Chances for Harvard, Yale, etc

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Weighted GPA: 4.41
UW GPA: 3.89
Class Rank: ~28/1125 (Approximate after Mid Year Report)
ACT: 35 (35E,33M,36R,36S)
SAT II: 790 US, 770 Math II
AP: World History (5), Eng Lang (5), Env Sci (5), US History (5), Human Geo (4), Euro (4), Calc AB (4), Spanish Lang (4)</p>

<p>Honors:
National Merit Semifinalist
National Hispanic Scholar
National AP Scholar
National Honor Society (10th-12th)
Spanish Honor Society (11th-12th)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Sole Author of U.S. Patent for Solar/Wind Clean Energy Device in Nov. 2008
Co-Author of 2 patents pending for spectroscopic and NMR scanners
Research Assistant for 5 years at UT Southwestern and UTD
Cello for 8 years (Orchestra 6 years - Principal (1st Chair) for 2 years (10th & 11th) – 2012 Solo & Ensemble Rating of Superior
Manager for Family business; accounting & warehouse inventory (10th-12th)
Volunteer weekly at a local nursing home; (10th-12th) ~600 hours
Key Club (9th-12th) - President (10th) ~ 300 hours
Tango Group Leader (10th-12th--Private & group dance classes)
Founder and moderator of monthly book club (9th-12th)
Golf for 5 years (Handicap ~10)
Traveling for long periods of time (22 states & 10 countries: Morocco, Germany, UK, Austria, Italy, Costa Rica, 10 weeks in Spain, etc)</p>

<p>Mid Year Report/Senior Schedule:
AP Chemistry - 97
AP Biology - 93
AP Physics B - 94
AP English Lit - 90
AP Macroeconomics – 97
(Cumulative GPA from 4.37 to 4.41)</p>

<p>Interests: Pre-Medicine, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Biological and Biomedical Sciences</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Hispanic</p>

<p>Colleges:
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
UPenn (Grandfather Legacy)
Duke
Cornell
Rice
USC</p>

<p>I was just rejected from Stanford REA, so hopefully my luck fairs better with these other schools. I’m assuming my essays are pretty good but nothing amazing, and I actually think my recommendations may be below average. With all that in mind, anyone have some chances for me? I can’t resist updating my chances threads, it’s like an addiction heh</p>

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<p>I will be pretty shocked if you don’t get into at least one of your schools. UPenn/Duke - high matches, Rice/USC - match, HYP - “unchanceable.” But your URM should help! Good luck! You seem like an awesome candidate.</p>

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<p>Thanks! I know HYP are unlikely, but I atleast hope to get into UPenn or Duke, which would be my top choices after those three</p>

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<p>You should get a safety, candidates like you get rejected all the time</p>

<p>You have a chance like everyone else, good luck</p>

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<p>Candidates like me get rejected all the time? I don’t want to sound full of myself, but I can’t imagine a place like USC rejecting an applicant that’s Hispanic, Top 3%, 35 ACT, has patents, and great extracurriculars. I guess I didn’t realize I was just an applicant with ‘a chance like everyone else’, but I guess I’m wrong lol. Thanks for your input though, I guess I just don’t want to start stressing since my school isn’t sending out transcripts to any other colleges</p>

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<p>Sorry, I didn’t see USC on the list there, just saw a litany of top tier schools like everyone else on this site.</p>

<p>And yes, you do sound full of yourself. Thank you for listing your objetive stats again, it’s not like I didn’t see it the first time.</p>

<p>You’ll get into USC, and probably Rice too, I don’t know enough about them to be sure.</p>

<p>Everywhere else you’ll just be another applicant unless you can differentiate yourself from the rest.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>Wow the acid is literally dripping through the screen. And good thing that I briefly listed my stats again, considering you also overlooked some of the schools on my list. I’m not applying to top tier schools for no reason, but because I think they’d be a great fit for me. Am I supposed to just apply to USC and be completely satisfied with that one option?</p>

<p>And everywhere else I’ll “just be another applicant unless I can differentiate myself from the rest”? Seriously? I didn’t realize I was just like every other average applicant at Cornell. But thanks for the heads up</p>

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<p>I am inclined to agree with SpaceDuck. You came off as very humble and then became rather egotistical. Your accomplishments are outstanding. However, please don’t allow them to consume you. Also, you seem pretty sure about getting into USC and Rice, so why bother asking about them? Also, its true: candidates like you get rejected all the time (Hispanic or not). Plenty of kids can get a 35. Even I have a 35. My GPA is higher and my EC’s are just as good. My rank is also higher. However, I would never deem myself special. I’m just another candidate with good achievements. You are lucky that you have an URM hook. It may help you out, but it wont bring about some “WE NEED THIS KID” acceptance letter from the likes of HYP or even Upenn or Duke.</p>

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<p>Does everyone agree with ram? Can you guys read through what’s said and really agree with spaceduck’s comment that I’m just a very average applicant that does not differentiate myself from the rest at all? I’m sorry if I sounded egotistical, but there is no other way to sound as a response when someone is basically discarding my entire life of serious accomplishments. What am I supposed to do. Fake humbleness? “Oh ok thanks for your input, I realize I’m pretty average after all I guess”. I can’t help sounding like an ass, but my bs meter starts losing it after a while. And as I said before, I think HYP are unlikely regardless</p>

<p>EDIT: And I included USC and Rice to show that I had some safer options on that list as well</p>

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<p>And no doubt someone else is going to say “why ask for chances when you’ve already made up your mind”? Good point, I guess I have already figured it out. I am an above average applicant at most of these schools, and I don’t care about humbleness, it’s the plain truth. Nobody needs to comment on this thread anymore though</p>

