Columbia, Stanford, and MIT Chances

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Ethnicity: URM - hispanic male
Household income: ~ $100k from my parents, another $50k from me
State: Washington
Major: Computer Science
School: public, somewhat large

Hardship: (please read this)
My parents got divorced when i was 8 years old, and ever since then I have had to change schools and states every 6 months. Throughout high school i’ve gone to 6 different schools. During my entire sophomore year, i went through a long and terrible custody battle that eventually ruled in my favor, but not before ruining my relationship with my dad. To help pay for court fees, i decided to start a business locally and online selling popular items. I make about $4k/month profit and will hopefully continue if business stays up.

Objective:
GPA:
UW: 4.0
W: 4.39

Rank: 1/457

Test scores:
ACT: 36 (36E, 36M, 35R, 35S)

Sat 2:
Math 2: 800
Physics: 800
US History: 780

AP classes:
Junior AP’s:
Statistics: 5
US History: 5
Language: 5
Calc AB
Calc BC
Computer Science

Senior AP’s:
Government and politics
Spanish

This many AP’s is uncommon at my school. Many only take 1-2 in total

Subjective:

Ec’s:
Varsity basketball (senior year)
Summer basketball league (1 year)
Founder of inventor’s club (1 year)
*Local/online business - make around $50k/yr
- to help pay for court fees
- since Sophomore year

Work:
Tutor (3 years)
IT internship during summer after junior year

Volunteer:
charity founder for students - raised $25k in goods

Here are my schedules:

Freshman:

  1. World history
  2. Spanish 1
  3. English 9
  4. Double honors alg2/trig
  5. PE
  6. Physical science

Sophomore:
1st semester (block schedule)-

  1. Pre ap english
  2. Writing/art
  3. Honors geometry
  4. Spanish 2

Second semester -

  1. Art
  2. Personal finance
  3. Food and nutrition
  4. Business management
  5. Team sports
  6. Basketball

Junior:

  1. AP English Language
  2. AP US History
  3. AP Statistics
  4. Honors pre calc
  5. Physics
  6. Spanish 3

(AP calc AB/BC and AP CS over summer)

Senior year:

  1. Biology
  2. AP government and politics
  3. AP Spanish 450
  4. english 12
  5. chemistry
  6. basketball
2

Why does your GPA change between chance threads in an impossible way?

3

I repeated some courses to get an A

4

Where are the two years of varsity football you listed in a previous post? Same with two years of basketball? Also your business must be new - you didn’t list it a few months ago. What about those apps you wrote for 25k? I assume you took US History SAT 2 twice, since your score changes from one of your other threads.

5

And, did you retake the ACT, too?

6

Just chance the stats. What are you trying to accomplish?

7

I’m very likely not speaking only for myself when I say that people are happy to help a student by chancing them, but the notion of “chancing stats” appeals to a much smaller group.

I will point out that real students probably don’t want those types of opinions to begin with.

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Yes, a student with perfect grades, taking the most rigorous courses, with near perfect test scores, a successful side business, significant ECs, all accomplished while overcoming personal hardship along the way is a competitive applicant for these schools.

I guess whether that person is you is irrelevant.

9

Yeh, it looks good. Ethnic and geographic helps, and you probably have money for tuition. You could apply to HYP, Caltech and so on. Not sure you would get in, but probably worth applying.

10

Story sounds kinda unbelievable IMO.

Divorced parents, change school every 6 month, 6 different schools, 50k yearly income (which is higher than some college grads), raised 25k for charity…

@stemit
sure seems like OP would lie about ECs.