Chances for top colleges after deferral!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Just got deferred from Yale (NO CLUE WHY BUT STAYING ON WAITING LIST)...seems like virtually everyone did...anyway:</p>

<p>SAT I: 2320 single sitting (800 M 770 CR 750 W)
SAT II: 800 Math I, 800 Bio E/M, 800 Spanish
GPA: 99.6/100
Rank: n/a
AP: World History (4), US History (5), English Language (5), Biology (5)
Junior year:
Algebra II/Trig H: 100 AVG, weighted 102
Chem H: 99 AVG, weighted 101
AP Bio: 100 AVG, weighted 105
AP Lang: 95 AVG, weighted 100
AP USH: 94 AVG, weighted 99
Spanish 4H: 98 AVG, weighted 100</p>

<p>Major Awards: Siemens Regional Finalist, USABO national qualifier, National Merit commended student, Bausch&Lomb Honorary Science Award, AP Scholar w/ Honor, National Spanish Exam Gold medal x2 </p>

<p>ECs: All-County Band x2, Science Club (President), Hebrew Culture Club, Jazz Band, Wind Ensemble, NHS, Science NHS, Mu Alpha Theta NHS, Spanish NHS, Tri-M(music) NHS
Job/work: Mentorship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (2 summers)
Sports: Varsity Swim since freshman year
Varsity XC
JV Baseball
Reflection: Strengths: Very well-rounded, Heavy science related ECs, half first-gen
Weaknesses: Middle class white-jewish from LI
Where else I'm applying: Duke, JHU, Brown, Georgetown, Harvard, UPenn, Princeton, Boston College, YALE HOPEFULLY.
I know most of the schools on this list are "crapshoot" schools, but I don't understand why I was waitlisted at Yale and now I have no idea where I want to go If I don't get accepted there. I want to have a Molecular Biology-related major w/ pre-med focus...any insight? Thanks</p>

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<p>Duke- you should be fine, i’d say, if your essays were good.
JHU- you should be fine, i’d say, if your essays were good.
Brown- if your essays showed a lot of interest, i think you have a great chance.
Georgetown- you should be fine, i’d say, if your essays were good.
Harvard- crapshoot.
UPenn- crapshoot.
Princeton- crapshoot.
BC- safety.
Yale- crapshoot.</p>

<p>Honestly, we can’t really pinpoint why you didn’t get into Yale, but perhaps you shouldn’t be so shocked? It doesn’t exactly make you look very modest…</p>

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<p>Don’t know why you’re not applying to MIT or Caltech… you’d be a very strong applicant there due to your science EC’s/achievement.</p>

<p>Harvard, Yale, Princeton - High Reach (no hook + nothing TOO compelling about your app)</p>

<p>JHU (if BME), brown, Duke, UPenn - Lower, but still reach</p>

<p>Probably in at Boston College or Georgetown. They’d be dumb to not accept you. You stand a good chance of being admitted to at least a few of your reaches though. Best of luck.</p>

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<p>“I don’t understand why I was waitlisted at Yale”</p>

<p>Believe me, you will be waitlisted from more colleges in RD round and you will never know why. (I was waitlisted from 6 top 15 colleges last year)</p>

<p>But, you will get into some great colleges in the end.</p>

<p>Good luck to you!</p>

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<p>Didn’t mean to sound cocky, just doesn’t make sense when looking at some of the people who got in. And @mathnerd1, MIT and CalTech have probably the lowest average GPA of all these schools. If I’m going to get into medical school…I need an outstanding GPA, which means somewhere with grade inflation is preferred…IVY LEAGUE IS WHERE IT’S AT!!! :)</p>

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<p>Sorry, didn’t see the premed part. :o</p>

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<p>Don’t worry about it! But seriously, I don’t think they actually reviewed most of the applications…they rejected a black female thats a Siemens semi finalist with a 2400 and 100 GPA from my school…</p>

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<p>If I got Intel semifinalist could that possibly give me a boost?</p>

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<p>Don’t you think they will know that MIT is the top science school and that having a low GPA from there is better than a higher GPA elsewhere? I can’t imagine it being any other way.</p>

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<p>Just so you know, Princeton actually has grade deflation. Anyway, you’re chances look good. JUST RELAX.</p>

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<p>wizkid94- despite the contrary, 75% of MIT premeds get rejected from EVERY SINGLE med school they apply to…</p>