Chances?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>College decisions coming out in about 3 weeks for me, and I'm super anxious. I thought I'd post a chance thread just to see what you all think. Please feel free to be as realistic as possible in your responses, that's really what I'm looking for. I won't have any hard feelings if you say "no chance" :)</p>

<p>Numbers
SAT I - 2380 (800 M, 800 W, 780 CR, one sitting)
SAT II - 740 Math II (freshman year), 800 Math II, 800 Chemistry, 800 Chinese, 720 USH
GPA - Total: 3.96 UW / 4.45 W; 10th - 12th: 3.93 UW / 4.70 W
Rank - school doesn't rank, but top 2.5%-ish at least in a class of 600-700
APs - 14 AP classes including senior year, pretty much the most rigorous schedule you can take. I've taken 9 AP exams for the 9 AP classes I've completed, all 5s (Calc BC, Chemistry, Chinese, World History, Biology, Eng Lang, Physics B, Statistics, US History)</p>

<p>ECs
Clarinet (9-12): several regional comp. awards, advancing to state level comp. in april, performed solo at Copley Symphony Hall (where San Diego Symphony performs)
San Diego Youth Symphony (9-12): principal clarinet for one year
Hospital Volunteer (10-12): 200-250 hours, Surgical Ortho, Info Desk, Lobby Musician
Volleyball (9-12): JV co-captain (11)
Summer Internship (12): ~100 hours at DNA sequencing company
Piano (9, 10): completed Certificate of Merit
Electric Guitar (11, 12): for fun :)</p>

<p>Various other activities for one year: Academic Team, Speech & Debate, Science Olympiad (mediocre awards), club volleyball
Work Experience: I had a short summer job as a TA for a local summer school for kids</p>

<p>Academic Awards
National Merit Semi-Finalist (and Finalist)
National AP Scholar
Qualified for National Chemistry Olympiad (explained citizenship ineligibility in add. info)
National Honor Society (11-12)</p>

<p>Other
Counselor Rec: probably a bit generic considering my school is large and very few people know their counselors well...
Teacher Recs: Chem teacher (one of his top students, academic side of me prob.), US History teacher (good student, but knows a lot about my ECs and still tells me how cool it was that I played Purple Haze dressed up as Jimi Hendrix for a report, probably mentioned in rec...)
Essays: pretty good I think. main one was about my passion for music and chemistry tied together by a metaphor. another one about how a composer changed me as a person. another one about a lab method I developed during AP Chem class that inspired me to become an engineer (why engineering?). short one joking about how I'm really skinny and not super tall, but I'm big on the volleyball court.</p>

<p>Next is my super-reaching, ambitious school list. I understand that most people will just say certain schools are reaches for everyone, but if anyone has something more to add to that I'd really appreciate it. I applied as a chemical engineering major.</p>

<p>Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
Columbia
Dartmouth - received a likely letter a couple days ago
Northwestern (still a reach for me, I think, because I applied for a music/engineering dual degree; clarinet professor e-mailed me saying he liked many things about my CD though, hopefully the other colleges have a similar impression of my music supplement)</p>

<p>(I applied to 4 UCs as well, but the interviewer for the Regent's Scholarship told me I was accepted to Berkeley already so I won't mention those. Fortunately I have Berkeley to fall back on.)</p>

<p>Oh, I'm an asian male (in case you couldn't tell already :P) from CA.</p>

<p>If I'm leaving anything out please let me know (or if I'm telling too much, let me know so I can edit it out :) ). THANKS GUYS.</p>

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<p>Looking good.</p>

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<p>anything more specific (i.e. which schools)? haha sorry, just the excitement/anxiety settling in :slight_smile:
people tell me that sometimes, but I feel like there are many applicants who seem more qualified and get rejected.</p>

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<p>i think you should be fine, especially with positive feedback from dartmouth and northwestern already you’ll get in both of those places. it’s really a crapshoot for the rest.</p>

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<p>Certainly; but such is true for any applicant.</p>

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<p>I hope that this misconception starts to wane in currency on CC.</p>

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<p>So…I assume the idea is that I do have a chance at the schools I listed, but the rest is based on luck?</p>

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<p>Yes, as does any applicant.</p>

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<p>To a small extent.</p>

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<p>Well, looking at your list, I can’t really tell you reach or match… It’s not that the stats are vague, but those best of the best schools are really unpredictable. I had a friend in stuyvesant, which is a very competitive high school, who got 2370 and 98GPA, salutatorian, who got rejected from Stanford… However, I think you have a fairly good chance of getting accepted to all those schools, as long as your essay didn’t suck balls. haha</p>

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<p>Thanks for the response. Stanford is probably the least predictable school out of all of them…(at least that’s the impression here) :P</p>

<p>I’ll try and chance you if I can.</p>

<p>EDIT - By the way, 3.96 UW GPA means I got 2 B’s (1 in AP Eng Lang 2nd semester, 1 in AP Am. Gov. 1st semester), which would be fine and all, but they came in 2nd semester junior year and 1st semester senior year. Is that significant enough to be considered a downward trend…haha.</p>

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<p>Bump. Any more opinions? If not, I’ll just wait it out.</p>

<p>Got UCLA w/ Regents today :)</p>