Imperio! You shall chance me and i shall chance back!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>**Hello!* *</p>

<p>Location: US, born in Sydney Australia (immigrant to the US)
Sex: Male
School: Large Public High School </p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 2370: 770 CR, 800 Writing, 800 Math
SAT II's:
800 Math II 800 Physics 800 French</p>

<p>APs:
Freshman: French Language 5, French Literature 4 (self studied), Mandarin at Community College
Sophomore: European History 5
Junior: US History 5, English Language and Comp 5, Spanish Language 5, Calculus BC 5, Environmental Science 5 (no ap physics offered - took honors physics instead)</p>

<p>Senior:
AP Statistics, AP Macroeconomics and Microeconomics, AP Literature, AP Chemistry, (no ap gov offered)</p>

<p>Self Study Senior Year:
Multivariable Calculus through EPGY
Arabic on my own</p>

<p>GPA:
I've taken the most challenging course load possible at my school. Had to actually do a lot of convincing of the counselors to take the schedule I put together.</p>

<p>Freshman year 4.33/ 4 (4.0 unweighted)
Sophomore year: 4.6/ 4 (4.0 unweighted)
Junior Year : 5.0/ 4 (4.0 unweighted)</p>

<p>(10-12 academic) GPA 4.67/ 4.0
GPA: 4.0 unweighted
Rank: top decile/367 (hopefully the counselor will mention that i have one of the, if not the, highest gpa in class)</p>

<p>Languages: Fluent in English, French, Mandarin, and practically Spanish. Learning Arabic</p>

<p>Activities:
1. Citizenship Language Assistance Volunteer Agency CLAVA
Founder of nonprofit organization that allows linguists to use their language skills to help immigrants and others facing language barriers to pass the citizenship test or assimilate in general. We work with cultural centers in our area to spread the service.</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Competitive Swimming (4 year varsity + Varsity Captain senior year)
Club Team: Have swam club for 10 years now. Spend more than 20+ hours/week practicing before and after school. Sectional level swimmer (CA-NV championships qualifier). Senior team swimmer for my club team.
HS Team: Rookie of Year (hs team) ; NCS Scholar Athlete; Part of county and school record setting relays</p></li>
<li><p>Amnesty International (High School Club Position)
-Treasurer (9-10) President (11-12)
-Organize fundraisers and campaigns to raise awareness at school.
-Applying to become West Coast Student Coordinator for Amnesty International</p></li>
<li><p>Indigenous Community Volunteer (Australian Non-Profit) / Oral History and Cultural Protection Project in Torres Strait this summer for 3 weeks (Not one of those pay-to-go programs)
-Was an ICV at age 17 and worked with the porumalgal community of the torres strait on a community project to raise cultural awareness in light of globalization
-Amazing experience that kind of left me with ambivalent feelings about globalization and our human condition -writing essays about this</p></li>
<li><p>Varsity Waterpolo (3 years Varsity + Varsity co-Captain)
Started as a varsity player since freshman year. Way for me to get involved at school in a team sport and share my passion for swimming with my peers. Found my self playing waterpolo for my school in the afternoon and attending club practices in the morning before school.</p></li>
<li><p>Senior Research
As a sophomore, prepared a science fair project about swimming and physiology
Won grandprize at school, 1st place at county fair.</p></li>
<li><p>Summer program at Wharton (UPenn) - LBW. Met a lot of cool people, learned a lot about the business world and leadership. Constructed a business plan that I am thinking about starting next semester (currently irrelevant).</p></li>
<li><p>Peer Tutor (ESL)
I am a peer tutor for an ESL (english as second language) class at my highschool. I work with kids who speak portuguese, spanish, and persian as their first languages to do their homework. Its not so much the language help as the sympathetic support (as an immigrant myself).</p></li>
</ol>

<p>Awards:
-Grandprize at Science Fair; 1st at county (nothing impressive, i know. not intel..)
-NMSQT semi-finalist (hopefully finalist)
-AP Scholar
-Lifetime CSF and Honors Society member
-NCS Scholar Athlete</p>

<p>Recs:
Both will be great (i hope): one from history teacher who knows me as a swimmer and student, and one from calculus who's known me since freshman year. Counselor knows me moderately well (although she writes hundreds of them).</p>

<p>Essays:
Work in progress. Trying to show appreciation of multi-culturalism, my passion for languages, global perspective, and interest in ethnic studies. Would anyone want to read them??
Schools:
Yale (SCEA)
Harvard
MIT (linguistics or econ)
Penn: Huntsman!
Columbia
Brown
Georgetown SFS
Dartmouth
Duke
University of Chicago
UC Berkeley, USC, and UCLA
Stanford</p>

<p>**Thanks in advance and have a nice day! **</p>

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<p>You have a very very very impressive resume. I would be shocked if you didn’t get into most, if not all of your schools. Harvard and Yale are reach schools for just about every applicant, but I would say I’m about 90% sure that you’ll get in.</p>

<p>Keep up the good work! :)</p>

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<p>Yale (SCEA)-low reach/high match
Harvard-low reach
MIT (linguistics or econ)-low reach
Penn: Huntsman!-low reach/high match
Columbia-low reach/high match
Brown-low reach/high match
Georgetown SFS-reach/low reach
Dartmouth-low reach/high match
Duke-low reach/high match
University of Chicago-low reach/match
UC Berkeley-low reach/high match
USC-high match
UCLA-high match
Stanford</p>

