chances for HYP, dartmouth, stanford

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Family Income: <40,000, 4 people
Ethnicity: Asian , born outside of U.S came when 4
First Generation College Student</p>

<p>GPA: 94.7 ( i have many 70s on my transcript from freshman year but i bumped it up, getting 99s and 100s ) rank: 67/850</p>

<p>SAT: math (800) reading (780) writing (760)= 2340...first shot</p>

<p>APS: world history 4, physics 5, calc 5, psychology 5, american hist 5
SAT IIs - algebra 800 physics 780 american hist 790</p>

<p>acedemic honors: honor roll, won local library competition about my eighborhood 500 dollars, essay contest, 220 on psat, INTEL SEMIFINALIST yes!!</p>

<p>extracir.=
volunteer work- Tutor kids in my old elementary school having problems with reading and math skills, Volunteer for American Cancer Society for 4 years--(created club in school)-- and i do a leadership program for them, i play guitar for people in hospitals and in fundraising events, Volunteer at Hospital(3 yrs) and i do voluntary research every day after school for the past 2 years for my intel project</p>

<p>school clubs- cancer club raised 5,000 dollars for cancer, president.
editor in chief- of school newspaper, represented school at columbia journalism- recieved award for article
- model u.n
- big producition in my school that has acng, singing, dancing, music...i 'm in the band
-part of service roll for school</p>

<p>job- 15 hours a week since junior year at b&n, summer camp job</p>

<p>i did the common app art supplement for my guitar talent</p>

<p>SCHOOLS: DARTMOUTH, STANFORD, GEORGETOWN, DUKE, JOHN HOPKINS, UPENN CORNELL, HYP</p>

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<p>Not one safety?</p>

<p>I imagine your chances are pretty good (in my imaginings, not based on anything scientific), especially if you demonstrate what you're passionate about in your essays.</p>

<p>Since on one level you're "typical" of the applicant pool (high-achieving, driven), any demonstration that you could give any of the schools that that's where you <em>really</em> want to go would help.</p>

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<p>this applicant is hardly "typical", havya. High achieving is called high achieved specifically because a level has been achieved that is not typical.
Great chances anywhere... seriously</p>

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<p>don't retake the SATs that should be your only time taking them. You have good courses, but they could be MUCH better. Your rank will hurt you. But you have great ECs and Intel Semifinalist is EXTREMELY good. What was your research on for the Intel competition?</p>

<p>Harvard: High Reach (it is for everyone)
Princeton: High Reach (again, it is for everyone)
Yale: High Reach (Again it is for everyone)
Stanford: High Reach (AGAIN it is for everyone)
Dartmouth: Low Reach
JHU: Match/Low Reach
Cornell: Low Reach/High Match
Georgetown: High Match
Duke: High Match
UPENN: Reach</p>

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<p>wowza, great chances! but not one safety? I am sure you'll get into at least one of those schools but it is still a little risky. why didn't you apply SCEA to yale or stanford or EA to g-town?</p>

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don't retake the SATs that should be your only time taking them. You have good courses, but they could be MUCH better. Your rank will hurt you. But you have great ECs and Intel Semifinalist is EXTREMELY good. What was your research on for the Intel competition?

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<p>Ugh. Why on Earth would he not retake the SATs, and why would his rank "hurt him"? They're all above average. </p>

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Harvard: High Reach (it is for everyone)
Princeton: High Reach (again, it is for everyone)
Yale: High Reach (Again it is for everyone)
Stanford: High Reach (AGAIN it is for everyone)

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<p><em>sigh</em> no. His SATs and stats in general are well above average for all of these schools. There's no intelligent reason to describe them as "High Reaches", and it doesn't make sense to say that they're reaches for "everyone". </p>

<p>Clearly, there are a lot of qualified applicants so the results are unpredictable, but that hardly means that the schools should be considered reaches. </p>

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Dartmouth: Low Reach
JHU: Match/Low Reach
Cornell: Low Reach/High Match
Georgetown: High Match
Duke: High Match
UPENN: Reach

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<p>Seems reasonable, although you're still exaggerating a lot. His chances are pretty good for all of them.</p>

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<p>I'm a female =)
I didn't apply for SCEA because of problems with getting my application together.
My safety is Boston University/ Binghamton.</p>

<p>and thank you.
I do feel though as if even though my grades are above average a lot of people have my score and most of all i fear for my freshman year grades, i have many 70s ..but my essay will be about how playing the guitar has made me a better student and achiever.
and thank you again =)</p>

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<p>bump 10char</p>