Chances at Yale, Columbia, and Stanford

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Let me start by thanking everyone in advance for looking over my resume and contributing information. Constructive criticism is encouraged so please be harsh. </p>

<p>Colleges: Yale, Columbia, Stanford, Cal Tech, Dartmouth, Cornell, Penn, Northwestern, U Chicago, Harvard, and Penn State and Reed College</p>

<p>SATs: 2330 (770 Math 780 CR 780 W)
SAT II: Math IC: 780
USH: 790<br>
Will take Math IIC, Biology, and Chem in June
Courseload:
9th: H. English I, H. English II, Gym(required), H. Biology I, H. Geometry, H. World History, German I
10th: Trigonometry(no Honors), AP USH (4), H. English III, H. German II, H. Biology II, Gym(required), H. Pre-Calc
11th: AP Calculus AB (5, definitely), H. English IV, H. Chemistry I/II, H. German III, H. American Gov't, H. Economics, AP Biology (5, definitely)
12th: AP English, AP Chemistry, H. Engineering I/II (AP Physics C), H. German IV, H. Statistics
APs Offered: AP USH, AP Calc, AP Chem, AP Biology, AP Physics C, AP English</p>

<p>Class Rank: 4/875 students Really Large Public High School
GPA: 101.450 weighted/ 99.435 Unweighted
Recommendations: They will be outstanding.
Essays: Hmm... I don't know. </p>

<p>ECs: Your Typical Stuff
PJAS (9,10,11)
Science Olympiad (9,10,11)
Math Club (9,10,11) Co-Founder
Science Club (9,10,11)
Key Club (9,10,11) Hours of Community Service
Mock Trial (11) Leading Witness
Junior Leadership (10,11) Hours of Community Service</p>

<p>Awards:
*Five Time First Award Winner at Regional and State PJAS competition with three perfect scores (1 at Regionals and 2 at States)
*PJAS Directors Award (Best Chemistry Research in PA) 9th Grade
*CECO Excellence in Mathematics (Best Math Research in Regionals) 11th Grade
*Zappa Award for Excellence in Mathematics (Best Math Research in PA) 11th Grade
*Male Delegate (one of three in PA) to AJAS national conference will be presenting oral presentation on research 11th Grade
*Male Delegate (one of three in PA) to simultaneously attend AAAS international conference presenting poster presentation on Math Research 11th Grade
*Science Olympiad Silver Medalist in Health Science and 8th Place Finish in Compute This (Three time top 10 finisher in individual events at State)
*Two Essays Published in Anthologies
*To have Math Research published within multiple science/math journals in 2007(A part of being a delegate to AJAS) </p>

<p>What are my chances, do I need to strengthen my ECs? My SATs? Do I have a chance at Yale (SCEA). Thanks again. Please be harsh!</p>

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<p>Your ECs are pretty solid.
Your have very good numbers.
The HYPSM is a toss up for everyone but you have a pretty good shot. Your a match or a safety for most of the schools below that.</p>

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<p>As a parent of a Reed student, I would say your credentials are fine, and that Reed would mostly check for fit, based heavily on your essays and interview. Reed seems to be a place where an overnight visit is more important than average; most come away feeling strongly one way or the other. If you're inclined toward earning a PhD, Reed is up there with Yale, CalTech and U Chicago.</p>

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<p>i agree with bill<em>H</em>pike</p>

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<p>Great Everything I'd say :)</p>

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<p>Yale - reach
Columbia - reach
Stanford - reach
Caltech - slight reach
Dartmouth - slight reach
Cornell - match
Penn - slight reach
Northwestern - match
U Chicago - match / safe match
Harvard - reach
Penn State - safety
Reed - ?</p>

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<p>I disagree on two of them.</p>

<p>Caltech = reach (I say this based on the acceptance rates of Caltech, which fall below 15%).</p>

<p>Cornell = slight reach (I say this based on their drop in acceptance rates, and some of the comparable stats of people rejected this year).</p>

