<p>uh..., what?</p>
<p>He is just kidding, Your are definitely competitive GPA and SAT score wise, but the lack of EC leadership involvment would hurt. He is just praising your really good scores.</p>
<p>Yea, the lack of leadership has come up a lot
Not really much I can do about that now... gotta make do.</p>
<p>psst, what about brown.</p>
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just summon EAD here, and he will basically give you a virtual tour of duke.</p>
<p>and he will be proud to bash both of your parents' alma maters
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<p>xjis-nicely done...but ead did not take the bait, although he did, of course, suggest duke</p>
<p>Investigate Rice.</p>
<p>I'm not a huge fan of texas...</p>
<p>If you can stand the heat, Rice does have a remarkably strong undergraduate education, particularly in engineering and the sciences. Also, the school is very cheap and they hand out merit scholarships to a lot of people who apply; it may wind up costing less than half as much as attending an ivy and if you know you're going to graduate school the slight loss in education quality and loss in prestige will likely be made up by the fact that you aren't knee-deep in loans.</p>
<p>Dont apply to Rice so I can get in..lol, jk again.</p>
<p>Seriously, you have a pretty good chance of getting in an Ivy</p>
<p>I think your parents are wise.</p>
<p>Your class rank: check
Your SATs: check with a star
Your Curriculum most rigorous offered: check
Your school's ability to prepare you for difficult college - check minus</p>
<p>So, academically you appear to be a strong match for any Ivy. As I mentioned in another thread, you are therefore one of the approx. 10,000 Harvard applicants (out of 27,000) who have demonstrated academic excellence and test taking proficiency.</p>
<p>How will you separate yourself from the 8,200 academically superior (and who would have no problem with the difficulty of courses) Harvard applicants for whom there is no room in the entering class, and become part of the 1800 for whom there is room? That will be your challenge with any Top 20 program. Your essays and recommendations need to make a Top 20 adcom say -- Yes! that's interesting! I think this person would add to our campus!</p>
<p>Have you looked at MIT? They have a great chemistry program. I think that you are competitive.</p>
<p>You're extremely modest. You have a chance. Can you chance me too? <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/538677-please-chance-me-i-d-really-really-appreciate.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/538677-please-chance-me-i-d-really-really-appreciate.html</a></p>
<p>Your grades are strong and your SAT is good. Take more SAT IIs, but you don't need to retake Chem. 740 is already a pretty good score. If you're school doesn't offer that many APs, the Ivies will understand that part. Just make sure you make your courseload as challenging as possible. By all means, take Honors classes if you have to. Your ECs do look decent, and Latin sounds quite exotic compared to the Spanish/French everyone else has. </p>
<p>Harvard/Yale/Princeton/Stanford - high reach (they're difficult to predict)
Dartmouth/Brown - slight reach
Cornell - match </p>
<p>I think I'm missing a few Ivies .... but you look like a solid candidate. Make sure you have some safeties and good luck!</p>
<p>As much as I hate to be negative (and you must know that I say this while fully cognizant of your significant chances), I feel like in such a competitive year you might have trouble standing out. You have decent SATs for Ivies, decent class rank, below average rigor in your schedule, below average EC's. Nothing jumps, you know? It's not a personal comment; it's more a concern with how you show up on a piece of paper.</p>
<p>But if you really want to do chem or something along those lines just go to Cornell. It's bigger so it's easier to get into, and it has a fantastic science program. But also think about what kind of campus you want, location, size, academic attitude (pre-prof a la UPenn/Cornell or something vs. love of learning a la UChi/Yale/Brown). You're going to sound a lot better if you have conviction in a couple of reaches rather than having your parents nudge you into an upper echelon.</p>
<p>You're definitely capable of getting into an Ivy League school. I'd say Cornell and Penn would be good for you. and you have to apply to BC dude..both of your parents went there.. with your grades and scores i'd say ur a shoe-in.</p>
<p>What about Northwestern?</p>
<p>roar ?</p>
<p>Duke?</p>
<p>10chars</p>
<p>not a fan. anyone have any ideas for Northwestern?</p>
<p>Your stats are def very impressive and will qualify you academically for NU. A lot of people have brought up the shortcomings of your EC's but I think they might overlook that for the impressive academic record.</p>
<p>Northwestern's sciences are very strong and there are a lot of departments in which they are represented esp in College of A&S and engineering. ISP (Integrated Science Program) is a really good science program, although that is all I really know about it, sorry (i study on the opposite side of the academic spectrum).
I don't know if difficulty translates to "good" but Northwestern chemistry courses are notoriously difficult (and little grade inflation, somewhere like an average of B- in inorganic and an average of C+ for organic). People have opted to take orgo at Harvard just to avoid NU's curriculum and even there Northwestern often refuses to offer credit recognition. At least in inorganic and organic chem, there will be a lot of people going through pre-med studies and thus not very passionate about it at all. That said, though, I would imagine higher level chem courses would still be very good with the added benefit of students that are genuinely interested in the subject. But at any school, whether it be ivy, northwestern, or not, I would think there would be similar disinterest in inorganic and organic chem among students mainly because almost everybody tries to be pre-med at one point in their undergrad years and these two classes are always required.</p>
<p>That's my two cents; I hope somebody with more knowledge and actual experience with the chemistry department will be able to jump in and cover what I have not.</p>
<p>Oh, and if it isnt clear from what I said, Northwestern (unlike Cornell) does not separate Pre-meds from actual science students. That said though, once you get past 200 level organic chem, there should not be any premeds left in your classes anyways.</p>