Chances Please!

Chance Me / Match Me!
1

Reach: Stanford
Harvard
MIT
Caltech
Cambridge
Yale
etc

Smaller Reaches: UCLA
UC Berkeley
UC Santa Cruz

Haven’t decided exactly what to study, but probably physics/math/engineering and maybe a double major in business.

White male

1560 SAT (800 math, 760 english)
7/7/7 SAT Writing
SAT II: Math II:800, U.S. History:790, Biology M: 790
AP Exams:
Biology: 5
European History: 5
Physics 1: 5
Physics C: Mechanics: 5 (Self-study)
Statistics: 5 (Self-study)
Calculus BC: 5
AB Subscore: 5
United States History: 5
English Language and Composition: 5
GPA: 4.00 Unweighted (My school doesn’t do weighted but it would be 4.5)
Class Rank: Top quintile (20%) (would be #1/2)

ECs:

-Swam on the varsity swim team for 3 years, have 5 CIF Consideration times, 3x scholar athlete on swim team

-Varsity Water Polo team member, 3x scholar athlete, will most likely qualify for CIF playoffs this season

-AP National Scholar

-AP Scholar with Distinction

-NMSQT Commended Scholar (at least, possibly higher)

-Volunteered at the UCLA Hospital

-Internship in a lab working with biomedical engineering for a summer, worked on acoustic microfluidic mixing

  • 250+ Community Service hours

-Expert Witness on Mock Trial Prosecution Team that qualified for playoffs in my county

-Member of my school’s debate club

-Participated in the High School International Mathematical Competition in Modeling, and placed in the top 50%

-Two year member of the robotics club at my school, qualified for the World Championship both times (will be president of the club this year)

-Member of the High School Wind Ensemble, clarinet section leader for three years (will be president of the band this year)

-Helped coach youth water polo during the summer

-4 year member of the California Scholarship Federation

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Amazing grades and scores! Congrats! You have lots of ecs including ahletics, school, and volunteering! Very well done! Just try to have a leadership role somewhere, because these skills are very important for the Ivies. Since you havent decided what you want to study yet, its logical that your ecs dont show one exact passion. Just make sure that once you decide, you will make it clear in your essay. In general yours is one of the best resumes ive seen! I think you have a chance to enter all the schools youve applied for! Maybe chance me back?

3

I agree with Ivy. Your resume is excellent and if you had leadership in your activities, it would boost your application. If you found one club to specialize in and really take initiative off, Id say you would have a great chance for those schools. Can you chance me back?

4

You’re definitely competitive for all of the schools you’ve listed, but you also need to find some matches/safeties (assuming you haven’t already). All these colleges are such crapshoots that there’s a (albeit unlikely) chance that you won’t be admitted to any of them, and you always need a backup.

But seriously, great scores and ECs.

5

Great scores and ECs. You can definitely get into these schools, but work on leadership in the ECs.

6

You will need some safeties, but I like your chances at most of these schools. For Harvard and Stanford, they really want to see something “special”. If you can possibly get some leadership positions, your chances go up for all of these schools. But again, I can see you being very competitive at most of these schools. Maybe chance me back? http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/2006599-what-are-my-chances-ohio-state-michigan-nyu-cwru-george-washington-northwestern-tulane.html#latest