<p>Your numbers are great, I'm sure they own3d most peolple.</p>

<p>There is absolutely nothing left for you to do with your SATs, good job, extremely solid.</p>

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<p>Cornell is not a "slight reach" for him. It is a definite match.</p>

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<p>Cornell having a high acceptance rate as far as ivies does not mean it's match level chances for anyone with high stats. Not only did the acceptance rate drop over 7% this year, there's a noticable amount of people with stats similar to the OP that were rejected. Hence, slight reach rather than reach. Furthermore, a huge portion of Cornell's acceptance rate comes from the ED, and ED acceptance is much higher, which makes RD slightly lower. I really think people tend to overestimate chances at Cornell because of it's acceptance rate in comparison to other ivies.</p>

<p>This isn't to say that the OP doesn't have excellent stats--they're very solid.</p>

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<p>Thanks everyone. I have to say that the CCers thus far have been quite reserved. Please is there any constructive cristicism?</p>

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<p>You have a very good chance. It's going to depend on your essays and other items on your application that you have no control of such as your high school, your nationality etc..</p>

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<ul>
<li>Your numbers are good.</li>
<li>Your ECs are unoriginal.. slightly lacking in leadership.</li>
<li>Your awards look great, but I'm unsure about the selectivity of some of these. For example, it's pretty easy to get published in an anthology.. I did so in second grade. Your math research is pretty cool, though.. how advanced was it? Perhaps you could attach an abstract to send to the Yale math department.</li>
</ul>

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<p>I say in at all. Maybe waitlist at Stanford.</p>

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<p>You're in! Ignore above posts...</p>

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<p>^It's not as if people with the OPs stats and ECs don't get rejected.</p>

<p>I'd work on one really good-looking end-it-all this-is-the-big-one EC, as nothing particularly stands out about your ECs.</p>

<p>They apparantly show a lot of commitment, though, and your awards are excellent.</p>

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<p>Again thank you for everyone's imput. To answer savoirfaire's question... as to the selectivity of the achievements-the essays that I wrote were published in the state of PA. I understand that having an essay published isn't really significant, thus I might not even mention it in applications. The other awards are amongst some of the most prestigious in PA and the AJAS/AAAS award is possibly one of the most prestigious in the country. The AAAS conference is after all the largest general science convention and competition in the world. Needless to say thank you for your concerns. I felt that posting leadership roles wouldn't affect the replies so I chose to omit them (I feel that they are sort of insignificant). Also next year, I will be entering the Intel Science Fair and Siemen's Competition. Hopefully, I'll do really well in them but of course it would be late for college applications. Regardless the experience is always worth while.
PJAS VP 10; P 11
Science Olympiad Junior Captain 10; Senior Team Captain 11
Math Club Co-Founder and Co-President; Chairman of Problem of the Week Contest and everything else I am just actively involved in. For my math research, I actually applied mathematical models to study various cancer cells. Thanks again for everyone's remarks and please keep the constructive criticism rolling.</p>

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<p>Excellent awards. ECs lack leadership. Now, it ALL depends on the type of application essay you write.</p>

<p>Good luck</p>

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<p>How the **** do you get a 99.435 Unweighted? I mean seriously that's ........ ridiculous- does your school grade easy or are you just that incredibly smart?</p>

<p>....Wow- Anyways I'd say good shots even by CC standards at those colleges.</p>

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<p>Thanks everyone for your replies to answer Skeet Daddy, I worked on hours of homework every night, although the teachers I have tend to grade easily, you really have to work to get anything higher than a 95. I mean REALLY work. So it's a combination of those two.</p>

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<p>your grades are wow, but the ecs are a little lacking... basically you "just" have your math research, and a bunch of not very outstanding clubs... i hate to be harsh! If the math research is really outstanding, send it in to the college's math dept or soemthing; good luck! maybe we'll meet at yale or something (haha if we both get in..)</p>