Chance me! please?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Got my october SAT scores so i can finalize my choices and stats</p>

<p>Race: South Asian/ Indian
GPA 3.6-3.8 UW
Rank 76/260
Very Competitive Public High school in NY, usually top 10 go to HYPSM, and other top 20 schools alot of engineers and med students though</p>

<p>AP Comp Sci A (4) AP Gov’t current, AP macroecon current AP calc ab current</p>

<p>Rest of my classes are honors level</p>

<p>SAT: 1470 M+V, 680 W, 2150 composite
ACT: planning to take in Dec, if i score a 34+ ill send it in place of SAT I
SAT II: Math II 800, World History 780, U.S. History 640 (don’t know what happened here)</p>

<p>essay: excellent
recs: great to excellent</p>

<p>ECs:
Started own one man business at end of 8th lasting to end of 11th grade building computers and selling (wrote my common app essay on this, came out really really good and sincere) Hopefully this can be my hook?
Local Gov’t office volunteer, 11th and 12th
Secretary of Earth Club in school, 10th 11th 12th
Junior Director Hindu Religion Association 9th 10th 11th 12th
Basketball League 9th 10 th 11th 12th
Videographer 9th 10th 11th 12th
Summer of freshman year went to India took a class on AutoCAD with college graduates, no credits but now fluent in AutoCAD design software</p>

<p>Work Exp:
NYPIRG 11th-12th summer job campaigning to save environment ( door to door)
Inventory Associate during freshman year at dad’s engineering company
my time working in the home business</p>

<p>reasons for low rank and GPA: sophomore year got an immune disorder, basically i nearly failed all 4 quarters of that year due to tons of absences from school, tried to make up as much work as i could but it didn’t help much.If i had not gotten ill, rank would have been top 5-10% This year also hurt my chances at academic organizations such as NHS etc. Explained in tell anything about yourself or academic career part of app and counselor writes about it in her rec letter.</p>

<p>Choices Business/Finance hopeful</p>

<li>Wharton-UPenn</li>
<li>Stern-NYU</li>
<li>McDonough-Georgetown</li>
<li>McCombs-UT Austin hopefully Business honors?</li>
<li>Haas-Berkeley for Junior year</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>SUNY Binghamton (safety)</li>
<li>Pace (def safety)</li>
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<p>Wharton is a reach but with starting your own buisness and writing about your disorder you might be able to get in. Same probably with NYU, and id say you could probably get into Georgetown</p>

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<p>GPA of 3.7, but rank of top 30%?--seems kind of odd to me--even with your problems in sophomore year.</p>

<p>Test scores are good (2150), and SAT IIs of 800/780 (none of these schools require three SAT IIs) are outstanding.</p>

<p>Wharton-UPenn--Reach (Wharton won't go for any explanation of why the grades are poor--they will just reject--mainly because they have about 10,000 international applicants for Wharton alone)
Stern-NYU--Match to Slight Reach (slight reach only because of rank--so if you can explain it--as indicated--then this is a match--and your best choice in my view)
McDonough-Georgetown--Slight Reach (you are in the international pool--sorry)
McCombs-UT Austin hopefully Business honors--in for sure (Safe Match to Match), but honors is about 50/50--personally, I think you'll get in the honors program here--despite your international status
Haas-Berkeley for Junior year--Well, first you have to get in to UC Berkeley--then you apply to Haas--your chances at UC Berkeley--about 40% in my view (once again the international pool is your undoing--if you lived in California, you'd be a match)
UCLA--ditto with UC Berkeley, except your chances are a bit better--about 45% (I really don't know how much they will consider the autoimmune thing here)
SUNY Binghamton (safety)--agree--safety
Pace (def safety)--agree--definite safety</p>

<p>The biggest problems for you at a lot of these schools is your one year of auto-immune problems and the fact that you are an international (from a country that has lots of applicants) and that your class rank is only top 30%.</p>

<p>As indicated, I think you will get into two of the better schools, plus your two safeties--but you see the problem with some of the other schools. You might also get into UCLA--but it's a borderline thing.</p>

<p>The good news is that you only need one acceptance--so I'd really concentrate on those applications to NYU and Texas and make them the best possible. NYU is known for getting a lot of international applicants--but also for accepting a lot of international students. Also focus on the UCLA app--you are really close there. Try not to use the auto-immune thing as too much of an excuse on this app--just indicate that you've moved past it and are happy to be doing well and producing the kind of great school work that you know you are capable of. UCLA wants happy, outgoing students that will be really busy when the homework gets handed out--and happy to be busy. (P.S. I should know, since that's where I got my MBA).
Good luck.</p>

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<p>Wait what calcruzer? I've lived in the U.S. in NY since i was four and i'm still considered for the international pool?</p>

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<p>bump? 10 char</p>