Dartmouth, Brown, Berkeley, Yale, etc.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Race: Asian
Location: Texas</p>

<p>Class Rank: 38/950(roughly top 4%)
GPA: 3.7 UW, 5.0 WTD
SAT I: 2050/2400</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
All-State Debater
Student Congress - Captain
President of DECA - Business and Marketing Club
Founder and President of Model UN
Blog with 1000+ readers
250+ hours of community service</p>

<p>AP Classes:
Junior Year: AP Psychology, AP Statistics, APUSH, AP Language and Composition
Senior Year: AP Calculus BC, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Macroeconomics</p>

<p>Yale, Dartmouth, Berkeley, Northwestern, Penn, U.Chicago, Vanderbilt, Cornell, UCLA</p>

<p>I can pay full tuition</p>

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<p>one word. SAFETIES.</p>

<p>you need them badly with that SAT score.</p>

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<p>Okay. What would be a good SAT score to get into those schools then, sir?</p>

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<p>1450+ Math+verbal. 2100 (VERY MINIMUM) overall.</p>

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<p>I can take it one more time. Let's see how it goes.</p>

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<p>Your scores and GPA are lacking, as are probably your ECs. What makes you stand out? What is/are your passion(s)? Good thing you have a rigorous courseload. How about SAT IIs? Essays? Counselor/teacher recs? Please tell me you're retaking the SAT in December...unless of course you scored very well on CR and M and not W? It would be helpful to see additional info like this.</p>

<p>Without that additional info, I'd chance you:</p>

<p>Yale: High Reach
Dartmouth: Reach
Berkeley: High Match - Reach, depends on your individual SAT scores
Northwestern: Reach
Penn: High Reach
U.Chicago: High Reach
Vanderbilt: Reach
UCLA: Low-Mid Reach
Brown: Mid-High Reach</p>

<p>Sorry, but I have to agree with Yingcai. You NEED safeties.</p>

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<p>uh just get the SAT above 2100, and get some SAT IIs above 700, and you have an average chance. your ECs are pretty good.</p>

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<p>I'll admit my scores are lacking. But I'm in the top 4% at one of the top 10 schools in the nation. I wouldn't go as far as criticizing my GPA unless you were valedictorian-esque.</p>

<p>Furthermore, it's very difficult to make it to the state-competition. And if anything, I feel my leadership in ECs make me stand out.</p>

<p>If you'd notice from my blog, writing is my passion and obviously I've done quite well with it.</p>

<p>I'm not trying to be pompous or defensive, but it almost seemed like a personal attack.</p>

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<p>Well, I would think that you have a good set of EC's probably average, and that you should consider retaking the SAT to make sure that you get a higher grade on that, because for the schools you want, you really need to have amazing raw grades, and maybe you should have diversified your writing talents? Dont' put all of your eggs in one basket right? Well, this is what I think, oh and make sure you apply to some state schools, or universities that aren't as difficult to get into, don't put yourself in a difficult situation if you do not get into your top dream schools.</p>

<p>Ivies-Reach
Berkeley( loves raw scores)- Reach/High Match
Vanderbilt-High match</p>

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<p>But it's true... you need more safeties... </p>

<p>and many people have done a lot too.... you're not going up against your school, you're competing against the world. Say there are 17,000 high schools in the nation, that's 17,000 school presidents to boot...</p>

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<p>With your sat scores, i'd say high reaches for all of them except ucla, and thats going to be tough because its a state school and your out of state......</p>

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<p>Based on your current SAT and GPA (and the fact that you're unhooked), many of those choices may just be too far out of reach.</p>