Chances at lower tier Ivy/upper tier others

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

<p>Multiracial male (Asian + Eastern European)
Immigrant father (physician, schooling in thailand), mother only went to nursing school followed by Loyola for masters, not applying for fin. aid, only child, Chicago Suburb area
Applying to Duke, Cornell, Northwestern, UPenn, Univ. of Chicago, and UMich Ann Arbor, all for Biology/Pre-Med </p>

<p>ACT Comp: 35
Eng:35
Math:36
Read:35
Sci:35
Eng/Writing comp: 34</p>

<p>No SATI
SATII's:
MathII:800
US Hist:750</p>

<p>3.75 Unweighted GPA
7.1 Weighted (8 scale for APs, 7 Scale for Honors, 6 for reg etc)
Ranked 15/640 (Began at 120+, have since moved 115ish ranks, yeah, i'm one of your slow starters, stupid jr high)
Public high school, decent rep at Cornell (4 in last yr), good w/ Northwestern (many in last yr and this yrs early decisioners)</p>

<p>1 AP Soph Yr (Econ, didnt take AP Test)
3 AP's Jr Yr (Calc AB (5) (1yr up in math), English Lang (5), US Hist (5))
4 AP's Sr Yr (Stats, English Comp, Psych, Biology)</p>

<p>Top ECs:
Varsity Golf 10,11,12 -- Co-Captain, Recipient of Several Awards (All-Conference, Scholar athlete, etc)
WHO(Community Service) Club 10,11,12 -- Group Leader, plenty of volunteer work in there (Chicago food depository, tutoring of middle school kids, food/toy drives near holidays, local nature centers, walk 4 hope) (probably 200-300+ hrs)
Habitat for Humanity in Miami, FL 11 -- Group Leader (~50 hours)
National Honor Society
Span. Honor Society
National Merit Commended
Tutor for Math Center, Literacy/Writing Center, Foreign Lang. Center
1 Strong Rec, 1 Outstanding Rec
Relatively Strong Essays, good in opinions of both of my AP Eng teachers</p>

<p>soo.. how does it look?</p>

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<p>bump bump..</p>

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<p>IN - Cornell, NU, UM, Chicago</p>

<p>Unpredictable, but probably IN - Duke, Penn</p>

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<p>how sure are you about cornell?</p>

<p>duke/cornell/nu are top choices in that order</p>

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<p>bump again..</p>

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<p>Penn was ranked #4 in the nation and had a 21% increase in apps this year...they're expanding their campus 5 blocks starting in 2007 and building completely new engineering facilities. I wouldn't call it one of the lower ivies.</p>

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<p>"Lower" Ivies mean everything but HYPS. Penn is not Harvard.</p>

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<p>what is S</p>

<p>I thought S was stanford</p>

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<p>if your interested you might want to look into Brown's PLME (Program in Liberal Medical Education). its an 8 year program, tough to get into, but might be worth looking into.</p>

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<p>yeah, i didnt mean to call penn 'lower' in the sense that its worse than other schools, but in the sense that its not your harvard/yale/princeton</p>

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<p>Duke - Slight Reach (Maybe)
Cornell- High Match (Accept)
Northwestern High Match (Accept)
UPenn - Slight Reach (maybe)
Univ. of Chicago - High Match/ Match (accepted)
UMich Ann Arbor -Safety (Accepted 100%)</p>

<p>You might want to consider couple more slight reached. Brown and Dartmouth are similar to the schools on your list.</p>

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<p>my lack of a 3rd satII kinda limits my ivy choices.. and its relatively late anyway.. all of those apps are done and in process</p>

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<p>can you really consider duke only a slight reach for me? i know of a lot of people who got deferred/denied ED with similar stats</p>

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<p>bumping once more</p>