Chance me? UCs, Ivies and ivy-ranked

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey everyone, please chance me. I'm currently a junior
I am Chinese and go a school that's not very competitive (top 700th-ish high school in the nation)
Intended Major: Economics/Finance</p>

<p>Schools I'm interested in:
UPenn (Wharton), Columbia, HYP, Stanford, U of Chicago, Cornell, UC Berkeley, UCSD, UC Irvine, UCLA, USC, Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon, NYU (Sterns), MIT (Sloan)</p>

<p>SAT: 2300
CR: 740
Math: 800
Writing: 760 (essay 11)</p>

<p>ACT (taking soon T.T)</p>

<p>SAT IIs
Math IIC: 730 --> 800 (retake)
Chem: 800
Chinese: 800
Planning to take Bio and US. History</p>

<p>Rank
2/600 ish (again, my school is not very competitive)</p>

<p>GPA
4.33 (after 1st semester of Junior year)</p>

<p>AP scores:
Sophomore year: World History (5), Chem (5), Environmental Science (5)
Junior year: Bio, AP Lang, APUSH, Calc BC, Stats, Macro&Microeconomics (self study)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (kinda weak)
Grant committee for Environmental Club ($2000 approved grants) since freshman year
Sophomore year: VP for Key Club, VP for Environmental Club (and fundraised money to buy rain forests!)
Intern for Chamber of Commerce at my city (150+ hours since summer)
Founded Stocks and Investment Club junior year, president (kinda late), doing a bunch of creative things that I might use for college app.
Speech and Debate (Degree of Excellence - for those speech and debaters out there, you guys probably know i don't go to competitions very often for being in the team for almost 3 years, but i'm hoping colleges won't know)
FBLA two years (inactive club =[, and president won't give me the position cuz he wants to go to good college. Who am i to blame? It's human nature)</p>

<p>Awards:
School academic achievement awards =p
National AP Scholar (for taking 3 AP tests and getting 4+), aiming for National AP Scholar this year
Will be commended for PSAT (score kinda sucked) but nothing more
Piano (i'm asian), Advanced-Panel for CMA's Certificate of Merit
*hoping to have more in the future!</p>

<p>That's all i can think of right now, I really wanna go sleep now.
Please help? thanks!</p>

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<p>All I can say is you’re definitely in for all the UCs. I would probably say in for NYU, MIT, USC, and CMU as well.</p>

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<p>Chancing for HYPSMWharton and every other Ivy minus Cornell (Marginally) is ■■■■■■■■. </p>

<p>With that said, UCI’s business program sucks and you have great chances for all the UCs, NYU, and CMU. Dunno about U of Chicago seeing as how i read their app and put it down. </p>

<p>Don’t think you’ll get into the HYPSMWharton, but Berkeley might take you. Btw, I know people who had 4.3/2300 at a top 100 HS in Cali, but they actually got rejected from Cal, LA, and SD. So… they can be unpredictable as well.</p>

<p>Regardless, good chances at all of those schools. good luck</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t say UCI’s business program “sucks”. It’s almost brand new, so you really can’t judge it based on alumni success yet.</p>

<p>Oh, and I take back the in for MIT. I accidentally added that in there. As Fenris mentioned, you really can’t chance too easily on these schools since they have a special way of judging applicants.</p>

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<p>Haha, thanks for chancing!
I don’t expect to be accepted Ivies, and I don’t think anyone does. Hopefully, I’ll do something awesome in the next few months =]
I’m hoping for Berkeley (I am a California resident), Carnegie Mellon, and NYU Sterns.
I just read the article on U of Chicago. Bummer =[
I still wish to go to U of C!</p>

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<p>flight: i live in Irvine lol. I know the program. It sucks. hard. First-hand experience from the people that go. The Paul Merage School of Business got a HUGE grant from the Irvine Company but they haven’t got anything to show for it. I don’t go to UCI, but I know students there. </p>

<p>Also, it’s Stern school of business</p>