Chances for Ross(UM), Harvard, Brown, Columbia..

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a senior in high school, applying to college for Fall 2011. Thanks guys!</p>

<p>-Colleges Being Applied To:
Harvard
UM (Ross Business School) [EA]
Brown (and PLME program)
Columbia
Duke
MIT (Sloan)
Yale
Princeton
Dartmouth
Penn (Wharton)</p>

<p>-SAT Scores:
-Superscore: 780 CR, 800 Math, 760 Writing (2340)
-Best 1 Test: 780 CR, 800 Math, 760 Writing (2290)
-SAT II's: 800 Math II, 770 Bio, 770 Chem, 730 US History</p>

<p>-GPA: (100 pt scale)
-Unweighted: 94.682
-Weighted: 99.962
-3.78 on a 4 pt scale</p>

<p>-Class Rank
-6/465</p>

<p>-Course Load:
-Took hardest courses possible all years (not allowed to take AP's til 11th at my school)
-11th Grade: AP English Lit, AP Bio, AP Chem, AP Calc AB, AP US History
-12th Grade: AP English Lang, AP Gov, AP Physics, AP Stat, Allied Health(take courses at a hospital)
-Also took AP French and AP Calc BC online</p>

<p>-AP Tests:
-Bio: 5, Chem: 5, Calc AB: 5</p>

<p>-EC's:
-Varsity Tennis (9,10,11,12), Captain (11,will be 12)
Also plays tennis for the USTA, ranked #4 in Philadelphia
-Violin (9,10,11,12)
Piano (9,10)
-Summer Internship at Wills Eye Hospital with Dr. George Spaeth, #2 glaucoma physician in US. Conducted a clinical research study, will be published in a medical journal in 2011/2012.
-Volunteer at local hospital: 160 hours put in so far
-Cambridge Summer program (9): took Medical science and international business courses at Cambridge University in Cambridge, UK
-Future Business Leaders of America Club (9,10,11,12): Treasurer (10), VP (11), Pres (12), Made the state competition 2 years running. Placed 10th in state (10)
-Save-A-Life Club (10,11,12): Treasurer (11) President (12)
-National Honors Society Member
-Part-time job at Kumon Tutoring Center (9,10,11,12): Has been working for 7 years, over 2200 hours worked.</p>

<p>-Essays: Good/Great. Commonapp essay is about the internship at Will's Eye and how it has affected my life due to my grandmother's diagnosis with glaucoma and subsequent blindness (all true)</p>

<p>-Teacher Recs: Haven't read. Should be great. One's from AP Chem teacher, another is honors bio + my school tennis coach, and the last is from my 10th grade English teacher. I have a great relationship with all of them</p>

<p>-Counselor Rec: Should be amazing. My counselor has told me I'm the best student she's had.</p>

<p>-School Type: Public School (Methacton High School)</p>

<p>-Ethnicity: Indian</p>

<p>-Gender: Male</p>

<p>-Major Strength/Weakness: Great grades, amazing math scores (99 averages), but relatively low class rank; I have an amazingly smart class..</p>

<p>It's a lot of info, I know.. I tried to keep it as neat as possible
And I'd really like to go to either Harvard or Ross, so if you could let know about those schools in more detail, I'd really appreciate it.
Also, let me know if you see any flaws in my overall application that I could shore up or fix.</p>

<p>Chances please! Thanks in advance guys!</p>

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<p>Will your name be on the publication you mentioned? And do you know what’s the journal’s name?? :)</p>

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<p>As an ORM, you are just another high-achieving, competitive applicant. When it comes to the Ivies, it’s hard to say by any measure. Welcome to CC, by the way.</p>

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<p>^ I was going to say something like that too.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the welcome, guys :slight_smile:
And sorry for sounding newbie-ish, but what is orm? I’ve never heard that before…</p>

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<p>“Over represented minority”. Basically, there are a lot of applicants with a similar background and similar stats as you so it is extra essential to set yourself apart from competition! Best of luck :)</p>

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<p>ORM is “over-represented minority”, pretty much Asians.
URM is the opposite, see African Americans, Native Americans, and Hispanics</p>

<p>Caucasians are considered the middle.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the help elbeen :)</p>

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<p>well im not going to lie, nothing about that really stands out.
as a ORM, it is no guarantee for any of those schools.</p>

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<p>Haha it’s okay, I appreciate brutal honesty.
Thanks for your input anyways :)</p>

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<p>Hi I don’t want to sound mean or anything, but I used to be like you, only took APs, did bunch of honor societies, volunteering activities, and extracurricular activities…and
I had a DREAM of going to the Ivie Leagues all my life…</p>

<p>but right now i am a college student and I regret that I only applied to the high ranked schools because they didn’t give me admission even if I had all the stats I needed to go there…I guess there was a big competition among students who had perfect grades and they just decided to take them instead…</p>

<p>my life is SO miserable…I always think about the times when I was in high school, and why the hell I applied to those schools I did…I should’ve applied to public schools and good safety schools too…</p>

<p>I am trying to You do not have ANY safety schools and what will you do if you get rejected by all of them?</p>

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<p>I do have safety schools, and other such schools.
I simply didn’t bother putting them up because I figured that I didn’t want to waste people’s times by putting those on.
Schools like Northeastern University, that I could get into with full tuition, I didn’t put on.</p>

<p>So in conclusion, I guess I just didn’t add them to the list, though maybe I should have.</p>

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<p>If none of these schools are guarantees, are there any schools I shouldn’t bother applying to, that I don’t have a chance of getting into?
Or is it just that I’m not solid on any of them, but I still have a shot at all of them?</p>

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<p>You’ll get into Michigan and into Ross later of not pm. The others will just depend on how compelling your app is.</p>

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<p>Hey why aren’t you answering my question? :slight_smile: </p>

<p>Is your name going to be on publication?? And the journal’s name??</p>

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<p>Sorry Eugenie, I didn’t notice it.
And yes, my name will be in the publication.
We’re not sure which publication yet, as we’re still pushing it through to multiple journals.</p>

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<p>Anyone else?</p>

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<p>OP, at Northeastern, unless you are a National Merit Finalist, you can’t count of a full tuition scholarship. Possible but not guaranteed.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the heads up :slight_smile:
Not to sound conceited or anything, that’s not at all what I’m going for, but I’m reasonably sure that I should be a Nat’l Merit Finalist, so I should be able to count on a full tuition scholarship, right?</p>

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<p>bump… anyone?</p>