<p>You should definitely count your hours on Student Council. When I counted my student council hours, I did not count the “unproductive” hours. Most of the hours were from car hops, fundraising events, etc.</p>
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<p>I honestly think you have a great chance at all of these schools! </p>
<p>MIT EA: low reach
University of Pennsylvania Wharton ED: low reach
Dartmouth: high match
Brown: low reach/high match
Cornell: high match
Northwestern: low reach/high match
UC-Berkeley: match
Notre Dame: match
NYU: match
Stanford: reach</p>
<p>Good luck to you! :)</p>
<p>Hey thanks for chancing me. In my opinion, your ECs make you a competitive applicant, but your test scores are ‘meh’ in the context of your schools (note that I mentioned context). My scores are in the same range basically, and that’s why I don’t count myself in for my reach schools. Some of your schools, such as Princeton, also require subject tests. Don’t forget to take those. I know that Princeton requires two even if you are just submitting the ACT. For these colleges, two subjects are the norm even if you are not required to submit them. They ‘highly recommend’, which basically means require.</p>
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<p>How exactly are you doing the IB Diploma Program in one year? I am not all that familiar with IB, but from my understanding of it, two years are required.</p>
<p>I go to a school with a weird IB program in place. Rather than taking a Pre-IB course during our junior year, we take AP courses as a pre-req. Therefore, I must take AP Bio junior year to take IB Bio senior year. My school is the only school that I know of that does this, but we’ve had phenomenal passing rates.</p>
<p>Your extra curricular are amazing! Be sure to highlight the start up companies and the hosting a ted conference in your application! Most of those schools are reaches for everyone but id say you have a pretty good shot!</p>
<p>Great job!
And like all the other great applicants who have stellar extra curricular activities, and are academically prepared for admittance into MIT, what sets you apart?</p>
<p>40-45% MIT.</p>
<p>I’m writing about my first “start-up” that failed in 7th grade and how it has taught me to become a better business person. I guess my passion for humanitarian work sets me apart from a lot of my peers. The only one thing holding me back is my GPA, but MIT/Columbia/Brown all superscore. Hopefully, I do well in January so I can superscore out to 2300+</p>
<p>Whoa there… I honestly don’t know how you find the time for all that, but more power to ya I guess! It is DEFINITELY better to have all of these ECs and a 3.8 GPA than half the ECs and a 4.0 GPA, although MIT and the Ivies will have many applicants with tons of incredible ECs and 4.0 GPAs.</p>
<p>Without knowing your SAT subscores (which would help–is that three 740s or two 800s and a 620? There’s a HUGE difference) or your Subject Tests scores (you will need to at least take Math Level II and one science to apply to MIT), here’s what I’d estimate:</p>
<p>MIT EA: mid-reach (reach if you don’t interview)
University of Pennsylvania Wharton ED: high match/low reach
Dartmouth: low reach at best (improve SAT scores or GPA and you have a great chance)
Brown: high match/low reach
Cornell: same as Dartmouth
Northwestern: match
UC-Berkeley: mid/high match (only about 8-10% of their accepted students are out-of-state-but-in-the-US so the SAT score and GPA may need a little improvement)
Notre Dame: match
NYU: safety/match
Stanford: reach (but definitely worth applying)</p>
<p>Since you’re a junior you may not know this yet, but the CommonApp has limited space and no longer allows students to simply upload a resume if the EC section does not have enough space for them. CommonApp lets you list up to 10 EC activities and 5 awards/honors, with very limited room to explain them. Berkeley and MIT do not use CommonApp and have even less space for ECs and the like.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice! I haven’t taken my subject tests yet, but I’m anticipating 750+ on Math II, Biology, and US History. I’m retaking my SAT and ACT and I’m hoping to score 2250+ this time around and 34+.I guess that I will have to figure things out and decide what to put on my common app.</p>
<p>Plus, the Berkeley Admissions website shows that they admitted 24.1% or 3,341 / 13,856 for out-of-state.</p>
<p>Are you sure you’re being honest about everything you claim?</p>
<p>I’m just curious but how do u add all ur activities and work experience and all that into commonapp? There are 10 slots…
I only added 10. If there is anther section under which you can add more, I’m going to be so mad for not seeing it anywhere</p>
<p>You have really good stats. Definitely ivy league material. I would say you have a 70/30 chance of getting accepting, assuming that you wrote one hell of an essay to go along with.</p>
<p>MIT EA: Far Reach
University of Pennsylvania Wharton ED: Low Reach (Perfect application for Wharton if your GPA is a little higher!)
Dartmouth: Reach
Brown: Reach
Cornell: Low Reach
Northwestern: Low Reach
UC-Berkeley: High Match
Notre Dame: High Match
NYU: Low Match
Stanford: Far Reach</p>
<p>Add UT Austin as a safety and the University of Virginia as another match</p>
<p>Unless you are BSing your stats you should definitly get in to MIT.</p>