Chances at various top tier schools (Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, etc.)?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>What are the chances that I get into at least 3 of the schools on my list?
Princeton, Harvard, MIT (EA), Columbia, UPenn, Stanford, Northwestern, Caltech (EA), and Berkeley and Vanderbilt
I want to get into at least 3 so I have a choice</p>

<p>4.0 UW 4.6 Weighted
Rank 1 unweighted, 7 weighted
Hardest curriculum offered to me
5's on US History, Language, chemistry
4 on European history</p>

<p>Senior load: AP(Gov, lit, physics, calc BC, spanish, stats)</p>

<p>ECs: taekwondo for 6 years (lots of leadership in the organization and work experience as well), band (semi-accomplished french hornist, probably sending in some arts supplements for horn) various volunteering and tutoring, working with local museum since its opening, Spanish and Math and Regular national honor society, math club, Science Bowl national team (only team representing kansas) as well as school quiz bowl team.</p>

<p>Essays: I'm a pretty good writer, don't mean to brag honestly, and I'm gonna have some pretty good recs from teachers who are great essay writers</p>

<p>Scores: 36 ACT (35 english 36 everything else)
800 SATII chem and math II
not reporting SAT I score (2240 single sitting, 2300 superscore)</p>

<p>Major awards: second place in international taekwondo tournament, probably the biggest accomplishment I have
smaller awards: lots of academic junk, national merit commended :(</p>

<p>White Male, $200k+ financial range (no help here)</p>

<p>I really just want to get into 3 so that I can choose; I'd be happy with just one of course but some I want to get into more than others :/</p>

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<p>@cjconn - you are obviously qualified academically, so unless your essays, recommendations, and interviews disappoint, I imagine you’ll get into some of these. How many is anyone’s guess.</p>

<p>Are MIT and Caltech your top choices, or are you planning to apply to them first because they are not SCEA?</p>

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<p>@BldrDad I’m applying to them first because they’re not SCEA. Harvard is probably my top but MIT is a close second so I won’t be upset if I get into it over Harvard.</p>

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<p>Your chances are solid at all of those, but there are no guarantees for even the most qualified applicants. Are you applying to EECS at Berkeley? I think your chances are excellent, but I’d say you’re near certain if you’re applying to their Arts & Sciences college. I also think your chances are excellent at Vanderbilt, because they are very nice to applicants with perfect scores. I like your chances at Penn and Northwestern. As for the rest, your chances are as good as anyone’s, meaning you have a shot at all of them but the odds are long for everyone.</p>

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<p>@woogzmama I am applying Arts and Sciences at berkeley, so that’s pretty reassuring! </p>

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<p>@cjconn - No guarantees, but they are very numbers-oriented (when you get 100k applications, it’s impossible not to be), and your numbers are good. Once you clear the bar for out-of-state eligibility, they have no special in-state quotas to observe. Just report your grades carefully, and keep them up this year. They can and will rescind acceptances over any discrepancies. </p>

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<p>@cjconn - Evidence suggests that applying EA to MIT and Caltech offers little advantage over RD (other than possibly knowing earlier that you’ve been accepted or rejected), while it’s pretty clear that SCEA offers clear advantages for those applying to HYPS. If Harvard is your top choice with MIT second, applying EA to MIT instead of SCEA to Harvard will likely increase the odds that you will be rejected by both.</p>

<p>As an aside, although they are both highly regarded, Harvard and MIT are hugely different schools! Why are they your top two choices?</p>

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<p>@BldrDad‌ Well, he could enroll in a few classes at the other school if he got rejected by one ;D!</p>

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<p>Yeah i think you’ll get accepted to all of them lol</p>

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<p>@BldrDad I did not know this. When touring both schools, I got information that there is no distinguishable difference in applying early action verses regular (Besides a few percent higher admissions that I took to mean that the people applying earlier are more qualified). So you would personally recommend doing Harvard SCEA and then MIT, Caltech and the rest for RD?</p>

<p>And I visited boston and fell in love. I find good things in both schools; MIT because I am science oriented and I find the people there to be cool, and harvard because I feel they offer one of the best opportunities for a great, but also well rounded education (I don’t want to neglect the arts!)</p>

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<p>@cjconn - Harvard’s SCEA admit rate last year was over 6 times the RD rate. I’m sure this is partly due to recruited athletes, legacies, and a more selective applicant pool, but the difference appears to be too great to be completely due to these factors. In fact, most of the class of 2018 was selected through the SCEA round.</p>

<p>MIT’s EA admit rate is also higher, but as they don’t allow internationals to apply to the EA round, it’s easier to peg the higher admit rate to the different composition of the applicant pool.</p>