Chance me please!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I know this is probably useless, but just to feed my egotistical thirst for some kind of knowledge on my chances, I'm asking here!</p>

<p>I go to a very very competitive private school (I board there), which is a huge ivy league feeder.
I believe around or more than 25% of the graduates get accepted to ivy league schools(average of past 5 years).
My school is competes well with Exeter, Andover, etc (Won't name my school, for private reasons). I'll be a senior this year.</p>

<p>My school does not calculate GPAs, or student rankings, so I'm not exactly sure what my GPA is. However, the average scores of my grades are:</p>

<p>Freshman: A- (this was actually a seperate school from my high school)</p>

<p>Sophomore: A-
Physics (no AP or honors offered.. weirdly, my school does not offer any APs for sciences, or history, and very few english APs.)
French 3
Precalc Honors
English (again, no honors or APs)
World History (again, no honors or APs offered)</p>

<p>Junior A-/A
Junior courses:
AP Calculus BC (5)
AP Statistics (5)
English (no hnors/aps)
Chem Honors (no AP offered.. but will take very soon)
US history (no AP offered, but will take very soon)
(May take AP computer science)</p>

<p>I tried to take the most rigorous courses my school offered.
Sophomore year (my first year at the high school) was a bit shaky,
but I did much better my junior year.</p>

<p>SAT I - 2320 total, 800 math, 780 Writing, 740 Reading</p>

<p>SAT II
Physics - 750 (may retake, unsure)
Biology M - 750
Math IIC - 800
(Will take Chem)</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<p>250+ hours of internship at a molecular neurobiology lab (affiliated with Harvard), did research on PD models, gained hard research resources. Data used for an official post-grad research paper, mentioned. Going to start a research paper my senior year.</p>

<p>100+ hours of volunteer service @ Rehab Center for Seniors.</p>

<p>Chamber Orchestra for all four years (Played violin for 9 years)</p>

<p>Varsity Wrestling (four years), JV Tennis (2 years).
Attended quite a few tournaments, but placements only in freshman year.</p>

<p>Math Club/Team Leader, ROV team member, Chief Editor of Science Magazine @ school</p>

<p>Peer Tutor</p>

<p>Acapella Group (CDs published, beatboxer of the group)</p>

<p>Essays/Recs:
I think my essays will be pretty decent.
I'll be getting a rec from my physics teacher, calculus teacher, my internship boss. They should be good.</p>

<p>My hopeful list:</p>

<p>UChicago
Harvard
JohnsHopkins
MIT
Standford
Caltech
Tufts
Duke
Dartmouth
Brown
Cornell
Carnegie
UMichigan
UPenn
UVirginia</p>

<p>Of course, I know all these schools are TOO good, probably all HIIIGH reaches or something, but I'm not really sure. What are my chances? which are the HIGH reach, MID reach, and LOW reach (if there are any =( ) and can someone make suggestions for my matches/safeties? and what can I improve?</p>

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<p>Nice ECS (esp. a capella - submit Cd are supplement?), and all your research is going to be of interest to science-orientated colleges</p>

<p>Your SAT scores are great, and so are your SAT II scores (i reccomend NOT retaking Physics, but rather working to ace the chem)</p>

<p>Your GPA is not bad, still a shaky A/high A-</p>

<p>UChicago - Match/High Match
Harvard - High Reach
JohnsHopkins - Match/Low Match
MIT - High Reach/Reach
Standford - Reach/Low Reach (Low possibly because Stanford emphasizes ECs in its admissions and your beatboxing is REALLY unique)
Caltech - High Reach
Tufts - Match/Low Match
Duke - Match
Dartmouth - Low Reach
Brown - Low Reach
Cornell - Low LOW Reach (i cant state that any ivies are matches because theyre unpredictable)
Carnegie - In
UMichigan - Unsure
UPenn - Reach
UVirginia - In/Low Match</p>

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<p>^ however, my chancing you is also depending on the factor that I do not know the dynamics of your district.</p>

<p>The colleges will have special officials that specialize in a specific district and will compare you to students of that district. Since you said your school offers no GPA/Ranking, I based my chances with the assumption that you were within the top 5%.</p>

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<p>Oh, I should also mention, I'd like to apply for biomedical engineering in the case of Johns Hopkins... Which makes it much harder? I'm not sure...
but thanks a lot for your input mayi</p>

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<p>choate? /<em>hmmm?</em>/</p>

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<p>nope, I dont think 25% of choates go to ivy's ?
not sure though, but im not attending choate</p>