Chances for UPenn ED, MIT EA, Cornell? WILL CHANCE BACK

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Intended Major: Economics and International Relations</p>

<p>MIT EA:
University of Pennsylvania Wharton ED:
Dartmouth:
Brown:
Cornell:
Northwestern:
UC-Berkeley:
Notre Dame:
NYU:
Stanford:
(Any where you guys recommend me to apply?)</p>

<p>Grade: 11
Class Rank: N/A (Top 25 Public School according to USNEWS)
State: TX
GPA: 3.80 UW
SAT: 2220
ACT: 33
Freshman Course Load: hardest possible (All As, 1 B in Spanish)
Sophomore Course Load: hardest possible (All As, 1 B in Spanish)
Junior Course Load: AP Lang, AP Bio, APUSH, AP Stats, AP Gov, Precal Honors, Physics Honors, Spanish 3 (Hardest Possible and 3.79 uw GPA) (All As, 1 B in AP Bio)
Senior Course Load: Full IB Diploma</p>

<p>Sports:
-Varsity Swim (3 years)</p>

<p>Leadership: Student Council (Treasurer), Healthcare Occupations Student Association (Founder & President), Junior World Affairs Council (President), School Newspaper (Editor-In-Chief, Founder), Model UN (Sec. General), Robotics (Vice-President), Future Business Leaders of America (Vice-President, & Co-founder), Teen Court (Lead Attorney)</p>

<p>Non-Profit Work/Volunteer:
-Presidential Service Award
-1000 volunteer hours (300 hours abroad, 200 teen court, 200 local hospital, 300 in student council)</p>

<p>Awards:
-MIT Zero Robotics 4th in Nation
-2 National Model UN Awards, and 8 Regional Awards (All 1st and 2nd place)
-UIL Congressional Debate and Extemporaneous Speaking at State Level
-A bunch of National video contests, and startup awards</p>

<p>Work:
-Founder of 2 Startups
1. Social Entrepreneurship in Asian country (20K+ in grants, a bunch of publications, bunch of startup awards, etc.)
2. Energy App (won various national level contests and received grants from Mobile providers)
-Internship at a billion dollar company in Asian country
-Internship at Ministry of Finance in Asian country
-Hosted a TEDx conference
-Started first Model UN conference in Asian country
-Teen contributor at local news (400,000 subscribers), and a bunch of Asian newspapers (50,000 subscribers each)
-Amazing SEO skills (11,000 Twitter followers, 4,000 YouTube subscribers, all my Facebook pages have 2,500 likes+)
-Certificates for 2 UPenn courses on Coursera</p>

<p>Basic Info:
-Ethnicity: Asian
-Gender: Male</p>

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<p>Looks good but the only thing I think is slightly bothering me is how do you have the time to commit to so many things?</p>

<p>MIT: High reach just because of math/sci
Stanford: High reach
Wharton: Mid-high reach
Dartmouth: Low reach
Brown: Low reach/high match
Cornell: Low reach
Northwestern: Low-mid reach
UC-Berkeley: Low reach
ND: High match
NYU: Low match if just CAS, match if Stern</p>

<p>Maybe throw in another low match in there like USC or something</p>

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<p>Impressive subjective resume. Really impressive. Your GPA is slightly below average for some of those schools as is your SAT (You’ll probably raise your GPA by the end of this year however and get a higher SAT). As of RIGHT NOW, I’d say your chances are:</p>

<p>MIT- Reach
Penn- Low Reach
Dartmouth-Low Reach
Brown- Low Reach/High Match
Cornell- Low Reach/High Match
NU- Low Reach/High Match
UCB- Low Reach/High Match
Notre Dame- Match
NYU- Match
Stanford- Reach</p>

<p>Of course, that’s just my opinion and you’ll be very competitive for admission to all of these schools (especially if you can raise your SAT a little more). I’d also apply to CalTech and maybe Columbia. Also, if you apply to Penn ED, you can’t apply to MIT EA. ED stipulates that you may only enter one early program.</p>

