Chances for Top School?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi, I am looking to get into top Ivy League Schools, and was wondering what my chances are for them... My main choices are listed below.</p>

<p>Yale
Cornell
Duke
MIT
Stanford
UF</p>

<p>Location: East coast
School: Somewhat competitive High school, (total of 2000 kids)
Race: Asian (Indian)
Gender: Male
Intended Major: Astrophysics or Computer Engineering</p>

<p>GPA: Unweighted - 4.0 Weighted - 4.61
Rank: 2/520
Courses:
Ap Scores included parenthetically</p>

<p>Freshman Year:
English 1 Honors
Geometry Honors
Biology Honors
AP Human Geography (5)
Hope (PE, graduation requirement)
Band I</p>

<p>Sophomore Year:
English 2 Honors
Algebra 2 Honors
Chemistry Honors
AP World History (5)
AP Psychology (5)
Band II</p>

<p>Junior Year:
AP English Language (5)
AP Calculus AB (5)
AP Chemistry (5)
AP US History (5)
AP Music Theory (5)
Band III</p>

<p>Senior Year:
AP English Lit (5)
AP Calculus BC (5)
AP Physics (5)
AP US Gov (5)/AP Micro (5) (both 1 semester long)
AP Biology (5)
Band IV</p>

<p>Other Courses taken Online:
Spanish I
Spanish II
Spanish III
Precalculus (taken so I could take AP Calc BC senior year)</p>

<p>PSAT: 221, junior year, national finalist
SAT: 2300, (M - 780 R - 780 W - 740) may retake
ACT: 34, don't know whether to send..
SAT Subject: Chemistry - 780 Math 2 - 800 US History 770</p>

<p>EC's, leadership in parenthesis:
Marching Band, Wind Ensemble, and Jazz Band all 4 years
Bassoon - Superiors at state and district level for 3 years, and member of all county band for 3 years and all state level band senior year
Varsity Tennis - All 4 years, made to state level 3 years
National Honors Society (Leadership Board)
Mu Alpha Theta (Vice President)
Key Club (Vice President)
Global Partnership - We speak to kids in China and exchange videos and projects about our different lifestyles (Leadership Board)</p>

<p>Other:
Sending Arts supplement of me playing some high level bassoon music.
National Merit Finalist
200 Volunteer hours at my Library, and helping out in various clubs, and Relay for Life</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>Erm, how many of those AP scores are <em>real</em> and how many are guesses? What year are you? It would appear you’re a senior, but then isn’t this (and the SAT retake idea) rather pointless? I honestly can’t tell what year you are, because this has a good amount of seemingly contradicting information. </p>

<p>Explain.</p>

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<p>def a great match for duke and stanford. pretty good candidate for yale! good luck</p>

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<p>You have the grades and scores but ECs are weak for the very top. I see Duke, Cornell and UF with the other 3 being less likely.</p>

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<p>to hkobb7, I’m currently a senior and those AP scores for this year are guesses, but I suppose I am being a bit overconfident, I am expecting a 5 in all of my tests, except maybe Biology and Lit, and as for the SAT retake, I was considering taking it next month, and submitting those scores but honestly I don’t really think it’s worth it since my current score is pretty satisfactory to me.</p>

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<p>bump…</p>

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<p>Good scores, but cocky attitude.</p>