Chances at HYPMS and others

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi my name's Mack.
I'm kinda new to this whole thing but I was wondering if you could all chance me for MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, and Northwestern.
Thanks</p>

<p>White male 12th grade</p>

<p>GPA 3.93/4</p>

<p>Class rank: top 10% at a fairly competitive school</p>

<p>35 ACT
Math: 36
Science: 36
English: 34
Reading:33
Writing: 8</p>

<p>SAT 2s
Math2: 800
Chem: 800
Physics: 750+ (haven't taken it yet)</p>

<p>APs
BC Calc(5s5), Gov(5), Environmental science(5)
Planning on taking: Chemistry, macro and micro, both physics C, stats</p>

<p>I'm also taking a challenging course load this year.</p>

<p>ECs
Math team 11th and 12th grade, no positions held and no big tests taken, this year I plan on doing fairly well
Science olympiad: Joined this year, pretty decent at it
Water polo: 9th,10th grade and possibly this year
Mock government with state conventions: 9th,11th,12th grade
Piano for 8 years, guitar for 2
Not very many service hours</p>

<p>Recs:
Glowing recs from my science and math teachers. I am/was top of the class in their classes.</p>

<p>Essays:
Talk about personal traits and time spent abroad and how skipping 1st grade changed a lot of things for me.
My main common app essay is very strong.
I'm a pretty interesting person with a great interest in science and I think my essays embody that.</p>

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<p>Everything is great, except for your ECs. No leadership positions?</p>

<p>If your essays are as good as you say, I think you’ll be viable candidate.</p>

<p>All the colleges you list are high-reach (save for Northwestern), not because of you, but because of those colleges’ caliber and the amount of students they attract with great credentials.</p>

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<p>Hey brownman23, thanks for your response!</p>

<p>For semi-leadership stuff: I’m part of our school’s Senior Mentors. We go to freshman divisions and help them get adjusted. Also I do a one on one tutoring with young kids program.</p>

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<p>bump - bump</p>

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<p>Brownman is right for the most part. Your credentials are all great, but just due to the nature of those schools. They’re all reaches. Don’t be discouraged though, those schools are reaches for everyone</p>