<p>Hey all, I'm from a rural public school in CA (C/O 2006). Here are my stats:</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA: 5.0
Class rank: 1 of 277 </p>
<p>SAT I Math: 780
SAT I Verbal: 690 </p>
<p>SAT II Math IIC: 700
SAT II Molecular Biology: 800 </p>
<p>AP Biology- 5
AP Environmental Science- 3 </p>
<p>AP Tests Upcoming- </p>
<p>AP Calculus BC
AP Psychology
AP English Language
AP Spanish Language
AP Human Geography or AP Physics B, still not decided.
AP English Literature
AP Chemistry
AP U.S. History</p>
<p>KHS Math Team- 4 years
USABO
KHS Jazz Band (4 Years, 1st chair trombone)
California State Spelling Bee 5th place
Interact Club (Rotary type thing)
Kerman Rotary Club Essay Contest Winner ($500)
California Scholarship Federation (3 years)
KHS JV Soccer MVP 2003-2004 (Been on team 2 yrs)
KHS Varsity Soccer
Volunteer at Poverello House for the homeless.
3rd Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo-
2nd Place In Division Nationally
2nd Place In Division For CA
Medaled at all tournaments attended, including numerous golds and silvers at state and national competition. </p>
<p>Half Russian, Bilingual: Spanish/English </p>
<p>Part time job teaching Taekwondo (1 year)</p>
<p>Please take a look, any input would be greatly appreciated! Thanks CC!</p>
<p>I think there's an overabundance of questioners and not enough answerers. lol</p>
<p>I would say you have a reasonably good chance at any of those schools. You will definitely get accepted to one of them, if not all. Good luck and enjoy your senior year!</p>
<p>MIT/ Caltech-toss up, you seem a little weak for these 2 though
Stanford-are you rd? if so i think you'll get in
UCB-i'd say about a 70/30 chance</p>
<p>Hey thanks! Ummmm what is "rd" though?</p>
<p>Stanford is harder to get into than MIT Celebrian!! RD, regular decision, would be even harder.</p>
<p>yeah thats what i thought too</p>
<p>To my way of thinking, the AP 3 and the SAT I Verbal are a bit low but everything else is going really well for you. You need to ace those upcoming AP tests (8 of them, Yikes!), and that will make you stand out. Perhaps an SAT retake if you can study and improve your verbal score?</p>
<p>Overall, i would be quite surprised if you did not get into at least one of the four, like cboryica said.</p>
<p>it's cuz too many ppl are just joining these forums to ask about their own chances.. selfishly expecting replies while not bothering to comment on the inquiries of others
at least that's my opinion
i think you stand a decent chance, maybe 60% stanford, 50% mit, 30% caltech, 85% berkeley
plus or minus some
your athletics and school transcript seem to be your top 2 strengths
best of luck on ur apps~
and btw, i would appreciate it if u could try to estimate my chances at thread "Harvard EA strong stats/essay/recs.. weak ec's " =D</p>
<p>stanford does have a lower acceptance rate than mit/caltech, but that automatically doesnt mean it's harder to get into. say, for example, that an outstanding violinist (music major) with decent grades and test scores is applying to- a competitive science-oriented school and an even more competetive music school. jus cuz the music school has a lower acceptance rate doesnt mean it'll be harder for this applicant.. in fact, it'd probably be easier. different schools look for different things in an applicant.</p>
<p>you personally stand a better chance at stanford</p>
<p>ur athletics should help greatly at stanford
u dont quite have the academic qualifications for caltech, in my opinion</p>
<p>I'll put my opinion in (dont take offense)</p>
<p>For being a valer in your school, (top student), you SAT/ACT score may hurt you alot. They will know what you work hard to get that spot, but may not have the smarts if it was based only on testes.</p>
<p>Your EC's are decent, but they will rarely consider you HS sports, unless the athletic office from those schools have contacted you personally. </p>
<p>I will give you the percentages for acceptance in my opinion.</p>
<p>Caltech 5%, 40% if they asked you personally to apply
MIT 15%, because of lack of research and a low math level (Calc Senior Year, but I know this may be high for CA public schools) for non-athletic applicants that do not intend on participating in Division I sports.
Stanford, 5% RD, 10% EC, because of a very low verbal score in their standards and this year's anticipated largest applicant pool.
74% of the students had a SAT I verbal school last year in excess of 700+. And always to keep in mine, the entire bottom quartile is usually made up of special students (IE: presidents daughter, senators son. Athletics. People with extraordinary talents).
51% of students with a perfect 1600 SAT were rejected.
UC-Berkely, 90%, because if I know my facts, california has a short of system where instate has advantage along if you graduate in top 12.5% of class or something like that.</p>
<p>Yeah I think Anthony is on the mark</p>
<p>Hey you guys thanks for all the comments.</p>
<p>Anthony- I am a junior c/o 2006 and I'm taking Calc BC THIS year. thanks for the insight. yeah i am going to apply to RSI (hopefully my PSAT came out ok) and for USABO im planning on going pretty far also. thanks for the help. </p>
<p>So it looks like my best chances are at Berkeley and then Stanford then MIT and then CalTech. How much would USABO help me? I'm talking like the actual USABO competition when it's down to 20 or even if I have a good competition maybe IBO?</p>
<p>USABO competition for MIT this will be great. For Caltech, it will do almost no good, as their application is very unique and look for personal qualities over GPA/class rank, but standardized testes are pretty big. For Junior in Calc, you will fall into the bottom half of class in academics range if you are accepted into MIT, or Caltech.<br>
Most schools do not place much weight on USABO, because not all schools participate, but its always an advantage :)</p>
<p>btw caltech only has about 2k applicants this may be low, but almost all of them were invited, that is why the acceptance rate is also pretty high as compared to MIT (which isn't as good as Caltech research and academics wise, but kills them in sports ;))</p>
<p>hahaha</p>
<p>standardized testes</p>
<p>ok, adidasty, i'm give a reasonably accurate rating ofyer chances. First of all MIT and Stanford are harder to get that Caltech, but not by much. UCB, is one school you'll def get into. To get into MIT, and caltech, because they are techno schools, you'll need to have displayed some achievements in sciences and maths. You should apply to Harvard, yale, princeton and a few ivies cause yer taekwondo thing is def impressive. It isn't easy to get to the national level. Overall, your chances sould be good for stanford, for MIT, and caltech, i didn't see enuff sciency stuff. The nationals thing was impressive. Interestingly enuff, no mentioned it in reply to yer thread.</p>