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<p>LOL.</p>

<p>You definitely need an attitude adjustment. You might want to start off by not putting words in my mouth by implying that I suggested you shouldn’t apply to those top tier schools. Nowhere did I say that, and it’s true. You like everyone else on this site will be applying to those schools. Get over it.</p>

<p>“I can’t imagine a place like USC rejecting an applicant that’s Hispanic” - LOL it sounds like you’re banking on your ethnicity to get you in.</p>

<p>Also, I love how you automatically become butthurt when I merely suggest that you’re average in a pool of HIGHLY competitive applicants in the most selective college admissions process in the history of college admissions. If you’re an above average applicant, please do tell, why did you get rejected from Stanford then?</p>

<p>Really don’t know where the insult is there, you really need to get off your high horse.</p>

<p>You have high stats like the majority of candidates who apply. There are others with high stats who are Hispanic as well. They will have different extracurriculars, some that could stand out to an adcom, others that will not. </p>

<p>Am I supposed to become your best friend because you’re objectively qualified for these colleges? The reality is that being academically qualified isn’t enough anymore. Having fantastic extracurriculars isn’t enough anymore either (and I will admit, yours are much better than mine).</p>

<p>I suggest toning down your attitude immediately and pray it doesn’t show in your essays, or you’re going to be seeing rejections like Stanford.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>You’re the one that needs the attitude adjustment. The moment you started posting on this thread, you were deliberately unhelpful and acerbic. And clearly you meant to say you “just saw a litany of top tier schools like everyone else on this site.” as more of some kind of an insult rather than a statement, as shown by the rest of your post. And what I was saying was more of a rhetorical question, rather than me genuinely being serious about just applying to USC.</p>

<p>And talk about putting words into someone else’s mouth lol. You cropped my sentence to only include “Hispanic” at the end of the sentence. That is just plain ridiculous, trying to make it look like I’m banking just on being a URM. </p>

<p>And I have done extensive research on actually ‘average’ applicants, and I know I’m not simply a generic and typical applicant at Cornell or the like. Sorry if I sound like I’m on a high horse, but I just tell it as it is. Nothing worse than fake humbleness</p>

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<p>Sat128 , we in cc have seen a lot to realise that we cannot take anything for granted. If you don’t believe me look at the Stats of Silverturtle, and i could give more examples where you know the candidate should have gotten in but doesn’t. Look at MIT EA Stats this year and tell me why a 2400 is deferred. When you are dealing with IVYs be very careful, Your URM status and ACT 35 can get you only so far. In all honesty, you will get into a good school, don’t be surprised if it is not IVY.</p>

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<p>Hahaha, come on bro, seriously? We’re not trying to be ass-holes here. We’re trying to be realistic. You may seem awesome in your…im about to make a really big and terribly politically incorrect generalization…but big city high school. I’m mostly basing this off of the fact that you have 1000+ kids in your grade. Anyways, the truth hurts…but yes, you are nothing special on a site like this. SpaceDuck and I are simply trying to convey that in these applicant pools you would be in 50-60th percentile. For HYP, 20-30%. Everyone’s a strong candidate. It’s basically an unofficial requirement. I dont understand why you are getting so offended after imploring us for answers. </p>

<p>“I’m sorry if I sounded egotistical, but there is no other way to sound as a response when someone is basically discarding my entire life of serious accomplishments. What am I supposed to do. Fake humbleness? “Oh ok thanks for your input, I realize I’m pretty average after all I guess”.”</p>

<p>We’re not saying that you should undervalue your own accomplishments. But, simply that these schools will not think you are awesome, simply because you managed to do so much as a Hispanic. </p>

<p>Fake humbleness? Bro, on a site like this you should be the epitome of humble. There are kids on here that will make you feel and look like crap. You want to be seen as a godly candidate who is blessing an Adcomm with your application? Apply to your state school.</p>

<p>I was just trying to help.</p>

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<p>@fatherofm
Yeah I realize that flukes can happen or just unluckiness. But in general, I thought it was just weird to just nod in agreement that I’m a completely average applicant. I’ll try to stop being as much of an ass though</p>

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<p>Please, do define your view of “average”. Your research is limited to scores, GPAs, other chance calculators/sites. You don’t know the average applicant to Cornell’s extracurriculars or essays, so where is this extensive research?</p>

<p>So by telling you to get a safety means I’m being “deliberately unhelpful and acerbic?” Wow pulling out the big word “acerbic”, nothing like pretentiousness gets you into Stanford amirite?</p>

<p>Continue to enlighten me with your pompousness, it’s clearly served you well with your REA school.</p>

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<p>@ram
haha ok yeah I guess I should cool down a bit, just been having a rough time with everything lately. And I’m at a high school ranked in the top 50 best of the nation (it’s in a suburban area too btw), but ik it’s just a random generalization. Yeah I guess I’m not exactly amazing when compared to quite a few of these HYP applicants, but I don’t like feeling so inadequate is all</p>

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<p>No one here is trying to make you feel inadequate. We’re giving you a realistic picture of what goes down in college admissions.</p>

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<p>@Spaceduck
You’re seriously going to attack my decision to use the word ‘acerbic’? I use that word all the time lol, didn’t realize it makes a person seem pretentious…</p>

<p>And do I really need to go into detail as to how I know I’m an above ‘average’ applicant for Cornell? Just look at the past acceptance/rejection threads for starters</p>

<p>But as I said, I don’t really want to keep arguing, as I think it’s making all of us look worse</p>

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<p>I just want to say one thing. If your attitude is shown in your essay, you’ll be rejected by all on the list, whether you could imagine or not.</p>