Chance me please!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Just finished junior year and I think I’ve got a pretty good chance at some schools. These are my stats and stuff:

Hispanic, National Hispanic Scholar
Class Rank: Top 10% (Competitive high school with 400 students in my grade)
School does grades out of 100 for who knows what reason but anyway these are my grades out of 100, where Honors and AP courses are weighted.
GPA: 8th: 95 9th: 97.5 10th: 98.5 11th:100.5 Overall GPA:98.5
ACT: 35(35 Math, 36 Science, 35 English, 33 Reading)
SAT IIs: Physics high 700s, Math II high 700s

Extracurricular:
Founder and President of Programming Club
Board Member Science Olympiads
National, Science, Spanish, Business Honor Societies

Volunteer/Work:
Various hours from various things (ex: special Olympics, Robotic league volunteer).
Helped coordinate a charity effort with the school to refurbish old computers.
United States Soccer Federation Grade 8 certified referee for 4 years
Internship at a cloud computing summer Freshman year
Co-Manager at a great clips summer Freshman year

Summer Programs:
Financial Engineering at Baruch College
Researcher at a Computer Science lab
various computer science camps (1 in c++, 1 in python)

Awards:
Various minor awards from various minor competitions. (Ex: bronze medal at Math Fair)

Teacher Recs: One from programming teacher who knows me very well and has a very good relationship with me so it will be incredible. One from math teacher who likes me very much and knows I am a very good student will be pretty good, but not as good as programming teacher.

Course Load:

Freshman & Sophomore: Hardest available

Junior:
AP Computer Science, AP Physics 1, AP English Language and Composition, AP US History, college accounting course

Senior:
AP Physics C, AP English Literature, AP Statistics, AP Calculus BC, AP Spanish, AP Macro, AP Gov

Essays:
Should be great, probably going to be about how I stutter.

Schools I’ll be applying to:
Northeastern
UNC
SUNY Stony Brook
UMaryland
OSU
Georgia Tech
Vanderbilt
UMich
Princeton
Cornell

Which schools should I try to set up an interview for? I’ve been told I make a great impression and in practice interviews I do great because I have so much to talk about.

Thanks!
-Daniel

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Dang son, your up there with those scores!

Northeastern: accept (low match)
UNC: chapel hill? accept, (match depending on instate of out of state)
SUNY Stony Brook accept, low match
UMaryland: accept
OSU: accept
Georgia Tech: accept
Vanderbilt: accept: match/low reach
UMich: match, depends on state
Princeton: idk, low reach/reach
Cornell: accept, match

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^thanks! Yes I meant Chapel Hill. Didn’t realize that I was this high up there. I guess my question now will be financial aid. I don’t really demostrate need. Family makes enough that I won’t get alot. I’ve heard that if I get into Princeton I’ll be given some money so it could be affordable. UNC chapel hill and UMich will be out of state so I’ll have to hope for some sort of aid. If it helps, I’ll be majoring in Mathematics of Computer Science, but most likely the latter. Any more inputs?

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I think you have a nice, balanced list. I can’t say you’ll get into all of them, but you will certainly have a shot. Are you MD or NY resident? Your state flagship should be a safety, wherever you live. After that, you might as well aim high. Consider adding RPI and U of Rochester as matches.

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im from NY. Thanks for your input!

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Incidentally, I’ve never heard of any college admitting a student on the basis of the ability to repeatedly type four lower-case letters. If you have any additional questions, you should ask them. Otherwise, what do you expect people to say that they haven’t said already?

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@woogzmama I was hoping for an answer to my question about interviews from people who’ve done it before and hoping for more suggestions of colleges and general input and suggestions that might aid me. I’m not here to try and get into college, that decision will be in no way influenced by what I post online or by what somebody comments on this thread. I’m simply here to become more informed.

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As far as interviews go, I would say do interviews everywhere that offers them/is plausible for you to visit. As for financial aid, out of state publics aren’t going to offer much and they may wind up being unaffordable, depending on how much your family can afford. That’s definitely a conversation you should have with them, as it may end up eliminating many from your list. I would say the SUNYs are good safeties for you. Stony Brook is a good choice; you may also want to look into Buffalo and Binghamton.

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You WILL be accepted to all of them except for three that are more suspect.

Those three are:

Vanderbilt
Princeton
Cornell

I wouldn’t be shocked if UMich denied you, but I’m calling for admission there.

Ivy League schools are a reach for EVERYONE, so that’s why those two aren’t guaranteed, and Vanderbilt is just a tough school too. UMich is the next in line as far as difficulty, but again, I think you will get in there.