Chance Me Please...

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<p>For Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Princeton, Georgia Tech, Harvey Mudd, Vanderbilt</p>

<p>Academics
Class 9- 93.1 %
Class 10- 95.85%
Class 11- 87.9
Class 12 (half term)- 92.5
Class 12 (final) - 95</p>

<p>SAT 1- 2290 (CR 780, Math 790, Writing 720)
Superscore 2300
SAT 2- 2380 (Math 2 800, Chem 780, Physics 800)</p>

<p>TOEFl iBT- 119</p>

<p>ECs (This isn't very good in my opinion)</p>

<p>Football- School team, district, state and national level. (national level only one year)
Music- Guitar and Violin. Member of school band.
Member of inter school quiz team
Member of school science society.
I like to cook as a hobby (don't know if it really matters)</p>

<p>Community Service- Close to a 100 hours. (mostly in the holidays)</p>

<p>Essays.
I spent quite a lot of time on them so they will be reasonably good. At least most of them. </p>

<p>Recommendations-
Should be good. </p>

<p>Awards- nothing major.
ASSET exam distinguished performance (top 5%)
A couple of school awards. </p>

<p>And i require some amount of aid. Not all the way but about 30%. </p>

<p>Thanks in advance :)</p>

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<p>It is not useful to apply to need-blind colleges if you can pay 70% of the comprehensive fee. You’re in at GA Tech, but good luck with the others. They are all super competitive.</p>

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<p>Vivaciousakrish
What do you mean its not useful to apply to need-blind colleges if I can pay 70%? Princeton and MIT are my dream colleges.
and besides 70% is the outer limit. I can pay 45-55 % for sure. Rest will be a stretch. (working or maybe a small loan)</p>

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<p>m123456ab, you seem to be a very strong candidate and I feel that outcome will depend mostly on your essays and recommendation letters. If your essays and those letters together portray a strong character then you are in at all those schools.
I hope you wrote something about your cooking hobby. </p>

<p>I bet you are going to get into one of your dream schools. Good luck! :)</p>

<p>PS: Don’t worry too much about your ECs. If you are honest and you have done them for your personal satisfaction then that’s all matters. Just my humble opinion.</p>

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<p>@m123456ab ,What are u most passionate about???</p>

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<p>@Chubbycheeks-
thanks. yes i did write bit about my cooking
@quiverfox
I’d have to say football. I’v been playing pretty seriously for around 11 years.</p>

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<p>Have you…any other science related interest…???(since all the places you applied are tech schools)</p>

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<p>@quiverfox
you asked what im most passionate about. That is football. Besides this I love maths and physics and am planning to pursue engineering. Hence the tech schools. Within physics I am interested in space travel</p>

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<p>Your academics are very good. It all depends on whether or not you could portray yourself well through essays & recs!! </p>

<p>All the best!! :D</p>

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<p>Would really appreciate some more views</p>

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<p>Dude, ASSET is a farce. I got a 99.7 percentile and I’m not even putting it on my app.</p>

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<p>what do you mean its a farce?</p>

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<p>Meaningless and without value. It was ridiculously easy to get 99+ ( I got 36/40 as the raw score )</p>

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<p>I got a 99.8 percentile in the ASSET test (38/40)…even im not putting it in my app</p>

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<p>what is ASSET???</p>

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<p>^ a joke of a test we took in class 8</p>

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<p>I took it in class 5. Waste of time it was.</p>