely not high.</p>

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<p>Brown, Duke, Penn: Reach</p>

<p>Everything else: Match</p>

<p>Cornell with that 30-40% accept rate on ED for average applicant (its not to hard to imagine the OP being slightly better than average applicant)? Yeah we are gonna call that a match.
JHU? 40%? Match
U of M? If you can shell out the money, In
WUSTL? Match</p>

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<p>We pretty much have the same stats, and I got into Brown, but I was a history major, so that may make some difference. </p>

<p>Just make sure to show your personality in your essays and it will be a reach, but you have a decent chance</p>

<p>Do you have any safeties btw?</p>

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<p>Duke ED has had 30-35% acceptance rates too, so if Cornell’s a match I can’t see Duke being too much harder either.</p>

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<p>Yeah but the caliber of accepted students at Duke is slightly higher.</p>

<p>Duke: High match</p>

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<p>Your scores are great and your EC’s aren’t that of a stereotypical asian applicant so that definitely brings you to the forefront.</p>