Chances at the Ivy Leagues & MIT thanks!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Kay, here we go.
I'm looking at basically all the Ivy Leagues, MIT, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Caltech, USC, Duke, etc.
Thanks for the chance me!</p>

<p>Background: Born and raised in England until I was 9 when my parents divorced and my mom remarried an American guy and now I live in California and am an incoming senior.
(does this make me a first generation immigrant?)</p>

<p>Rank: 2/350 at a very competitive school</p>

<p>SAT (not sending): 2020 Essay 10</p>

<p>ACT: 35 Composite
35 English
36 Mathematics
34 Reading
34 Science
Essay 10</p>

<p>SAT Subject Tests:
740 Bio (M)
800 Physics
800 Chemistry
780 Math II</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA : 4.0
OVERALL Weighted GPA: 4.37</p>

<p>Courseload (A's/A+'s on all, no A-s):</p>

<p>Freshman Year:
PE
Geometry Honors
World History Honors
Biology
English 9
Spanish 1</p>

<p>Sophomore Year:
AP Biology (4)
AP World History (4)
Alg II/ Trig Honors
English 10 Honors
Chemistry
Spanish 2</p>

<p>Junior Year:
AP Chemistry (5)
AP Physics B (5)
AP Language & Comp (4)
AP Calculus AB (5)
AP US History (5)
AP Psychology (5)
Spanish 3</p>

<p>Senior Year:
AP Physics C
AP Calculus BC
AP Spanish Language
AP Lit
AP Statistics
Ceramics
AP Gov/Econ
(AP Comp Sci might self study)</p>

<p>School Year Extracurriculars (a little weak and all over the place but eh):
Debate Club (9-12, President 12)
Debate Enrichment Course (9)
Guitar Enrichment Course (9)
Track & Field Hurdles (10-12)
Academic League (9-12)
- top 10 kids of each grade gets chosen basically fights against other schools like a Quizbowl
Gallery Facilitator at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center (10-12)
Nano Demonstrator at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center (11-12)
National Honor Society (10-12, Treasurer 12)
Theory of Knowledge (12)
Chemistry Olympiad (11)
A TON of tutoring - its basically how I make bank (11-12)</p>

<p>Summer Extracurriculars:
(My Dad lives in England so I visit him every summer so I don't get to do much.)
Lots of reading & volunteering
Interned at the surgery my Dad works in in England summer after 10th grade
Digigirlz Microsoft Camp summer after 10th grade
Founded Company with 2 friends summer after 11th grade
- we make videos similar to that of Vsauce and veritasium and CGPgrey
- we also build things and record us making them, like a cathode ray for example
Mormon Camp summer after 11th grade (I'm not mormon but my friend invited me)
Backpacking, traveling, concert going, having fun mostly.
Tutor kids taking summer school at my school (11)
I teach Karate at my local Martial Arts America as an intern (11)</p>

<p>Awards:
A TONNNNN of school awards, don't feel like listing
Susan B Anthony Award for Social Justice
Lemei Book Award
AP Scholar with Distinction or whatever idk</p>

<p>Essays should be good, I'm known to be quite the writer among the school.
Recs should be fantastic - I've spent a lot of time developing a killer relationship with my teachers. </p>

<p>To sum it up:
Strengths: Grades, test scores, recs
Weaknesses: Extracurriculars. </p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Hey – nice job with everything you have done; call me overly optimistic but your ECs don’t look weak to me :slight_smile:
I can’t answer your question about being an immigrant but you definitely have the stats for a top school. Of course, lots of people do – far more than they could ever accept – so all you can really do is your best and hope it pays off. Remember that whatever happens you did what you could and you will wind up somewhere fantastic, even if not your first choice. Best of luck.</p>

<p>ps how do you already have AP scores from this year?! Mine aren’t supposed to go out until July 8 :(</p>

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<p>Thanks! Just what I needed to hear :slight_smile:
I’m satisfied with that.</p>

<p>And my AP Chem teacher is kind of an LBJ in that she has tons of connections and strings she can pull so she always gets scores super early. She is sorta known by college board, its kinda sketchy actually haha.</p>

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<p>wow ok i wish i knew her! haha just goes to show how much the college board likes to keep us all anxious for as long as possible lol. anyway good luck again!</p>

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<p>You are definitely in the running. The problem with the super competitive schools is that you could look perfect and not get in. Once you cross the line for acceptable, it is more about how you fit their view of holistic admissions and how your profile would enhance their worldview. In other words, you have a 4.5-9% chance for each of them. Good luck.</p>