<p>Hey guys! Just want to know what you think my chances are for these schools (in approximate order of preference):</p>
<p>Columbia University (college)
UPenn: Wharton
NYU: Stern
Boston College: Carroll School of Management
Stanford
USC: Marshall/CAS
UCLA
UMCP: Smith School of Business
Harvard
Yale</p>
<p>School: Public school in Maryland
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Asian</p>
<p>GPA: 3.75 UW 4.48 W
Doesn't Rank</p>
<p>SAT I: 2290 - CR 760 M 800 W 730
SAT II: MathIIC - 800 MathIC - 770 Chemistry - 800</p>
<p>AP Classes: Calculus BC (5), Biology (4), US History (5), World History (5), Chemistry (5), US Govt (4), Psychology (5),
Next Year: Statistics, English literature</p>
<p>Next Year (UMD Dual Enrollment): GVPT 298A, ENES 140</p>
<p>Awards/Honors:
-AP scholar with distinction</p>
<p>Extracurricular Activities:
-Mock Trial (Witness Captain) 10-12
-Asian American Club (Secretary) 9-12
- Psychology Club 11-12
-Chemistry Club 11-12
-National Honor Society 11-12
-Math Honor Society 11-12
-Chinese Honor Society 11-12
-Science Honor Society 11-12
-Student Academy of Science 11-12
-NYLF (National Youth Leadership Forum on Law) Scholar 11
-APEX Mentor 11-12</p>
<p>I'm in the APEX (Advanced Placement Experience) program at my school, which is the most rigorous and selective program that we offer. I plan on double majoring in Marketing and Psychology (where its possible).</p>
<p>Your EC's are decent, could be a little better, but still overall pretty good. Your SAT is pretty high so that's a plus. I like the fact that your GPA is pretty high and you are taking a very rigorous courseload. You may want to add another SAT II (math i and math ii are redundant). If you want to go to Columbia College, the easiest way in is through ED. Most colleges tend to accept most competitive applicants like yourself ED, but RD has no guarantee. As for specific schools:</p>
<p>Columbia University (college)-Probably in ED, Low Reach RD
UPenn: Wharton-Reach
NYU: Stern-High Match
Boston College: Carroll School of Management-Low Match
Stanford-Reach
USC: Marshall/CAS-Low Match
UCLA-Low Reach, OOS
UMCP: Smith School of Business-Safety
Harvard-Reach
Yale-Reach</p>
<p>I'd advise you add some schools in between the higher level Ivies and everything else. I think you should consider Cornell, Northwestern, Brown, WUSTL, and JHU. Obviously don't add all of them.</p>
<p>Columbia University (college)- low reach
UPenn: Wharton- reach
NYU: Stern- match
Boston College: Carroll School of Management- match
Stanford- reach
USC: Marshall/CAS- match
UCLA- low reach
UMCP: Smith School of Business-?
Harvard- reach
Yale- reach</p>
<p>So, you have a great shot at everywhere except the Ivies. Not saying that they are impossible though....with a killer essay, you could make it to Columbia, or even U Penn.</p>
<p>Great test scores, good gpa, hardest workload, laundry list of ECs</p>
<p>Columbia University (college) - Reach/Reject
UPenn: Wharton - Reject
NYU: Stern - Reach/Reject
Boston College: Carroll School of Management - High Match
Stanford - Massive Reach/Reject
USC: Marshall/CAS - High Match
UCLA - Reach (OOS)
UMCP: Smith School of Business - In
Harvard - Massive Reach/Reject
Yale - Massive Reach/Reject</p>
<p>You're asian. You're from a competitive state. It lowers your odds everywhere.</p>
<p>And your ECs, the majority of them at least, are all ones you joined junior year. And that's BAD. It's called resume padding. Without them you've got the asian american club (fluff) and mock trial...Not good.</p>
<p>The Ivies and Stanford are all reaches. With Wharton and Stern being, I think, super reaches. Ditto with Stanford.</p>
<p>USC and BC are much more reasonable. And USC may even be a high match.</p>
<p>Revamp your list. Apply to 3/4 reaches tops. And find other business/management programs that are more within your reach.</p>
<p>Although some of those honor societies may have specific grades when you can join (in this case, junior and senior years), they don't mean anything to admissions officers. ses, the above poster, explains it well.</p>
<p>Low GPA.
