Chance me!

Chance Me / Match Me!
1

Hi all,

I am trying to decide which school to apply early to between Duke and Stanford. The other schools I will be applying to during regular decision. UNC and NC State will be early action.

Schools I will apply to
Duke
Stanford
UPenn (Wharton)
Vanderbilt
UNC
NC State
Maybe UChicago
Maybe Northwestern

Intend on majoring in either a biological science or a business related major (Econ, public policy, or business administration)
Planning on either premed or going into finance

Stats
Rank: 2/547
GPA: 4.71/5.0 Weighted; 4.0/4.0 Unweighted
ACT: 35 on all sections in one sitting. 9/12 on writing
AP Classes: AP World (4), AP Human Geo (5), AP Psych (4), AP US Gov (4), AP Stats (3), AP Environmental Science (5), AP Bio (5), AP Calc AB Subscore (3), AP Calc BC (3)
Senior Year Courseload: Calc 3, AP Chem, PLTW Digital Electronics, Honors English 4, AP US History, Principles of Microecon (Dual Enrollment at community college), Principles of Macroecon (Dual Enrollment at community college), Multivariable Calc (Dual enrollment at a local public college)
SAT Subject Test Scores: Math 2 (800), Biology (740. Probably will not submit)
Indian male
Economic Class: Upper middle class

Extra Curriculars
Kinesiology Research- Summer 2017. Cited as author in published abstract
Chemistry Research- Summer 2018. Will be presenting a poster at the Southeastern Regional American Chem Society conference in November. Possibly will be presenting at other symposia
Internship at local rec center- Summer 2017
Volunteered at a local science museum for 3.5 years. 400+ hours
President of Interact Club
President of Science Olympiad Club
President of ACS Chem Club
Boy Scouts- Current Life Scout and hope to be Eagle in a month or so. Senior Patrol Leader of troop

Awards
2014 and 2015 National Champion in Simple Machines (Science Olympiad in middle school)
2018 NC HOSA 3rd place in Human Growth and Development at state competition. Qualified for internationals
Silver President Volunteer Service Award
NAFTrack Certified in Spring 2019
AP+PLTW Certification in Engineering
AP+PLTW Certification in Biomedical Science
AP Scholar with Distinction

Rec letters will come from my AP Bio teacher, AP Stats and engineering teacher who is also Interact Club’s faculty advisor, and my counselor who is also another Interact Club advisor and I know well. My outside rec letter will be coming from my research grad student mentor from when I did kinesiology research.

I am here for the honest and brutal truth. Please let me know what you think. Thank you so much in advance!

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Isn’t Stanford EA ?

If you want to study finance, then UPenn-Wharton should be your primary target school. Penn has an ED option.

3

Stanford is REA and Duke is ED. I toured Penn and just didn’t like it as much as I liked Duke, so I wouldn’t feel comfortable about going ED to Penn. I loved Duke when I toured it and they still have good connections to wall street. Stanford also has good econ and management science & engineering programs. They have more west coast success in places like LA and San Francisco. If I were to apply for Wharton, it would kinda close me out of premed whereas Duke and Stanford only have one undergrad school (I’m not considering Pratt at Duke because I’m not interested in engineering) and changing majors would be easier if I had to do that.

4

http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/2095312-generic-chance-answer-for-super-selective-colleges.html

5

While impressive academically you are extraordinarily one-dimensional. I sincerely hope you have some other matches besides NC State

6

I consider UNC a match because I have legacy status. My brother is currently enrolled there (Class of 2020) and I have 2 cousins who have already graduated from there. The top 30 at my school usually get into UNC as well. I am a NC resident so the acceptance rate is about 46% for us.

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yes I meant UNC an NC State-