<p>Very impressive track record. Good luck :)</p>

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<p>Yale (SCEA)-Low Reach (25% chance)
Harvard-Low-Mid Reach
MIT (linguistics or econ)-Low-mid Reach
Penn: Huntsman!-Low reach
Columbia-Low Reach/High Match
Brown-Low Reach/High Match
Georgetown SFS-Low reach
Dartmouth-low reach
Duke-high match
University of Chicago-high match (Depends on essays)
UC Berkeley, USC, and UCLA-match OOS
Stanford-Low reach
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<p>There’s a lot of disinformation from the other posters, so I’d like to clarify, but first…
Tres bien! Hen hao!<br>
Your profile is very strong, great test scores, solid academics, and good, diversified extra curriculars. My only issue is that only one of your activities even vaguely relates to business, but selecting international studies or something of that sort for the time being would help show that you have focus.<br>
Now, the issue is that this profile does not exactly stand out among many applicants to HYPSM and similarly powerhouse schools. You are clearly very motivated, dedicated, and intelligent individual among the Harvard freshman class, persay, who isn’t? I am quite confident you will get into at least one Ivy, if not multiple. I definitely believe the others who posted here are far underestimating the difficulty of getting into a top-tier institution, but perhaps that is due to my pessimistic tendencies. Nonetheless, I’d say that you’re a reach at everywhere except Georgetown, Duke, UChicago, and the UCs, though a relatively low reach at Brown and Columbia. I certainly hope all goes well for you, and don’t forget: for someone of your capacity, the sky’s the limit!</p>

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<p>dang ur chance post is hella impressive id be surprised if u didnt get into most if not all of them</p>

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<p>thanks guys!</p>

<p>@gracemarie
you are too kind!</p>

<p>@bigdreamer and polysophy
thank you! i will chance you now</p>

<p>@justanothertry
thanks for your honesty! what can i do to improve my chances? and i am actually not very interested in business anymore. more so ethnic studies and linguistics actually. would you say my profile comes together better now?
thanks!</p>

<p>@thekidizbak
haha thanks man i’m sure you’re set too yadida</p>

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<p>anyone else? will chance back! :)</p>

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<p>damn. you have nothing to worry about bud.</p>

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<p>bump bump bump</p>

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<p>Yale (SCEA)-Low-Mid Reach
Harvard-Low-Mid Reach
MIT-Low-mid Reach
Penn: Huntsman!-Low reach
Columbia-Low Reach-High Match
Brown-Low Reach-High Match
Georgetown SFS-High Match
Dartmouth-low reach
Duke-high match
University of Chicago-high match (Depends on essays)
UC Berkeley, USC, and UCLA-match OOS
Stanford-Low reach
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<p>thanks!
anyone else?</p>

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chance me back</p>

<p>okay. so essentially, i’m major impressed/intimidated. basically p’ton has a 27% acceptance rate for perfect sat scores, and yours dont seem to really be too far off from that. if you apply as a language major (you can switch as soon as you get in, that’s what i’m going to do with poly sci to econ b/c my activities), you have a very very very good chance at all the HYPSM etc… schools</p>

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<p>You have an extremely good chance at them all. Ivy’s get tricky sometimes, even when highly qualified sometimes they go either way, so I’d still rank them as a reach, but certainly a low one. For linguistics especially, you seem a shoo’in. </p>

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<p>Yale (SCEA)-low Reach
Harvard-reach
MIT-Low Reach
Penn: Huntsman!-reach
Columbia-High Match
Brown-Low Reach
Georgetown match
Dartmouth-reach
Duke-match
University of Chicago-match
UC Berkeley, USC, and UCLA-match
Stanford-reach</p>

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<p>thanks guys!!
anyone else?? bumpppp</p>

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<p>bumpp?please</p>

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<p>Damn, that’s one impressive resume! Here’s my take on it:</p>

<p>Yale (SCEA): Low-Mid Reach (write excellent essays!!)</p>

<p>Harvard: Low-Mid Reach. Well, you know Harv. One thing Harvard really likes, from what I’ve heard, is political activism. If you spin your Harv supplement in that direction, you might get adcoms to notice you right off the bat. Or just make your personality shine.</p>

<p>MIT: Mid reach. Your ECs aren’t really compatible with MIT’s ethos, but your SATs definitely make you a competitive candidate.</p>

<p>Penn: Low reach. Excellent chance. 40-55%</p>

<p>Columbia: High Match. 50-61%</p>

<p>Brown: Impossible to chance. Some dude at our school had a 32 ACT got in; some guy with a 35 ACT didn’t. Neither one was hooked and neither was recruited for athletics. They have the most random admissions system. Write good, intellectual essays and have strong, vivid recommendations.</p>

<p>Georgetown SFS: Match. 75%.</p>

<p>Dartmouth: Low/Mid Reach</p>

<p>Duke: High Match. 65%.</p>

<p>University of Chicago: Difficult to chance. 50-90%. UChicago cares about personality and essays. You’re in control of this process at UChicago; write good essays. This is crucial.</p>

<p>UC Berkeley, USC, and UCLA: Low Match/Safety: 90-100%</p>

<p>Stanford: Mid Reach. Don’t know too much about Stanford.</p>

<p>Chance me plz!!
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<p>Even though I agree that ivies are a crapshoot for the best of the best even, i think you have a decent chance at HYPSM. If you dont get into the other ones especially with good essays tje world will be a crazy place. Not that it isnt</p>

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<p>Yale (SCEA)- low reach
Harvard-Mid Reach
MIT-mid Reach
Penn: high match
Columbia-Low Reach
Brown-High Match
Georgetown - High Match
Dartmouth-high match
Duke-high match
University of Chicago-high match (Depends on essays)
Uc’s - match
Stanford-Low reach
Solid GPA, SAT’s, rank and EC’s
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