Chances at top schools in the Nation- please help

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Region: Mid-West
School sends usually 1 or 2 people to ivy leagues per year
50% caucasian 50% indian(the country)</p>

<p>GPA: Freshmen - Senior: 3.745 UW ~3.9 W
Freshmen - Junior: 3.667 UW ~3.85 W
Sophomore - Junior: 3.9 UW ~4.1 W
Sophomore - Senior: 3.93 UW ~4.15 W</p>

<p>Huge Upward Trend, 10 AP's, never dropped below an A in Junior + Senior, bad GPA Freshmen, 3.8 GPA Sophomore, 4 Jr and 4 Sr.</p>

<p>US History 5
Calculus BC 5
Calculus AB 5
Statistics 5
Biology 5
Physics 5</p>

<p>SAT:
2320
800M/750Writing/770CR
SAT II:
Math IIC - 800
Physics - 800
Literature - 700(May retake)</p>

<p>ACT:
34</p>

<p>Extracirriculars:
-3 Year Varsity LD - Qualified to Nationals last year, placed among top 50, will probably qualify this year.(10,11,12)
-Treasurer of Community Service Club(11,12)
-Current Affaris Club(11,12)
-President of Mu Alpha Theta(11,12)
-NHS(10,11,12)</p>

<p>Summer Programs:
Stanford Debate Camp(LD-Debate)
TASP
Spanish at a Local University
Intern at a Law Firm</p>

<p>Awards:
Who's who among high school students
AP Scholar
Honor Roll all four years
AIME Qualified
Math+Science top student</p>

<p>Essays:
Confident, feel like I will shine here</p>

<p>Reccomendations: Very confident
AP Statistics Teacher, APUSH Teacher, Top Professor at local University</p>

<p>Possible Majors: Prelaw Premed</p>

<p>Schools: Brown, Dartmouth, Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley, Georgetown, Emory, Washington University in St. Louis, Amherst College, Duke, UChicago</p>

<p>EA Probably Stanford</p>

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<p>Sorry- forgot, community service hours ~200, tutoring with 2nd graders for about 4 hours a week this year, only offered this year</p>

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<p>Berkeley looks like a match</p>

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<p>What about the others? Anyone have any input on those please? ><</p>

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<p>You are probably not going to get into Princeton and Stanford, otherwise I would say you are a match, might even get some merit $ at Emory or WashU.</p>

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<p>x1429:</p>

<p>UCB: Match (out of state)</p>

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<p>Datadriven - Why can't I get into Stanford or Princeton?</p>

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<p>^^^Stanford you have a very good chance, Princeton s just a flip of the coin for every top student.</p>

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<p>I am thinking of ED at Columbia or SCEA at Yale, or SCEA at Stanford - sorry, my mind was changed over the course of this... can I have my chances at those three schools primarily now? Poli Sci at all 3</p>

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<p>prelaw and premed aren't majors buddy. Only at reeeealy lame schools do you get a degree in "prelaw", premed is a concentration.</p>

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<p>im sure you will do fine. Just put that your race as white and you should be good. im not sure, but indians seem to have uber good stats and may put you at a disadvantage. sorry for the stereotype</p>

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<p>The bad freshman year will really effect rank. That will make the really to schools hard, especially from a HS that sends so few ivy.</p>

<p>The lower ivies seem possible as do GTown and Emory.</p>

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<p>does his school even rank?</p>

<p>Would early grades affect admissions that much if the school does not rank/</p>

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<p>If your school doesn't send a rank, the colleges figure out an aprox. one for you regardless.</p>

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<p>Suze- Which "lower ivies"? Does that include Columbia?- again with Princeton, you say my freshmen grades hurt me when Princeton doesn't look at freshmen grades? At the most I think they will just see it on my high school transcript. Yet.. if anything I thought they would like to see an upward trend, considering I had 2 B's and 1 C Freshmen year and never below an A again. Is this really not the case and they will actually dislike it?</p>

<p>I guess in the end I only really like four schools: Columbia, Stanford, Georgetown, and Princeton</p>

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<p>Oh my gosh...you are applying to WashU? WHY? WHY DO THIS TO YOURSELF?</p>

<p>Everybody here on CC agrees that WashU is a terrible school! Have you not read all the threads? The posts? The data presented as to why WashU shouldn't be ranked so high in US News & World Report? If you haven't, then that means you have not been enlightened, and we have failed...oh, woe be us! I will cry for you if you decide to attend such a dreadful school. :(</p>

<p>In all seriousness now, you seem like a strong applicant to all of those schools, and they all are great. My only concern would be the GPA, and the fact that you don't seem to have a clear Safety School there on the list. You might want to look into the schools you have listed some more, and consider if they are places you like the sound of, or places that you want to spend the next 4 years of your life at. That should be the main factor in your college decision, NOT prestige or what CC posters say.</p>

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<p>Mainly because I was born in St. Louis and I've been to WashU Campus many times... but I don't see why you'd insult the school. I've heard and seen many great things. If you could still please see if I'm in the running at those four universities? I'd realy appreciate it, thanks CC</p>

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<p>hi</p>

<p>i am from INDIA and have the following scores:</p>

<p>Bachelor of Engineering(Computer Science) : 60%
class 12 : 80.33%
class 10 :75.2%</p>

<p>GRE: 630(verbal), 790(quantitative)</p>

<p>I am amogst the top rankers all through my academics career so far.</p>

<p>I want to know what are my chances in top Universities for MS in Computer Science?
Which universities should I apply and where will I get a sure shot chance.</p>

<p>What about Rochester Institute of Technology ,Penn State-University Park,North Eastern University,Virginia Tech....</p>

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<p>Columbia is not a lower ivy, I think they took 11% last year.</p>

<p>Even schools that don't count freshman year count rank. And if your school doesn't rank the college figures out your aprox. rank anyway.</p>

<p>Upward trends look great at many colleges, but at top schools there are just too many applicants with stellar performances throughout. Read books written by admissions officers and threads here. In a recent article, Middlebury threw out apps with a single C.</p>

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<p>Ohhh, you wanted my class rank, my apologies. .</p>

<p>My rank is an approximate 20-40(Unsure, but know I'm inbetween those two numbers, so 3%-6%)/650 for Freshmen - Senior, but if I were to estimate Soph-Sr 5-15/650</p>