Evaluate my chances

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm currently a sophomore and I just wanted to know what my chances would be of getting into any of the following colleges...</p>

<p>*Harvard, Yale, Cornell, UPenn, Columbia, MIT, Caltech, Dartmouth, Brown, Princeton, Stanford, and NYU.
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Also, if you could give me some feedback as to what my strong/weak points are, I would greatly appreciate it.

My Stats</p>

<p>**PSAT<a href="10th%20Grade,%20October%202008">/B</a>: 179 - 72 math, 53 reading, 54 writing</p>

<p>**SAT<a href="10th%20Grade,%20March%202009">/B</a>: 2050 - 790 math, 580 reading, 680 writing</p>

<p>Sophomore Schedule: AP World History, AP Calculus AB, Honors Chemistry, Honors Spanish, Honors English, Honors Sports Medicine, Honors Health.</p>

<p>Junior Schedule: AP Physics B, AP US History, AP English Lang, AP Calculus BC, AP Spanish, and Student Government.</p>

<p>Senior Schedule: AP Biology, AP American Government, AP English Lit, AP Chemistry, Multivariable Calculus at College, and AP Psychology.</p>

<p>Extracurriculars: Varsity tennis, JV wrestling, future business leaders of america club, newspaper club (staff writer position), math team, business honor society, science olympiad, academic team, instar (independent science technology and research), and I volunteer at a nearby hospital.</p>

<p>Very competitive public high school that has grades 10-12.
GPA is 98% from freshman year and first half of sophomore year.</p>

<p>I'm planning to go to college and major in science so what colleges would be a good fit for me? I will definitely be taking the PSAT and SAT again in junior year so don't worry they will definitely improve.</p>

<p>All comments are appreciated, thanks.</p>

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<p>get SAT up or no chance anywhere. other stats are solid though</p>

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<p>Soccersamdude11, like i said, i’m a sophomore right now and i just took it for practice to see where i stand. Hopefully, when i take it again in my junior year, I will improve by at least 200 points.</p>

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<p>You definitely need to increase SAT scores and have good SAT II’s scores. Work on leadership within your activities. The only thing I would say is that nothing <em>really</em> stands out, aka what is your passion? What makes you different from the rest? Make sure you focus on something and come back again at the end of your junior year-it’s too early to tell.</p>

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<p>You’re SAT scores will undoubtedly improve. Impressive job on your first time as a sophomore. Excellent GPA - make your priority keeping it high. Impressive range of ECs, which makes it easy to see that you’re building a good base. As was said before, vie for leadership positions, and ff your interests lie in math and science, perhaps drop some ECs that aren’t in that field and do some ECs that are; you could apply for and attend math or science summer programs etc.</p>

<p>It is too early to be sure (or even sort-of-sure) about anything, but if you keep your grades very high, get some leadership positions, write good essays and get good recs, you’re no doubt in the running for all of those schools, with a high likelihood of getting accepted to at least 1 or 2.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>uhh obviously, by your list of schools you are a prestige whore… i mean all the schools you listed are SO DIFFERENT… i mean, someone who loves and wants to go to dartmouth is NO WAY going to like NYU and its setup… you just listed the top 10ish universities in the nation. when you apply, they will know you are just looking for prestige and you won’t have a good chance at acceptance. even if you do get accepted, good luck being happy in the institution you attend because you obviously don’t know what you want in a school. good day=]</p>

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<p>what Ny0rker said was unfortunately true, although he/she could have phrased it a little less harshly. you clearly don’t know what you want, and all you really want is to go to a ivy or another top 20. i understand that you want to go to a selective school (a lot of us do, including myself), but you need to have a stronger foundation than that. you probably don’t have as much exposure, and its understandable, because you’re still only a sophomore. Ny0rker’s example was a good one. if you visited the harvard campus and then nyu, you would definitely see a huge difference. you will most likely like one campus a lot more than the other, regardless of selectivity. trust me, you might end up finding another school (even one that you haven’t heard of before) that you really like, and it may not be selective. don’t think that just because a school isn’t selective it isn’t a good one.</p>

<p>anyways, your grades are fine, your test scores need to improve but i get that you’re only a sophomore. however, you should find some “different” ec to show colleges your diversity instead of just a laundry list of ec’s that most of us are affiliated with.</p>

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<p>I basically agree with the above sentiments. Your test scores will undoubtedly go up. Try to find a focus in your ECs, and strengthen this focus by writing about them in your essays (though that’s not something to worry about now).</p>

<p>I get that you want to go to the top schools but it’s very obvious that you haven’t done any research. I mean, your list is HYPSMC, the rest of the Ivies, and NYU. The schools are very different. Realize that not going to a top school is not the worst thing in the world, and you may end up falling in love with a non-top-20 school.</p>

<p>Anyway, you’re only a sophomore so main thing right now is focus on maintaining your grades and working on your ECs a bit.</p>