Chances at Harvard SCEA, Yale, Georgetown etc?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'd really appreciate if anyone could give me their opinion on my chances at the schools I've listed under my stats. Thanks!</p>

<p>Asian female (oh well)
Top public school
GPA: 97/100 unweighted
Rank: Unknown but estimated 7/450
Coursework: 12 APs and 5 Honors total in high school (got 5s on the seven exams that I've taken so far)
Self-studied AP Enviro and AP Music Theory
SAT: 2380
SAT II: 800 Chem, 800 US History, 800 Bio
-Had a scheduling conflict that prevented me from continuing Spanish in 10th grade, so I skipped three levels of French and randomly took French 4 sophomore year.
-Came back to Spanish in 11th grade and my teacher wanted me to switch up into AP Spanish Lit, but had a scheduling conflict again:(
-Won Spanish Academic Award freshman and junior year
-Chamber Orchestra (select ensemble) all 4 years</p>

<p>ECs:
Model UN: Executive Board of my school's chapter for 2 years, 2-time General Assembly president of the conference, nominated for Premier Diplomat recognition, expanded my school's chapter from 50 to 100 kids, lots of community service.
Youth and Government: Co-president of my school's chapter, Assembly vice chair '10, Governor of my state '12, won Outstanding Statesman award
Spanish Correspondence Club: President, community service stuff
Mock Trial Team: attorney and co-captain.
Peer Leaders (selective alcohol and drug awareness group): VP, lots of community service
Violin: training since the age of 3, Chamber orchestra, ABRSM grade 8 (highest level), paid job as a violin teacher
NHS: Secretary</p>

<p>-Research internship at a university medical lab for 2 summers; collected/coded data for post-stroke to improve effectiveness of recovery. Worked with mostly medical students and pre-med undergrads. Worked under the direction of primary investigator (PI) who is an MD. Traveled alone to the city daily, for many days a week each summer.</p>

<p>-Indian music (most important):
-Performed over 20 concerts in the US, UK, and India
-Won over 30 awards and competitions
-Go to India every year to perform in the music festival, and performed with well known/notable artists. Featured in leading Indian newspaper twice in my high school career.
-I have a recording contract in India.
-Performed 2 benefits concert this year in the USA in this music style and raised $8,000 in the first one, $3,000 in the second one. (for 2 charities)</p>

<p>Essays: common app essay about Indian music, supplements about random interesting things</p>

<p>Recs: Not like, "best student I have had in 235792 years", but glowing nonetheless</p>

<p>Unhooked
Income: Occupy Wall Street would come after me, so....</p>

<p>Schools (minus safeties):
Harvard SCEA (yes I am asking for a chance for a school I already applied to hehe...nbd)
Princeton
Yale
Columbia
Cornell (legacy- father)
Brown
Penn (College of Arts and Sciences)
Duke
Georgetown</p>

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<p>Oh I forgot. HELP Foundation Community Service Award
(thinly veiled bump)</p>

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<p>lol. Indian female is not bad demographic…it’s on the same level as an unhooked white i’d say. When you say “top high school,” how many kids has it sent to top schools in past years? If your school really a “top school,” your gpa/rank should be alright, otherwise you’d want to be in the top 1% for schools like HYP. Obviously SAT I & II are good. The language thing is a little iffy because top schools would like to see continuity in the same language; if you at least ended up taking the highest level of Spanish offered by your school by now, you should be fine but it’s not clear…what are you taking now? Otherwise course rigor looks okay as long as you took all the APs possible in your schedule. </p>

<p>Involvement in your school activities looks decent given the leadership. I guess the only thing that I don’t see are Mock Trial or MUN awards (i haven’t done these so I’m not sure what one can expect in terms of awards) Research is alright but probably won’t standout unless you won something with it or co-published it; I’m sure you talked about it on your Harvard app. Your music involvement (Carnatic?) is pretty legit. Hopefully you sent a music supplement for evaluation as this would help. </p>

<p>If you were an asian male, I’d say tough call, but given that you’re an indian female, it really isn’t much of a barrier. As you may know, a huge portion (maybe 50%) of HYP acceptances are given to those with Hooks (URM, athletes, legacy, feeder/private school kids, staff kids, etc.) so it’s toughed for us unhooked public schoolers. You’ve passed the bar for academics, leadership, and have high accomplishment in a particular area (music). Assuming your essays are good, you’re in the running and I wouldn’t be surprised if such top schools accepted you, but be prepared for the worst of course.</p>

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<p>Thanks so much for the detailed chance!! As for your questions:
-Yeah, I’m taking AP Spanish Lit this year (even though I was approved jr year like I said)
-My school is a top 10 public school in the state and sends about 10 kids to ivies every year
-I forgot to mention my regional Best Witness mock trial award :slight_smile:
-I sent in an extensive music supplement as well as an additional rec from a music mentor who thinks I’m way better than I am :stuck_out_tongue:
Hope those help!</p>

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<p>For these highly selective schools, being Indian is a bigger “disadvantage” than being white; I think it’s on about the same level as being Chinese.</p>

<p>I think you have good chances depending on how good your essays were.</p>

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<p>I would place indian female between chinese female and unhooked white male in terms of difficulty of admissions. (gender taken into account)</p>

<p>an estimated rank of 7 does not give you a huge cushion (assuming most of the ivy league kids were in the top 10 last year) but your achievements are aplenty so, it might still be ok.</p>

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<p>Harvard SCEA- mid-reach (it’s so hard to say anyone is “in” at Harvard! So many 2350+/brilliant people apply)
Princeton, Yale, Columbia- mid-reaches
Brown, Penn (College of Arts and Sciences), Georgetown, Duke- low-reaches
Cornell (legacy)-match </p>

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