Your award is trivial.
A lot of people do Mock Trial.
You want do major in business/related majors, but none of your ECs show that.
Overall, you have nothing "special" to offer.
And you are Asian.</p>
<p>Columbia University (college): REJECT
UPenn: Wharton: REJECT
NYU: Stern: Maybe
Boston College: Carroll School of Management: Maybe
Stanford: REJECT
USC: Marshall/CAS: Unlikely
UCLA: Unlikely
UMCP: Smith School of Business: Maybe
Harvard: REJECT
Yale: REJECT</p>
<p>In the worst case, you may be rejected from all of them.</p>
<p>I disagree, you probably will get into one of those schools, u should consider UC Berkely, you would get in pretty easily since they focus more on grades/SAT scores as opposed to extra currics and such, which the ivies focus on once u have high enough grades/scores.</p>
<p>Double-majoring should be no problem in state schools... but in private schools... ugh I think it will be very difficult for you to be ALLOWED to do it, even if you are able to :(</p>
<p>The only "non-up-to par: stat is your GPA. 3.75 is very good. But there are many people with 4.0's 3.9's, 3.8's...</p>
<p>Columbia University (college) - reach
UPenn: Wharton - tough reach
NYU: Stern - easier reach
Boston College: Carroll School of Management - in easily
Stanford - reach
USC: Marshall/CAS - in
UCLA - in
UMCP: Smith School of Business - in with scholarship
Harvard - tough reach
Yale - tough reach</p>
<p>Columbia University (college)-Probably in ED, Low Reach RD
UPenn: Wharton-Reach
NYU: Stern-High Match
Boston College: Carroll School of Management-Low Match
Stanford-Reach
USC: Marshall/CAS-Low Match
UCLA-Low Reach, OOS
UMCP: Smith School of Business-Safety
Harvard-Reach
Yale-Reach</p>
<p>You are almost in the EXACT same position I was three years ago when I was applying to a lot of these same schools. I hate to say this, but I didn't get into a lot of them. Granted, my class rank was lower and my recommendations weren't that strong. I made the mistake of asking popular teachers instead of teachers who knew me. Be careful about that.</p>
<p>From my experience: </p>
<p>Columbia University - Low Reach, go ED
UPenn: Wharton - High Reach
NYU: Stern - Reach
Boston College: Carroll School of Management - Match
Stanford - High Reach
UMCP: Smith School of Business - Safety
Harvard - High Reach
Yale - Reach</p>
<p>You seem to really want a business education. I'll tell you what I did and you can make of it what you will - look at undergrad business rankings and base your decision off of that rather than the same Princeton/Yale/Harvard path as everyone else. </p>
<p>If you like Wharton (great choice) You might look into Babson College in particular, they have are a very prestigious entrepreneurial business program and they will give you a flat out better business education than many ivies that simply do not offer undergrad business at all. Bentley College is also predominantly business and highly ranked in terms of program but has a less formal vibe. I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have about either, but I can say with fairly high certainty that you'd get in to both and probably get a scholarship like I did.</p>
<p>I have decided to add UChicago and UMiami (business school) to my list. Chicago as a low reach/high match and UMiami as a match, hopefully with a lot of scholarship money. Do you agree?</p>
<p>This might sound bad, but the number one criteria for the schools that I'm looking at is that they have to be in an urban area. So Chicago seems to fit that. I haven't had a chance to visit yet, but I hear they have stellar academics. I must admit that the essays are a bit formidable though...</p>
<p>Formidable is an adjective meaning difficult to deal with or awe-inspiring. There's also formidableness, formidably....you get the idea.
Though I have to say that its usage was a bit awkward.<br>
Seriously though adidas3130, be a little nicer to the guy ^^</p>
<p>By the way, I just wanted to tell fredfredburger that I love their username.</p>