Chances for Ivy/Top-Tier

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hi everyone. I’ve been stalking CC for about two years now and since I’m a rising senior, I decided to make an account and start gauging my chances along with interacting with the CC community. (Also sorry for misspellings I’m on my phone and messy)

Here are my stats.

Colleges of interest: Penn, Dartmouth, Northeastern, NYU, Georgetown, Cornell, American, UMiami

Intended major: Finance/Economics
If double major, political science, if not, minor

SAT 1440 (1450 SS) (retaking for 1540+)
SAT II Math II (taking June)
SAT II US History (taking June)
GPA 3.88
Class rank 20/550

Courseload senior year: (all Ap unless otherwise stated) Calc BC, Macro, Micro (online), comparative politics, gov (online), research, physics, debate 4

APs taken: human geo (5), psych (4), stat (3), wh (3), chem (tbd), calc ab (tbd), Lang (tbd), USH (tbd)

Take additional classes in Econ/finance/business at local college

Major Awards: National Merit Commended (projected), National Speech and Debate Finalist/Awards

EC:
Speech and Debate (2015-)
-NSDA/TOC/NCFL qualifier/competitor
-Finalist/Semi-Finalist on nat circuit
-Superior Distinction (900+ points)
-Academic All American
-Chief of Staff (leadership)
-my life

Youth in Government (2017-)
-Fall Delegation, State Assembly, leadership conferences
-Legislative Coordinator for Sullivan Senate
-Head of JYIG program at local middle school
-Participant in weekly political forum talk show (30+ weeks)
-Constitiuonal competition (scholarship won)

Class of 2019 (2015-)
-Sophmore historian, junior vp
-Planning homecoming, prom, service events, basic stuff lol

Mu Alpha Theta (2017-)
-SGA Rep
-Competed in different math competitions, district team 1st (LOG, ASMC)

Temple Youth Group (2014-)
-Programming VP (sophomore)
-Communicafions VP (junior)
-plan two events a month for social action and to get kids involved. Have done a lot of community servic, fundraising, etc but mostly to stimulate religious interest/helping to run a group that has been so good to me

NHS and a few other insignificant ones

Sports:
Cross country (2015-) jv cause I’m trash
Tennis (2016-) Varsity and district champs

Hobbies:
-love finance, economics, cryptocurrency
-made a few k in crypto in December/January and have invested (all own money) into developing a crypto trading platform (going live in July. Probably 5k invested total after all is said and done), also work on the core team of a crypto
-actively trade on crypto/stock market
-(potential) PhD level research in regards to conventional signaling mechanisms (RSI, KDJ) and their application to the crypto industry. Hopefully can team up with professor, if not it’ll be peer reviewed but have already started structuring research and thesis
-(potential) giving tedx on crypto later next year. Not super significant but fun

Summer activities:
-Debate workshops (Harvard 2017, Miami 2018)
-Counselor at environmental studies center (2015-17)
-Economic Leadership @ Tufts (2018)
-Mises Institute (Econ) @ Auburn (2018)
-Internship @ financial institution with equity derv (2018)
-also blessed to travel to a few peculiar countries

Geographic
-Florida
-Caucasian male
-upper income bracket (sister in college though)

Hooks
-legacy at northeastern

Lmk what everyone thinks. I’m just looking for recs on chances and also what I should focus on to really reinforce my application

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For the schools you mention I imagine you will get into at least 2.

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Above anything else, cost is your first consideration. If you can’t afford it, you’re not going there no matter how prestigious it is. Second, don’t get too exotic in your college list, otherwise you’ll end up with a long list of rejections or a list of acceptances to colleges you can’t afford. Start in-state and research scholarships, then work out from there.

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bump

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You are a competitive applicant. Your stats and ECs are good. Write great essays and you could get accepted to any of these schools

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By any chance are you including Dartmouth/Cornell/UPenn b/c they are part of the Ivy League and you think that as so-called “lower Ivies” you have a better chance? Or have you actually picked those 3 specifically b/c you see the academic and community experience as a good fit for you?

Have you considered doing PPE (Politics, Philosophy & Economics)? UPenn offers it, as do Pomona and Claremont McKenna (there are others, but those are the ones that seem most likely for you),

You are competitive, and theoretically you could reasonably get into most of those schools. You could also be rejected by most (even all) of them. I’m guessing you see UMiami as your ‘safety’: would you cry if that turned out to be your only choice? If so, get cracking on finding another option.

Random notes:

*Georgetown wants 3 subject tests.

*UPenn takes more than half the class ED (the acceptance rate for ED dropped from 22% to 18% this year. The overall admissions rate was 8.4% (down from 9.1% last year), which makes the RD rate something in the 2-3% range.

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Amazing and very well oriented ecs. They clearly show your passion for economics and cryptocurrency. Retake your SAT as you have planned to, and i think you will get accepted in at least one of these schools. Maybe chance me back? http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/2081007-chance-me-for-elite-schools.html#latest

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Thank you!