Chance me! (Stanford, JHU, UCB, MIT, Columbia Yale SCEA)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hey! I’m a current junior (Class of 2022), and am prepping for college application szn. I kind of wanted to see where I stand in terms of the colleges I’m looking at.

demographics: female, asian, upper middle class
major: psych + comp sci
score: 4 in AP Environmental Science

academics: uw gpa is 3.97 (1 B in AP Chem) + I took 7 college classes and got As in all

ecs:

  • research intern at vanderbilt on computational psycholinguistics (submitting paper to some big conferences in 2 weeks)
  • research intern with dartmouth center of tech and behavioral health (studying the impact of covid-19 on student mental health)
  • accepted into the New York Academy of Sciences (10% acceptance rate)
  • press director for Girl Genius Magazine
  • Science Olympiad (a bunch of regional medals for anatomy, codebusters, and designer genes)
  • founded an org called Project resHERch for getting girls in academic research (partnered w stanford, nih, nasa, etc)
  • led an initiative at my school for s*xual assault policy reform (spoke in front of school board, led an email campaign of 200+, raising money for care packages for underprivileged women)
  • founded mhcsgirls, a community organization for getting girls in my hometown into CS (educated 20+ girls on scratch, game design, etc)

awards:

  • scholastic 2x silver keys, 2x hm
  • 5x california state science and engineering fair qualifier
  • top 300 broadcom semifinalists (this was in middle school but I got the award in 9th grade so I might include this)
  • some national invitational medals for scioly + many regional medals (1-6th place)
  • california air board award
  • honorable mention in ucd teen biotech challenge
  • projectcsgirls national hm
  • ncwit regional rising star

colleges: Stanford, JHU, UCB, MIT, Columbia, Yale (SCEA)

I know these schools are pretty tough, but I do have some safeties (SJSU, CSULB, CSU Bakersfield, and UC Riverside). Let me know what you think!

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I find questions posed like “Chance Me” to be quite silly at times. Upon observing your listed profile, I see passion and I see a drive, which is good. However, there’s something you have to understand in this college admissions game: it is practically unpredictable. For me to dictate your chances would be a toddler giving a masterclass to a fellow pianist of his age. Quite frankly, the toddler knows nothing nor does his companion. A rather strange scene isn’t it?

You’re going to do well, but I will not dictate whether or not you have a chance at these prestigious colleges. You should not rely on College Confidential but more so from your counselors and mentors who have a better knowledge of your situation and YOU as an individual. Only fate will decide whether you will be admitted or denied. I wish you the best in your future endeavors.

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are u doing the New york academy of sciences this year or was this last year?