Chances @ various schools

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Yeah, since I just got rejected from MIT I figured I make a post here just for the hell of it. Applied to Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Amherst, and I already got in RPI.</p>

<p>SAT- 2280 (750 Reading, 790 Math, 740 Writing). I was thinking of taking it again just for the hell of it, since I know I'm capable of getting an 800 Math, but I figured it was a waste of money and time.
SAT II's- 760 Chem, 760 US Hist, 770 Physics, 790 Math Level II
APs- 5 Physics B, 5 World Hist, 5 US Hist, 5 Eng Lang, 4 Chem. Taking AP Calc AB (wish our school offered BC), AP Eng Lit, AP Psych, AP Bio this year.
GPA- 4.9 weighted (3.8 unweighted). Top 2% (school doesn't rank, but there's 665 kids in our class, so I'm somewhere between say 13 and 7 or so).</p>

<p>ECs- Captain of Quiz Bowl team, Captain of Science Bowl team, Member of Youth Court (and Youth court board), Orchestra (and chamber Orchestra), Karate (Jr. Black Belt), Honor Society, and since I dropped Karate since my dojo was getting ridiculous (in terms of price and quality (or lack thereof)), I joined the track team senior year just so I could stay in shape.</p>

<p>AMC- School winner witha 105 this year, 101 last year (yeah, my school sucks I know).
AIME- 3 in jr year (2 this year, but I didn't add it obviously since I just found out).
Physics bowl- best in school (forgot my score).</p>

<p>Awards (copy paste from common app)- Bauch and Lomb Honorary Science Award, American Mathematics Competition Award, Long Island Challenge Quarterfinalist Award, Excellence award in AP-Honors Mathematics, Excellence award in AP United States History, High Honors (all grades), Letter of Commendation (PSAT/NMSQT), AP Scholar with Distinction, Rensselaer Medal, Participant in AMC10, (Score of 90: Highest in school), Participant in AMC12 (Score of 101), Participant in American Invitational Mathematics Exam (Score of 3), Participant in Physics Bowl (Obtained highest score in school) </p>

<p>Work- Busboy for 1 year (March 05-March 06)- worked 8 hrs a week.
Lifeguard last summer- 30 hrs a week</p>

<p>Interviews- All went well except for Hopkins.</p>

<p>Essays- well, my teacher said it was one of the best he's ever seen, for w/e that's worth.</p>

<p>Major- Physics (if your major really makes a difference in accpetence)</p>

<p>That's all I really need to post right?</p>

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<p>Ah crap, I knew I'd forget something.</p>

<p>Elected Secretary of Treasury at PMC (Princeton Model Congress (honors Public policy at my school)).
Attended National Student Leadership Conference on Policy and Politics in summer 2005.
Attended Summer @ Brown in 2005- 1 week course- Making the Link between basic sciences and Medicine (1 day on Engineering, one on anatomy, one on physics, one on bio, and one on chem (weekends off)). This was back when I wanted to do medicine
(only on harvard app)- Applied for Harvard summer program in 2006- Accepted, but could not attend due to sudden change in financial status.</p>

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<p>Harvard - Reach
Cornell - Low Match
Dartmouth - Reach/Low Reach
Carnegie Mellon - Low Match/Safety
Duke - Low Reach
Johns Hopkins - Match/Low Match
Amherst - Match</p>

<p>You'll almost certainly get into Carnegie Mellon, and most likely get into Cornell and Johns Hopkins (despite your bad interview there). Of the rest, I'd say a 50/50 chance at Amherst, 30 percent chance at Duke and Dartmouth, and a 10% chance at Harvard.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>