Chance please?

Colleges and Universities A-Z California Institute of Technology
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<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 630 CR, 800 M, 720 WR (Nov '09); 750 CR, 740 M, 720 WR (Jan '10)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 Korean (Nov '07), 800 Math 2 (Jan '09), 800 Chemistry (Jun '10), 760 US History (Jun '10)
[<em>] ACT: N/A
[</em>] GPA: 3.85 UW, 4.67 W
[<em>] Rank: Top 10%
[</em>] Other Stats (AP, IB, AMC, etc): '09: 4's on Euro & Compsci. '10: 5's on Chemistry, Calc AB, US History, Stats, English Lang. AMC 10: 99 ('08), 118.5 ('09); AMC 12: 112.5 ('10); AIME: 5 ('10)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Working on them.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: English & Calc teachers.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Well, I hope it's good.
[</em>] Hook (if any): Organic chemistry at Cal State for senior year (if my petition succeeds). Otherwise none, and being Asian is an anti-hook.
[/ul]Personal:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Socal.
[</em>] School Type/Competitiveness: Public magnet, competitive.
[<em>] Ethnicity: Korean.
[</em>] Gender: Female.
[li] Extracurriculars: Marksmanship, Red Cross, Teen advisory group/volunteer/intern at my local library, California Association of Student Councils (CASC), Internship at a chemical sensor manufacturing company.[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Question: Do I seem to have a good shot for EA? Because I have another ED app that I'm working on, and I want to defer my Caltech app to RD if my chance for EA is not high enough. I would really appreciate the replies, and thanks in advance.</p>

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<p>Your academics are excellent (high SAT, good amount of APs), but compared to the general caltech app pool, it’s nothing that’ll “dazzle” the eyes. perhaps more science/math ECs. A sidenote: being an Asian is not an anti-hook. They don’t consider race as an admission factor.
It’s really hard to chance based only on stats. (If you really want to, compare yourself to others [here](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/california-institute-technology/824654-consolidated-ea-rd-2014-results-thread.html]here[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/california-institute-technology/824654-consolidated-ea-rd-2014-results-thread.html)</a>)
Essays and teachers recs are paramount as well.</p>

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<p>Want a techer’s opinion? With your stats, you shouldn’t apply EA. But you do have a good chance of getting in.</p>

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<p>I’ll say just have a go at EA! The worst thing that can happen is that you’ll be deferred to the RD pool. With you stats, I can’t see you being rejected for EA.</p>

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It’s an opportunity cost. If he applies EA, he can’t do ED to the other school that he mentioned in OP.</p>

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hmmm… look through this thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/california-institute-technology/824654-consolidated-ea-rd-2014-results-thread.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/california-institute-technology/824654-consolidated-ea-rd-2014-results-thread.html&lt;/a&gt;
See how many amazing stats get rejected and wait-listed (which is same as being rejected for CalTech)?</p>

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<p>resilient193, if the OP applies EA, she would get at least a “deferred”, not “rejected”, especially since the OP has good SAT scores, AIME, and an internship to count for. It is very likely that the OP would probably get into Harvey Mudd should she apply for ED/RD. So perhaps the OP would like to cast her net wider and apply EA. That way, even if she realize that Caltech is a better fit for her than Harvey Mudd, she can still choose to attend Caltech and wouldn’t have to be bound by the ED contract.</p>

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<p>resilient193, if the OP applies EA, she would get at least a “deferred”, not “rejected”, especially since the OP has good SAT scores, AIME, and an internship to count for. It is very likely that the OP would probably get into Harvey Mudd should she apply for ED/RD. So perhaps the OP would like to cast her net wider and apply EA. That way, even if she realize that Caltech is a better fit for her than Harvey Mudd, she can still choose to attend Caltech and wouldn’t have to be bound by the ED contract.</p>

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<p>^ But if she’s applying to her dream school (maybe an ivy), ED is probably better instead of flinging chances at multiple EA schools (which have extremely competitive applicant pool). Was the Harvey Mudd just an example… she didn’t mention where she’ll be applying for ED.</p>

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<p>^ You can check her post history, she will be applying ED to Harvey Mudd.</p>

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<p>oh btw resilient193, are you applying to Caltech this year? If so, all the best! If you need any help, just pm me, I’ll be glad to lend my assistance! (:</p>

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<p>^ ya I am through EA, thanks. btw. I like your smiley emoticon, it’s… backwards!!</p>