Chances into MIT, Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, CalTech

Chance Me / Match Me!
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State of Residence: California
Ethnicity: Asian Indian

Schedule: 9th grade
Summer: College and Career Prep, Health (Graduation Requirements)

Spanish 1 : A
PE : A
Honors Biology : A
Honors English : A
Honors World History :A
Advanced Integrated Math I : A (equal to Honors Geometry, new thing with common core)

*No AP’s available for freshman year

10th grade

Spanish 2: A
AP Chemistry: B- (hardest class on class) (4)
AP European History: A (5)
Honors English: A
Advanced Integrated II: A
Architectural Design: A
Art Foundations: A

Self Study:
The rest of Geometry, Algebra 2, Trigonometry, and Precalculus

Community College Summer:
Calculus with Analytical Geometry 1
11th grade:
AP Capstone Research Year 1: A
AP US History: A (5)
AP English: A (5)
AP Physics C: A- (4)
AP 2D Art: A
Spanish 3 (H): A
AP Statistics: A (5)

Community College:
Calculus with Analytical Geometry 2,3
Linear Algebra
Architecture

12th grade:
AP Capstone Year 2: A (5)
AP Gov/Econ: A/A (5/5)
AP English: A (5)
Advanced Architectural Design: A
AP Spanish 4: A (5)
AP Computer Science: A (5)
AP Biology: A (5)

Community College:
Differential Equations

ECs:
1 year President of Tech Club
2 years President of AP Club
3 years Academic Decathlon
2 years NHS and CSF

300+ Service hours as Computer Volunteer at Public Library

1 year JV Tennis
2 years Varsity Tennis
3 years Track and FIeld

Redo School Website (Redesigned after 21 years XD)
Learned C, Python, and JavaScript (and HTML5 and CSS) from MOOCs/online courses

Tests:
SAT 1540/1600
780 Math
760 English

ACT:
34.

My School was not very keen on letting me take 4 math classes at the local community college, so I decided
I needed to act so I did.

Just think of my Essay to be pretty dang good.

I’m pretty sure I meet the financial aid requirements. (MIT and CalTech for sure)

Do I have a decent chance?
If not please tell me where I should aim/what I should do.

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Stats look okay, but EC’s lack warmth. Believe it or not, MIT and Caltech want people concerned about their community. I see lots of individual EC’s for Academics and Comp Science.

Another concern:

This shows a blatant disregard for authority. Colleges like to see individuality but also, cooperation and respect for their institutional rules.

Plus, having taken those classes on your own without HS approval, if you received community college credit, without considering that it might be changing your incoming status as a freshman, you might be considered a transfer student.

Why is that important???

Some schools allow 1 or 2 classes after high school, but more than that and you wouldn’t be considered a new freshman which might mean limited offers of financial aid. More CCC coursework may be required to enter as a transfer.

Someone else on this forum may know more.

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I’m a little confused… how do you know your AP exam scores for your senior year? are you not in HS currently?

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Yes, you also have senior year grades for 2 semesters. Have you graduated? If so, what are you doing now?

I don’t think a HS has to approve any CC courses, but they do have to be completed before graduation from HS to avoid being considered a transfer student. And transcripts need to be provided for them. One of my kids did a summer program in HS that gave college credit. Her HS didn’t accept the credits, which was fine, she just needed to report it on her app and get an official transcript. Her HS was willing to put the transcript in thru Naviance for her.

Just to confirm, are you a U.S. citizen? What do you mean that you “meet the financial aid requirements”? Have you run the net price calculators on each school’s website? Do you have a list of match & safety schools as well?