Chances Please!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>white female from New York
just finished my junior year
public high school (400-500th best public school in country, not the best, not the worst!)</p>

<p>weighted GPA is about( i don't get to know exact until next year, so this is not necessarily exact) a 3.9
-don't know class rank until next year, but definitely top 10% of class, maybe top 5% but I don't know</p>

<p>Intended major: physics, engineering, or math</p>

<p>what are my chances at:</p>

<p>MIT (I know this is a HUGE stretch)
Columbia (and so is this)
NYU
RPI
Stevens Institute of Technology
Fordham
Cooper Union </p>

<p>SAT: 2080
580 CR ,770 Math,730 Writing
def. will retake, CR score will probably be in 600's (or 700's if I'm lucky)</p>

<p>SAT II's
Math II- 750
Physics- 630 (retake next year- took it this year w/o AP course so I didn't have all the knowledge)</p>

<p>have been taking all honors/AP courses</p>

<p>AP's:</p>

<p>sophomore:
World History (4)</p>

<p>junior:
Studio Art: Drawing
English Language
US History</p>

<p>senior:
English Literature
Government
Italian
Calculus AB
Chemistry
Biology
Physics (self study)</p>

<p>EC's:
Mathletes (9-12), co-president this year and next year
Art Club (9-11)
Chess Club (11-12), possibly vice-president next year
Science Olympiads (11-12)</p>

<p>Awards:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) award
American Math Competition 12 School High Scorer
School high scorer in Senior High Mathletes
1st place in New York State in Association of Mathematics Teachers of New York State poster contest (not the most important achievement)
2nd place in school pi memorizing competition (again...nothing major)</p>

<p>Volunteer:
Office assistant at church for religion classes every Sunday (9-12)
Volunteer at Vacation Bible School at church (9-12)</p>

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<p>Please tell me which are relistic (or not) or any schools that would be better matches for me!
Thanks in advance!</p>

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<p>Your CR is super low. Any college that doesn't consider writing would be inclined to reject you because of it.</p>

<p>Thus, NYU, Columbia, Cooper Union, and MIT are all reaches. And I highly doubt you can be admitted to a competitive physics/math program with a 630 on the physics SAT II.</p>

<p>New York has MUCH better applicants than you. Being from a competitive state will more or less quash your Ivy/MIT dreams. By all means apply to a reach, but look into the CUNYs.</p>

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<p>nyu, columbia & mit: reject</p>

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<p>Well, my CR score was so not typical of me. I NEVER did that badly on practice tests and I do perfectly fine on similarly styled AP English questions. This was a shock for a few peopel because I was not expected to get this low a score, and it was actually down from my PSAT CR. This is sort of lame but i was also crying through one of the CR sections which affected my test taking ability (because i thought I messed up the math section) yeah I know this is pathetic. Also, my tutor gave me a strategy that didn't work. She told me to read the questiosn first and then read the passage. I was told by my friends who had other tutors that this srategy does not work. So what if that score went up? Which I'd be 100% shocked if didn't.</p>

<p>And as for my physics score, I already said I didn't have the AP course. My honors physics teacher told me that the physics courses at my school do not cover nearly enough information to get a halfway decent score. That's why I'm retaking it after I actually learn the material on the SAT II! If not I'll take the chemistry one and not send my physics score.</p>

<p>My friend was right....we all have beome SAT scores, numbers, and not humans!</p>

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<p>you can use or make up excuses all you want. but chances are adcoms will not accepted your excuses---trust me, tens of thousand of applicants every year proclaim to be bad test takers.</p>

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<p><a href="mailto:LOL@thequote">LOL@thequote</a>.
personally ( imay be compeltely offf) but i think you have a pretty decent chance. try to gain more Ecs and service hours and i KNOW you can bring up that CR score to at least mid-600s and you'll be a good applicant. also if your gonna go for physics, try to bring up the score, esp. for MIT and stuff.</p>

<p>nyu, i think you have a pretty good chance i'd say a reach to a low reach.</p>

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<p>also, i like how you dont have a laundry list of ECs and have concentrated on a few of them, shows your dedicated ;)</p>

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<p>But I swear I'm not usually a bad test taker. So if I retake and do better that means nothing? This was once in a million that I messed this up. Now taht I know I'm fine with the math I won't be so pressured on the math. If not I'll get an actual tutor instead of my mom's coworker to help me. And someone else who used this same tutor as me who's a top student at his school and got an 800 in math ended up with a 620 on CR..which is also an unpleasant shock to him.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the confidence booster nikkigirl12. Now I didn't know what to think! I just got responses of no hope then one for some hope. I guess I'll just wait and see for more responses...</p>

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<p>Reject!!!!!!</p>

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<p>Reject!!!!!!</p>

<p>Oh be quiet Karen. (i know her so im allowed to tell her this)
Why don't you share your wonderful SAT scores.....</p>

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<p>hey, i'm not the one applying to MIT.</p>

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<p>And there's a very good reason for that!</p>

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<p>rejected-MIT (I know this is a HUGE stretch)
rejected-Columbia (and so is this)
rejected-NYU
reach-RPI
in-Stevens Institute of Technology
in-Fordham
in-Cooper Union
work on your SAT and GPA..</p>

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<p>I don't know what I can do about my GPA at this point...I'm definitely a lost cause for that! the year above me's valedictorian at my school had a GPA of 99 (out of 100), while the other schools in the school district all had people with over 100's (even though my school's 2nd best of the five), so hopefully my school just has lower GPA's because of teacher's grading (hopefully!) yeah...wishful thinking</p>