Chance Me Up!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>lookin at: brown (ED), brown plme (ED), cornell, tufts, columbia, u of rochester, u of rochester BS/MD, uconn honors, uconn honors + bs/md, nyu, boston university, carnegie mellon, dartmouth, upenn, duke, u of miami bs/md</p>

<p>if theres any more u can think of that would be a good fit for me help me out, and granted most of these are ivy league so i guess theyre reaches but how much of a reach are they, and also im not applying for the name of the school, i actually checked out most of these and liked them, and im super set on brown and ive shown great interest in them (via summer course, rep visits, tours etc)</p>

<p>from: CT
gender: male
race: indian sub continent
school: private (pretty selective)</p>

<p>GPA: 4.06 W, our school reports our weighted GPA and lets the college figure it out themselves
SAT: 2080 (630 reading, 710 writing, 740 math)
ACT: 32 (34 math, 32, science, 31 english, 30 reading) and im retaking
SAT II: 700 lit, 740 math2c, 730math1c, 630 ushistory, planning on retaking BioM sat2 and taking physics SAT2
AP: US His 4, Microeconomics 4, Macroeconomics 3 (not many APs offered as junior)</p>

<p>9th (all honors classes): world history I (A-), geometry (A), biology (A-), spanish 2 (B), freshmen english (A) (i forgot what the course was called)</p>

<p>10th (all honors classes): world history 2 (b+), algebra 2 (a or a- i forget), chemistry (a), spanish 3 (b or b+ i forget), sophmore english (a or a-)</p>

<p>11th: AP US (B), honors pre-cal (A), honors physics (A), english (B+), AP Micro (B-, really bad yeh), AP Macro (B+)</p>

<p>12th (currently about to enter 12th): AP english, ap calc ab, ap bio, ap physics, intro to ap spanish, vietnam (honors course)</p>

<p>ECs: Lacrosse (all throughout high school), jazz/rock band (all throughout high school, section leader for percussion in 12th), Model UN (10th, 11th, and possibly 12th), United Cultures Club (10th, 11th, 12th - vice president, attended diversity conferences and facilitated mix-it-up day at school), music interpretation club (my friends and I started it 11th grade), volunteer at local hospital, worked at doctor's office in summers of 04 and 05, took a summer @ brown course (intro to medicine) and got cpr certified</p>

<p>i forgot somethin maybe so i might update this</p>

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<p>Very interesting</p>

<p>brown (ED), brown plme (ED), cornell, tufts, columbia, u of rochester, u of rochester BS/MD, uconn honors, uconn honors + bs/md, nyu, boston university, carnegie mellon, dartmouth, upenn, duke, u of miami bs/md</p>

<p>The only ones that are not extreme reaches on your list is boston university and carnegie mellon. They are just slight reaches.</p>

<p>You seriously have got no chance at most of the schools. Your numbers are way too low and your extracurriculars are pretty average. Besides, bs/md things are mostly score oriented. Your scores are not high enough to get past the first round. The cutoff for most bs/md is around 2250.</p>

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<p>To add to what fast wrote, you're an ORM from a private school in an over represented state. That puts you in a VERY competitive group. I agree with the above except I think you have a good chance at NYU if it's not Stern or Tish and I don't know about UConn, but if it's like most state schools you'll get in there too.</p>

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<p>does it help if my school is able to send most kids who graduate to most of the non-ivies on the list + cornell and dartmouth?</p>

<p>cuz seriously, ive seen scattergrams of kids from my school who have about the same or lower scores than me, and who have done as much with ECs as I have, and they were able to get in. no confrontation or anything, but i dont believe that BU is a slight reach for me, or pretty much anything you said. ive been told actually BU is a likely for me from my college counselor based on the scattergrams</p>

<p>and i am retakin my ACTs so my "too low" scores will hopefully change for the better (despite that i probably have one of the highest ACT scores at my school)</p>

<p>and regards to being an ORM, yeah i know it hurts me a little bit, but do you think essays/interviews/letters of rec would help counter balance that?</p>

<p>btw im in no way being hostile, just somewhat suprised to hear that i have no chance at all, especially at the uconn honors program, which is in my home-state</p>

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<p>Ok, I honestly think that your chances of getting into a combined program are low...the schools that I believe are good matches for you are: NYU, BU, CMU, UConn Honors. Dude honestly, you gotta beef up your ecs and your test scores...as of now, your chances are slim to none. (don't mean to be rude, but honesty never hurt anyone).</p>

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<p>What do you plan to write about on your essays?</p>

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<p>I would bring up the scores to have a shot at most of these.</p>