Chance me?

Hey! I’m a junior (early I know), and I’ve been on CC for a while. Eventually I gave in to the urge to see what my chances are (even though the admissions process for most of the schools I’m looking at are crapshoots). If you would take the time to give me an idea of my general chances for these schools it would be awesome :slight_smile: Oh and I’m looking to major in a business field, most likely finance or marketing.

Columbia (Dream school, definitely my first choice because of academics, student life, connections, and NYC, and will be doing ED here)
UPenn (probably EA)
UMichigan
Yale
Harvard
Northeastern
UC Berkeley
NYU
Emory
UF (safety)
(Maybe Dartmouth, MIT)

Ok so now my stats:

ACT - 34 Composite, 33 Math, 34 English, 33 Reading, 34 Science, 9 Writing (Will retake to improve writing)
SAT - Haven’t taken (Don’t know if I should)
SAT II - Will take Math II and Physics (Took practice tests and scored 800 on both, but we’ll see haha).

UW GPA: 3.85
W GPA: 4.89

Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10%

AP (place score in parentheses): World History 3 (I know), English Language 3 (I know again), European History 4, Statistics 5, taking US History and English Literature APs this year

Current Course Load: AP English Literature, IB Spanish IV SL, IB Calculus AB SL, IB Physics II SL, IB Psychology SL, AP US History

Probable Senior Course Load: IB Spanish V SL, IB English HL, IB Calculus BC SL (Might HL), IB Physics HL, IB History of the Americas HL, Macroeconomics college course

ECs -
Member and Southeast Region Executive Chair of Muslim Youth of North America (MYNA)
-joined sophomore year and spearheaded efforts to create a camp for the SE region (Was co-chair and also head of program) - success
-Chair of all camps in Florida after that
-On track to join National Committee next year
Varsity soccer (with letter) all years of HS (district champs 9th and 10th, regional finalists 9th grade)
Local Travel soccer team
NHS
Created business club at my school where students have a chance to shadow local local businesses and land internships. Also created first DECA team for our school to compete in Florida DECA competitions.

Volunteering/Summer activities
Taught local elementary school students to read in sophomore year (~20 hrs)
Organized fundraisers for Breast Cancer Awareness freshman year (~10 hrs)
Volunteered at local homeless shelter junior year (~30 hrs)
Volunteer teacher at local Sunday School (~120 hrs)
Looking to find an internship over the summer for business, if I can’t find one, I will intern at a college out of state for stroke research (Paid, and got an offer for it through a connection)

Awards (Nothing major)-
AP Scholar with Honor
4.0 Honor roll (9th and 10th)
A and B Honor roll (11th)

Race: Asian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: < $80,000
Financial Aid? - Hell yes

Home state?
If you are not a California resident, remove UC Berkeley from your list. OOS students get no financial aid at any of the California UC’s.

Your scores are good, as is your GPA, if just a bit low. I don’t think you need to take the SAT. Your ECs are solid, though not especially unique, as it seems like the only thing you have deeply committed to is MYNA.

I’m not sure how much the essay is weighted (though I hope it is because I got a 12.) I would just look at the online sample of a 12 on the ACT website & PrepScholar. I’m into writing, so maybe I’m not a good sample, but just seeing how they organize the structure of the essay & integrate quotes/CCs/etc really helped! I’m retaking the ACT because of a bad experience with science, so good luck to both of us!

Overall, I’d say:

Columbia (ED): Deferred
UPenn (RD, Penn has no EA): Waitlist
UMichigan: Accept
Yale: Reject
Harvard: Reject
Northeastern: Accept
UC Berkeley: Accept
NYU: Accept
Emory: Accept
UF (safety): Accept
Dartmouth: Accept/Waitlist
MIT: Reject

Best of luck! :slight_smile: Chance me back? http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1966406-chance-me-upenn-ed-yale-brown-princeton-etc-will-chance-back-p1.html

Home state is Florida, and yeah I was hoping to shape my application around my involvement with MYNA, but I’ll see when I get there haha.