Chances at Princeton or other Ivy Leagues

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey, what do you think my chances are for Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, or Cornell?
Info about me:</p>

<p>*Rising Senior
*GPA= 4.978 Rank=6/708
*SAT I= 800 M, 720 CR, 770 Writing
*SAT II: Math IIC=780, Chem=780, Phys=800
*Public suburban high school
*Indonesian, first generation american.
*Poor, single mom, live in a trailer park.</p>

<p>AP Courses:
*Sophomore year took AP Physics C Mechanics. 5
Self Study Physics C e&m. 4
Self Study AP Calc AB. 5
*This year took Bio (prolly 5, maybe 4), Calc BC (prolly 5), Psych (prolly 5) and Stats (prolly 5)
*Next yr taking Chem, Spanish, lit, and Self study art history.</p>

<p>Activities/talents:
*about 50 hrs library comm service
*Fluent in English, Indonesian, malay. Competent and can converse well in Hindi, Urdu, Spanish.
*Literate in arabic
*Attending NJ Governor's School engineering.
*FBLA, been webmaster, treasurer, parliamentarian.<br>
*Science League, 3 yrs. won a plaque for physics
*National Honor Society member
*National Science honor society, running for pres
*National Spanish honor society, running for VP
*Math League, AIME participant
*Teen advisory board: library based comm service club, secretary
*Work on weekends... cause im really poor.</p>

<p>*Recommendations will be excellent: one teacher wrote 3 whole pages aboutme for governor's school and almost proclaimed me as the new jesus.
*Interested in some sort of engineering major.
*Lifelong goal is to volunteer to practice medicine throughout south/southeast asia, hence the languages.</p>

<p>Thanks, I will apply ED to Princeton.</p>

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<p>impressive</p>

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<p>I would say you have a very solid shot (certainly ABOVE average). I mean, sure many applicants applying to P'ton have similar stats, but how many of them live in a trailor park? Overcoming such obstacles definitely shows maturity and character.</p>

<p>Nice job and congratulations on your achievements!</p>

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<p>I hope you're not just applying to those schools for the prestige. You don't want to go to Harvard or Princeton for engineering.</p>

<p>I recommend studying medicine at those schools since you seem to have some interest in that. As for your chances, they're decent even though your rank is slightly below average for Harvard. Nonetheless, the rest of your application is pretty solid so I'd give you about a 15% chance of getting into Harvard and Princeton, and a 60% chance of getting into Columbia and Cornell.</p>

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<p>well i want to study engineering for an undergrad major, then go to med school...</p>

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<p>why not MIT?
MIT provides Great, absolutely GREAT engineering program and produce life science professors who teach at Harvard (i.e Professor William Fixsen)</p>

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<p>How about MIT if you're serious about engineering?</p>

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<p>Well, I'm from NJ and i kinda want to stay in state. I visited MIT and I didn't really like it. I <3 princeton. I am not even sure if i want to do engineering as a major, just something science related. Would I have a decent chance at MIT?</p>

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<p>Wow a 4.9 with 7 AP's, I guess your AP's weigh more than a 5.0. What your unweight GPA?</p>

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<p>I have no idea, my school does GPA's really weird. so how are my chances for princeton ED?</p>

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<p>buuuuuummmmmmppppppppppp please</p>

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<p>OMG you have an AMAZING shot for princeton...you are the first person i know that has overcomed so much... CONGRATS!!</p>

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<p>Wow...</p>

<p>poor+wanting to volunteer to help other poor people = extremely compelling hook</p>