My chance for Yale SCEA or Columbia/UPenn ED?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hi I am based in Canada, Asian Male, my profile:

1560 SAT (780 math/780 R/W; 1570 if superscore)
9 AP Courses taken (Chemistry, Calculus BC, Physics C, Economics, Computer Science, English, World History, all 5s), plans to take 3 more in my senior year
SAT Subject Math II 800 and Latin 750
GPA unweighted 4.0, top 10% in my class in one of the top high schools in Canada

Awards: Bronze medal at International Chemistry Olympiads, AMC 12 Honor Roll, AIME score of 8 (85 percentile?), gold medals at Classics Conference (regional), and 1st prize on Latin translation (national)

EC: Classics Society, head of Spanish club, part time science tutor for 2 years, member of a local volunteer organization for 4 years

Essay: not my strong suit, probably 7/10? Letter of Recommendation probably 7/10 as well.

Want to apply for chemistry.

What is my chance for Yale SCEA or Columbia/UPenn ED? Thanks for your help.

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Your awards and stats are impressive, but without stellar references, they won’t be enough to carry your application for chemistry. I’d recommend ED’ing to someplace slightly less selection.

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Thanks for the suggestion, Bouders. I will work on the Letter of Recommendation or settle for a lower ranked school.

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The bronze medal is a great accomplishment, congrats! That will certainly get noticed. As others point out, Yale SCEA is a wild card. You certainly have a shot.

But the problem is you would probably get scooped up in the early round by a school lower down. ED has the benefit of locking you in.

For Columbia which college? SEAS/CC/Barnard?

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Thanks a lot, sgopal2. I am thinking CC with major in chemistry and possible minor in Classics. Given the Core Curriculum requirement, I am not sure whether it is possible to do double major or major/minor at Columbia.

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Double majors at Columbia difficult. But you have the option of doing a major plus concentration, or even a double concentration.