<p>I put kinda good because even my writings that won national awards I don’t feel are the best…</p>
<p>Living in Oklahoma is a small boost to your admission chances, but your URM status is definitely a bigger plus.</p>
<p>Yay for being a black oklahoman???</p>
<p>^yes…</p>
<p>I cant say anything about Harvard…they’re very unpredictable…but I think you have a very good chance at NYU. I would even apply to the “lower” Ivies if I were you…despite a mediocre gpa, you have pretty solid stats…although they do point to you being quite lazy.</p>
<p>What are the “lower” ivys?</p>
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<li>It’ll help.</li>
<li>That piece of advice was quite open-ended. Just make it all come together nicely. Try to focus on some sort of passion and make it come across as a serious application to the committee. There’s nothing specific that I meant by it.</li>
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<p>Lower ivied = brown, u Penn, dartmouth, and Cornell. By elimination, I’m sure you can guess harvard, Yale, princeton, and Columbia are upper iciest. By the way, if writing is as good as you later imply, then the essays will deffinately work foryou, good luck.</p>
<p>Pretty uninformed there. Penn and Columbia frequently flip flop in rankings and whatnot.</p>
<p>I think you’ll probably get in (but what do i know?). Oklahoma, URM, 2300, 35 (better than 2300 but still send both). GPA is low but GPA doesn’t mean much w/o knowing how difficult or competitive or economically well your school is, so your rank might be more relevant. Your rank is top 15% or something, which is still really good. The lower ivies (non-HYP) might even be mid- to high-matches for you.</p>
<p>Who cares about what your teachers might think? Plus, you’ve probably had good relationships with at least two teachers in which you had at least A-'s in their classes. And you’re way more qualified than most people who apply.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about your teachers; I am applying to 5 Ivy Leagues and Stanford, and my crappy school almost never sends students to top schools. I’m pretty sure my teachers who I asked for letters of rec think I’m fooling myself, but they don’t even know my credentials anyways… who gives a crap, if you get in you’ll put em all in your rear view.</p>
<p>Apply mate, I think you have a fair shot.</p>
<p>Hamburglar I love your username!! 
ANYWAY…</p>
<p>I think you don’t really have that much of a chance maybe like 5%…sry</p>
<p>Umm thanks wesley? Kinda mean don’t you think?</p>
<p>Everybody seems very wrapped up in your gpa and sat/act. Sats over the mid 2100s-2200 make only marginal differences because after this point you are in the top 1% of test takers. Your 2300 sat and 35 act point to the fact that your qualified. You percentage level (which I believe is what really matter) is only raised a little in the jump from say 2200 to 2300. Gpa, I’ve been told, is also not as important. What you did with the resources you had is what matters more (class rank is a better indicator of this). Best of luck though.</p>
<p>Straight up: NYU is a likely for you. MIT, maybe not a likely, but still apply.</p>
<p>^But I just found out they have a horrible FA thing and I am kinda poor…so umm yeah…</p>
<p>Your being black will help immensely. Your scores are excellent. The only weakness I see is the GPA. If you provide a valid explanation (though not a lie) they might be able to look past it. Just apply!</p>
<p>Well does it make a difference that freshman year and first semester of sophomore year they were varying grades then starting second semester that year and all after that it was straight A’s?</p>
<p>^Yes. Upward trends are recognized. It’s not as good as never doing poorly at all, but it’s better than having bad grades be dispersed throughout your transcript.</p>
<p>Don’t you need to do the Math 2 for MIT? Also, you kind of suck at math for MIT, lol
(3) AB calc
750 math level1
(3) Physics C [actually not that bad]</p>