Chance me!

<p>Please chance me for the following schools: UCs, UTexas [Austin], UIllinois [Urbana-Champaign], Stanford, USC, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, UChicago, UPenn.</p>

<p>GPA: 3.7 weighted, 3.36 unweighted
GPA including college classes: 4.0 weighted, 3.5 unweighted
SAT: 2400
SAT II: 800 SAT Math, 790 SAT Chinese</p>

<p>Major-relevant (compsci) ECs:</p>

<ul>
<li>taken 12 computer classes at local community college</li>
<li>worked as a programmer at Kyocera</li>
<li>worked as a freelance programmer for a summer (made about $2k)</li>
<li>spent about 500 hours programming, though I can't prove it..</li>
<li>wrote a web agenda app</li>
<li>wrote a dating website</li>
<li>wrote a website that was sort of a cross between Faceboook/Tumblr</li>
<li>wrote a Bible/Torah/Quran search app</li>
<li>wrote a game</li>
<li>wrote 5-6 other websites/apps I can talk about</li>
<li>I'm going to try to win the programming section of FBLA in time for appeal</li>
</ul>

<p>Other ECs:</p>

<ul>
<li>roughly 100 combined hours of community service (worked at this one place for the last 1.5 years)</li>
</ul>

<p>For the Ivies my GPA sucks, but I've taken 12 community college computer classes (all As) to make up a little for it. I think my college classes and ECs at least show my passion for programming, but I'm kind of concerned about the fact that I can't really prove a lot of them (a lot of the apps, even the websites, are just saved on my hard drive, and I can't prove how much time I've spent programming)</p>

<p>In my essays I'm going for the "programming is my passion; <imply that="" my="" grades="" suck="" because="" i="" programmed="" too="" much="">" and "say witty/interesting things to imply that I'm not a total idiot/underachiever despite my grades" approaches. I write a lot and my essays are pretty good.</imply></p>

<p>Please give it to me bluntly. What are my chances?</p>

<p>Thanks in advance!</p>

<p>Stanford: Reach
Harvard: Reach
Cornell: Reach
UChicago: Reach (pay attention to your essays)
Princeton: Reach
UPenn: Reach
Dartmouth: Reach
CMU: High match
USC: High match
UT-Austin: Low match
UIUC: Low match
UCB: Reach
UCLA: High match
UCSD: Match</p>

<p>Good chances at all of them! GPA might be the only dragging factor…</p>

<p>Also, what is your state/ethnicity? A lot of these schools are big on diversity.</p>

<p>Catria: Sorry, what do those mean?</p>

<p>ccuser95: Thanks for the encouragement! I’m a little hesitant in applying to some of them. The thing is my GPA and SAT score are pretty inconsistent and I’m wondering how much each counts for. To your question, California/Chinese-American.</p>

<p>SAT is standarized, so it will be weighted more heavily, but GPA is still important.</p>

<p>Reach is self explanatory
High match is a match closer to a reach
Low match is a match closer to a safety
Match is self explanatory
Safety is in for sure</p>