Chance me PLEASE!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Intro: Hi, I'm a junior Asian male from AZ attending an average public school with a >50k income bracket. Only one of my parents went to college while the other fractured their neck and is disabled with memory loss and trauma-induced manic depression. Can you chance me for Columbia, Pomona, Vassar, Northwestern, UCLA, Duke, Stanford and Yale. </p>

<p>==ACADEMICS== I'm taking the hardest possible class load offered in our district.
SAT I: 630 CR, 690 M, 660 W = 1980, will retake.
SAT II: Math II = 710, will take Math II, Bio and Spanish in June.
IB Diploma Candidate:
-(HL) History, English, Biology
-(SL) Spanish, Math studies, Physics
AP Classes:
-Calc AB (3)
-Chem, will take Chem senior year
-Calc BC, will take over summer
GPA: Unweighted is 4.0, Weighted is 5.131
Class rank: 2/540</p>

<p>==EXTRACURRICULAR==
Leadership:
-NHS President, NHS 2 years (max)
-Spanish Honor Society VP, SHS 3 years (max)
-Scholar's Bowl Team Captain, 2 years (max)
-Marching Band Section Leader, 2 years (max)</p>

<p>Volunteer Work:
-Relay For Life Team Captain, raised $1100.
-Here 2 Hear, started a charity to play music for the elderly in retirement homes. I have been a pianist for 12 years but was never technically skilled but didn't want to give up on music so I started a charity.
-Pediatric ER Volunteer: 200 hours working with kids with special needs in the emergency department. Also work to train new volunteers at the hospital.</p>

<p>Active Clubs:
-Spanish Honor Society: Worked to gather school supplies for an orphanage in Mexico.
-National Honor Society: Focused on monthly service at the soup kitchen, painting a house for Arizona Paint-A-Thon, fundraising for Relay For Life.
-Scholar's Bowl: Competing at districts and started monthly regional competitions hosted by our school.</p>

<p>Awards:
-Cross country (4 years)
-Excelsis choir, symphonic band, marching band, spring musical (4 years) [Top choir and band at my school]
-Arizona Study Program, Piano performance and music theory through level 5 earning "Superior" ratings.
-Arizona Boy's State delegate for my school
-Arizona Centennial Band (Performed for the state's 100 birthday, selected out of 20,000 eligible students)
-Varsity Letters: Band, academics, cross country.
-National Merit Commended Scholar
-Walt Disney Co. "Ears 4 the Arts" performer, invited to perform and record soundtrack instrumentals at the Disney studio.</p>

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<p>Hello fellow IBDC! I think you really have a chance at most of these schools but not sure about Yale (but you should still apply as a reach?). Only SAT seems to be kind of on the low side but your extracurriculars are awesome. Keep in mind these chance threads are uncertain</p>

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<p>Any one else willing to chance me?!</p>

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<p>SAT is too low. Get some safeties/matches.</p>

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<p>The only glaring blemish I see is your SAT score. That will hurt you a lot for all those schools minus UCLA. Get that up to 2200+ or try the ACT (would need 33+ there).</p>

<p>If you get your SAT up a lot, then you have a solid chance in getting into those schools (more likely for UCLA), but right now your chances are a bit below average.</p>

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<p>I just got my ACT scores. 29 English, 34 Math, 32 Science, 26 Reading. My composite was a 30. Any tips on improving English and Reading other than just reading and doing practice tests? Does this really change my odds?</p>

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<p>Since you are an asian male, you need to boost up that score.
The most practical way would be doing a tonload of practice tests and understanding why you got those questions wrong.</p>

<p>Also, I wouldn’t report the Calc AB score. And I think you mean a <50k income bracket. Maybe ED somewhere also.</p>