Chances?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey... I've already applied and whatnot, but I'm just wondering what my chances are at the schools I've applied to... 'cause I'm impatient and have nothing else to do over Spring Break. ^^;;</p>

<p>Asian Male
GPA: 4.451 weighted (3.805 unweighted)
Rank: 18/668
top-ranked public high school in Illinois</p>

<p>SAT: 800M/750V
SAT II: 800 Math IIC, 800 Biology, 800 Physics, 780 Chemistry, 770 Writing
ACT: 34E/36M/36R/36S
AP: US History 5, BC Calculus 5, Biology 5, Chemistry 5, Physics C 5, planning to take Statistics, CompSci AB, Macro/Micro</p>

<p>Academic ECs:
State Champion Math Team (7 in a row, 10 of 11)
State Champion WYSE (Science & Engineering) Team (6 in a row)
JETS team (national champion on JV team junior year)
Scholastic Bowl (treasurer and webmaster)
Chicago Area All-Star Math Team (ARML competition)
Model UN delegate
Northwestern University CTD summer program (10th grade)</p>

<p>Non-Academic ECs:
Piano 13 years (placed in various competitions)
Violin 9 years (Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra, Blue Lake International Youth String Orchestra, School Pit Orchestra)
Chinese school
Wushu martial arts
Volunteering - over 500 hours at children's museum and hospital</p>

<p>Honors & Awards:
National Honor Society
National Merit Scholar
Illinois State Scholar
AP Scholar w/ Distinction
AIME qualifier all four years in HS (131 AMC and 7 AIME most recently)
State Champion in geometry in sophomore year
USA Biology Olympiad semifinalist
US Physics Olympiad semifinalist</p>

<p>Here's the schools I'm applying to, with my own evaluation of my chances there...
UIUC - Bioengineering - 100% (they look at GPA/standardized tests only, and I'm in-state as well)
U of Chicago - Physics - 70%
Northwestern U - BME/Piano Performance - 70%/25%
WashU - BME - 50%
Duke - BME - 30% (didn't put much effort into their app)
MIT - Physics - 5% (would be higher... but I'm not a girl...)
Stanford - Undecided - 2% (already accepted far more than average for my school Early Action...)
Harvard - Physics - 1% (No chance here...)</p>

<p>So there you have my self-evaluation... feel free to add your own... judgments...</p>

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<p>Wow. I'm suprised you gave yourself such a low shot at Harvard and Stanford. Just because your Asian won't hurt you that much. I mean, you have the right to leave the "race" part of the college app. blank. They won't assume just b/c their last name is Asian that you are Asian. Oh by the way, this info is from "A is for Admission". Your test scores are pretty amazing and your dedication to your ECs are the same. I'm not saying that you have a sure shot at Harvard/Stanford/MIT, but I'm saying it would be a little higher. Good luck.</p>

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<p>I think you need to stop peeing in your pants.... i hate it when smart people like you dont think you can get into these top tier schools...i mean seriously....lighten up dude...enjoy life</p>

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<p><em>winks</em> and I hate it when people assume smart people don't do anything in their lives except study.</p>

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<p>haha.yah..........that must be hard............G darn wat a difficult way to live (hehe)</p>

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<p>dude chill, with those scores you have a great chance at harvard, stanford, mit, and duke. you might as well consider the rest of those schools as matches/slight safeties.</p>

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<p>Didn't you hear from some of these places?</p>

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<p>ehehe, someone who knows their reply dates finally decided to call me on it. The thing is, I'm a weird little kid that likes to be able to say, "Ha! Everyone thought I would get in but I DIDN'T!" like my friend that got into Harvard EA and sent in a nearly-blank application to UC-Berkeley so he would get rejected... yeah we're weird.</p>

<p>Okay, this is what I do know so far:
Accepted: UIUC, U of Chicago, WashU
Rejected: MIT
Still waiting: Duke, Stanford, Harvard, Northwestern</p>

<p>... yeup. The reason some of my self-evaluated percentages are so low are because I know that in most cases (except for the truly genius like RSI people and Olympiad people...) there is a big luck factor involved in the admissions process. Continuing along that line of thought, by looking over the past 18 years of my life, with a P-value of 0.0000003 (<< 0.05), I can reject the null hypothesis that I have average luck in favor of the alternate hypothesis that I have far-below-average luck. I hate AP Statistics, by the way.</p>

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<p>Something for you to consider is the average applicant and the average acceptance rate.</p>

<p>What I mean by this is even at a school like Harvard the avg application had abt a 3.8UW / 1400 SAT. While these are just stats, you can guess that if you have these stats your chances are about 10%.</p>

<p>While no one is a shoe-in at Ivy Leagues, you have a much better chance than most people (maybe 20% at Harvard & it goes up from there).</p>

<p>Best of luck...you have great chances.</p>

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<p>You have a much better than average shot at Harvard. Don't sell yourself short lol. The average SAT for an applicant is definetely below a 1550, and your rank isn't so bad (still top 3%). Its not completely random.</p>

<p>I'm also waiting for Duke like you.</p>

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<p>people like you **** the rest of us off ok, i mean, don't act all above and arrogant by giving yourself evaluations like that, and your just fishing for compliments i mean, i think its not that cool of a thing to do, you should act a little bit more respectful, i mean, you dont just need to come on here and brag, so, try not to be so stuck up in the way you form your what are my chances, if you want some compliments you could always tell your grandma everyeyhting you just told us, oh and colleges look for confidence in a persons character, so work on that, because basically everything else is going for you, and you will get into all of them, bye</p>

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<p>you have a 33-33-33 chance
33- you will be rejected
33- you will get in
33- you will be waitlisted
1- your application was lost somewhere</p>

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<p>(apologies in advance for temporarily ressurecting this dead thread...)</p>

<p>See, this just goes to show that the college admissions process isn't quite the effort-rewarding process that many people think it is. In response to all the people that went, "**** about how you won't get into Harvard and Stanford and MIT and Duke, you're just bragging, blah blah i hate smart people", I'll have you know that I got rejected to all of the above-listed schools (or waitlisted, but I don't care). Ha! I told you all! (sorry, just had to put that in... no hard feelings, 'kay?) I'm most likely heading off to Northwestern next year - 5-year double degree in Biomedical Engineering and Piano Performance, which was my top choice to begin with (my parents are ****ed about me wasting money applying to the rest of the schools... but I couldn't just not try, right?). Good luck to everyone with college admissions!</p>