Chances

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi, I would really appreciate if you could help me understand some of my chances.</p>

<p>Schools:
Wharton (UPenn)
Michigan (Ross School of Business)
Northwestern
UC Berkley
MIT
Princeton</p>

<p>Info: White, jewish refugee from the Soviet Union. Parents both attended college in Russia. I'm looking at undergrad business programs so if anybody has other suggestions I would appreciate them.</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 (Unweighted), 4.21 (Weighted)
ACT: 35 (36 Reading, 35 English, Math, Science)
SAT: 780 Math, 740 CR, 640 Writing
SAT II: 800 US History, 790 Chemistry, 790 Math Level II
APS: US History (5), Microeconomics (5), Macroeconomics (5), Chemistry (5), Biology (5)</p>

<p>Senior Schedule:
AP English
AP Calculus BC
AP Physics
AP Spanish
AP Psychology
IPD (Program through UMich where the class designs projects to help benefit people)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Science Olympiad, Captain, Soph-Senior (First place at states in Chemistry Lab)
National Honor Society, Jr-Senior
Quiz Bowl, Captain, Soph-Senior
Russian Martial Arts, Soph-Senior
Member of Society of American Magicians and International Brotherhood of Magicians</p>

<p>Volunteer Work:
Henry Ford Hospital, 100 Hours (Junior)
Jewish Community Center (Fresh)
Public Library (Soph)</p>

<p>Thanks for the help.</p>

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<p>PyroManiac:</p>

<p>Assuming you are a California resident,
UCB: Match</p>

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<p>Well, you are looking good everywhere, obviously. The only (slight) negative in the whole list you have here is the 640 Writing score. But considering you moved here from Russia, that will be discounted.</p>

<p>Other top business programs are: Univ of Virginia, Notre Dame, North Carolina, Cornell, Texas at Austin, USC, Indiana, Emory, NYU, and Boston College. For international studies, consider NYU, South Carolina and Oregon. For entrepreneurial studies consider Babson.</p>

<p>If you are looking at majoring in finance--which appears to be the case, I strongly recommend NYU--which is second only to UPenn in most finance school rankings, and the University of Virginia.</p>

<p>Also, schools with strong Econ programs are Stanford, Chicago, Yale, and UCLA. (all have graduate business programs, but not undergraduate ones).</p>

<p>P.S. Northwestern and Princeton have no undergraduate business schools--although you can major in Econ at those schools, also.</p>

<p>Good luck at whichever school you finally choose.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the additional list of schools. I will definately look into those. I'm still not sure on working out the exact list of schools, these were just some that I was considering. </p>

<p>Would UC Berkley provide any benefit over Michigan since they are ranked pretty simliarly? I'm in-state Michigan so it would work out cheaper in that sense and if there isn't much difference I could remove Berkley from the list. As for Northwestern/Princeton, would it be a bad idea to go to either of these schools as opposed to a school with an undergrad business school?</p>

<p>As for my writing score, I did screw up on that. Would it be to my benefit to try to retake the test and improve the score or is it it almost an insignificant fault? Would it make more sense to spend the time focusing on writing good college essays and getting good letters of recs together or try to get the extra 60+ pts on writing?</p>

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<p>Ok, new question...this is my updated list of schools to apply to, could somebody help give me an idea what my chances are like for these. I would be looking into the business program at all of these schools. Additionally, I'm in-state Michigan which greatly eases acceptance into UMich.</p>

<p>Wharton
Michigan
Virginia
MIT
Emory
NYU</p>

<p>Thanks for the help.</p>

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<p>looking good everywhere. but of course, your SAT I does seem a bit suspicious in comparison with a near perfect ACT. a great essay should get you in your entire list</p>

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<p>Ok, thanks for the info Faux.</p>

<p>Does the low writing score on the SAT I in comparison to the near perfect ACT writing/essay score look really suspicious? Or is it seen as just a bad day? If I don't retake it, would that appear as I'm not motivated or would that be reading into it too far?</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>I think you're panicking a bit too much. People have off days, and for all the admissions officers know, you took the SAT, did poorly on writing, studied really hard to take the ACT and aced it. I think you're fine.</p>

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<p>PyroManiac:</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Slight Reach (out of state)</p>

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<p>ats-730 verbal 690 math 710 writing total 2130
gpa 96.677777 weighted (school has weak weightings tho)
rank- 23/331
schedule-7 aps, all honors or aps including 5 yrs of a language
ecs- 12 seasons of track/XC 3 seasons as captain, DECA state champion and top 5 in state, editor in chief 3 yrs of lit mag, 2 yr editor of paper, helped found ACLU club,lots of community service, in every major honors society and VP of italian
what are my chances at the ivies and equivalent schools?</p>

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<p>Gang, I'm not sure but to me it seems like your SAT scores might be a tad bit low.</p>

<p>If your schedule is good, and you have been getting good AP results, you should have a chance I guess. Especially since you have an athletic background and a bunch of good extracurriculars.</p>

<p>I also have no idea what that GPA means...</p>

<p>If nothing else I think you should have a chance at the lower ivies, especially if you manage to retake the SAT and improve it.</p>