Chance me please?

Applying to College
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<p>Hello, I am wondering if I can get into any ivies, Stanford, PennState Schreyer's, Carnegie, etc. with the following stats: </p>

<p>SAT: 2280 (750 Math, 750 Reading, 780 Writing)
ACT:34
SAT Math II: 780
SAT Biology: 660
SAT Physics: 730
SAT US History: 770
GPA: 3.80/4.00 (4.27/4.50 weighted) AP European History: 1 (I'm not going to show this, for obvious reasons)
AP Biology: 3
AP Geography: 3
AP US History: 5
AP Physics B: 5
AP Language & Composition: 5
AP Calculus AB: 5 </p>

<p>In senior year I am taking the following AP courses:
AP Chemistry
AP Physics C
AP Environmental Science
AP Literature
AP Calculus BC </p>

<p>I also have a wide range of extra-curricular activities in which I am deeply involved.
E.g.
- Over 300 hours of community service outside of school.</p>

<ul>
<li><p>Classical Asian Oriental Dancing (I'm a Guy, btw). </p>

<ul>
<li>Martial Arts</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p>I go to a small private school in the northeast.</p>

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<p>Anybody? Please!</p>

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<p>Nice grades. Nice exam scores (mostly). Feel free to apply wherever you like. But do talk with your parents about where the money is going to come from for your education, and just exactly how much there is going to be. That way you know just exactly how financially safe the academic safeties on your list need to be.</p>

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<p>Of course, you “can” get in. But, you’ll compete with thousands with a similar profile. Apply where you wish, but find other schools you can be happy at. Sorry if this is harsh, but we’ve just been through all this admissions-voodoo stuff on CC. If 90% are going to be rejected, create a happy safety net for yourself. And, in addition to competing against a nationwide pool, you will be evaluated against your region and even other applicants from your “small private school in the northeast.”</p>

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<p>yeah you can most likely get into all of those schools, if not better ones!</p>

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<p>@laurene newcomer? stop BSing people like that. Making someone overconfident is like pushing him/her down the roof.</p>

<p>For the schools you plan to apply, I would say your unweighted GPA is a bit low, but since there’s nothing you can do about it, I’ll say nothing more on it.
Test Scores are fine, in general, but your SATII is very off mark, I have to say; you expect top 20 Universities to take you instead of someone who got all 800 students? (trust me, over 50% of people you are going to be competing with have this stat) Study, take the subjects that you are going to report, again.
Either you retake that Bio, or don’t report it.</p>

<p>Martial Arts is definitely a plus, you want to mention it in your essay;
Classical dance…ok, it shows your diversity of interest;
but 300 hours of community service…is vague.</p>

<p>Let’s clarify this by an example:
you are an Admission officer, and you have to choose from four people for a spot (of course, it doesn’t work that way.)</p>

<p>Candidate 1: Establish a local business that makes $30,000 + profit each yr, with federal tax return form as their supplement.
Candidate 2: Organize a local/regional, or statewide service club, and raise over $20,000 dollars for the minority and people in poverty.
Candidate 3: President of Leo Club for 2 yrs, earns national recognition for the school club, organized a conference with other Leo Clubs to pursue a greater good for the general public</p>

<p>(Go to the Ivy schools forums jsut down the list, and see how many students have done that, if not more impressive.)</p>

<p>Candidate 4: 300hrs of community service.</p>

<p>Who are you going to pick? Will you stroke out Candidate 4 at the instant that you saw the other three? I would.</p>

<p>But you are a senior now, there’s nothing too much you can do.</p>

<p>You have a 30% chance for Ivies and Stanford, 50% on Penn State (maybe higher), and 60%+ Chance for other schools like Carnegie, Northwestern, etc.</p>

<p>Don’t count my word, I only applied to Princeton. (But I got in, lol.)</p>

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<p>You don’t have to have 800 SAT 2’s.<br>
The dance and martial arts will make you look like an interesting fellow.
I didn’t see anyone this year who established a biz or a service club that raised even a third (or fourth) of the dollars quoted. In fact, sometimes, the more you “raise” the more it looks like Mom and Dad and their able friends chipped in.<br>
Lots of kids are president of whatever club and earn some sort of recognition and claim to have founded or implemented whatever extra.</p>

<p>In light of all this, an applicant who pursues ethnic dance and martial arts can seem refreshingly real.</p>

<p>Problem is: they reject 85-90% of the pool.
Keep up the dancing and martial arts and be sure you find happy alternative college choices, in case.</p>