Chances for HYPSMIT for a friend in a interesting gpa/standardized testing situation?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>He's a super slacker and it shows since he wanted me to put this thread up for him</p>

<p>3.5 UW GPA<-he is concerned his GPA is too low (not even within the top 10% in our class rank)
(2.9 Freshmen year, a solid 3 b-'s, 4 b's, and 1 A
3.97 Sophomore Year
4.0 Junior Year)
Our school does not weight GPA
2400 SAT w/ 12 on Essay
35 ACT w/ 10 on Essay (35, english, 35 math, 34 reading, 34 science)</p>

<p>Subject Tests:
710 Math 2 (lol he sucks this is the only thing I've beat him on)
760 USH
780 Biology E/M</p>

<p>AP's:
AP World-5
AP US-5
AP Lang-4
AP Calc BC-4 w/ AB subscore of 5
AP Bio-5</p>

<p>He will be taking 3 more this coming fall:
AP Chem
AP Gov
AP Lit
Multivariable Calculus/DFQ at University</p>

<p>EC's:
Student Body President
Founder of Science and Math Honor Society freshman year, he will be the president of the society for the 4th consecutive year this year.
1st Place finish at State Policy Debate (Headed to nationals this fall)
Model UN Best Delegate, invited to MUN conference in Beijing China (declined)
NHS Secretary (Would have been president but school disallowed him from being student body and NHS president)
800+ Hours of volunteer work. (We have a 200 hour summer program at University's Hospital every summer)
Paid Research Internship aiding labtechs for 1 summer.</p>

<p>He wants to go on the pre-med or compsci track but is considering all the ivies.
What are his chances at:
HYPSMIT
Columbia
Brown
Cornell
Upenn (Wharton)
CMU
UC Berkely
Cooper Union
Amherst</p>

<p>He wants to apply ED to Wharton or Columbia, would you all recommend this or ED at HYPSMIT?</p>

<p>Also, he wants to disregard safeties (such an inflated ego ik) would this be acceptable considering his impressive stats?)</p>

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<p>His ECs don’t show that he’s a slacker. He may have had trouble in school. Upward trend is nice, but these schools you’re inquiring about want fantastic grades all throughout high school. Apply based on what he wants to major in. If he ED’s to Wharton business, then some other schools shouldn’t even be on the list as they don’t have a business school. He has the statistically best chance at Cornell out of the Ivies. But again, it really depends on his interests</p>

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<p>The upward trend is good, but his very low GPA freshman year could definitely hurt him. I would still recommend he apply to top-10 schools, but also to have enough matches and safeties under his belt.</p>

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<p>does a 3.5 ruin his chances though?</p>