Chances for Ivies and such...

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi! I'm wondering what my chances are for getting into: Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Caltech, MIT, Harvard, Cornell, UC Berkeley, & UC San Diego.</p>

<p>Here are some of my stats:
GPA: W-4.32 (will raise since I'm taking more AP's this year), UW-4.00
Class Rank: 1/473
SAT (highest): CR-680, W-710, M-780 (I'm taking it my 3rd time in Oct. & hopefully get higher scores)
Subject Tests: Bio-M - 790, Chem - 790, Math II - 800
ACT: (Will take for the 1st time in Oct.)
APs: World History-5, Art History-4, Bio-5, Chem-4, Calc AB-5, US History-3, Eng Lang-5
Stats, Psych, Eng Lit, & Span Lit - TBD</p>

<p>Honors/Awards: (not much)
Honor Roll (at my school)
3rd place in county science & engineering fair</p>

<p>EC's:
Tennis (9, 10)
Chemistry Club (11,12) - founder & president
Math Club (10-12) - founder & president
NHS (11,12), CSF (10-12), & Interact Club (11,12) - active member
Volunteering: 100+ hrs teaching English to orphans in China during summer of 2010 (but other than that, not much)</p>

<p>Also, I'm planning to major in engineering, most likely biomedical engineering.</p>

<p>So... what are my chances? THANKS.</p>

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<p>Your academics are definitely amazing, but…well, I guess that being founder and president of both Chemistry and Math club plus your volunteering is pretty significant. If you could just raise your CR score and keep your W + M score around the same, you should have a decent chance at UCB and a pretty good one at UCSD.</p>

<p>The other schools? I’m not sure. Engineering is a pretty hard major to being with, or so I’ve heard. I hope someone else would be able to actually chance you.</p>

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<p>Kagami is right, engineering is a tough major. I’m not too sure exactly how good Harvard’s engineering program is; while the name is great, I’m pretty sure it’s more med/law oriented.
Bring the CR up and you should be in at UC’s, assuming you’re in state. You still have a good shot if you’re out of state.
SAT II’s are good, AP’s are decent (score wise). Being Asian (I’m assuming you are) doesn’t really help either, unfortunately. Bring up the SAT (CR and W) and you should have a pretty good shot at JHU and Cornell. To be painfully honest, Caltech and MIT both usually look for something extremely outstanding in your EC’s, like USAMO qualifier or Intel (semi)finalist. Not sure how much your GPA/rank will help you here. Harvard and Stanford are crapshoots, but if you bring up your SAT score you’ll have a fighting chance.</p>