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<p>After going to a competitive school for a while, I started to realize that so much could be accomplished by sleeping less. It sounds terrible, but I’m hoping that it pays off. MIT is non-restrictive, unlike Stanford and Harvard, so if I were to get rejected by Penn and into MIT then I could choose to go there. However, that is an unlikely situation. I guess, I’ll just have to work on my SAT and get over 2250 in January. Thanks for the input thought!</p>

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<p>^ My mistake. So much about EA Stanford here I start to think about it in terms of SCEA and not regular EA. Even if you don’t raise your SAT, you’ll still be highly, highly competitive for these schools. Increasing your SAT just increases your chances.</p>

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<p>It’s okay. I think Stanford is my perfect fit because of the startup culture, but so does half of America. I’m still debating where to do ED, but I might do it Brown if it increases my chances.</p>

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<p>Honestly, I wouldn’t blow the ED on Brown. While it is a great school, it’s probably the least reputable of the Ivies and has a reputation of being an arts school, whereas you seem more of a math/engineering or economics person. I’d honestly consider Columbia for ED if I were you. They have an outstanding engineering program and for business/economics, come on, it’s campus is a hop, skip, and jump from Wall Street. Of course, only you know whats best for you so apply ED to wherever you think fits you best.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the advice! The only reason I’m hesitant about Columbia is because of the drastically low acceptance rate (7.4%). However, you are right about Brown and it is a more science oriented school. I liked NYU more than Columbia because NYU was more hands-on, while Columbia was classroom oriented. However, NYU tuition is not very favorable. If I applied ED to Columbia, what do you think my chances would be?</p>

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<p>Will you be taking a calculus class, I don’t know about IB diploma, but I’m sure IB math HL or SL or whatever contains differential and integral calculus in there right? I know places like cornell for engineering require high schoolers to take calculus.</p>

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<p>Honestly I know you can get into UC-Berkeley and NYU.
You might get rejected from Stanford based on my friends experiences 3weeks ago for ED.</p>

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<p>yes, I will be taking taking IB Math SL next year and it covers calculus.</p>

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<p>I think you’re odds would be about average for Columbia College and above average for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. I was rejected ED from Columbia College this year with a 3.8 UW and 2150 SAT. From the results thread, many people with 4.0s and 2300s were rejected from Columbia College. The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, however… as long as you have a 760+ Math SAT or 33+ Math ACT, you’ll definitely be competitive. There were people getting into SEAS with like 3.7s and 2100 SATs (because their math grades/scores were really good.)</p>

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<p>Those are the two undergraduate schools, by the way. Both part of Columbia University, you just apply to the specific school you want to go to.</p>

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<p>honestly, i just threw stanford in there. Stanford accepted less people early than Harvard did this year and everyone wants to go there b/c of the campus (silicon valley), and amazing programs (everything ranked top 3 except for econ, which is #5).</p>

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<p>I was hoping the same, but I feel reluctant reading results forums because a lot of the stuff could be made up. Plus, Columbia SEAS has a 9.9% acceptance, which is the lowest for any Ivy League engineering program.</p>

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<p>Like zdeminador, my only concern is the amount of impressive EC’s as compared to your GPA. I know for a fact that some colleges get suspicious when it seems too good to be true. I’m not doubting you or anything. It’s just that I’d tone it down a bit.</p>

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<p>I understand what you mean. I’ve won awards in all my ECs, but they’ve also taken a toll on my GPA. Would the colleges understand that the ECs could be accounted to the slight drop in my GPA?</p>

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<p>Actually, that would be a very good way to explain.</p>

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<p>bump10char</p>

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<p>Your EC’s are really what stand out so I hope you emphasize that in your essays…BTW I do student council, but I didn’t count it as volunteer hours, should I? And your GPA (maybe sat) are only concerns. Chance me?
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