<p>I think all you have to do is raise your SAT score to 2300+.
For the lower Ivies, you’re pretty much set. For HYPSM, they’re reaches for anyone. Unless you have a hook or some really outstanding essays, you won’t stand out amongst all the amazing applicants like yourself.</p>
<p>Thank you guys!</p>
<p>anyone care to pitch in an opinion on stanford EA? I’ve been hearing a lot of conflicting stuff about it…</p>
<p>Your stats are so impressive!! I guess being from CA isn’t great but you seem very smart and well-rounded. actually, someone just told me that Stanford SCEA is difficult because almost everybody accepted early had some sort of hook or something… anyways good luck!</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/955353-chance-me-some-ivies-duke-rice-vandy-gtown-etc.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/955353-chance-me-some-ivies-duke-rice-vandy-gtown-etc.html</a></p>
<p>You will be a very competitive applicant at all the schools on your list. </p>
<p>Your grades are top notch. Your SAT I is fine (but you might want to take it again as a score above 2300 would be a plus). Your SAT IIs are obviously as good as they can be. The list of honors/awards will look good on an application (though nothing so spectacular that it will stand out at HYPS). Similarly, you have a good list of ECs, but your leadership seems to be limited (much like me).</p>
<p>I think you’ll benefit as a first generation immigrant. I don’t think being raised by a single parent will matter that much as many applicants have been raised by a single parent (the only way I see this helping is as part of an essay about the struggles you faced in coming to this country as an immigrant when you were 9).</p>
<p>Stanford (EA) low reach/reach
Princeton reach
Harvard reach
MIT reach
Caltech low reach/reach
Cornell in
Brown in (reach for the MD)
Columbia low reach/match
UCB in
UCLA in
UCSD in
UCD in</p>
<p>Hey I moved here when I was nine too, but is there a place on the application you can mention that other than the essay?</p>
<p>No, i believe the only place that you can mention it is in one of your essays, or short answers.</p>
<p>Amazing…</p>
<p>Stanford (EA)-reach
Princeton-reach
Harvard-reach
MIT-reach
Caltech-reach
Cornell-match
Brown-match
Columbia-match
UCB-match
UCLA-match
UCSD-match
UCD-match</p>
<p>Try to retake the SAT once if you’ve only taken it once so far and try to get the math to 800. If you can get 2300+ and 800 math, your chances will improve at places like Caltech and MIT. Don’t get me wrong, a 2270 is pretty damn good :P. If you’ve already taken the SAT multiple times, don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>Stanford (EA): reach
Princeton: reach
Harvard: reach
MIT: reach
Caltech: reach
Cornell: High match
Brown: low reach
Columbia: low reach
UCB: High match
UCLA: High match
UCSD: match
UCD: match</p>
<p>How long has your uncle been a professor at Stanford? If he has been for a long time then he may have some sway and could put in a good name for you. If he’s relatively new, then there isn’t much help coming from him.</p>
<p>I dont understand how can your uncle be a professor at stanford yet your parents never went to college?</p>
<p>I may believe that your parents are first gen immigrants but i refuse to believe they didnt go to college. They would have never been able to get the green cards and proper legal paper work if they are not educated and skilled workers. Especially in the post 9/11 USA. Im sorry, the evidence is highly stacked against you that your parents definitely went to college.</p>
<p>@HKToUS
Hes not new, I’m pretty sure he is a senior fellow.</p>
<p>@jason
No my parents did go to college, but i’m the first generation immigrant, as in i moved here when i was 9. I came here 1 month before 9/11 exact. :P</p>
<p>Stanford (EA): reach
Princeton: high reach
Harvard: high reach
MIT: reach
Caltech: reach
Cornell: high match
Brown: low reach
Columbia: low reach
UCB: high match
UCLA: match
UCSD: match
UCD: match/safety</p>
<p>Then you are not “first generation.”</p>
<p>First generation refer to applicants whose parents did not go to college. You do not have the first generation hook.</p>
<p>I’m a “first generation immigrant”, you can’t dissect my phrases apart, it functions as a noun. </p>
<p>Probably my fault for putting up confounding terminology. I guess only on CC will the term “first generation immigrant” be understood as “parents never went to college” and “foreigner.”</p>
<p>I’m permanent resident, so not international status just in case anyone wants to ask.</p>
<p>k your lookin pretty solid. i would say all uc’s without much of a problem, however they do have high asian populations as you know, so this might change your chances slightly, but i think you’ve got that in the bag. and as for the ivies, everyone and their mothers will have great test scores and GPA, so make yourself stand out. make sure they know u didn’t do anything for hte sake of college admissions, but that it was out of your own heart etc. like community service</p>
<p>I honestly do not think “first generation immigration” plays much of a role in admissions, if any at all.</p>
<p>yeah, in retrospect i should take that off of my hook.</p>
<p>You are competitive and have a solid chance. Unfortunately, your SAT’s may pose a slight inconvenience at your higher reaches, since you are an ORM, but heres what I think:
Stanford (EA): reach
Princeton: high reach
Harvard: high reach
MIT: high reach
Caltech: reach
Cornell: high match
Brown: high match
Columbia: low reach
UCB: high match
UCLA: match
UCSD: safety
UCD: safety</p>
<p>^ First of all, UPenn is an Ivy League school. Second of all, your first sentence is incorrect.</p>
<p>@Hannibalxx - You are uninformed. It just so happens many Asians happen to have a score of 800 in math. Including myself. However, not having one is not the final nail in the coffin.</p>