Chances for Yale & others? =]

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Gender: M
Race: Native American! =]]
Location: Texas</p>

<p>GPA: Unweighted: 100
Weighted: 105.59
PSAT: 208 (=[)
SAT I: 2270, 750 CR, 800 W, 720 M
SAT IIs: I haven't taken them yet, but I feel fairly confident about the subjects I'll be testing in =]]</p>

<p>APs taken: AP US (5), AP Language and Comp (4), AP Biology (5)</p>

<p>Senior Course Load:
AP Government/AP Economics
AP Statistics
AP Calculus AB
AP Chemistry
AP Physics B
AP English Literature
Band - Wind Ensemble</p>

<p>Awards(ish): National Merit Commended Scholar (Others? =/)</p>

<p>Essays/Recs: My essays will be really good (writing is a personal strength), and my Recs helped to get one of my friends into Harvard.</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars!:
-Drum Major (11th and 12th)
-Section Leader(10th)
-Concert Master in Band
-Texas All-State Band Member (4A 2nd Chair as a freshman, 5A 2nd Chair Symphony Orchestra as a Sophomore, 5A 3rd Chair Top Band Junior, expecting to make it again this year =])
-UIL State Division 1 Soloist (9th, 10th, and 11th grade)</p>

<p>-Vice President of Tri-M Music Honor Society (12th, member since 9th)
-Public Relations Officer for Latin Club (9th)
-National Honor Society (11th and 12th)
-Student Council Member (9th-12th)</p>

<p>-UIL Math Team Regionals Qualifier (9th)
-UIL Science Individual Regional Qualifier (11th)
-UIL Social Studies Team Regional Qualifier (11th)</p>

<p>Work Experience: Church Pianist for a little less than 4 months =]</p>

<p>Other?: I played piano for 10 years and won dozens of local competitions. I think I'll send in a CD of me playing to showcase this. Does anyone have any suggestions for the difficulty/length/number of songs to perform? I mean, it's not as if I'm applying to major in piano - simply to enhance my application :D</p>

<p>Also, I've won a lot of little awards, but I don't know if I should/where to include them. What kinds of stuff do I look weak in? What should I spotlight more? How do I accentuate what I have?</p>

<p>Any suggestions at all will do beautifully! :D</p>

<p>OH.
Schools I'm applying to as of now:
Yale
Harvard
Rensselaer
Princeton
Rice</p>

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<p>If you are truly a registered Native American, then I would say you have very good chances at the schools you’ve listed (although you should still have some safety schools–perhaps you will also apply to UT?).</p>

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<p>Yes, haha, I’m looking into narrowing down some safeties in these next couple weeks =]]</p>

<p>OH ONE MORE THING!
I’m number 3/354.</p>

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<p>Bump please?
DO feel free to offer any and all advice whatsoever!
All will be appreciated!
:D</p>

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<p>URM status helps a bunch…</p>

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<p>You’re in. Enough said lol</p>

<p>( Don’t apply to RPI, it stinks, trust me.)</p>

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<p>URM?
I’m sorry, I’m crazy new at this, what does that mean? ^^;;</p>

<p>@NuclarPakistan1: And really? Awwwh, that’s so sad!
I was looking into that for nuclear engineering, haha!
What do you think about Purdue or perhaps another school?
I’d look into MIT, but I doubt I could afford it XD</p>

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<p>under represented minority. basically anyone not white or asian</p>

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<p>I live near RPI, and it is located in Troy, NY, but people call it the “troylet” instead lol</p>

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<p>Native American? Lucky. Where are you going to apply early?</p>

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<p>“I’d look into MIT, but I doubt I could afford it XD”
the top colleges have amazing financial aid, so I don’t think paying would be a problem. It depends what your into though; don’t apply to MIT just for the name…</p>

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<p>@Mvingi - I’m actually pretty scared to apply early. That probably sounds silly, but I’ve heard that the early action is a little more selective, and I’m worried that my less-than-ABSOLUTELY-perfect SAT scores will kinda keep them from seeing the rest of my application. Is that a silly worry?</p>

<p>Scrivener - Actually! I’m thinking of either nuclear engineering or neuroscience. So MIT would theoretically be FANTASTIC =]
It’s just so darn intimidating, haha.
But I guess I’ll give it some more attention now! Do more research and whatnot =]</p>

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<p>you’re native american. no worries, really. and you have impressive grades and scores. don’t worry about it. otherwise if you’re considering applying early somewhere, i know princeton and harvard don’t have it, and people from my school who apply early get deferred and then get in later, so idk. you have your chances. and yeah, those schools have such large endowments and some only give need - based aid, so as long as you need it, theyll give it to you. good luck :)</p>

<p>chance me please <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/739113-what-my-chances.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/739113-what-my-chances.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Even without your URM status, you would stand very competitive chances. I know no one can really say this about school that high up, but you’re a shoe-in anywhere.</p>

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<p>For Rice the regular acceptance rate is ~23%, and the SCEA acceptance rate is ~35%. (I picked Rice’s ED bc that’s the most dramatic difference). Yale’s is like a 4% difference , but no, it will not hurt you.</p>