First Post: Chance me for my dream schools-Princeton and Stanford

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a rising senior from Florida who's interested in applying to Princeton, Stanford, UChicago, Rice, Dartmouth, Duke, MIT, University of Miami, and University of Florida. I plan on applying early to Stanford or Princeton, but I am not sure which one. Does one give more weight to early applications than another? I also don't know whether to go to a state school which would probably give me generous merit scholarships, or to an expensive ivy. (I'm high-ish middle class but colleges are very expensive) Anyways, here are my stats:</p>

<p>Class Rank: 1/110</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 UW</p>

<p>SAT: 2360</p>

<p>SAT II: Math 2-800, Chem-800, US History-780</p>

<p>APs: I go to a pretty small, uncompetitive school which only gives APs junior and senior year.
Junior - Calc BC (5), US History (5), Chemistry (5), English Lang (5)
Senior - Spanish Lang, Biology, Government, English Lit, Physics</p>

<p>ECs and Awards:
-Varsity swimming all 4 years. Won Coach's Award.
-Science Club 4 years.
-Service Club 4 years. I've gotten about 200 hours doing various things from tutoring, helping prep for chemistry labs, volunteering for various charitable organizations
-Mu Alpha Theta. I started the chapter at my school and am the president. I have also participated in a lot of math competitions in and out of Mu Alpha Theta placing second in my state for one of them. I also did the AMC's for the first time last year. I made AIME but slimly failed to make USAMO. I'm confident I can make it next year but sadly colleges won't see that...
-Canada/USA Mathcamp!!! for 2 years. Really was a life-changing thing for me. It will probably be a subject for one of my essays, and I will probably get a recommendation from my research project mentor. This place has driven me to study a lot of math outside of class too, in particular set theory.
-Do online university classes from EPGY (Number Theory, Logic, Linear Algebra) and one class from AoPS count?
-I have read dozens of academic philosophy books and textbooks which really takes up a good part of my time. I also maintain correspondence with a philosophy professor, and even run an academic philosophy blog online. My two passions are basically math and philosophy. I really don't know how to put this on the CommonApp though...
-National Merit
-National Honors Society
- A lot of in-school awards.
-Played piano ever since I was young, but I don't play competitively in competitions or anything.</p>

<p>Work:
I sometimes work at my parent's environmental lab business.</p>

<p>Hooks: URM. Parents are Peruvian and Colombian.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Stop wasting everybody’s time, dude… a 2360 SAT is nearly perfect, ranked #1, super high SAT 2s, freaking math camp? If you don’t get in it’s because you’re lacking in other categories, and you have nothing to gain from posting on CC so you must be wanting to brag or something.
When applying to ivy’s, nobody is guaranteed admissions even with your stats, so you’re basically looking for an ego boost which is absolutely pathetic. Go take a nap and wait for the common apps to go out so you can work hard on your essays</p>

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<p>Harsh…
Well the fact is I’ve read through a few chance threads for ivy’s and having high SAT’s and rank is really common on most threads. Since when is attending an academic summer program so unusual anyway? According to Princeton’s website, people with SAT’s in the 2300 range only have around a 20% chance of being admitted. That means I have a 4 out of 5 chance of being rejected. Also, thanks for the “absolutely pathetic” remark. Very welcoming to the College Confidential community.</p>

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<p>Wow…i feel like…wats worst that *****?</p>

<p>Sent from my M860 using CC App</p>

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<p>SoCal is acting pretty harsh but he is sorta correct, you are obviously qualified to get into those uber-competitive colleges… but you could get flat out rejected, or accepted to all of them. </p>

<p>“According to Princeton’s website, people with SAT’s in the 2300 range have around a 20% chance of being admitted. That means I have a 4 out of 5 chance of being rejected.”</p>

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<p>ignore socal</p>

<p>welcome to cc</p>

<p>make sure your teachers have enough info to write personal and informed LORs and spend time making your essays exceptional</p>

<p>^^Kieran, that statistic is not dumb nor was her inference unreasonable</p>

<p>but I imagine that if you add: valedictorian, near perfect SAT 2s, perfect GPA, 9 APs, great LORs, and great essays that statistic would rise dramatically</p>

<p>I imagine you’ll qualify as a finalist for the full ride scholarship weekend at UMiami (I went there as a freshman!) and if you get into Princeton or Stanford their financial aid (at least princeton is) is so exceptional that it’s probably not worth worrying about.</p>

<p>When I went to the info session, I believe they said they’re committed to making sure no student has more than 5000 in loans upon graduation (not missing any zeros!)</p>

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<p>Your stats are pretty good, from my experience with Stanford/Princeton I would apply early to your first choice because it doesn’t seem like you can get your scores all that much higher and you’d be competitive for that. If you want to wait for them to see your senior grades, then I’d just wait.
chance back please <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1184427-chance-me-stanford-etc.html#post12987422[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1184427-chance-me-stanford-etc.html#post12987422&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>i’m new too, and no… i’m not sorry. It truly is a waste of time to ask for other people’s opinions when you obviously have nothing to gain from them. You will go through the motions for applying and do everything to the best of your ability… didn’t need CC people to tell you that. and as for the applying ED thing… OBVIOUSLY! She has a 2360 SAT and is ranked #1, you don’t have to explain that to her… </p>

<p>Save the "chancers’ " time and let them help out those that may be lacking and/or desire guidance. Delete this post as it’s just cluttering up the “recent feed.”</p>

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<p>Kieran0696- if thats the “dumbest” statistic you have ever heard, then you got to get out more. And where did I make an “assumption” (much less a stupid one)? Given the statistic: If you have a 2300-2400 sat, then you have ~20% admittance rate (directly from [Princeton</a> University | Admission Statistics](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/admission/applyingforadmission/admission_statistics/]Princeton”>http://www.princeton.edu/admission/applyingforadmission/admission_statistics/)) and given that I in fact do in fact have such an SAT, the conclusion logically follows. The point is that that statistic doesn’t take into account much information, and that’s the reason I wanted more informative chances. I was just using an innocent example.</p>

<p>Imasophomore- Cool, my older brother went to Miami too, and he really enjoyed his experience, that’s partly why I’m looking into it as a serious possibility. There, there’s probably less of a chance to be overshadowed by tons of geniuses too. I didn’t know that top schools like Princeton were so generous in their financial aid though, so I"ll definitely take that into account. Thanks.</p>

<p>NedNickerson- Yah, a lot of the schools I’m considering have some sort of restricted or single choice early action program, so deciding which one is hard. Pick a reach one, in which case I may waste it, or pick a “lower” reach one, in which case I would more likely be successful and have a happy Christmas Present! I’ll probably end up applying early to Stanford though.</p>

<p>P.S. Just for clarification, I’m a he not a she haha.</p>

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<p>You are in, thats all i can say</p>

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<p>make sure miami is for you, though. a lot of people loved it, including your bro apparently. i did not. and that probably applies pretty much anywhere…read student reviews on sites like u-n-i-g-o and s-t-u-d-e-n-t-r-e-v-i-e-w, don’t take them for gospel, but fit is huge</p>