<p>Currently a junior
GPA: 3.96 with 10 total AP's through senior year and 1 community college class
SAT: 2320 (800 Math, 760 in CR & W)
SAT II: 800 Math II, 750 Spanish, will take Chem & USH this June
AP scores (sophomore only): 4 in Spanish, 5 in Stats
Male, Half White/Half Asian, FL resident</p>
<p>EC's:
Boy Scouts: Eagle with 1-2 palms, lots of leadership, big high adventure treks
Violin: All-district orchestra 3x, All-state 1x
Cross-Country: varsity high school runner, a few letters, some good regional finishes</p>
<p>His schools:</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
Penn-Wharton Jerome Fisher (Wharton backup)
Columbia
UChicago
Dartmouth
Duke
UVA
CMU
Ga Tech
UF
Miami</p>
<p>He's interested in engineering and finance, namely investment banking, as possible career options. He's considering applying to Jerome Fisher @ Wharton ED or Princeton SCEA.</p>
<p>Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stamford, MIT, Penn, Columbia, UC, Dartmouth, Duke:
Qualified, but >90% of qualified applicants are rejected.
CMU: Match
UVA: Match
Others are safety</p>
<p>Does applying to Penn SEAS, as opposed to Wharton, help significantly? I actually just got admitted to Wharton ED, so does sibling attendance count as a legacy? Or is it just parents? I don’t know if this is true, but a neighbrhood friend of mine who is a Penn alum said that legacy only helps in ED, and almost none in RD. Is that true as well? </p>
<p>My brother also plays violin in a couple neighborhood ensembles as well (shows his dedication?).</p>
<p>Thanks for chances on my thread. Interesting that my SAT score and that of your brother’s are the same. Fate must be at work here.</p>
<p>Of your brother’s list, from Duke to Harvard I think he can accept perhaps 1-? acceptances depending on his recommendations and essays and how they manifest his personality. I include 1 acceptance as a near guarantee because statistics seem to indicate that if all the schools from Duke to Harvard are applied to, the probability of admittance to one of the schools would exceed 100%, even not including the advantages agreed by above average SAT scores and most schools on your brother’s list. For those Duke-Harvard schools, the essay and recommendations will be essential. </p>
<p>Eh. He’s trying to get schools that are good in both hard sciences/engineering and econ/business/finance. He wants to go to schools that are heavily recruited by investment banks on Wall Street or major private equity companies.</p>
<p>For the purposes of engineering and business, how good is Yale? My first impression of Yale is that its specialties are in polisci, government, and humanities. Is that true?</p>
<p>“I include 1 acceptance as a near guarantee because statistics seem to indicate that if all the schools from Duke to Harvard are applied to, the probability of admittance to one of the schools would exceed 100%”</p>
<p>How could his chances of acceptance exceed 100%? And you got over 2300 on your SAT?</p>
<p>I did indeed. I received perfect scores on CR and W on my first try but only a 630 in Math. By the grace of pythagoras I managed to pull it up to 720 so I have my 2300+.</p>
<p>I am really incompetent in math, I recognize that. But I still think it makes sense that the more top schools you apply to with a similar package the greater your chances become of admittance to at least one school. Maybe my mathematical thinking is of here, but conceptually it makes sense.</p>