*Chances at top schools*

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey everyone, looking for my chances at:</p>

<p>Cornell
Dartmouth
Penn
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Columbia
Wash U</p>

<p>Class rank: 4/408
UW GPA: 3.94
W GPA: 4.81
Toughest possible courseload</p>

<p>SATs: 2250 (720 CR, 790 M, 740 WR)
SAT IIs: 750 Chem, 720 Math IIC, 710 US History
AP Tests: 5 US Hist./5 Euro/5 Chem</p>

<p>ECs that shine through in my app:</p>

<p>Leadership:
-Class Secretary
-JSA Vice President of Chapter
-NHS Officer of Chapter
-German Club Officer
-Chess Club Officer
-SGA General Assembly (but only 12th grade so...)</p>

<p>Community Service:
-Total of 520+ hours community service (ranging from volunteer in hospital lab to volunteer tutoring to big time participator in relay 4 life)</p>

<p>Employment:
-Total of 1500+ Hours of Employment</p>

<p>ECs that don't shine through:</p>

<p>-2 JV Sports, 2 Intramural Sports
-7 More Clubs (im a member of all of them but I hold no leadership positions)
-400 hours/year playing trumpet but I quit after sophomore year</p>

<p>Awards:
-1st Place in Regional German Speaking Competition
-Chemistry Olympiad Regional Qualifier
-AIME Qualifier
-Gold-key winner of Scholastic Writing Awards
-National Merit Letter of Commendation
-Ranked in Top 40 of Kumon Reading National Rankings (u probably don't know what this is, but it's my biggest award...top 40/thousands of really smart kids)
-7 Publications in Creative Communications Journal
-AP Scholar</p>

<p>Intangibles:
Ethnicity: Middle Eastern
Recs: Not exactly ridiculously amazing but definitely unique
Essays: My 1st essay was a narrative with a huge plot twist, and my counselor said I did an unbelievable job showing how much I wanted to go to schreyers in my 2nd essay
Fluent in Farsi/German (have stayed in both Iran and Germany for extended periods of time)
US Dual Citizenship (US + South African)</p>

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<p>Deferred from Yale?</p>

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<p>yup haha i just thought id make a new chances thread now that my SATs went up and i got some new leadership roles</p>

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<p>I'm not qualified to chance anyone but I'm curious as to how you tied together your different interests in your applications (language/writing/science&math). Did you have a specific "theme" to your application? Thanks.</p>

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<p>i just portrayed myself as a very involved and enthusiastic integrator of aspects of my life. it took an entire essay to explain it, but when its the truth, its very easy to accomplish</p>

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<p>didn't care for Brown :P?</p>

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<p>didnt like the professors in my desired field :/</p>

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<p>You could probably get into Cornell, my college counselor said Cornell's college of Arts and Sciences is not that hard to get into, but Cornell's not really ivy material....</p>