<p>Hey guys, I'm a long time lurker who just decided to create an account. As a rising senior at a private school in the So Cal region, I'm planning to apply to UCLA, UCB (EECS), UCSD, Caltech, CMU, MIT, Cornell, and Stanford. I would really appreciate it if some of you guys could chime in with my chances to be admitted into these universities. I want to apply for the CS/CS&Engineering majors. I hope to someday research in the bioinformatics field. </p>
<p>Objective breakdown:
SAT 1 - 2320 (800M,780CR,740W)
SAT 2 - 800 Math 2, 800 Physics, 780 Chem
GPA: 4.00 (Class Rank 1 unweighted, which ~20 students have).
APs: Calc AB (sophomore year), European History, CS, Calc BC junior year. All 5's.
Currently taking biology and discrete mathematics courses this summer at a nearby community college.
Senior schedule: Orchestra, AP Lit, AP Physics 2, AP French Language, APUSH, AP Stats. I also plan to take a CS course at a community college.</p>
<p>Extracurriculars/Subjective:
-Participated in school orchestra for 3 years and plan to continue as a senior. Officer of band club at school. Went to many recitals outside of school and received recognition (although not major).
-Additionally, my friends and I set up a music teaching program this past year at a local community center, where we volunteer to teach and interest children in music. We organized a recital for them at the end of the year
-3 years of Water Polo & Swimming - varsity for 2 years, and hopefully next year. (Was the team co-captain for both this and hopefully next year).
-Started a computer science learning & competition club with some friends at school - we encourage people to learn coding and participate in competitions such as ACSL.
- Been volunteering since before 9th grade at blood drives.
- I code iOS and Objective C/C++ applications for fun, so I made a website where I host these and write about them. Additionally, I created manage our orchestra website and a website made for a campaign related to a blood drive organization.
- Been volunteering through a club at our school and have over 100+ hours.
- For 2 summers, I had a job at a tutoring center teaching and helping kids with science and reading skills.
-Aside from my classes this summer, I have an internship at a start-up company where I'm working on some projects and learning more CS.
- Haven't written essays or asked for recs yet so I'm not sure about those. </p>
<p>To clarify, the GPA is 4.0 unweighted. I also don’t have any hooks.</p>
<p>Since you live in California, you have really high chances for UCLA, UCB, UCSD, etc. For MIT and Cornell, they may be a bit tougher to get into. As by what you have typed out, you have great chances for most of these schools!</p>
<p>When the chances of admissions are rounded to 1 significant figure, I view 0% as a prayer, 10%-30% as a reach 40% to 90% as a match, and 100% as a safety. </p>
<p>I don’t think there is a single college on your list that isn’t at least a match. </p>
<p>^ While OP is certainly qualified, almost NO ONE has at least a 40% chance of being accepted to MIT or Caltech. OP has not won any international competitions, completed a bachelor’s degree worth of math and physics classes, created a multi-million dollar tech company, or cured any major disease in 3rd world countries. </p>
<p>Our school’s Naviance suggests otherwise. In his neighborhood, it’s just under 50% for MIT. </p>
<p>CalTech has a definitely separation line and he’s above it he’s above it. Not enough data to draw as significant of a conclusion, but CalTech is know to be more stats driven. </p>
<p>Of course that may depend on the high school and course rigor. My D has similar stat (ACT 35 instead of SAT 2320, the rest is pretty much the same) and parchment shows only a 20% chance for Stanford and MIT. If you choose 40% as a cutoff for match, it is only around half of that chance.</p>
<p>Indeed, but he’s taken BC Calc as as junior. Course rigor seems fine. I estimated about 8 out of 18 for MIT with stats in his neighborhood. </p>
<p>Did you convert the ACT to an SAT2400? Not as many kids take the ACT, so there isn’t as much data for us. </p>
<p>you have a great chance at all the schools especially all the UCs. But do remember that MIT and Stanford receive applications from many over-achievers so don’t get overly attached to a single school.</p>
<p>I would really appreciate if you reciprocate-
<a href=“Chance an International! will do the same back - #12 by AnnieBeats - Chance Me / Match Me! - College Confidential Forums”>Chance an International! will do the same back - #12 by AnnieBeats - Chance Me / Match Me! - College Confidential Forums;
<p>@ClassicRockerDad ACT 35 is equivalent to SAT ~2340. Everything else is pretty comparable (4.0 GPA, top 1%, 800 in all SAT2, 5 in all AP, with 17 advanced courses throughout HS). Considering the 7% average admission rate, 20% is already 3 times the chance of an average applicant.</p>
<p>Well then OP should use his own Naviance to assess chances, because he’s not getting reliable data out of this post :-). </p>
<p>Unfortunately, not every school has Naviance data accessible.</p>
<p>Well your data is no better than my data, so that leaves him at about 30%, LOL. </p>
<p>Thank you guys for all the insight!
@humblefool sorry for the lateness but I will respond now :)</p>
<p>Amazing resume! I can see you easily getting into all of those schools you listed!</p>