Future fund manager? In my dreams....

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Sorry for making another thread, but the last one I made seems to be dead. </p>

<p>Heres the basics.</p>

<p>Typical Asian male with typical Asian stats
Upper middle class</p>

<p>SAT -2390
SAT II - Bio 800, Math IIC 800, Chinese 800</p>

<p>4.0 unweighted 4.4 weighted rank top 10% (our school uses deciles)
I am also ELC which is given to top 4% of the high school by the UCs.</p>

<p>Currently taking:
AP US Government
AP Literature
AP Chemistry
Japanese 4 Honors</p>

<p>Dual enrollment at community college
Physics 4a</p>

<p>Searching for low paid employment, tutoring possibly. I used to tutor kids in various subjects: math, SATs, but this is undocumented. Does it even count?</p>

<p>Also took 6 other community college courses</p>

<p>Here is where it gets much less uhh... good:</p>

<p>Extracurriculars
CSF Secretary - similar to NHS except in for Californians.
Go Club President -Go is that asian game with black and white stones. Extremely popular in asian countries, but not in the west. Basically the chess of the east except it is seen as intellectual.
Volunteered at wheelchair sports camp in summer of junior year
Volunteered at library as a junior
Volunteered at food distribution place for needy as a sophomore
Volunteer as peer tutor at school as junior and senior.</p>

<p>Participated in a some math competitions:
Santa Clara Math Competition
CAML
Mandelbrot</p>

<p>Qualified for AIME</p>

<p>PSAT commended</p>

<p>Recommendations: Ok to above average
Essays: Should be decent</p>

<p>Here are the colleges:
Harvard - how much of a reach?
Princeton - how much of a reach?</p>

<p>UPenn Wharton - how much of a reach?
UChicago -how much of a reach?
Stanford - how much of a reach?
NYU Stern - how much of a reach?</p>

<p>Washington University in St Louis - possibly slight reach?
Cornell - possibly slight reach?
John Hopkins - ?</p>

<p>UCs for safeties.</p>

<p>California resident. 30 minute drive from Stanford, but not crazy about the school.</p>

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<p>No reason you can't be a fund manager, you're obviously smart. You don't have the ECs for HPS or Wharton. Wharton really wants leadership. I think you have a good shot at the rest. Go to Stern for the Wall St. internships.</p>

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<p>It's a tough call; you obviously have some of the best test scores and grades of anyone in the country, but your ec's are lacking. You're a very lopsided applicant, which some schools might find very appealing and which others might find disenchanting. I'm sure you'll get into several of the privates you mentioned. Princeton seems to really value grades and scores and I imagine you will stand a good shot there.<br>
I'm inclined to say that if you aren't crazy about Stanford, don't apply, but it is, of course, up to you.</p>

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<p>dream: future pilot of strike gundam</p>

<p>b u m p !</p>

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<p>Some assistance would be much appreciated. Chances for each school?</p>

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<p>fastMEd:</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Safe Match</p>

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<p>My thoughts:</p>

<p>Your biggest reaches, I think, are Harvard, Wharton, and Stanford. If you want to stand out at these places, you're going to need to write some darn good essays. Your stats aren't really doing it for me, I'm not seeing why you want to be a fund manager based on your activities. From what you've given us, there's nothing here to make you special. </p>

<p>Only slightly better chances for Princeton (they seem to put more focus on scores and less on ECs just from what I've heard).</p>

<p>UChicago - Reach, but very much within reach. </p>

<p>JHU, WUSTL - I'd be very surprised if you didn't get into at least one of these. </p>

<p>Cornell, NYU, UCs - matches...again, these seem more score-focused.</p>

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<p>don't ask chance for hps without expecting a reach, for all people get a reach chance when applying there. not a great chance though, because e/c's aren't great- u could make the case that volunteering is ur knack, but i can't tell without known # hours. john hopkins is a match. u chicago like ec's and essays, which u don't see to have, so low reach. i think u have an eh chance at upenn, medium reach. stern is a match/lower reach. Wash U is a match. Cornell is a match/low reach too.</p>

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<p>With good essays:
Harvard - extremely unlikely
Princeton - extremely unlikely
UPenn Wharton - decent chance, apply ED
UChicago - IN (with good essay) - you will probably not like it there
Stanford - decent chance
NYU Stern - IN
Washington University in St Louis - they will not believe that they are your top choice, you will be waitlisted / rejected
Cornell - IN
John Hopkins - IN</p>

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<p>CSF Secretary - 100 hours by end of this year
Volunteered at wheelchair sports camp in summer of junior year - 30 hours
Volunteered at library as a junior - 100 hours or so
Volunteered at food distribution place for needy as a sophomore - 50 hours
Volunteer as peer tutor at school as junior and senior. - 50 hours</p>

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<p>i give you 50% for HYP each. that 2390 is as good as a 2400 -- they accept what, 50% 2400+4.0s? your ECs aren't horrific.</p>

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<p>50% is outright ridiculous. even the strongest competitor has at best 20-25% chance</p>

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<p>lol it is still a mystery to me how one can quantify statistics on something thats very subjective. They either like you or they don't.
If I were a harvard amissions officer looking at your stats, I would just see you as a nerd who lacks personality and leadership.</p>

<p>Nerds applying to harvard are a dime a dozen. </p>

<p>I don't really think you're a nerd :). Just work on the essays and try to show some focus and passion.</p>

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<p>this is among one of the most ignorant statement i have seen so far. HYP statistically accept ~50% of those that have 2400 and 4.0. the OP has very close to that. </p>

<p>the strongest competitor has at best 20-25% chance? the strongest competitor has 90-99% chance</p>

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<p>That is true. Some graduated seniors from my school got accepted to almost all their schools. Well, one of them got rejected from Yale. They had same stats as me, but tons of research/math ecs or leadership stuff, a lot of it state or national level.</p>

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<p>i will generalize harvard into the yale category for my example. i talked to my adcomm for yale and he said that about 40% of all the applicants would seem to be successful candidates for the school, and still they can only take 10%. You can be a great candidated, but you'd still have 1/4 chance at yale- and because more applicants apply to harvard, i would say you would less than that chance. also, 2400 and 2390 probably have diff statisics, and most OP's have near 4.0 GPA's. don't type him for something he's not. he's close not, but he's not it.</p>

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<p>...</p>

<p>So should I apply Penn College of Arts and Science for a major in economics rather than Wharton? How much worse is an econ major from penn than a wharton student? </p>

<p>For financial reasons, I am not doing ED since I need financial aid. Merit aid not need based although it should count as need since I will have to take loans myself.</p>

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<p>You're super smart! I'm just going to poke fun at you for not making National Merit Semis. Because that seems to me like the only thing you haven't done that I have.<br>
; )</p>

<p>my school is really small and they consider me their golden child... act like i could go to harvard if i wasn't so hell-bent on film school... i can only imagine what they would do with you!</p>

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<p>There is no reason you can't be a fund manager...what kind of fund are you talking about though? Like a hedge fund? Mutual fund? They're totally different types....anyway I'd say go for Stern or UVa and then do your 2 years with Goldman sachs then get your MBA at Harvard. Then you use your connections to get into a hedge fund. Then you move up.</p>

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<p>UVa? I would probably go to Berkeley instead or UCLA. Man, all this east coast bias for finance.</p>