Chances at UCs, USC, and MIT

<p>Asian American Male</p>

<p>USC, MIT (I got deferred...do I still have a chance?), UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCSB</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.7
UC GPA: 4.0
Ranked 73/389
I go to a prestigious public high school</p>

<p>APs/honors classes taken: 14 semesters
6 semesters taken in senior year</p>

<p>SAT I: 580V + 720M = 1300 total
SAT IIs: 750 (IIc), 680 (writing), 750 (chemistry)</p>

<p>APs:
Calculus AB - 5
US History - 3
Chemistry - 3
Will take Physics B, Macroecon, and Calculus BC</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Cross country / track and field - 3 years (JV for two years, on varsity right now)
Speech and Debate - 2 years
Piano - 2 years while in high school
Chess Club Treasurer - 1 year
Participated in the Science Fair one year</p>

<p>Community Service:
Book depository worker - 30 hours
Key Club Webmaster - 30 hours</p>

<p>Awards:
Certificate of Merit in Piano - Level 10
Golden State exams - honors in Geometry, proficient in Biology
Governor's Scholar (state level)
Math Team Intermurals - second place (school level)
Certified National Forensic League in Speech and Debate</p>

<p>I got a U.S. Patent when I was twelve. It's just a toy and doesn't have much use in real life. I wrote about it in my personal statement essay.</p>

<p>nanday0:</p>

<p>UCB: Slight Reach
UCLA: Slight Reach
UCSD: Match
UCD: Safety
UCSB: Safety
UCI: Safety</p>

<p>USC: Slight Reach
MIT: Super Reach</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

<p>Anyone else?</p>

<p>UCB: reach
UCLA: reach
UCSD: target
UCD: youre in
UCSB: youre in
UCI: yourein</p>

<p>USC: reach
MIT: VERY high reach. boston sucks anyway :-P</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

<p>Does the fact that I got a US Patent at age 12 increase my chances greatly? I wrote about it in my essay.</p>

<p>lol nice - but about what?</p>

<p>hey, ur applying to the same schools i am! neat.</p>

<p>I don't believe any of your UC schools are safeties because you're not in the top 10% of your class and they all have 90 plus percent in top 10. I've seen kids with better stats rejected. You need a solid safety.</p>

<p>I come from a prestigious public high school with an API rating of 824...very hard classes and a lot of excellent students. Will this make up for my low class ranking?</p>

<p>I posted this in another thread...but my patent is a toy ship that sinks in the same manner as the Titanic when placed in water. So other than being a toy, it has few real life applications. No, I didn't sell it on the market and make millions =(</p>

<p>MIT=no way</p>

<p>The thing is that over 90% of kids adnitted are in the top 10% of their class and many go to competitive schools. There are exceptions, but I would have good safeties. Your SATIIs will help with a strong essay.</p>

<p>No offense, but your patent is like ordinary, so I don't see anything special coming from that. MIT is as other people put it, "a super reach."</p>

<p>Will it help a lot if I have a sibling that went there?</p>

<p>MIT is a super reach. Your rank and your sat, won't do it for MIT. There's no hook.</p>

<p>Hello! I'm from Malaysia...tis is my stats...wat bout me? I've currently applied to Princeton, Yale, MIT, Caltech, Stanford for Aeronautical/Aerospace Engineering... wat's my chance?</p>

<p>SAT verbal: 560 (****!)
maths: 800
SAT II: pending (taken in Jan, hence 2 late for MIT, CAltech, n Stanford)</p>

<p>TOEFL: 287 (cbt)</p>

<p>AS-level: thinking skills-A
Physics-A
Chemistry-A
Maths-A</p>

<p>2003 Malaysia National Olympiad Mathematics Competition(Senior Devision)
-!st place</p>

<p>2003 Malaysia National Physics Competition(High-School devision)
-Gold Cert, 13th place </p>

<p>2004 Malaysia National Physics Competition(Pre-U devision)
-Silver Cert</p>

<p>pianoforte: Diploma in Pianoforte Performance(London College of Music & Media)</p>

<p>Vice President in my previous high-school Academic Research Group.</p>

<p>Varsity sports in Basketball.</p>

<p>how's my stats? any chance on getting into the top uni in USA?
Will my SAT verbal affect a lot? n wat bout my late SATII score for asessment?? Do u guys think MIT n Caltech will still look at my SAT II score? Can i use my AS-level results to substitute them?</p>

<p>bulloid,</p>

<p>Post your own thread.</p>