Chances at Yale / Brown / Columbia / Johns Hopkins?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi everyone, I don't exactly have a number 1 school so I'm sending in applications to all of the mentioned schools in the title for regular decision (along with some other safe schools and somewhat less prestigious schools, of course) and honestly, I would be so genuinely happy with getting into just one of them. I want to to know if I've done enough or even nearly enough to secure my chances at any one of these schools.</p>

<p>Gender: Male</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Caucasian</p>

<p>Region: Northeast</p>

<p>School: Public, good reputation, many past students accepted into Ivy League schools</p>

<p>SAT: 2260 superscore & 1550 combined Math/CR score (790 Math, 760 Reading, 710 Writing)</p>

<p>SAT II: 760 Math I and 730 Physics</p>

<p>Rank (Weighted): 2/347</p>

<p>GPA: Unweighted is 3.98, Weighted is 4.65. I have taken 12 AP classes in total, essentially the most you can possibly take at my school, and have gotten A or A+ averages in every one. </p>

<p>Major: Undecided Engineering</p>

<p>Awards/Academic Honors:</p>

<p>-RIT Innovation and Creativity Award
-AP Scholar with Distinction Award
-Nominated for Boys State Citizen/Leadership Program
(I wish I could have gotten more I suppose, but there's honestly not much more I could have done and I'm not sure how seriously schools take these into consideration.)</p>

<p>Activities:</p>

<p>-Attended a 2 week sleep-away summer program at Stevens Institute of Technology called "ECOES" (Exploring Career Options in Engineering and Science), took college-level engineering courses every day, led my group to winning first place in a robotics contest where we were awarded/recognized at the end of the program.
-President of Math Team (member since 9th grade)
-Captain of Science League (member since 10th grade)
-Fundraiser Organizer for "Eagles Helping the Community" club, have raised tens of thousands of dollars for numerous organizations over the years. (member since 9th grade)
-Vice President of National Honor Society
-Paid work as a tutor for 2 years, have tutored an underclassman in 5+ subjects every other day of the week.
-Member of the School of Rock music program since 5th grade, part of the school's "House Band" for advanced instrumentalists, perform concerts all around the tri-state area.
-Paid work as a piano, guitar, drum, and vocal teacher at the School of Rock every weekend.
-Piano composer / arranger, I post videos on my own website of both original compositions and adapted arrangements of songs, have accumulated 15,000+ views and have interacted with viewers from all around the world.
-Lead guitarist in my own band, we've professionally recorded songs and released them on iTunes, Spotify, etc. Have also initiated benefit concerts for numerous causes, e.g. to help rebuild our town after Hurricane Sandy destroyed our area, most recently raised $25,000 for an organization for pediatric cancer research.
-50-100 volunteer hours at local soup kitchen, as well as plenty of other hours doing other miscellaneous volunteer work.</p>

<p>Letters of Rec:</p>

<p>-Teachers: Confident I've gotten a very good one from my Physics teacher of 2 years, know that my Lit teacher also wrote me a fantastic one, unfortunately have waived my right to see either :(</p>

<p>-Counselor: Have read this one myself, it's an excellent synopsis of who I am and my counselor has also been doing his job for 40+ years and has gotten hundreds of kids into Ivys and schools of similar caliber before so he has a loott of credibility.</p>

<p>Common App essay: How music has helped me grow as individual, helped me impact my community, and sparked my love of complexity/ made me a more intellectual student geared towards maths and sciences. Have gotten confirmation from my guidance counselor saying it was "terrific."</p>

<p>The supplements are on an array of different topics but I've gotten confirmation from my guidance counselor on all of them.</p>

<p>So, what's the verdict? Can it go either way with these schools, have I done enough to guarantee admission into any of them, or am I underserving? Any comments are greatly appreciated.</p>

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<p>Also forgot that as an art supplement I have what I feel is one of my band’s best, most professional sounding recordings (just to verify what was said about us on my application I guess, and also to give them a taste of our unique style and show them how serious we are.) We’re like alternative rock / leaning towards pop.</p>

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<p>I think you have a greatest chance at Johns Hopkins, Next would be columbia, Brown and Yale will be most difficult for you to get into, obviously these are just extremely selective selective/difficult schools. You have a great GPA and test scores, and seem to be a motivated and dedicated student. I think you have a decent chance at these, however due to their selectivity it is very hard for me(not having any experience in admissions) to say. I wish you the best of luck!! </p>

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<p>Yup agree with Bell315. Johns Hopkins would be your best bet!
Your GPA’s great and pretty good ECs.
I say SAT I and II are the weakest in your application.</p>

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<p>Thank you for the replies!! I know that Johns Hopkins is somewhat significantly easier to get into than the others listed (not easy admission by any means of course) but I really appreciate both of you ensuring me that I have a good chance there. The Ivys are huge reaches for me, as they would be for almost anyone I suppose, but it’s encouraging to hear that they could still be possibilities. Thanks again!</p>

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<p>Solid except for Brown and Yale. Brown being a moderate reach and Yale bring a med-high reach reach. Acceptance rates at 5-6% make it a crapshoot even for highly qualified candidates.</p>

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<p>I would like to say you have a good chance at Johns Hopkins, but our stats were almost the exact same and I got rejected during ED.</p>