Chances at Harvard, MIT, Yale, Brown, Columbia

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I plan to major in neurobiology. I am a senior at a good American high school in Connecticut and was born in the U.S., but I have a dual American/Canadian citizenship due to my mother being Canadian.

here are my stats (class listed first than grade):

9th Grade:

Honors Geometry - 92%
Honors English 9 - 93%
Honors History 9 - 91%
Honors Physical Science (First Semester) - 83%
Honors Bio 1 (Second Semester) - 90%
Spanish 1 - 94%
Gym
Study
Also took Applied Research for elective, which is a science course - 93%

10th Grade:

AP. American Government and Politics - 94%
Honors English 10 - 92%
Honors Algebra 2 - 86%
Study
Bio 2 - 91%
Current Issues in Science - 91%
Text 1 (Required class) - 97%
Gym
Spanish 2 - 93%
Music 1 - 95%

11th Grade:

Honors Pre-calc -
AP. Statistics - 95%
AP. Language and Composition (English) - 93%
AP. U.S. History - 94%
Honors Chemistry - 96%
AP. Computer Science - 96%
Spanish 3 - 96%
Music 2 - 96%

12th Grade:

AP. Chemistry - 95%
AP. Physics - 95%
AP. Psychology - 96%
AP. Calculus - 96%
AP. Literature and Composition (English) - 93%
Honors Spanish 4 - 95%

SAT: 2350
ACT: 35
SAT II Chemistry Subject Test: 770
SAT II Physics Subject Test: 760

As you can see, I really started to get help with things I didn’t understand in class as soon as possible for the last two years, unlike the first two.

Also

Extracurriculars:

-Participated on high school swim team for all four years, and went to State Finals each year.
-Played the piano since 8th grade, performed multiple times.
-Became proficient/fairly fluent in Mandarin Chinese through Rosetta Stone and other learning/practicing
-Learned a fair bit about markets and trading stocks/foreign currencies on my own
-Did a lot of research into neuroscience, and I also did the whole organic chemistry/health and medicine course on Khan Academy to help myself more thoroughly understand the topic.
-National Honor Society
-Spanish Honor Society
-Writer for newspaper club, participated for three years.
-Robotics club, participated for two years.
-Coached recreational swim team for two years
-Some volunteer work

So, what are my chances…

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You have the numbers, but all the schools you listed would still be a reach. Your ECs are pretty vanilla (and some seem like a bit of a reach), and you come off a little bland. Ivy Leagues want people who are extremely PASSIONATE about something in their life. A laundry list of ECs pales in comparison to being able to say that you wrote a novel and published it and was recognized nationally, or something of similar caliber. What kinds of passions do you have?

3

If you’re a senior, isn’t your admissions process all over and done with? Or is it that you’ll be a senior in the coming school year?

4

high reaches.