Chances for universal REJECTION!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>OK, I'm in a gloomy day, so I just wanted to know how likely I will rejected from EVERY single reaches I applied to (how surprised would you be?). Thx for your input.</p>

<p>Applying to MIT, Princeton, Caltech, Harvard, Rice, Yale, Stanford, Duke (Don't worry, I added some safeties)</p>

<p>Asian male applicant
2260 SAT, 800 SATII Bio, expect 800 on math/chem/physics SAT II (at least 1 or two more 800's)
AMC 100.5, AIME 5
4.0 UW GPA, 4.4 W GPA (if ALL my AP classes become weighted, then it will be around 4.6 W GPA), top 15% rank.</p>

<p>All 5's AP's: Bio, stats, APUSH, English language, French lit and french language.
Senior coursework: AP chem, AP physics C, AP english literature, AP economics, AP government, AP calculus BC, track, theater.</p>

<p>Awards/Talents:</p>

<ul>
<li>Perfect pitch? 2nd national piano competition in France</li>
<li>Valedictorian conservatory music theory class: graduated with nationally accredited diploma in music theory/piano</li>
<li>10 yrs piano playing/ 3yrs guitar/ 8 yrs music theory</li>
<li>National Merit Semifinalist</li>
<li>Probably National AP Scholar w/ Distinction</li>
<li>AIME qualifier</li>
<li>I got awards from my school on every single subject (top departmental awards)</li>
<li>Trilingual: french/vietnamese/english</li>
<li>1st place American Chemical Society scholarship examination (of a big city)</li>
<li>1st in physics and biology (District); 4th in region in science competition</li>
<li>1st place math team (district); (...we got killed in regionals lol!)</li>
<li>UIL scholar award</li>
<li>NHS</li>
</ul>

<p>Activities:</p>

<ul>
<li>track team (9, 12)</li>
<li>Science team captain (11, 12)</li>
<li>math team member (11, 12 probably)</li>
<li>Literature team member (12)</li>
<li>Volunteer hospital (50 hrs), volunteer pagoda (50 hrs)</li>
<li>Mentoring freshmen for school, mentoring team leader (12)</li>
<li>Ping Pong club (11, 12)</li>
<li>Math club (12)</li>
<li>MUN (9)</li>
<li>Student Council (12)</li>
</ul>

<p>Work Experience:</p>

<ul>
<li>Worked in restaurant since 10 yrs old (15 hrs/week, all year) until 14 yrs old</li>
<li>Internship pharmacy (1 week)</li>
<li>Shadowed doctor (48 hrs)</li>
<li>Did research on biochemistry over the summer, wrote a research report</li>
</ul>

<p>Essays: Probably decent, maybe one moving essay for Princeton.
I omitted some stuff to keep it short for you!<br>
Rec's: probably decent to amazing.</p>

<p>Additional things about me?</p>

<ul>
<li>I'm a recent immigrant, so my transcripts and grades got mightily messed up, which explains my low class rank</li>
<li>I love studying, exploring elegant concepts, science, helping out people, relativity, quantum mechanics, classical physics, biochemistry.... OMG, I LOVE to learn.=> one of my essays is about relativity :)</li>
<li>I'm enthusiastic, quirky, energetic, curious, passionate and I have a huge work ethic.</li>
<li>I'm from a low income family (less than 20K income); I had to work freshman yr to pay tuition for school, and we didn't have car or health insurance, which prevented me from doing many EC's. I also transferred 3 different schools, and had to adapt to the hehe... inadequate US schools system :) My lack of leadership is also explained by the fact I transferred school, and did not speak adequately english (Who would vote for a president who has to grope for words!)</li>
</ul>

<p>Thanks for reading. Have a nice day!</p>

<p>-Watson&Crick</p>

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<p>I would say your chances are slim for all except Rice and Duke. Your standardized test scores are excellent, your grades are excellent, you ECs are excellent, which means you'll definitely be considered at the schools like Harvard and Caltech. In my opinion, unless you have some hook like your family donated a building or you offer a rare ethnicity, it's just luck of the draw. However, I think your profile is strong enough that you will definitely see acceptances from even the top tier schools. Good luck!!!</p>

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<p>Thanks! You just put a smile on my face... Anyone else? Also, if my chances were "slim," do you mean acceptance or rejection? Cause if it were for UNIVERSAL rejection, wow, I'm happy (maybe I'm just being purposefully obtuse)</p>

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<p>There is a possibility that you will be accepted to all of your reaches.</p>

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<p>Excluding Rice (Which I think you'll be accepted to), I think you'll get at least one acceptance from the other schools, possibly more.</p>

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<p>If I were an Ivy league college I would accept you.</p>

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<p>"There is a possibility that you will be accepted to all of your reaches"</p>

<p>Haha, there's a possibility for a lot of things in quantum mechanics, given conservation of energy!</p>

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<p>Okay, then there is a possibility that you will be rejected by all of your reach schools.</p>

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<p>From your list..is there one school that you particularly like? If they have an early action/decision program, you may want to consider it to boost your chances :).</p>

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<p>To Cold wind: Give me the wave function value of such possibility; and i'll square it. Without the wave function squared value (probability), well, um, I don't have much info.
But thanks anyways :)</p>

<p>To erff22: I'm applying early for many of the schools through Questbridge national match application (an early application for low income people)</p>

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<p>Are you an international applicant?</p>

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<p>No, just permanent resident and recent immigrant.</p>

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<p>Wouldn't that be cool if people started to make Chance threads for rejections (or in my rather gloomy case, UNIVERSAL rejection) instead of acceptances?</p>

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<p>hm, slightly better than average chances</p>

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<p>Better in which way? to get full rejections? (be honest and harsh, I'm in a mood of being thrashed)</p>

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<p>i'll say in for sure at rice, duke, and cal tech maybe stanford too, but that will take a bit. rest of them are crapshoots general admissions wise. </p>

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<p>How can you have a 4.0 UW and be in top 15%?</p>

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<p>His school probably ranks students based on weighted GPA. At my school, if you have a 4.46 weighted GPA (GPA caps at 4.5), you most likely can not even make it to the top 10%. :[
@Watson&Crick: I think you have a great shot at most, if not all, of your safeties. I sincerely hope that you will get in all of them, for I have a pretty much similar profile. :P (except that I am valedictorian, but that is minor)</p>

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<p>ditto: How can you have a 4.0 UW and be in top 15%? </p>

<p>To the OP:
Yea, that will be your only issue with your reaches...if the schools realize that there is extreme grade inflation at your school.....</p>

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<p>Yeah, I know, my class rank sucks, but it's not because I didn't try to challenge myself (I did: I took all AP's, even English AP, although I was not fluent). It was because I transferred from a foreign country.</p>

<p>I hope that once I sent my foreign transcript, and my explanation, they will be more understandable.</p>

<p>Our school is in fact slightly grade inflated, but it's still pretty competitive. Last year, we got several kids to harvard, 1 to MIT, 2-3 to Stanford, maybe 8 to Rice, and a 14-16to schools like Emory, Wash U, Duke, Chicago, Vanderbilt (name other top 20 schools)</p>