Chances for Ivy League, MIT, Berkley and UChicago

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi, I will be a senior next year and I was wondering if I'm on track to go to top level schools. Originally I thought I was fine, but after seeing some excellent posts, I was wondering if I would have any chance of success applying to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, UPenn, and MIT. Please chance back!</p>

<p>School: Small Private, highly competitive
Income: 120,000
Ethnicity: white, male</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<p>SATI: 730, 800, 780
SATII:
US History: 780
World History: 760
MathII: 730
Chinese: 690
Chemistry: 710
Physics: 800
ACT: 35</p>

<p>9th Grade:
My school doesn't do honors or regents, just AP's when you get to the level.</p>

<p>Bio: A+
Geometry: A
Algebra II/ Trig: A-
Orchestra: A+
Ancient History: A
English 9: A-
Chinese 2: A-
MUN: A+ (This is a class at my school, highly competitive. We are one of the best teams in the nation.)
Programming I: A+</p>

<p>Summer before 10th grade Pre-Calc and Chem. Both A-</p>

<p>10th Grade:</p>

<p>AP Calculus AB (4)
AP Bio (5)
AP Chem (4)
MUN: A+
Programming 2: A
AP World History (3)
English 10 Composition: A-
Chinese 3: A-
Orchestra: A+</p>

<p>11th Grade:</p>

<p>AP Calculus BC (4)
AP Physics E & M (4)
AP Physics M (4)
MUN: A+
AP Computer Science (3)
AP European History (5)
AP English Lang (4)
AP Chinese (Mandarin) (4)
Orchestra: A+</p>

<p>12th Grade (Some stuff still unsure)</p>

<p>Certain:
*Calculus III/ Differential Equations
*Chem III/ Physics III
MUN
Orchestra
*Chinese 5/ Chinese 6
AP USH
AP Lit
Second Semester Study Hall</p>

<ul>
<li>When students take classes that are more advanced than the school can teach they are sent to local university to take more challenging classes. These classes are on semester schedule.</li>
</ul>

<p>Uncertain (One available block)
Options:
Study Hall
Forensic Science
Geology
CAD</p>

<p>Self Studies APs 9th/ 10th Grades
Micro/ Macro (5) (4)
Environmental Science (5)
Psychology (5)
Human Geography (5)</p>

<p>EC's
Intel ISEF finalist 1 years
Siemens Competition Finalist (With partner) 2 years
Everything else is ordinary:
Varsity XCountry all-state
Varsity Ski Race
Varsity Golf all-state
Volunteer hours ~1200
Started small business profit $5,000
Area all-state Cello 3 years
Playing Cello for 7 years, Piano for 6 years, Bass for 6 years
Science Olympiad</p>

<p>Not quite sure about major, thinking of Astros-Physics, Geo-Physics, Quantum Mechanics or Biochemistry</p>

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<p>What is your GPA?
Nice EC’s and test scores though. </p>

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<p>UW 3.89</p>

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<p>W 4.78</p>

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<p>Thanks.
Harvard: Reach
Yale: Reach/Low reach
Princeton:Reach
Columbia: Reach
Cornell: Low reach
Brown: Low reach/reach
Dartmouth: Low Reach
UPenn: Low reach
MIT: Reach
Berkely: High Match
Uchicago: Low Reach
Make sure you have 1 or 2 safeties. I bet you’ll get into at least two of the reaches/low reaches</p>

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<p>If I can get all As senior year my UW will be 3.909 and weighted will be 4.9</p>

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<p>Harvard: Reach
Yale: Reach
Princeton: Reach
Columbia: Low Reach
Cornell: High match
Brown: Low reach/reach
Dartmouth: High match
UPenn: Low reach
MIT: Reach
Berkely: Match
Uchicago: Match</p>

<p>Chance me back
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<p>Everything on here is a high reach. These are all the most selective private schools in the country and if you are OOS for Berkeley, it is a high reach too. I know a student who applied to every ivy, Stanford, MIT, and Caltech and got rejected from every one of them with a 4.0 and a 2390 on the SAT.</p>

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<p>Everything except Berkeley and Cornell is a reach. </p>

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<p>Why is that, just for reference?</p>

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<p>Just look at acceptance rates. </p>

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<p>Cornell is still a high reach and if you don’t live in Cali, so is Berkeley</p>

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<p>Don’t live in California, live in Ithaca, NY.</p>

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<p>just having a question irrelevant to your problem
whats your motive for learning Chinese? </p>

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<p>I think you have a pretty good shot, but in my opinion, the fact that there are a lot of 4s and even some 3s may indicate that you’re mistaking quantity over quality. For example, people who take medium difficulty course loads still challenge themselves while being able to extensively study each subject. But if you take 7 APS, you may know it decently well, but Jim bob over here took 5 and got all 5s, and he knows them all extremely well. Just keep that in mind as you enroll in classes for senior year. </p>

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<p>Harvard: High Reach
Yale: Reach
Princeton: High Reach
Columbia: Reach
Cornell: Low Reach
Brown: Reach
Dartmouth: Reach
UPenn: Reach
MIT: High Reach
Berkely: Match
Uchicago: Low Reach</p>

<p>Chance me back
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1660300-cornell-uc-berk-cmu-umich-georgia-tech.html#”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1660300-cornell-uc-berk-cmu-umich-georgia-tech.html#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I was a finalist in the Intel ISEF Science Fair. It was in California, I live in New York. They are very far away. The Science Fair took place in May. AP Tests occur in May. I was at the science fair for 2.5 weeks. All the AP Tests took place during those weeks. I got back on Saturday, I had Sunday to devote nothing else to but to study. I took 4 AP Tests on Monday, and 3 on Tuesday. That is very challenging. Have you ever taken 4 APs in one day, its not fun. I don’t know if I can retake the tests again, but if I could I could virtually guarantee a 5 in every one.</p>

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<p>I went to my current school in 8th Grade due to scholarship, Chinese seemed to be a interesting language so I bullied my way in</p>

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<p>Anyone chance?</p>

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<p>Anyone</p>