<p>Leave a link to your chances and I will chance you back quickly.</p>
<p>Statistics
ACT: 34
-34 English, 34 Math, 33 Reading, 36 Science (10 essay)
SAT IIs: Math I 730, Chem 650 (I know these are not great)
GPA: 4.5 weighted, 3.85 unweighted
Rank: Unranked (Top 10% at least) (I went to the International School of Beijing freshman year, and they weighted differently)
APs: US History, Chemistry, Calc BC, Statistics, English Literature, Physics C, American Govt.</p>
<p>Subjective
Essays: Very good. I talk about my love for chemistry and how I love to golf. Also I talk about living overseas for 9 years.
Teacher Recs: Amazing
Counselor Rec: Amazing
Interview for MIT: I thought it went really well. The first thing I mentioned was how much I wanted to conduct undergraduate research in the field of alternative fuels, and he went on about how much of a research institute MIT really is.
Major: Chemical Engineering
Applying: Early Action</p>
<p>Personal
Location: Pennsylvania
School: Public
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Male</p>
<p>Other
Extracurricular: NHS President, School Store Manager, FBLA Officer at large, Spanish Club Vice President, Chess Club co-founder
Awards: National Merit Commendation, Spanish Excellence Award, AP Scholar, National Spanish Exam Award - Bronze, National Honor Society, (I'm planning on competing in a writing competition on the advice of my English teacher as well)
Summer before my junior year I interned under the Chief Judge of the Family Court of Delaware</p>
<p>explanation: you want to do chemical engineering, but a 650 on the Chem SAT II is the 54th percentile. that does NOT look good for chem engineer at MIT. they want the top 5-10% of students, not top 46%.</p>
<p>especially when you have no demonstration of prior Chem/Engineering experience in competitions or ECs. if you had placed in the Chem Olympiad or something that could have made up for it.</p>
<p>which ivy's are you applying to? you probably have a decent shot at Brown, Cornell, Penn (due to your great GPA and ACT). i don't know about the others.</p>
<p>Mit might be a reach............
University of Chicago depends on how well your essays are............
Ivys, which ones are you applying to.......... Cornell you should have a good chance....... I don't know about the others because I am trying for Upenn, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, and Cornell........
^^^^^I don't think I have a very good chance at any of these ivy league schools.......
Chance Me back.......</p>
<p>Yeah I know I did terribly on my Chem SAT II, but I'm hoping that my 36 in the science section of the ACT will cover for that somewhat.
As for the Ivys, I'm applying to Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Brown, and Columbia. (Not Cornell because it is in the middle of frickin' nowhere)
I know my list is very ambitious, but I've already been accepted into my safety schools with decent scholarships, so why not shoot for the stars now?
I'm also really hoping that my 4 years in Argentina and 5 years in China will make me stand out more.</p>
<p>Your a very strong and competitive applicant, but your applying to the top tier schools. You have strong test scores, GPA, and ECs like most other candidates. Use your essays well to distinguish yourself from the pack, as nothing really seems to "pop" out in your resume (I guess except living overseas for 9 years). If your teachers wrote good recs and your essays are top notch, you have a great opportunity at being admitted to one or more of these schools listed! Good luck!</p>
<p>Here's my full list:
MIT (EA)
UChicago (EA)
Tulane (in already)
Penn State (in already)
University of Pittsburgh (in already)
Yale
Harvard
Caltech
Stanford
Princeton
Brown
Columbia
Washington University in St. Louis
University of Virginia
Northwestern
UC Berkeley
(I'm probably not going to end up applying to all of these, but I will apply to most of them)</p>
<p>MIT (EA): Reach
UChicago (EA): High Match
Tulane (in already)
Penn State (in already)
University of Pittsburgh (in already)
Yale: Low Reach
Harvard: Reach
Caltech: Reach
Stanford: Reach
Princeton; Low Reach
Brown: Low Reach
Columbia: High Match
Washington University in St. Louis: High Match
University of Virginia: High Match
Northwestern: High Match
UC Berkeley: Low Reach</p>
<p>I don't mean to offend you in any way. But applying to 16 schools is simply really foolish on your part. Have you even visited any of these places. For instance, I saw Harvard when I visited Boston and didnt really like it at all, whereas Yale seemed like the perfect school. Choose a school that is a good fit for you, dont just shoot randomly for upper tier colleges. I also hope you just cost your parents (or maybe you paid for it, i dont know) close to $1000 (not even including the cost of sending ACT/SAT scores). Ive already spent about $350 on application fees/sending ACT/SAT scores, and I feel absolutely horrible about making my parents spend so much money on this. I dont mean to bash you or anything (especially since you're a good student). </p>
<p>By the way, if you want to know more about Wash U, i frequently wonder around their campus since I live about 10 min away from it, so feel free to ask me about it. Good luck with the application process. You have a good shoot to get into most of these schools, so try to choose wisely when the acceptance letters start arriving.</p>
<p>^OP is already in several good schools, he has nothing to lose.</p>
<p>based on your example... i'd rather have the Harvard and Yale acceptance letters in my hand before i start choosing which one i want to go to. you can always do college visits after your admissions come in.</p>
<p>XYZ Affair,
I know exactly what you are saying. But I figure that $1000 investment could pay off if I get into some of these top tier colleges. I don't mean to sound prudish, but the cost is not a huge burden on us either. Like blu-g8orade said, I'm already in at my safety schools, and I am applying for full scholarships at them. So why not see where else I can get in? Also, I really want to do undergraduate research in college, and I believe that a top tier school is going to offer much more opportunity of the research I want to do. When you come to thing about visiting the colleges too, that will cost as much as applying there, so visiting there and deciding not to apply will cost the same as applying and being rejected. And if I apply and am accepted, I would gladly pay to see the colleges, but just those that I actually have to choose between.
Thanks for the response though and the offer to talk about WashingtonU, which is one of my top choices :)</p>
<p>MIT (EA)- low reach
UChicago (EA)- high match
Tulane (in already)
Penn State (in already)
University of Pittsburgh (in already)
Yale- reach
Harvard- reach
Caltech- reach
Stanford- reach
Princeton- reach
Brown- match
Columbia- low reach/reach
Washington University in St. Louis- high match/low reach
University of Virginia- match
Northwestern- high match
UC Berkeley- reach (since you're out of state)</p>
<p>Chance me back? Hopefully I'm somewhere near the top.</p>
<p>I thiink you're in at most of your universities... your Chem SATII could hurt big time particularly for MIT... U Chicago EA i think you have a great chance at probably a high reach/low match...</p>
<p>Decent extra curriculars, most of Ivies will be reaches but nonetheless best of luck</p>