Friend's Chances?

<p>Asian male (Indian), 16 (skipped 9th grade)</p>

<p>2340 SAT I
5 Chem AP
800 Chem SAT II
760 Writing
800 Math</p>

<p>Some Russian essay award</p>

<p>3.8 GPA</p>

<p>No extracurriculars, except for intense labwork in protein folding at Duke, probably will get siemens and intel semifinalist, good chance for finalist status (but not extraordinary) and also copy editor of the newspaper</p>

<p>He plans on applying to:
Harvard
Yale
Stanford</p>

<p>those schools are reaches for everyone even tho ur friend is a URM with high stats....i hope hes not putting all his eggs into the HYPS basket</p>

<p>since when has Indian Male been URM? Hey tell your friend I had the exact same stats when I applied basically 1600, 800x4, 3 AP 5s and research and got deferred and then rejected from harvard, Wl Yale then Reject, reject princeton, and accepted penn, rice, cal tech. i'm reapplying b/c i apped as a junior last year. basically same stats.</p>