Let's play the Guessing Game

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I saw a thread on this somewhere else. It seemed fun so lets play a little game. For each college you will either guess Accepted, Rejected, or Waitlist. For each correct answer, you will get one point. In the end the person with the most points will win.

Major: Economics or Chemistry

Schools

Cambridge- accepted

Here’s the rest!

Harvard
Stanford
Princeton
MIT
CalTech
Carnagie Mellon
Univeristy of Chicago
Duke
Cornell
UIUC
Georgia Tech
Johns Hopkins
UMich
UPenn-Wharton Jerome Fisher M&T

Objective:

SAT I (breakdown): 2400
ACT (breakdown): didn’t take
SAT II (place score in parentheses): Math II 800, Chemistry 800
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8 low I know, had a 3.4 freshman
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 10% (barely)
AP (place score in parentheses): AP English Lang (5), AP Macro (5), AP Micro (5), AP USH (5), AP World History (5), AP Human Geography (5), AP Calc BC (5), AP Stat (5), AP Computer Science (5), AP Physics C (5), AP Chinese (5)
IB (place score in parentheses): NONE
Senior Year Course Load:
Linear Algebra
Multivariable Calculus
AP Bio
AP Chem
AP Eur
AP English Lit
AP German
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Seimens Semifinalist, USChO Finalist, AIME qualifier, Presidential Scholar Candidate, National Merit Semifinalist, National AP Scholar, National German Exam Gold x2, Eagle Scout, National Quiz Bowl Qualifier, Future Business Leader of America 6th place Nationals, 1st place state… counting on these

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Varsity Tennis (co-captain), Quiz Bowl (captain), National Honors Society, MUN (security council), Mu Alpha Theta (president), Economics Club (President), Habitat for Humanity
Job/Work Experience: none
Volunteer/Community Service:~100 hours NHS, Habitat for Humanity
Summer Activities: college courses
Essays: lol wrote one supplement and changed some stuff for each college, common app good
Teacher Recommendations: good
Counselor Rec: good
Additional Rec: good
Interview: good at the ones with interviews
Other

State (if domestic applicant): TX
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: private
Ethnicity: ASIAN
Gender: MALE
Income Bracket: >1mm
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): legacy at Harvard and MIT

Thank you for chancing me. I really hope my bad GPA can be balanced out by my awards.

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So, I don’t really care about winning, but I’ll play, and give my opinion (W=Waitlisted, A=Accepted, and R=Rejected)

Harvard-W
Stanford-W
Princeton-W
MIT-W
CalTech-A
Carnegie Mellon-A
University of Chicago-A
Duke-A
Cornell-A
UIUC-A
Georgia Tech-A
Johns Hopkins-A
UMich-A
UPenn-Wharton Jerome Fisher M&T-A

The only reason some of these are W is because your GPA had me worried, so W was more of a boarderline between rejected and waitlisted for HSM and between accepted and waitlisted for P, your scores are amazing, but your EC’s will be similar to other top candidates, and it’s the ivies, so don’t take anything I say to heart. And don’t take my word for it (unless you already know, if you do, tell me!).

Good luck (if you haven’t heard back from all of them yet).

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Accepted everywhere but Harvard waitlisted.

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CONGRATS!!!

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@MaddyDUMW that was my prediction i’m not the OP ^^

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You’re obviously amazing at testing but everything else is just average(for schools like H anyway).

Harvard: W
Stanford: W
Princeton: A
MIT: W
CalTech: A
Carnagie Mellon: SCS? W if SCS otherwise A
Univeristy of Chicago: A
Duke: W
Cornell: A
UIUC: A
Georgia Tech: A
Johns Hopkins: A
UMich: A
UPenn-Wharton Jerome Fisher M&T: A

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his awards are not average

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@meriks , the only standout awards are Siemens and USChO. USChO makes him about 1 out of 50-100 or so I think which is good but not an IMO style award. Prestidential nomination is literally just because of the SAT score(which they’d see anyway), NMS is almost universal among HYPSM, AIME is really easy… USAMO would be impressive tho, Eagle Scout is good but very generic.

So maybe they’re not average, but they’re definitely not amazing.

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@meriks I meant on Cambridge, OP got into Cambridge, sorry, I didn’t specify.