Harvard, Yale, Brown, Stanford

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey Guys, I'm a current Senior and was just wondering my chances given my stats. I understand that my application is nothing spectacular but I would like to get somewhat of an idea of where I stand.</p>

<p>Pakistani/White Descent.</p>

<p>GPA:4.0 all 3 years and plan to maintain this in my Senior year.
Class Rank: #1. Medium Sized Private School.
I take the hardest courseload my school offers
All Honors Classes in Grades 9 and 10
Grade 11: 3 AP's (US History, Chemistry, and Language and Comp.) 5's on Chem and USH, 4 on Comp. all All other courses were Honors.
Grade 12: 4 AP's (Lit, Physics B, Calc) and other Honors Classes.</p>

<p>SAT I: 1560 or 2360 (760 M 800 CR 800 W)
SAT II: 770 Chem, 750 US History, 780 Math II
Extra Curriculars:</p>

<p>National Honors Society-Member Junior Year, President Senior Year
National English Honors Society- President and Founder of School's Chapter</p>

<p>Varsity Soccer 9th grade, switched schools, and Team Manager 10th grade.
Varsity Cross Country 11th and 12th.
Varsity Track 11th and 12th.
Captain for Cross Country Team. (12th)</p>

<p>Senior Class Representative
Published in National Anthology of Short Stories for Young Americans
Play Piano and Guitar (13 and 6 years respectively)
Won two state wide Piano Competitions.
Organized and played in 2 Benefit Concerts at School for Senior Mission Trip.
Teach Piano and Guitar Lessons as a source of Income to many students.
Organize regular Blood Drives at Church with Am. Red Cross
Organize Holiday Charity Book Drives with Barnes and Noble for needy children in the Atlanta Area.
Attending 2 camps this summer for a piano masterclass and running.
Founded Musical Education Club at school.
Tutor for AP Chemistry (paid)
Volunteer at Public Library
University of Georgia Academic Merit Award
Play guitar at weekly church services
Played guitar in first gig at Atlanta's Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center
I plan to compete in more piano competitions in my upcoming Senior year, and will try to put on another charity concert.
AP Scholar</p>

<p>I will have great teacher recommendations and feel confident about how I will perform in my interview.</p>

<p>Thanks for looking at this. I am undecided about my major right now but would just like an idea of where I stand in the admissions process.</p>

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<p>looks good, but Harvard, Yale, and Stanford are unchanceable school. Unless you literally cured cancer, published a book that sold more than the bible, and won the olympics last year, no one will be able to guaranteed a spot there. Brown is a probably, but even they tend to be weird when choosing kids. </p>

<p>If you had some national level awards, like Siemens/Intel or the math level after USAMO, youd be set.</p>

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<p>Quite frankly, your scores are awesome, though your EC’s would seem to contribute little to the school. Just something I heard from a Penn interview: It’s cool that your ECs show passion, but if your contribution would do little to elevate the prominence of the school, the school would rather choose a student who has been involved in intellectual EC’s than, say, music-related EC (if he/she’s not music major)… <-again, not my own words.</p>

<p>On the other hand, there are other factors in the admissions process, like essays and recommendations, so if you do great on them, you still have a good chance at the “reach” schools.</p>