Chances at MIT, Cornell, GTech, CMU, Berkeley

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>So in the title i listed some of my schools (mostly reaches id assume) here is the full list:</p>

<p>Reaches:
- MIT
- Cornell
- Berkeley
- Stanford (meh)
- University of Pennsylvania
- Vanderbilt</p>

<p>Sort of Confident:
- Georgia Tech
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Lehigh University
- Penn State Main</p>

<p>Safeties:
- State Schools
- Clemson
- Pitt University
- Other places</p>

<p>I will most likely not apply to all of these places, just the ones i feel i fit the most for. Please let me know the chance I have for each school. Im planning to go into some sort of engineering minus biological.</p>

<p>9th Grade:
All A's took Honors Geometry</p>

<p>10th Grade:
Honors Algebra 2: A
Honors English: A
Honors History: A
Honors Java Programming: A
Honors Biology: A
Spanish 2: A</p>

<p>11th Grade:
Honors Pre Calc: A
AP Statistics: A
AP Language and Composition:A
AP Biology:A
Honors Chemistry: A
Honors American History: A
Spanish 3:A</p>

<p>12th Grade(Take these for granted please):
AP Chemistry: A
AP Physics: A
AP Calc BC: A
AP Literature: A
AP Macroeconomics: A
Sociology: A</p>

<p>Class Rank: 3/581</p>

<p>GPA: Unweighted 3.96 Weighted 4.35</p>

<p>Race: White</p>

<p>Gender: Male </p>

<p>Hook: First Generation College Student - if it makes a difference; also talking to the coach at MIT but i heard he has little pull by others.</p>

<p>SAT: Math 760 Critical Reading 720 Writing 720
Retook in June- Expecting around 2300
SAT 2: Math 2 760 Biology 760</p>

<p>ECs:
- Treasurer of Relay for Life
- Key Club
- TSA
- Calculus courses over the summer at local community college
- Job at Ralph Lauren
- Green Chord
- Lacrosse School Team and Travel Team (Varsity 3 years) went to nationals and won a few tournament awards... doubt that matters
- Volunteer- couple hundred hours
- Run science camps over the summer at local YMCA
- Volunteer at local hospital
- Tutored elderly woman to obtain her GED (maybe not extracurricular, but it was rewarding and potentially worthy of an essay)</p>

<p>Awards:
- Green Chord Community Service Award multiple times
- Presidential Academic Award (predicted)
- Conference All Academic Award 2x
- Regional TSA awards
- Placed in states for TSA
- Player's Choice Einstein Award ...lol</p>

<p>Thank you and please let me know how you feel about the places im applying to. My top two would be MIT and Cornell but i am less than confident about them. Also, which schools should i apply to early with this in mind? Thanks !</p>

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<p>MIT is completely unpredictable but I think that you have a shot at Cornell.</p>

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<ul>
<li>MIT (Reach)</li>
<li>Cornell (Low Reach)</li>
<li>Berkeley Match)</li>
<li>Stanford (Reach)</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania (Low Reach)</li>
<li>Vanderbilt (Match)</li>
<li>Georgia Tech (Match)</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon University (Match)</li>
<li>Lehigh University (Match)</li>
<li>Penn State Main (Safety for sure)</li>
<li>State Schools (Safety, you’re spectacular) </li>
<li>Clemson (Safety)</li>
<li>Pitt University (Safety)</li>
</ul>

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<p>Thank you very much for the input! you guys are reaffirming my previous notions… The thing is I believe that out of MIT Cornell and Stanford I have the best shot at Cornell, and Cornell’s engineering program is amazing so I’d be satisfied. It’s just MIT has been my dream school for years now, although my chance of acceptance there is slim. So what I’m asking is should I apply Cornell ED? Or MIT EA? Also I’d be applying for financial aid at both if that makes any difference.</p>

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<p>Bump 10char</p>

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<p>bump :(( 10char</p>

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<p>I think that applying ED at Cornell significantly improves your chances at admission whereas EA for MIT doesn’t boost your chances as much. You probably shouldn’t apply ED to Cornell if MIT is your dream school, because you may get in.</p>

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<p>thank you I think that’s probably what I’ll end up doing, but assuming that I get rejected EA at MIT, what are my chances at Cornell RD?</p>

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<p>You’d still have a decent chance of getting into Cornell RD! Low reach if you apply RD and a very low reach if you apply ED! Good luck!</p>