Engineering! UCs! Chances!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Background: U.S. and CA-Resident, Caucasian male. I attend a competitive private Catholic School in SoCal. Since 8th grade, I knew my passion was for chemistry, and taking Chem soph. and AP Chem junior year reaffirmed it. Not much of a sports guy, I enjoy building computers, keeping up with tech news, indulging in video games on the weekends. A nasty anxiety disorder has previously kept me out of some sports so I opt for running on my own after school.</p>

<p>Chance for UCs, please, and the following.</p>

<p>Reach:
1. Harvey Mudd (Would love to go here)
2. Vanderbilt
3. Rice</p>

<p>Matches:
4. Cal Poly SLO (would have to major in Materials S.)
5. URochester
6. Colorado School of Mines</p>

<p>Safety:
7. U Portland</p>

<p>Yeaaahp, we got the whole spectrum up there.</p>

<p>GPA:
9-12: UW: 3.95 W: 4.25
10-12 (for Stanford/UCs): UW: 3.96 W: 4.42
Rank: (23/412) will hopefully pull up
SAT: 2080, probably not sending
ACT: 34 Cumulative, 36 science
SAT II
Math 2: 770 (signed up to retake, it's personal)
Chem: 800</p>

<p>Fresh
After School Band: A/A
Bio: A+/B+ (teacher screwed up on test, took it to principal, no avail)
Catholic Faith: A/A
English 1(Adv.): A/A
Geometry 1(Adv.): A/A
Spanish 1: A/A
Speech: A/A</p>

<p>Soph: Let's make this simpler..
Notable Classes: AP Euro (got a 3, cute), Alg. 2 Trig/H, English 2(H).
B's: 1st semester English 2H. I'm a math guy.</p>

<p>Junior:
Notable: AP Chem (5), AP Enviro (5), PreCalc (H)
No Bs</p>

<p>Senior: not yet completed
AP Calc BC, AP Physics, AP Macro Econ, AP Statistics, Advanced Brit Lit.</p>

<p>Awards:
Baush and Lomb Science Award (11)
AP Scholar Award (11)
Academic Letter (for GPA, 11)
All 3 of them, yep</p>

<p>Activities:
1) Patent Drawing Draftsman Intern at a local firm last summer. Great experience, paid, I plan to eventually become a lawyer so career oriented. 40hrs/week from mid June to mid August. Great work experience, plan on doing the CommonApp's ex-curric. essay on this one.
2) JV Tennis Junior Year. Look, I played a sport, kinda
3) 2011 Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS) Participant
4) 2011 ACS Chemistry Competition, connected with the Olympiad, will have to do some more research on it. We just were given materials and a question to answer.
5) Member of Science and Engineering Club, 10th-12th grade. Currently Treasurer.
6) 25~hrs/summer for supporting my local parish in Vacation Bible School, 9th and 10th grade summers. Didn't last summer b/c of 1)
7) Co-founder of a start-up company. We buy parts cheap, make computers, sell them per-customer spec. </p>

<p>Teacher reccs should be great, not so sure about counselor.</p>

<p>If you've went through all this, thank you very much for your time, it means the world to me. Can't wait till this whole process is over and things get a might simpler. </p>

<p>Please suggest other great Engineering Schools too! Preferably small ones.</p>

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<p>guarantee= …
Yes= 85%
Probably= 75%</p>

<p>Reach:

  1. Harvey Mudd: Probably
  2. Vanderbilt: If they de-gaf about ex-c then probably
  3. Rice: Probably</p>

<p>Matches:
4. Cal Poly SLO: Yes, but not worth it if you want Chem-E
5. URochester: guarantee
6. Colorado School of Mines: guarantee</p>

<p>Safety:
7. U Portland: iffy</p>

<p>Can you elaborate on your start-up company? I hear schools like Stanford and other elite schools ask for legitimate spreadsheet data that tracks the progress of your company’s success. How long have you been up and running, how many customers have you served, and what is your net profit? [:)]</p>

<p>If nothing else, this is a bump</p>

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<p>Oh, yes, we’re tracking everything. We’ve been running since the summer and I couldn’t give a number on our customers, the co-founder keeps records of all the files. Also, source on that statement?</p>

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<p>Oh it must be easy to track records when they’re nonexistent. I guess you’ve literally been running since summer, but the company hasn’t budged/existed yet… he keeps the records of the files meaning he has the saved progress on his computer, progress= stuff that will eventually become the company (when is a diff question…). My source is my bro since one of his friends started a company and applied to Stanford, having to send actual data to the school itself. Makes sense, otherwise everybody would say they started a company…</p>

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<p>Who are you and what’s your problem?</p>

<p>Anyway, bump for real answers.</p>

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<p>just regular chemistry right?</p>

<p>Harvey Mudd - low reach
Vanderbilt - high match
Rice - high match
Cal Poly SLO - safety
URochester - low match
Colorado School of Mines - safety
UCB - high match
UCLA - match
UCSD - low match
UCD - high safety
UCI - safety
UCSB - safety
UCR/UCM/UCSC - low safety</p>

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<p>definitely a good chance at harvey mudd, but still a low reach, you have a good shot at berk and la as well. san diego is a low match, and most others are safeties.</p>

<p>please chance back! i’m applying to a lot of the same schools! but my stats aren’t as good haha <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1225356-compsci-schools-students-bad-stats-like-me-uc-chancers-please-look.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1225356-compsci-schools-students-bad-stats-like-me-uc-chancers-please-look.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Will definitely chance back. Thanks for the reply. Others?</p>