<p>Hello, I'm a middle class Asain girl living in upstate New York looking to gain admission to one of the top colleges. I applied to only the schools below. Can you guys please evaluate my chances?</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Dartmouth
Cornell
Columbia
Johns Hopkins (safety?)</p>
<p>Academics
SAT I (taken about 5 times)
Best scores
770 CR
780 M
800 G</p>
<p>National Merit Semifinalist</p>
<p>SAT II
Biology 780
Chemistry 800
Math IIC 800</p>
<p>AP
Chem - 5
Stat -5
Physics B -5
US Hist - 4
To take - Bio, Calc BC, English, Physics C</p>
<p>Ranked #1 in a class of about 600</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
3 years of Student govt (elected representative)
NHS
4 years of Math team
2 years of science club
4 years of Speech and debate - I've won a few things
Ran a few seasons of cross country and outdoor track (not very good)</p>
<p>Piano:
I'm a very good piano player and have won a lot of competitions in the area.</p>
<p>Any particular passions that you have? For those stats, you won't have a great chance at getting into Harvard, Yale, Princeton. What kind of awards have you gotten? What was your essay about? Recommendations? </p>
<p>Have you won anything during your Math team? Any huge wins in Speech and Debate (State, National Qualifiers, Nationals, University Invitationals like Emory, Harvard, Stanford or some big Statewide invitationals)? How will the college admissions people know that you're a good piano player? They will have to look at your achievements and decide for themselves. Maybe you got a letter of recommendation from your piano teacher?</p>
<p>I don't think any of those schools you listed are definate safetys. They're all VERY competitive and the admissions board has hundreds of people who can be more qualified that you in terms of academics. I'd apply to somewhere that is more "safe" that the schools that you have right now, like USC, UCLA, etc. </p>
<p>Answer these questions and I'll try and let you know your chances.</p>
<p>I don't think Johns Hopkins is a safety for anyone to tell the truth... I know a friend who was rejected, not even deferred EA/ED, with a 1580 SAT and above 4.0 W at our school, which is one of the most respected in the state. That does not mean I don't think you will get in; however, you should definetely apply to more safe schools like karot said. I believe that with those statistics, you have a good chance at at least one of the schools listed.</p>
<p>definitely need to consider lower calibre private schools or local state schools, your ECs are simply not impressive for you list of school. My friend had higher grades and SAT scores than you and similar ECs and just got rejected ED from U Penn.</p>
<p>Omg, please tell me you are kidding about JHU a safety, or pray to whoever that adcoms don't read this. And only applying those schools? For such a smart person, that is a real stupid idea.</p>
<p>Sorry, I'm not really this person, this is someone I know, and I personally think she is crazy for applying to only these schools and just wanted to see if others felt the same way. When she told me this morning that JHU and Dartmouth were her safeties, I laughed. But who knows... It's her decision</p>
<p>I agree with you Silver. You should definately apply to some safety instate school like the ones in the SUNY system.</p>
<p>Wait, if I told you that you had a 2% chance at getting into one of those universities, would you consider getting a more pragmatic safety school?</p>
<p>This is not me, you can look up my real stats in some of my past posts if you want. I agree that she needs to apply to more safety schools, like SUNY's or lower level private schools.</p>