Just finished applying to UVa...please chance me I'd like to know if i got a shot

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<p>(Engineering)</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT Verbal: 650</li>
<li>SAT Math: 750</li>
<li>SAT Writing: 680</li>
<li>SAT Total: 2080</li>
<li>SAT II: 770 Chem 760 Math 680 Physics</li>
<li>ACT:</li>
<li>AP/IB taken/scores: 4:Chem and Physics B</li>
<li>GPA weighted:4.46</li>
<li>GPA unweighted:</li>
<li>Rank or % estimate: <10%</li>
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<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: Great</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Great</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Great</li>
<li>Hook (if any): 1st generation?</li>
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<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: NY</li>
<li>School Type: Private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian</li>
<li>Gender: M</li>
<li>Legacy Yes/No: N</li>
<li>Recruited Yes/No: N</li>
<li>Important ECs:
Math Team 3 years-varsity- 1st in the county
Science NHS 2 years- science team participant; tutor
Spanish NHS 2 years- tutor; volunteer
Flag Football 3 years
Asian Cultural Club 3 years
Volunteering 4 years- veterans home, retirement home, YMCA
Tutoring 4 years for math, science, history, english, spanish (through Guidance)
Medicine club 2 years</li>
</ul>

<p>Also applying to:</p>

<p>Northwestern, JHU, Penn, Duke, Cornell, Rice, UMich, Georgetown, Washington University at St. Louis, University of Chicago, Emory, UC LA, UC Berkeley, Columbia, Cooper Union</p>

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<p>flag football? seriously?</p>

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<p>Hmmm.....you are obviously a very good student. I'm worried that you have applied to so many high powered schools that could be construed as "reaches". I don't think you'll be accepted at UVA. Sorry.
Do you have a serious real "safety" to cover you should things not work out?
Don't know much about Cooper Union, but I wouldn't give you a guarantee at any of the schools you have listed.>>Sorry, don't mean this as an insult. Just every HS in every town, in every state has their top students. Competition is tough. Have "reaches and safeties."
Best of luck.</p>

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<p>Dean J do you think you can tell me what you think about my current situation?</p>

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<p>Dean J doesn't answer chance threads.</p>

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Northwestern, JHU, Penn, Duke, Cornell, Rice, UMich, Georgetown, Washington University at St. Louis, University of Chicago, Emory, UC LA, UC Berkeley, Columbia, Cooper Union

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<p>WOW that's a lot of schools. And to reaffirm what guillaume said, Dean J does not answer chance threads. She only answers question admissions related. I.e. problems arising with the application, clarification of deadlines, etc. </p>

<p>I'm going to have to agree with everything powderpuff said. I don't think you'll get into any of those schools. Here's why. </p>

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<li><p>Most of those schools (including UVa) consider your transcript to be the best indicator of how you'll do in their school. And admissions is looking at how rigorous of a courseload you took to determine if you'll do well at their school.</p></li>
<li><p>You only took 2 AP/IB/advanced classes. Judging from the fact that you only gave us one score, I'm assuming your taking 1 AP class this year and took 1 in the past. That's simply not enough. You may have a 4.46 GPA, but what good is it if you haven't taken a rigorous courseload? Even instate, there are only very rare instances when someone gets in with as little as 2 AP/IB/advanced classes. Most OOS applicants will have taken a significant number more (For APs, I'm talking 7-8+). And most applicants (especially OOS) will have also done well in them. </p></li>
<li><p>You may think that your SAT scores are good enough. They're okay. For most of the schools you listed, you'll be on the lower part of the middle 50% of students applying or lower than that. And even for the students that are in the middle 50% range, they'll have taken a more rigorous courseload (always comes back to this.) This case also applies to UVa. Sorry.</p></li>
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<p>I would highly, highly suggest you apply to some more schools. Otherwise you may not have anywhere to go in the fall. I'm familiar with Cooper Union, and quite honestly, you don't have a chance there. Their admissions rate is hovers somewhere around 8-9%. And the students that apply there are some of the most gifted students in the nation with extremely impressive resumes. If I got in there, I would have turned down Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UVa, any school for them. It's that good.</p>

<p>Frankly, I don't think you'll be accepted in any of the schools you applied to. For the caliber of student that applies to those schools, your course load falls quite short, your SATs are so-so, the ECs are below par/on par, and you may have a high GPA but it's a hollow one; people will have GPAs similar to yours with more difficult classes. Sorry if this was too blunt for you, but I would rather see you having some sort of option in May instead of no option.</p>

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<p>Just to clarify a little. In my school you are only allowed to take AP classes starting Junior year. I do take a very rigorous course load. I took both physic b and Chem last year and got a four on both (kinda ambiguous the way i wrote it so my apologies). Furthermore I did not even take a AP physics B class I took it on my own volition. For the past three year I've been taking all honor classes except electives of course which are all regular. This year I take AP Phyiscs C, AP Calc BC, AP English Literature, AP Bio and i plan to self study a few other AP's. Once my apologies for not clarifying more.</p>

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<p>Ah, that changes everything significantly. 2 APs vs. 6+ APs is a big difference. I'll let someone else take a crack at your chances since it seems I chanced a nonexistent applicant just now. ;)</p>

<p>And on another one of your chances, you said you took the SAT like 3 times already. Don't take it again. I think you should have taken the ACT; I'm willing to bet money you would have done better.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I apologize once again. I just copied the rough format for the chancing thing and i just filled it out. There's other stuff i could have mention but since it did not have a specific section for it, i decided not to add it myself. And yeah i should have taken the ACT, but its too late now i think.</p>

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<p>I hope the UC schools are in-state for you and therefore provide you with definite safety/match colleges because your list is very top-heavy. Since this is a peak year in numbers for applicants, applying to a long list of Reach colleges is even less likely to mean your odds of admission is there. I think you have a chance at some of your colleges. Work your essays! but some true match colleges would have been wise...a match college isn't a match unless you are happy and proud to attend as one of the factors IMHU--see if you can get an application out to a true match college first week of Jan if you are not a CA resident.</p>

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<p>YOU WILL GET INTO UVA! Don't listen to some of these fruits posting above, you are fine for UVA and the public schools, and maybe you might get into hopkins. keep your chin up, and come to UVA is offered admission, we are better than most of the schools you listed.</p>