chances at Ivies/ MIT/Stanford.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>alright i'm a rising senior applying to Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Columbia, UPenn, Georgetown, Amherst, Wash U in St. Louis, UMich.</p>

<p>and maybe a few others</p>

<p>ACT 36
SAT 2340, V800 M760 W780
SATII's Math IIc800 Chem 800 US History 790 Chinese 760
PSAT 240 (if you take best scores from soph and junior year) otherwise 229</p>

<p>GPA 4.0 school doesnt weight
all honors or AP's and 5's on all tests. (US History, Chem, Bio, Calc BC, Phys M & EM, Euro History, Comparative Gov.)
next year is a pretty standard rigorous curriculum.
AP English, Micro/Macro, World (maybe) and math and science at a local university.</p>

<p>the problem with my transcript is my foreign language. i took one year of french freshman year, and one year of chinese sophmore year. After that I didn't take any language classes junior year because of scheduling and am not sure if i'm going to pick it up again next year.
I do speak chinese at home though....
Not sure how much that helps me.</p>

<p>EC's </p>

<p>Debate (started soph year, Captain 2 years) Debate camp during the summers
Band, Marching and Regular. 4 years (section leader occasionally. me and another guy keep switching chairs in each next audition)
Science Olympiad (also started soph year, done well personally but our team as a whole is not so hot. co-coptain next year maybe?)
1 year JV tennis, and going to be 3 years of track. not varsity.
10 or so years of piano (decently good at competition, nothing amazing.)
Quiz Bowl 4 years. (only varsity senior year though)
National Honor Society
Founding Model UN next year (hopefully this'll work out)</p>

<p>Awards Type Stuff
nationals at Chemistry Olympiad
qualified for AIME, not sure my exact AMC scores i'll have to dig those up
won a Detroit Free Press Writing Competition</p>

<p>Freshman year i did pit orchestra and robotics which were both huge commitments esp. robotics which was almost 30 hours per week. I don't know if i should put these on the app at all since i didn't carry on with them, but i don't want my freshman year to be blank and these were the things that stopped me from doing other things.</p>

<p>approx 150 hours of community service mostly as a teaching aide at the local chinese school.</p>

<p>whats good to EA or ED?
any other schools I should look into that I have a good shot at?</p>

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<p>I think you stand a very decent chance with your stellar scores and GPA. Most of your ECs are pretty typical, but the fact that you were at nationals for Chemistry Olympiad should act to your benefit. (don't know about how competitive chemistry olympiads are in US though cuz I live in Canada)</p>

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<p>You are in at UMich, Georgetown, Amherst, and washU. You should get into at least one of the rest of the schools because you have above average shots at them (for a non-hooked candidate). ECs are probably average, they aren't that good but chemistry olympiad nationals should compensate. If you had medals at regionals or states for SO, you can use those to show that while your team sucked, you were still good.</p>

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<p>You have a lottery ticket, good luck!</p>

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<p>F*** i want my d*** application to have scores like that F*** F*** F***</p>

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<p>i'm just worried that my EC's will shoot me down.</p>

<p>that and lack of foreign language classes. Should i pick it back up senior year?</p>

<p>also where will i get the best benefit in acceptance if I ED?
i would really be delighted with any of the top four or five on that list.</p>

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<p>Yeah try to stengthen your ECs. </p>

<p>I would advise taking another foreign classs senior year.</p>

<p>Harvard is SCEA, Columbia is ED, Stanford is SCEA, Amherst is ED, Upenn is ED, MIT is EA, washU is ED I and II (but obviously don't do washU ED). If i were you, I would do Harvard SCEA.</p>

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<p>Stanford's SCEA..are u committed to attend if accepted?</p>

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<p>no, it's the same thing as EA, just you can only do EA to Stanford and no other school.</p>

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<p>"nationals at Chemistry Olympiad"</p>

<p>explain this...is this like the olympiad tests for Physics and Bio?</p>

<p>Also, if you are good at chem, then why not start a research project?</p>

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<p>"You have a lottery ticket, good luck!"
-Suze</p>

<p>lol..........</p>

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<p>what do you think my chances are for the huntsman program at penn?
i'd be going with Chinese...</p>

<p>and yes. Chemistry Olympiad is a test like the Physics or Bio ones. and i'd like to start some sort of research but its almost my senior year and i dunno if its too late or what..</p>

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<p>I think your scores are AWESOME! And they'd be good for the huntsman program, but that's combining International studies with business, and you seem like a science/math person. And although you have Chinese, your score, 760, is really not that high compared to half of the students who take the chinese test who get 800s. And Chinese is especially competitive in Huntsman. Also, if you really want to do it, you need to have more business oriented extracurriculars.
Why not try Jerome Fisher? I think you have a great shot at it!</p>

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<p>Another more unrelated question.</p>

<p>My school though good, something like 2nd or 3rd best public school in the state (Michigan) does not traditionally send a lot of people to ivy or comparable level schools. Mostly we're a feeder for UMich and MSU. 0 or 1 a year. (last year one kid to Harvard, and year before that one to Columbia).
BUT, this year the school is graduating a very strong grade with probably 5 or 6 kids as qualified as me and one or two that are super qualified, (at least imo).</p>

<p>How much does this hurt me? Would it be worth it for us to work it out so that none of us apply early to the same school so that they don't see a bunch of apps from the same school at the same time and screw our chances?</p>

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<p>lol... "work it out". No, don't do that. It doesn't make sense to apply ED to your second choice school so that your friend can go to your first choice since his/her GPA is 0.1 points higher than yours.</p>