<p>Hello everyone! I was wondering if I could get some insight on my chances at the following schools:</p>
<p>UPenn:
Cornell:
Dartmouth:
Brown:
Northwestern:
Emory:
UC - Berkeley:
UT - Austin:
SMU:</p>
<p>Grade: 11
Class Rank: School does not rank (competitive prep school)
State: TX
GPA: 3.76 UW (poor freshman GPA, but strong junior year gpa)
SAT: 2270
Freshman Course Load: hardest possible
Sophomore Course Load: hardest possible
Junior Course Load: Full IB Diploma
Senior Course Load: Full IB Diploma</p>
<p>Leadership/ECs:
- Treasurer of Student Council
- President of HOSA
- Secretary General of Model UN
- Chairman of JWAC
- VP of Robotics
- VP of FBLA
- Lead Attorney at Teen Court</p>
<p>Sports:
-Varsity Swim (3 years)
-Varsity Basketball (1 year)</p>
<p>Non-Profit Work/Volunteer:
- Established my own non-profit and set up medical camps in Asia
- Public Relations at an established non-profit (managed 10K annual budget)
Over 500 Volunteer Hours
- 200 at Rural Asian Hospitals
- 300 at Local Hospitals
- 70 as Teacher's Aide</p>
<p>Awards:
- National AP Scholar
- Commended PSAT score
- Presidential Service Award
- Published articles in various national Asian newspapers
- Editor of an online medicine magazine
- UIL Speaking / Debate at Regional Level
- Regional Science Fair</p>
<p>Work:
- Paid Internship at Biomedical research company</p>
<p>Basic Info:
-Ethnicity: Asian
-Gender: Male
-Family Income: ~$180,000</p>
<p>I apologize if this is an excessive amount of information. I would just really like to know what are the basic things I can do (besides write a strong essay, which is in the works) to improve my chances of getting into UPenn, etc.</p>
<p>UPenn:Reach
Cornell:reach
Dartmouth:reach
Brown:reach
Northwestern:reach
Emory:low reach
UC - Berkeley: reach
UT - Austin:low match
SMU:match
I think your stats are great! Just work on your essay and you should be a great candidate</p>
<p>Thanks! Any other recommendations on increasing chances?</p>
<p>UPenn: reach (but could vary based on program…)
Cornell: low-reach
Dartmouth: reach
Brown: low-reach
Northwestern: low-reach
Emory: low-reach
UC - Berkeley: OOS? low reach or higher?
UT - Austin: match
SMU: match</p>
<p>National AP Scholar by sophomore year? Wow, I suck. </p>
<p>Chance me back:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1506920-what-chance-do-i-have-getting-into-any-these-schools.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1506920-what-chance-do-i-have-getting-into-any-these-schools.html</a></p>
<p>^ Please realize that nobody on this forum is an admissions officer, unless they’re not letting you know the truth. There is absolutely no way that anybody can assess your chances at any of these schools. As you probably know, the college admissions game is quite unpredictable. Don’t base your chances on what an inexperienced student thinks. All you can really assess is whether your grades and test scores put you in the middle of the pack.</p>
<p>^ It helps ease the anxiety, and any outsider’s eyes are better one’s own.</p>
<p>^ I respectfully disagree. How can a high school student (or a parent for that matter) with no background on college admissions ease someone’s anxiety? Unfortunately, too many of the chance posts only add to the anxiety. And no offense to high school students (as I have own of my own) I don’t think that your eyes have the experience to pretend that you can know how college admissions offices work. I certainly don’t.</p>
<p>^They don’t. Nevertheless, after spending hours each week scrolling through chance and results threads, advice columns, and discussion by adcoms from 8th grade through junior year and analysing admissions statistics for that long, you begin to notice general patterns almost as well as anyone not directly involved in the admissions process could. What once appeared variable eventually seems to be related to geography and demography, the truth rarity and meaning of ECs come out, etc.</p>
<p>You don’t have to be an counselor to realize various admissions trends at colleges. By doing chances, students are given the opportunity to have a general idea of how they stand. Personally, I feel reassured when I get an outside judgement on my work rather than myself because we as humans tend to have a bias</p>
<p>Apply ED to Penn if that’s your top choice. Are you applying to CAS, Wharton, or SEAS?</p>
<p>Penn is my top choice and I’m planning on applying for SEAS</p>