<p>I live in California and go to a pretty big public school with about 3200 students.
GPA UW: 4.0
SAT: 2170 (I plan on taking the ACT in the fall)</p>
<p>School Stuff:
-I am on the Track Team, first chair of my orchestra on cello, and have taken spanish for 4 years
-Since Freshman Year I have only taken Honors or AP Classes, and taken 5 classes at local College and received college credit
-I have toured with my orchestra to San Francisco and New York
-I myself have been in several cello competitions where I received "Superior" scores and I was one of the few people from my school who flew out to San Jose to participate in an honors orchestra where the best in the state come together to perform several orchestral pieces
-I have played with my orchestra at Disney Hall in Los Angeles, and The Lincoln Center in New York
-I am Secretary of the UNICEF club (President next year) I helped raised over $2,000 dollars for building wells and water pumps in Africa and also we have had over 20 fundraisers for donating money for those in Haiti, Japan, and Chile
-I am also part of the Medical/Doctors Club at my school (I want to become a surgeon)
-As well as being on the track team I also co-coach with the Head Coach and I take groups of kids-teach them all the basics of running and help them out at track meets
-Creative Writing Club</p>
<p>Volunteer Things and Hours:
-Track Meets: over 100hrs
-Child Leader/Mentor @YMCA: over 150 hrs
-Homework Tutoring: over 100hrs
-Cello Tutoring: over 120hrs
-Red Cross: 75-100hrs
-Volunteering at UCLA Hospital: 50-75 hrs
-School Events (Concerts, Performances, School-Cleanup, etc.): over 50 hrs</p>
<p>About Myself:
-I am an the first in my family to be born in America, my parents moved here from Iran and went to college
-Income below 60K
-I really want to become a surgeon-either brain or heart
-I am almost positive that I can get really good letters of Recommendation from my teacher
-In June I am taking Spanish and Chemistry Subject Tests and in the Fall I will take Math 2 and possibly Biology
-I am already sure what I am going to write my college essays about; for over a year and a half I have been tutoring autistic cello students, which has had a great impact on me and my views of life and specifically the brain. I have always been fascinated by how the brain works and when I tutor these autistic students I am not only helping them by using cello as a medium to calm them down, I also help myself by exposing myself to different types of people and learning different ways that I can help. My cousin is also an epileptic, who has suffered from Traumatic Brain Injuries, bulimia, and anorexia nervosa all of which I have had to help her through and let her see the light of her situation. All of these things together have made me who I am and taught me things that shape what I do and why I do it. (I haven't even worked on the essay but this was just the reason why I want to use it)</p>
<p>Chance Me for these Colleges/Universities Please:
-UC's: Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, Berkeley
-USC
-NYU
-Dartmouth College
-Vassar College
-Brandeis University
-Amherst College
-Pomona College
-Brown University
-Northwestern University
-Colombia University
-Yale University
-WashU
-UPenn
-Johns Hopkins University
-Stanford
-Harvard</p>
<p>Thank You! and I will Chance Back! :)</p>
<p>Your in at
-WashU
-UPenn
-Johns Hopkins University
-Vassar College
-Brandeis University
-Amherst College
-Pomona College
-Brown University
-Northwestern University
-UC’s: Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, Berkeley
-USC
-NYU
The Ivies are a little hard to say for the fact that alot of people get rejected with those stats but to tell you the truth you will get into AT LEAST one of them.
GOOOD LUCK</p>
<p>Thank you! BUMPBUMP</p>
<p>Is this a joke haha? You’re EASILY in at everywhere except the Ivy League schools and John Hopkins. Though Brown likes students that’re interesting and accomplished, and your musical abilities CERTAINLY demostrate this. So I’d say you’re in at Brown too. And Columbia, I’ve seen people with much less impressive applications get in. Other Ivy League schools and John Hopkins though, good luck.</p>
<p>Wait, what’s the joke? Am I being really ambitious? BUMP</p>
<p>I have to concur with the above posters. Your UW GPA is obviously perfect, and your ECs seem in place. However, for JHU and Brown I would recommend bumping up your SAT score, although it might not change it. Still, very good, and I would be surprised if JHU would reject you.</p>
<p>No, the joke was that you’re assured admittance to all of those except Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, and maybe John Hopkins (dependent on major, I’d say). So essentially, the joke was that the thread a waste, it’s just confirming what you (surely) knew: you’re easily in all but the higher level Ivies, which are all crapshoots.</p>
<p>A lot of people lately have been telling me that I am aiming too high and that I can’t do it (which is something that I hate) so I really just needed to make sure that I actually do have I chance. But thank you.
BUMP!</p>
<p>Get your SAT up / ace the ACT and you will be a bona fide candidate at Ivies, but no guarantee you will get in.
