Chances for UC Berkeley, HYPS, Brown, Duke, etc <will chance back>

Chance Me / Match Me!
1

SAT I (breakdown):
[ *] ACT (breakdown): 35 {36,36,33,33)
[ *] SAT II: Math II 800, Chemistry: 750
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.85 (upward trend. very low GPA in freshman year)
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 7% in somewhat competitive public school
[ *] AP (place score in parentheses): Biology (5), Chemistry (5), Stats (5), Calc AB (5) Human Geography (self study 5), Environmental Science (self study 5), Psychology (self study 4) AP Microeconomics (Self study 5)
[ *] IB (place score in parentheses): School doesn’t offer
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: AP Gov, AP Physics C, AP Calc BC, AP European History, AP Music Theory, Senior Writing
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 1st at National Chess Championship, President & Founder of School Chess Team which won 1st at National Team Champs, National AP Scholar, US Representative to World-level Chess Competition

[ /list][ b]Subjective:**
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Chess Club (President and Founder) (10-12), Math Club (9-12), Debate Club (11-12),

[ *] Job/Work Experience: 100 hours as Tutor, 200 hours McDonalds, 100 hours as Chess Coach
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: Volunteer at Chess Camps, General community service (50 hours)
[ *] Summer Activities: Intense National Chess Training Camp, Volunteer at Hospital
[ *] Essays: -wrote about perseverance on building chess team from 0 to National Champs
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: Should be great!
[ *] Counselor Rec: Ehh okay
[ *] Additional Rec: -----
[ *] Interview: Went pretty well!
[ *] Supplementary Material:

[ /list][ b]Other**
[ *]Applied for Financial Aid?: no
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): California
Country (if international applicant): USA
[ *] School Type: Public
[ *] Ethnicity: Chinese
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] Income Bracket(mention if FA candidate): 200,000
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):

[ /list][ b]Reflection**
[ *] Strengths: Extracurriculars, ACT, SAT II scores
[ *] Weaknesses: Low UW GPA (although just freshman year but still…) Not enough APs?

Chance me for:

UC Berkeley
UCSD
BYU
UIUC
Stanford
Harvard
Duke
Brown (ED)
Yale
Princeton
UCS
Johns Hopkins

Thanks!

<if you="" post="" a="" link,="" ill="" chance="" u="" back!="">

2

UC Berkeley: Low Reach-Match
UCSD: Match
BYU: Match
UIUC: Good Match
Stanford: High Reach
Harvard: High Reach
Duke: Low Reach
Brown (ED): Low Reach
Yale: High Reach
Princeton: High Reach
UCS: (Do you mean USC? If so, Low Reach-Match)
Johns Hopkins: Low Reach

Do get to depressed about the schools I said were high reaches. Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and even Duke are hard to get in for LITERALLY ANYONE (I’ve seen students with 4.3, top 3% of class, 2300 SAT still get rejected.) It’s not even that they’re hard to get into, just that they’re very VERY selective. Everything else is good. Your GPA is great, but might be in the lower percentile when it comes to those Ivy Leagues and Stanford (however, you did say your grades got better as time went on, which is always a good thing for those schools.) Your EC’s are pretty good too. They aren’t stacked, but you’ve shown dedication to the few you have done.

3

bump