Friend's Chances

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>My friend, who's a year above me, would like you experts here at CC to chance her up a little. She's high school class of '08.</p>

<p>Very competitive public school (Washington DC area)</p>

<p>Caucasian Female
UW: 3.74
W: 4.44</p>

<p>School does not rank but roughly in top 10%</p>

<p>SAT: 2140
(720 M, 730 CR, 690 W)</p>

<p>SATII:
Math II - 730
Chem - 690</p>

<p>AP's/IB:
US Gov - 4
Calc BC - 4
Chem - 3
IB Russian (SL) - 7</p>

<p>Senior Year Courses:
IB English II
IB (Euro) History II
Multivariable Calculus
AP Bio
AP Psych
AP Environmental Science</p>

<p>In high school's Math, Technology, and Sciences program.</p>

<p>EC's:
Summer Internship at NIST
National Society of Young Engineers award at county science fair
11 Years of Piano - some competitions/recitals
Years of Dance / Art outside of school
Member of Track team</p>

<p>Colleges:
Penn
UMD - College Park
UNC
UCLA
Duke
Brown
UC Berkeley</p>

<p>Any suggestions would be great.</p>

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<p>Berkeley- Reach (Since OOS). I want to go there too, but I don't think it will happen. Good test scores for your friend though. Don't know much about others. I'd say probably good choice for UCLA, but I'm not an expert.</p>

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<p>What kinds of awards in piano?</p>

<p>Penn: REJECT
UMD - College Park: Likely
UNC: Likely
UCLA: Maybe
Duke: REJECT
Brown: Unlikely
UC Berkeley: REJECT</p>

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<p>No piano awards. Various recitals and competitions.</p>

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<p>I read that wrong the first time around.</p>

<p>I change Brown chances to: Unlikely/REJECT.
The rest still stands.</p>

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<p>Hey Gaffe you want to check out my post and let me know what you think? That'd be great</p>

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<p>Would applying ED to Penn help her chances?</p>

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<p>Penn: reach
UMD - College Park: match
UNC: match
UCLA: slight reach
Duke: reach
Brown: slight reach/reach
UC Berkeley: reach</p>

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<p>Penn: Fail
Brown: Denied
UC Berkeley: Rejected
UCLA: You're friend is going here probably.</p>

<p>Tell her to do ED for UCLA or EA if they provide that. California Rocks</p>

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<p>Wow... Russian is interesting. And I'm not so pessimistic. An outstanding essay has gained acceptance to those schools for people with much worse stats.</p>

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<p>Penn: reject
UMD: in
UNC: reach/reject
UCLA: reject
Duke: reject
Brown: reject
Berkeley: reject</p>

<p>honestly, i think she should come up with more match/safety schools. UCB and UCLA are major reaches because she's OOS (avg. OOS score is around 2250+), the IL is anyone's guess, and Duke's avg. is 100 points higher than hers. ECs are good but not stellar. She should still apply to those schools, but perhaps should pick out a few more safeties just in case. best of luck!</p>

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<p>also, UCs don't have ED or EA, and even if she did, I would not advise her to use it, as she is not in the top 25% of their applicant pool. She could probably get into lower-tier UCs, but only 8% of UCB and UCLA are OOS.</p>

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<p>My friend updated her list and would like to know her chances at the following schools:</p>

<p>Penn (ED)
Maryland College Park
Emory
Duke
UNC
Pomona
Carnegie Mellon
William and Mary
WashU
Rice</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>