Chances for MIT, Harvard, Caltech, UC Berkeley, and UCLA

Chance Me / Match Me!
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SAT I: Math: 790, Reading - 780, Writing - 760
ACT (breakdown): 36 composite, Math 36, English 36, Science 36, Reading 36
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA (I don’t know if this is the norm but at my school the highest weighted gpa you can have is a 7.0): 6.60
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/475
AP (place score in parentheses): Human Geography 5, World History 5, Statistics 5, English Literature 5
IB (place score in parentheses): Spanish SL 6
Senior Year Course Load: IB English HL, Math HL, Chemistry HL, History of the Americas HL, Physics SL, Theory of Knowledge, AP Environmental Science (I took several advanced math courses at my local community college - calc 2 etc)

Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): 3 time ISEF finalist, and I won the ASU Sustival nomination prize there, along with the USAID special award and $10000, Attended state science fair all throughout high school – 3rd place in 9th, 3rd place in 10th, 2nd place in 11th, won several special awards with cash prizes at the state fair. Sunshine State Scholar, FRC Dean’s List award

Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): AP Scholar, NM semifinalist

Summer Experience: Participated in UF SSTP, and I’m working on publishing a paper of my own research with a UF professor

Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description):
Founded math Club: President (10th - 12th)
Band: (9th - 11th), Lieutenant in 11th
FRC team: we routinely place at the world championships, and in my time on the team, we have made it to the top 8 teams in the world, Captain in 11th and Dean’s List award

Asian male.

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Bump

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MIT, Harvard, Caltech are always reach.

UCB and UCLA are reach if engineering or you need a rare large merit scholarship (otherwise no FA for out of state). Probably high match for L&S divisions if you can afford with no FA or are in state and can afford with in state FA.

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@esperantist did you mean FRC Dean’s List finalist? Because I was one of the winner for 2017 and unless you are Sreekar I don’t recognize you. I know all of the winner’s personally so I am questioning your title. This is Zach btw

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High reaches for MIT, Caltech, and Harvard. UCLA and UCB are matches/high matches.

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What are your subject test scores?

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@TheRolf dean’s list finalist.

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@minimango 800 math 2, 800 biology

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Unless you are going to state schools for financial reasons if you don’t get into the other schools you mention, I would apply to some other top 30 schools. Your record is strong, but it is hard to get into those schools for anyone, and demographics do not favor you. You have good chances at the UC schools you mention whatever the major.