Chances for some reaches

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 640 CR, 740 M, 730 W. 2110 Total. First time and best score (everything dropped the 2nd time because I was sick..).
[</em>] ACT: Took in Sept. Waiting on it
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Math II, 700 Physics, 700 Biology, 730 Math I (doesn't really count since I took math 2)
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.78. Freshman - 3.2, Sophomore - 4.09, Junior - 4.04. Yeah my freshman year sucked lol. School gives 4.3 for A+s, but no weighted grades.
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Not ranked.
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): English composition (4).
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc AB, AP Lit, AP Macro, AP Bio, AP Gov, AP Stat
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Maxima Cum Laude, Cum Laude, and some school awards
[/ul]</p>

<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
-Volunteer at a senior residence center for Alzheimer patients for 3 years
-Varsity Tennis, Captain of JV 10th grade, Manager of Girls Varsity Tennis,
-6 years of Piano. Play piano for senior residence as part of my community service
-Sports editor and writer for school newspaper
-National Honors Society, Service Leader
-Some unimportant clubs I probably wont mention, such as Key Club (just a volunteer)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: none..
[<em>] Summer Activities:
-CTY: Mathematical Modeling, Center for Talented Youth
-5 week internship at Harvard Medical School doing research
-Cornell Summer College (A-)
-Doctor shadowing
[</em>] Essays: Had it reviewed for a few people. Should be solid
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Good
[/ul]</p>

<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NY
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: 100,000
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none
[/ul]</p>

<p>Applying to[ul]
[<em>] ED Cornell CALS. Biological Engineering major
[</em>] EA UChicago
[<em>] Northwestern
[</em>] UC Berkeley
[<em>] Emory
[</em>] WashU in St.L
[<em>] Boston College
[</em>] Brandeis
[li] I do have safeties[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>you have a solid chance on all of them
might wanna get some more hours for volunteer
chance me too</p>

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<p>They are reaches?</p>

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<p>I know they are reaches, but how big of a reach?</p>

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<p>bump before logging off</p>

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<p>They’re all low reaches, you pretty much have a good shot at all of them, but nothing’s guaranteed.</p>

<p>Write stellar essays. Retake SATs and ACTs and see if you do better. If not, your current scores are great! Good luck.</p>

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<p>Thanks. I don’t think I’m retaking the SATs, so I’m hoping the ACT will pull through.
I’m just worried about my CR score since English is not my first language</p>

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<p>bump 10char</p>

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<p>Put that in your application, gives you a significant edge.</p>

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<p>The CommonApp does ask how long I’ve lived in the US and what was my first language :slight_smile: (7 years and Chinese)</p>

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<p>bump 10char</p>

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<p>bump 10char</p>

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<p>bump. I’ll chance back</p>

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<p>Cornell - low to mid reach (just because of that CR score)
UChicago - low-reach (hard to say because they heavily consider essays!)
Northwestern - low reach
UC Berkeley - low to mid-reach (because OOS is very competitive as far as I know)
Emory - match/high match
WashU - high match/low reach (not very familiar with their stats)
Boston College - match
Brandeis - match</p>

<p>I think you have good chances for your schools listed! The first four listed are reaches, but you are a competitive applicant. The only thing I can see hurting you is your CR score & being an ORM. I second avenlea, write amazing essays & hopefully your ACT will be a bit higher (although your scores are already very good!).</p>

<p>I’d say you will get into at least one of the reaches, probably more. Best of luck! :)</p>

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<p>Wow nice list of extracurricular activities! However it says that you’ve only listed 1 ap test score before senior year? Did you just choose not to take the ap tests? Since you taking 6 ap classes senior year I think it’ll make it up though. Since your applying for Cornell ED and Chicago EA I think you have a great chance at all of those schools.</p>

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<p>UPDATE:
33 ACT
EA to UMich</p>