<p>My friend is a rising senior that is asian, and he is aiming for (you guessed it) HYPSM</p>
<p>GPA: 4.2/4.6
He took
AP World (5), AP US (5), AP Stat (4), AP Bio (5)
His schedule is:
AP Calc BC
Honors Physics
AP Euro
AP English Lang and Comp
AP Spanish
Econ/Web Design</p>
<p>SAT: 800M 760CR 800 W 2360
SAT2s:740 math 2, 770 bio M, 780 world hist</p>
<p>awards: univeristy of chicago book award/ foreign language honor society/national spanish exam - silver/ cum laude/national merit commended
Applying to
(Yale is probs his SCEA)
HYPS,Dartmouth,Penn,Cornell
UVA, UMich, NYU, Binghamton
Vanderbilt, WUSTL, Williams/Amherst(1 of the 2)
stern at nyu
and prob wharton at penn
and prob olin at wustl
and chicago</p>
<p>He doesn’t look like an automatic rejection, but these schools see thousands of applications like his. At some point they become indistinguishable. I wouldn’t count on acceptances.</p>