How are your AP scores?</p>
<p>As of now:</p>
<p>-UC’s: Irvine: safety, Los Angeles: match, San Diego: low match, Berkeley: match
-USC: low match
-NYU: low match
-Dartmouth College: low reach
-Vassar College: don’t know
-Brandeis University: don’t know
-Amherst College: low match
-Pomona College: low reach
-Brown University: reach
-Northwestern University: match
-Colombia University: reach (I was going to put high reach, since you can’t spell it)
-Yale University: high reach
-WashU: low match
-UPenn: low reach
-Johns Hopkins University: low reach
-Stanford: very high reach
-Harvard: very high reach</p>
<p>Sorry! I always get the spelling confused with the country for some reason. :)</p>
<p>No AP scores yet but I am predicting 5 on Chemistry AP and 4 on Language and Composition, instead of taking APUSH at school I just took it over the summer and already got the credits so there was no point to taking the AP test.</p>
<p>LOL Keracova has no idea what he/she is saying. You are definitely not IN at </p>
<p>-WashU
-UPenn
-Johns Hopkins University
-Vassar College
-Brandeis University
-Amherst College
-Pomona College
-Brown University
-Northwestern University
-UC’s: Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, Berkeley
-USC
-NYU</p>
<p>This is a realistic chance, in my opinion,</p>
<p>-UC’s: Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, Berkeley- you shouldn’t have a problem getting into SD and Irvine. I am inclined to say you will be in Berk and LA
-USC- Yes, I believe that you will be accepted here. low reach
-NYU- low reach
-Dartmouth College- high reach. Dartmouth was hard to get into this year.
-Vassar College- In
-Brandeis University- in
-Amherst College- reach
-Pomona College- reach. They had a 12.3% acceptance rate this year
-Brown University- high reach. Brown is becoming increasingly popular, which means that it is hard to get into
-Northwestern University- high reach. This college was hard to get into this year
-Colombia University-You mean Columbia College right?? I am assuming so. They had a 7% acceptance rate I would say its a high high reach
-Yale University- Amazingly high reach
-WashU- high reach. If washu doesn’t believe that you will attend, they normally waitlist you. Its called Yield Protection.
-UPenn- High high reach. Wharton has a 8ish acceptance rate. The Schools of Arts and Sciences had a 8.7% acceptance rate/
-Johns Hopkins University- 22% acceptance rate. mid reach
-Stanford- high high reach. no oen knows what stanford wants.
-Harvard- high high reach. Its harvard. Nuff said</p>
<p>If you really want to pursue Medicine, I would recommend Johns Hopkins or Duke. ED acceptance rate to Johns Hopkins is 60%. Good luck</p>
<p>just wondering what is the difference between target and match?
Thank you JengaJenga117 I appreciate the realistic chance, besides raising my scores is there anything else that I can do to make myself standout more for those high reach schools?</p>
<p>You arent actually high reach for stuff. Your essay sounds like it will be phenomenal if done right, and I think if you spend a lot of time on it and make sure its fantastic, it will greatly help your chances at these schools.</p>
<p>Acceptance rate doesnt exactly equate to how much of a reach a school is, it just shows the percentage of applicants that were accepted.</p>
<p>I would say you are in at every UC except maybe berkeley. If you get your SAT up you will be in at berkeley as well.
Definately in at USC and NYU and brandeis.
Vassar Pomona and Amherst are all similarly hard to get into. I think you will get into at least 2 of them, but its hard to tell because they look at the person so it depends on your essays and stuff.</p>
<p>WashU, Northwestern, JHU are all high matches. You can certainly get in.</p>
<p>The rest I would say you have shot and i think you will get into one or 2, but ivies are hard to predict</p>
<p>Chance me back 
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<p>I have to disagree with jengajenga. A 4.0 is very impressive for these schools, and if you improve your SAT score to >2250 you’re set. Cal and the UCs are very methodological, so the chances of you getting in are between 70 and 80%. Pomona may have a low acceptance rate, but one has to realize that many of the candidates are underqualified; same with Harvard, the Ivy League, and Johns Hopkins. If you consider your stats (what is your weighted) your chances are at least double, if not triple the “actual” acceptance rate.
I would say you’re a very good match (maybe high match, I don’t know) for Pomona, Amherst, WashU, and NYU. I would think USC would be a safety for you, as you are well above all their acceptance statistics, and a match for UCLA and Berkeley.
Northwestern is hard to get into-I agree-but I would say it is maybe a low reach.
Stanford and the rest are impossible to tell, but I would say you have at least 15% chance in each of them.
Brandeis and Vassar are very good chances, at least over 80.</p>
<p>Jenga gave the only remotely reasonable chance on here. You’re “in” at UCI and UCSD, but every other college is at least a match, and Dartmouth, Amherst, Pomona, Brown, Northwestern, Columbia, Yale, WUSTL, JHU, Penn, Stanford, and Harvard are all definitely reaches. You have a decent shot at UCLA, UCB, USC, NYU, Vassar, and Brandeis. You’re a strong candidate, but NO ONE is “in” at any of the schools I listed as reaches.</p>
<p>You are definitely the perfect candidate for a majority of these schools. Not just your SAT scores, but the fact that your parents were born out of the country. </p>
<p>You will DEFINITELY GET INTO:
UC’s: Irvine, San Diego,
-USC
-NYU
-Brandeis University</p>
<p>You will PROBABLY get int:
-Vassar College
-Amherst College
-Northwestern University
-WashU
-UCLA, UC Berkely</p>
<p>You have a chance at getting into:
-Pomona College
-Brown University
-Dartmouth College
-Yale University
-UPenn
-Johns Hopkins University</p>
<p>It would be nearly impossible for you to get into: (Sorry)
-Colombia University
-Stanford
-Harvard</p>
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