Does Alumni relation help my chances at Brown Yale

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>My mother, my grandfather, and two uncles attended Brown and my mom interviews for them and my father attended Yale and he interviews for them and my grandfather and uncle attended uPenn and I'm wondering if this gives me some sort of edge on the competition</p>

<p>I'm currently a junior and I'm wondering what my chances are at: Brown, Yale, UPenn, Northwestern, Wesleyan, NYU, WUSTL, Columbia</p>

<p>Caucasian male at a top public school on long island</p>

<p>I'm not sure what my exact GPA is but I have gotten all A+s in every class I've taken except for my AP Stat class that I received a A- in </p>

<p>SAT I: 2250 CR: 750 Math: 720 Writing: 780 (12 essay)
ACT: 33
SAT II: Math 1c: 720 will also take bio and us history
PSAT: 215 probably NM comendation
By the end of my high school career I will have taken 10 APs: AP Stat (4), Ap Euro (5), AP French, ap composition, ap US history, AP bio, AP literature, AP psych, AP physics, AP calc AB I will probably be an AP scholar with distinction</p>

<p>ECs: Sports editor School Newspaper (11th grade) and will be Editor in chief for senior year
Co-editor of school public relations magazine
Regular contributor to literary magazine with potential for editor
Model Congress member
Rachel's challenge club
Principal's Decision committee
Guitar for seven years
National Honor society
French honor society peer tutoring coordinator
300+ combined Communtiy service hours at boys and girls club and at a home for those who suffer from severe brain trauma</p>

<p>Summers: New York Film academy at princeton, Brown summer program, Northwestern film program, science research </p>

<p>Also entered Intel, Siemens Westinghouse dupont challenge, Oracle Thinkquest, and Toshiba explora vision </p>

<p>Essays i'm sure will be very strong as will Recs</p>

<p>Please tell me what you guys think are my chances at these schools thanks</p>

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<p>It helps you alot, but confide in the fact that you are otherwise a well qualified applicant (however I can't see a passion) and could get in with academics/ecs alone. Your chances are excellen.</p>

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<p>your stats are very good indeed. maybe you should get your dad to interview you for Yale lol, that should definitely help.</p>

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<p>actually he does interview for yale i guess i forgot to add that</p>

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<p>can anybody give me actual chances for each school i guess in the form of percentages thanks</p>

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<p>Brown - 75%
Yale - 90%</p>

<p>Assuming you play you cards right</p>

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<p>thanks cwatson also i was wondering does alumni relation only play a prominent role when it comes to ED also i'm curious as to why you think I have a better shot a Yale than at Brown</p>

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<p>Legacy doesn't help THAT much at Yale...legacies get in at around a 15-20% rate, I believe, as opposed to the 8% rate for "unhooked" students. But you have as good a shot as anyone...good luck!</p>