<p>Please chance me for the following:
SCEA: Harvard
REGULAR: umich, columbia, stanford, caltech, carnegie mellon, princeton, yale, cornell, mit, berkeley</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2300 800m 800w 700cr
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II:800 physics 800 math2
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):4.0 (Even tho I have a 4.0, I have 2 grades in the 70s, but it was due to a disease I have)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):no ranking
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):5's on AP US HISTORY, AP PHYSICS C E+M, AP PHYSICS C MECHANICS, AP PHYSICS B, AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION, 4 on AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE (should I send this?)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP CHEMISTRY, AP ENGLISH LITERATURE, AP US GOV, AP CALCULUS BC, GYM, YEARBOOK CLASS (Going to run for office) and taking college-level courses at a college (same as last year)
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.) probably NMSF/NMF (22X on PSAT), an AP award, NHS for 2 years (idk if it counts lol), Math Award, another award from AMC (highest school-scorer), a Wikipedia award lol
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): NHS 2 years (Junior President (highest position to jrs), probably ARISTA President next year)), YEARBOOK CLASS (Going to run for office), math team 3 years (running for President senior year),Robotics team 2 years, science club 4 years, taking college-level courses at a college (same as last year), editing Wikipedia, and random things like open house, walks, etc.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Help my parents with their store on saturdays for more than four years. 8 hours/day.
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Tutoring 2h/week for 2 years
[<em>] Summer Activities:Going to do research at nearby college and learn the piano this summer. I'll probably send video tape of my performance.I'll probably send video tape of my performance. Last summer and the summer before that, sat prep.
[</em>] Essays: ill try my best on it. I'm one of the best writers in my class.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Excellent one from math teacher saying I was the best in class blah blah blah (I saw the rec already) and another from ap science teacher I'm going to have next year. Probably excellent.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: idk lol i come from small school tho
[<em>] Additional Rec:
[</em>] Interview: idk
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NY
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: public, selective (test required)
[</em>] Ethnicity:asian
[<em>] Gender:male
[</em>] Parent Education: dropped out in middle school lol
[<em>] Income Bracket:<60k
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first gen
[/ul]General Comments:</p>
<p>umich - Accepted
berkeley - Accepted
carnegie mellon - Accepted
cornell - Accepted
columbia - Tough call, good chance
stanford - 50/50
caltech - Try taking the SATs one more time to get up CR, caltech has really qualified applicants
princeton - same as Columbia
yale - same as princeton
mit - same as Caltech</p>
<p>Harvard - Impossible to say with any confidence, you have a good shot</p>
<p>What was the extent of your involvement with the science team?
Any other big awards you might be forgetting?
What exactly is ARISTA?</p>
<p>You’re so close, especially because of your scores and hook, but your EC’s are lacking just a bit. It’s not that it’ll really hurt you, but you can never be too safe when applying to schools like these, just try to compensate with strong essays and maybe getting your critical reading score up.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1420290-chance-threads-please-read-before-posting-one.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1420290-chance-threads-please-read-before-posting-one.html</a></p>
<p>This is a great post on here that I strongly encourage you to read. It is absolutely fruitless to try and predict absolute chances. With that said, I strongly disagree with Krawfy – chances for admission at schools like Stanford should never be pegged at 50/50, especially when it was the most selective college in the United States this past year. In general, I believe Krawfy’s estimates to be much too optimistic.</p>
<p>With that said, you will be a very competitive applicant. Take what I say with a grain of salt, since I am nothing more than a high school senior myself, but in general I’d say the strengths of your application lie in the academic side of things whereas your EC’s are relatively weaker. It’s not that they aren’t good; simply your activities don’t particularly stand out. If you desire, I’d encourage you to continue to try to seek out leadership positions in the groups you are involved in. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Working in your parents store for 8 hours every weekend is a HUGE EC, that will set you apart and might do the trick. I would work it into the essays in detail. Don’t stop working there! Very few applicants have that kind of experience, and admissions committees value the commitment, time, energy and out-of class learning involved.</p>
<p>That said, admissions to highly selective schools is a crapshoot and 50% of valedictorians with 2400 are turned down at Harvard. The schools you list are all very prestigious, but very different from one another. Figure out if you are more science/technical or want to explore liberal arts for example. Choose some mid-range schools. Most of the work is to find SAFETY schools you would love to go to, not picking the top 15 USNWR prestigious names.</p>