Chance me

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey guys can you chance me for Harvard, Yale, Stanford, UPENN, Berkeley, Princeton, UCLA, Cornell, Columbia and Georgetown please.</p>

<p>Also ED or regular? what is easier? I know ED has a more competitive pool but the acceptance rate is higher.</p>

<p>Grade 9: GPA: 3.81
English: B
Spanish: A
Math (Honors): B
Physical Education: A
Science: A
Social Studies: A
Business Education: A
Poetry/Creative Writing: A</p>

<p>Grade 10: GPA: 3.69
English: B
Spanish: A
Math (Honors): B
Physical Education: A
Science: A
Social Studies: B
International Relations: A
Technology: A</p>

<p>Grade 11: GPA:4.13
English: A
Spanish: A
Accounting: A
Pre-Calculus: A
Chemistry: A
Social Studies: A
Environmental Science AP: A
Theater Production: A</p>

<p>Grade 12: GPA: 4.57
Statistics AP: A
BC Calculus: A
English AP (Language and Composition): A
Economics AP (Macro&Micro): A
Journalism: A
Math 12: A
Spanish 12: A</p>

<p>All APs: * - Self Study
AB Calculus*
BC Calculus
Statistics
English Language and Composition
Macro-Economics
Micro-Economics*
Psychology*
Human Geography*
Environmental Science</p>

<p>Results: (I write the other AP exams later)
AB Calculus AP - 5
Micro-Economics AP - 5
Psychology AP - 5
Environmental Science AP - 5
Human Geography AP - 5</p>

<p>SAT I: 2200
Math: 750
Critical Reading: 750
Writing:700</p>

<p>ACT: 34
English: 32
Math: 35
Science: 35
Reading: 34</p>

<p>Did both ACT and SAT</p>

<p>SAT IIs:
World History: 780
U.S History: 780
Math Level 1: 800
Math Level 2: 800
Chemistry: 750</p>

<p>EC:
Director on the board at two community centers
President of peer mentor ship community center program (achieved quickly by convincing city council to override 6 month opening procedure)
Leader of Risk and Probability School Club
Organizer of GPACs Environmental School Club
Investment School Club
Captain of Provincial Level Ski Team
Competitive Swim Team
Student Newspaper Writer
Theater Production Stage Organizer
Many service hours at various locations. Most at: Community centers and red cross
Tutor at School's Boarding House
Spent 2 months at Cambridge University Summer Program (shows academic interest throughout summer?)
Library monitor
School Food Committee Student Representative
Intern at Scotiabank Investment Firm
Awards:
National AP Scholar
Highest Level Service Award (School)
Duke of Edinburgh Bronze
Duke of Edinburgh Silver
Provincial Ski Team (A few medals)</p>

<p>Huge negatives I am worried about:
In grade 10 I was one year ahead in math (Grade 11 math) and I scored poorly. The next year I dropped down to regular grade so I am doing math 11 twice, but scoring 99% second time. It's not like I failed the grade or dropped to a lower grade, I just went from a grade up to my grade. 70-80% throughout year and 70% on exam. Worst result I have ever received. Will receiving 100% term 1, 3 and on the exam and 98% second term make up for that the next year in math?</p>

<p>Recommendations:
Head of grade
Head of service
Head of school business education</p>

<p>Applying for economics </p>

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<p>HYSP- reach
Cornell-low match
Georgetown- match
UCLA- match
UPENN- low reach
UCB- low match
Columbia-low reach </p>

<p>I think your EC’s being relevant to your major will help a lot. Also I think your high scores on the SAT II’s and the ACT part of the math section can make up for that low math mark. As far as the ED/RD part goes, if you have a clear top choice I would apply ED to strengthen your chances</p>

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<p>I think that your stats and ECs are good. Know that ED deadlines for most are gone though.
HYSP: Reach
Cornell: low reach
Georgetown: Low reach
UCLA: Match
UPenn: Low Reach
UCB: Low reach
Columbia: Reach
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<p>All Ivies are reaches, no question. They have low acceptance rates that it’s impossible to tell who they will accept.
Same thing for Stanford, although it’s slightly higher.</p>

<p>Are you a California resident? If yes, and you are also in the top 10% of your class, UCB and UCLA are high match and match, respectively, for you. Otherwise, they are low reach, high match, respectively.</p>

<p>First, Early Decision. If you are positively sure you want to go to whichever college you want to apply to ED (and I mean 100% sure), you can apply ED. Their acceptance rates are higher, but that’s because a higher percentage of their applicants in that pool are more qualified than the average applicant applying there. But you have to make sure you really want to go there if you are accepted, and if you can afford the college and its most likely financial package they offer you (although you do have room for bargaining… but still be careful).</p>

<p>Second, I counted 15 ECs. Colleges nowadays actually like to see just one or two (or three) ECs where you have dedicated your time immensely as opposed to a lot of ECs where you have spread your time thin. They like to see that applicant who is just in Math Club and has reached the USAMO or the national math competition, or that athlete who has made the Nationals cut and has placed in the top 10 at Nationals… (although this is obviously the minority and very far-reached for most people).</p>

<p>Third, if you can twist that low grade in math in your essays to show how you learned from that experience, then you don’t have to worry because it’s actually a positive. I wrote about my freshman year AP bio class and how I did poorly at the beginning but learned from taking that AP course how to handle future advanced classes.</p>

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<p>I think so long as you are taking Calculus AB or BC during high school I would not worry about 10th grade math issues. Overall you are a very strong candidate. EC could be boiled down so that a common theme emerges. ED acceptance rate just about anywhere selective will be much higher than RD but buried in the numbers are legacy, URM and athletic admits so it is not super clear how much better an unhooked applicants chances are. As noted though, aside from some ED II deadlines, you missed the cutoff for ED, all Ivy’s are 11/1. So long as your passion shines through in your application and you have good interviews you will be admitted to one of these top schools, which one is hard to say</p>

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<p>Bump</p>

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<p>Wow you have REALLY good stats as a whole.</p>

<p>HYSP: Reach
Cornell: Low Reach
Columbia: Reach
Georgetown: High Match
UCLA: Match
UPenn: Low Reach
UCB: Match</p>