Chances for Ivy

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>What are my chances for the following schools RD, possibly for Biochemistry and/or mathematics?</p>

<p>MIT
Harvard
Cornell
Penn
Dartmouth
Brown</p>

<p>Asian male from Windsor Ontario Canada
Honor roll student: A average (80%+) for every year of high school
Special honor roll student: (90%+) for grade 10
Taken every enriched/gifted course offered (projected enriched credits: 20)
Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, English; working knowledge in French</p>

<p>SATs:
waiting, took december administration
SAT II:
Math IIC 800 Physics 760 Chemistry 730</p>

<p>Averages (Marks from our school are deflated and the schools know it because every year, we have at least 3 people going to Ivy or Psuedo-Ivy, so our marks are increased by 10% automatically)</p>

<p>Nine: 87% (A)
Ten: 92% (A)
Eleven: 87% (A)
Current marks: 89% (A)</p>

<p>English Enriched: 77% (B+)
French Enriched: 88% (A)
Chemistry Enriched: 97% (A+)
Physics Enriched: 79% (B+) (highly deflated)
Biology Enriched: 85% (A)
Calculus Enriched: 96% (A+)
Geometry and Discrete: 94% (A)
Computer Science: 95% (A+)</p>

<p>Competitions: (at least top 10% on all national contests)
AMC: 123
AIME: 7
ARML participant all 4 years. Massey Ontario A ranked 15th in North America against big state all star teams. Individual medallist.
COMC: 64
Euclid: 73
York Science Olympiad Team finish 3rd in province
Great Lakes Science Olympiad Team finish 1st overall 1st in Bio 1st in Chem
Sir Isaac Newton Contest: 97%ile
Avogadro Contest: 97%ile</p>

<p>Athletics:
Competitive Swimming, high school team, travel team
Club:
15+ hours/wk spread over 8 practices
Club Record Holder in two events
Southwestern Ontario regional champion in two events
Highschool:
City Champion in one event
Provincial Qualifier</p>

<p>School Clubs:
Debate team
Science club
Robotics team
Night math participant
Sunday math participant (by invitiation, ARML team is selected from this pool)</p>

<p>Work Experience:
Chef's assistant at Chinese restaurant on saturdays for 5hr/wk</p>

<p>Personal Circumstances:
Currently living alone, parents working in other cities</p>

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<p>everything looks good--maybe a little short on EC's. it all depends on who else applies now. you qualify for all of the schools with your stats. make your essays hooking!</p>

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<p>Ok, well I come from a really competitive school, so I probably only rank 10th out of like 300. Canadian schools don't rank. </p>

<p>We have about 10 other people applying to Ivy and they all have stellar SAT scores/EC/Marks and such.
Generally SAT scores in our school ranges from 2200 to 2290
and SAT II scores range from
MIIC800 (we're a math school)
P750 - 800
C730 - 790 (me being lowest :()
BM750+
and our marks are usually in the 89 to 92 range.</p>

<p>We have this many ppl applying to the following:
Harvard: 3 or 4
Yale: 2 or 3
Princeton: 3 or 4
Cornell: 3
Columbia: 2 (one was already accepted from ED)
Penn: 3
JHU: 1
Duke: 1
Northwestern: 1
UM: 3</p>

<p>so I'm pretty much screwed >.<
well on the bright side two years ago 2 ppl went to MIT, 1 to Harvard, and 2 went to Princeton
and last year 1 got in Harvard but went to UToroto, another got in both MIT and Princeton and went to Princeton, 2 more ppl went to Cornell</p>

<p>I guess my advantage is that our school is known. Disadvantage is that too many ppl are applying to the same schools, tough competition.</p>

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<p>i am still amazed that 5 ppl from my school last yr. got accepted into MIT - not all of them attended though</p>

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<p>Boo, I heard MIT has a quota of 5 on Canadians. So lucky...
Also in the grapevines is that two of which applying from Canada are IMO gold/silver medallist, so I'm even more screwed, even tho I'm the only applicant from my school to MIT this year.</p>

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<p>6 kids were accepted to MIT at my school 2 years ago :P .. only like 200 kids in their class</p>

<p>yay for houston.</p>

<p>only 1 girl I know thats applying this year.</p>

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<p>bump bump bump</p>

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<p>everything looks pretty good. hopefully you'll get what you want for the SATs</p>

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<p>bump -----------</p>