Chances at Cornell, Columbia, UC Berkeley, UMichigan, CMU, Northwestern, Illinois-UC

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey CC,</p>

<p>General
Asian Male (Taiwan) - Rising Senior
Competitive school in NY (LI) which sends ~5-8 to top schools every year
Most Rigorous Courseload
Class Size: 300-400
GPA: 3.825/4.0UW 3.966/4.33W
Income: 120k
No Rank</p>

<p>Standardized Testing
SAT: 2110, 2160 (680,750,730) - Retaking Oct, expecting 2200+
800 Math II
770 Chem
740 Phys
680 Bio . . . . =/
ACT: 34 (1st) 33(2nd) </p>

<p>APs / Senior Sched
AP World History: 5
APUSH: 3
AP Stat: 3
AP Calc BC: 5
AP Physics C: 4,4
AP English and Comp.: 4
AP Lit: --
AP Chem: --
AP Psych: --
AP Macro/Micro: -- --</p>

<p>Schedule:
AP Chem, ap psych, Wind Ensemble (H), ap macro,
Multi-Var Calc (H), AP Micro, Sociology, AP Lit</p>

<p>Extracurricular + Awards
4 Yr (9-12)Asian-American Cultural Club - Treasurer for 2
4 Yr (9-12)Chinese Cultural Club
4 Yr (9-12)Lunar New Year Festival
2 Yr (9,10) Student Government - Senator<br>
2 Yr (9,10) DECA Business Club
4 Yr (9-12)Mathletes Club - position TBD
2 Yr (11,12) Science Olympiads -
4 Yr (9-12)Varsity Tennis – (possible captain)
Tri-M Music Honor Society Member - Tri-M Points Chair<br>
4 Yr (9-12)Pit Orchestra</p>

<p>~300 Community Service Hours (580+ if Musical stuff is added)</p>

<p>Columbia SHP Program
Lexus Environmental Challenge National 1st Place Winners (Team awarded 50,000)
AIME Qualifier
Long Island Math Fair Bronze Medalist
National Honor Society
All-County Music Participant - 3x
Nassau Math Tournament – 4th (Indiv), 6th (Team)
Wind Ensemble - Principal Flute Player</p>

<p>Summers:
10th: Political Internship in Flushing - Helped out, registered voters, etc.
11th: AID Overseas Summer Teaching Program - Taught English in Taiwan</p>

<p>Recs / Other stuff
Guidance: Good
Teachers: Good/Ok
Hook: None</p>

<p>Colleges:
Cornell ED, maybe Columbia
MIT
Columbia
Princeton
Stanford
Northwestern
Carnegie Mellon
UC Berkeley
University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign (EA, maybe honors?)
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (EA)
Georgia Tech?</p>

<p>Engineering Major (Electrical), though might switch into Business.</p>

<p>Feel free to recommend alternate schools to consider.
Thanks!</p>

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<p>Berkeley - low reach to reach</p>

<p>You don’t want to be in Columbia if you want to major in engineering. But your stats are too low for MIT, Princeton and Stanford.</p>

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<p>Not all of those schools offer undergraduate business. You could apply to UW-Madison as a safety-ish school.</p>

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<p>RML, what makes you say the OP doesn’t want to attend Columbia if he or she plans to attend SEAS?</p>

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<p>Rml: yea i figured so. I like Columbia because of the opportunities the city gives, and the city in general. Cornell however, has a stronger engineering program so I’m still deciding.</p>

<p>Greennblue: Thanks, I’ll look into it</p>

<p>Any thoughts about Cornell ED/CMU/Northwestern/Michigan?</p>

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<p>I think you have a decent chance at Cornell SEAS. Check out the Cornell Decisions thread in the Cornell forum and you’ll see that a lot of admits to SEAS had similar stats including EC’s as you do. I suggest applying to Columbia ED because its harder to be admitted, and apply Cornell RD because you are most probably in with decent essays and recs.</p>

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<p>^ I disagree. With the OP’s stats and resume, Columbia would most likely be out of reach for him. He should ED to Cornell, where his chances are at least somewhat decent.</p>

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<p>Looking at naviance, our school seems to have a bad history with Columbia for some reason :/. There’s always a chance, but Cornell ED seems more appealing simply because of the chances. </p>

<p>Chances at Michigan/CMU? Those are also schools I really like despite their difference in size.</p>

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<p>pbr, what I’m saying is, the OP would rather put more wager on Cornell than Columbia as Cornell has a stronger engineering and his chances of getting accepted there would be higher.</p>

<p>Of course i’d love to see the OP join the growing number of New Yorkers at Berkeley. I think the OP has a chance there, especially that Berkeley adcom does not discriminate Asians.</p>