Chances for Cornell, Rice, Brown, UT Deans Scholar, Harvard RD

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Black Male
Income bracket: 200k+

Rank 26/511 (5.08%)
GPA(unweighted)- 3.935
ACT- 33(35E 32M 34R 29S 7W) (what kind of physics major am I lol)
Subject Test-780 Math 2 770 Physics
AP Scores- AP Physics 1(3) AP Physics 2(3) AP Human(3) APUSH(3) AP Seminar(3) AP World History(3) AP Lang(4) AP Stats(4) (I’m awful at AP Test)

EC: Varsity Tennis all four years- Senior Captain This Year,(Area qualifier and Bi-District Champs)
USTA Tennis Player-UTR of 7 and 16s boys champ(texas thing)
Bunch of other tennis camps and stuff
National Honor Society
Carnegie Mellon Summer academy for math and science-rigorous summer program for STEM Students, EQT and Siemans fellow Nominee
Research at DAS Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon the summer of my senior year-Biochemistry RNA stuff
Harvard Precollege- Took Intro to Quantum Atomic and Particle Physics,
Worked for about 1.5 years now

Awards(not so good):
National Merit Commended
AP Scholar with honors
Academic Honors
Academic Letter
EQT and Siemans Fellow Nominee

I can write essays pretty well and my Teacher recs should be good.

I really don’t know what else to put so just tell me if you need more. Thx

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bump

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Forgot to put:

Major: Physics
State: Texas
Superscore act 34: (35E 32M, 34R 35S)

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With URM you probably have good chances at all but Harvard, which is reasonable to apply to. The ECs and test scores are decent. I would apply to schools below that level also.

I assume you would know if you were recruited for tennis. The standard to be recruited for Ivies and even more Division III LACs is lower than for somewhere like Stanford.

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@sattut
Thanks for the input. Unfortunately I’m not good enough to play college but I still plan to play outside of it Haha

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Very strong chances at all. Good luck and chance me back please!

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Chances are encouraging.
Good luck!

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Good chances at every school besides Harvard.

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@doorrealthe Thanks for the chance. I expected Harvard was a bit much. I’d rather go to Cornell anyway.

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Did you mention your major choices at UT Austin in CNS?

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@lots2do I plan to do physics at UT Austin. I went to an honors seminar and even drove to Austin to meet with the head of the program and I think he likes me haha.

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You have a strong chance of getting into deans since you have previous lab experience and that is one of the things they look for in an applicant, as well as since your grades and scores are good overall. Although that isn’t always a guarantee since there are a lot of outstanding students that apply. And I am almost sure that I met you at the honors seminar (which had Austin’s Pizza just to see if its the right one since we have multiple) (which if you get admitted you will find out that we call that Friday lunch since we have an honors seminar on Wednesdays with no food :(.