Chance me!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone can chance me for the Ivy League Universities?

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2280 (730 CR, 790 M, 760 W)
ACT: N/A
SAT II: 790 Bio E, 740 Physics, 780 Math 2, 790 Chinese
Weighted GPA (School only weights): 3.9 in Freshmen, 3.8 in Sophomore, 4.4 in Junior
(For reference, average GPA of students who get into Princeton from our school is 4.4, UPenn 4.3, Cornell 4.2)

AP (place score in parenthesis): Biology (4), AP Language (5), AP Chinese (5), AP Macroeconomics (5), Chemistry (3)
AP Physics 1 (4)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Computer Science, AP Literature, AP Physics C, AP Calculus BC, AP US Government
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Central Taiwan Debate- (Champion), WSDC National Debate team

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): (Number of years I will have done when I become a senior)
Debate Club President (4 years)- On the national debate team, central taiwan debate champion
Swimming Team Captain (4 years)- No national awards, a lot of city awards and broke 2 county records.
World Scholar’s Cup Founder and President (4 years)- Academic competition club
Every Child Counts Vice President (3 years)- Community service at orphanages
Global Issues Network Club Secretary (4 years)- Went to Beijing for a GIN conference, some community service here and there.
Piano- Competitive piano playing (4 years)- No national awards, a lot of city and county-wide awards
Model United Nations (4 years)- Delegate, Chair, ICJ Advocate… A lot of best delegate awards
Job/Work Experience: Robotics/Programming internship
Volunteer/Community service: Around 50 hours of just here-and-there community service
Summer Activities: Swimming, NSDA National Debate Tournament (in USA), WSDC World Championship tournament, Internships.
State (if domestic applicant): N/A
Country (if international applicant): Taiwan
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian (Taiwanese)
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: $80,000~$100,000

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You seem like a pretty well rounded student. I would say the lower level ivy leagues are high matches while the mid and higher ones would be low reaches/reaches. A lot of it will depend on the essays. Chance me back?
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1791315-chance-me-johns-hopkins-ed-cornell-ucla-ucsd-ucd-ucsb-uci-emory-st-louis-washington-duke.html#latest

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WSDC National Debate Team does look pretty promising - as a debater myself I do realize how hard this is. Still we are talking American universities, and debate competitions outside of US sadly do not have as much merit (still quite a lot of merit) in the admission process as you might think. But I don’t know how well you did in wsdc, so i might be completely wrong. I mean, top 20 speaker in wsdc, would be (dayummm))

Still, your debate resume looks pretty much flawless, which is great!! you should be really proud of yourself.

Now, rest of the EC outside of debate related (mun, wsc, and wsdc) looks a little bit thin, but given your passion, I don’t think it might matter as much. GPA, SAT, and test scores looks good, not dazzling-ly amazing, but still great.

I would say,
Brown University - (meh)match
Columbia University - between match and reach
Cornell University - (definite)match
Dartmouth College - match! given your strength in humanities
Harvard University - always, no matter who you are, a reach
Princeton University - a reach, but I think given your strength in debate, might be worth considering
the University of Pennsylvania - between match and reach
Yale University - same as Princeton

You probably need to still brush up on your STEM side, as all of these schools look for all-roundedness.

lack of STEM related accomplishment might hurt you a lot in the admission process, especially for great STEM schools like Columbia.

anyways, good luck in your college admission process!

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What the heck to the guy above. All these schools are reaches because everyone is super qualified. Columbia is not a match for anyone, ever. Neither is Brown and neither is UPenn. The most competitive schools that can be “matches” for anyone is probably like Berkeley, UCLA, USC, Emory, CMU, etc. Your gpa’s on the lowside for all of these but you have great EC’s and SATs. Don’t forget to apply to matches and safeties.