My chances at Brown, Stanford, Berkeley, etc.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I’m an Asian Male at the private school in NJ, willing to major in Finance/econ.

I got into my EA school but just wanted to have few other options.

I’m applying for regular decisions to Brown, Stanford, Berkeley, Stern, BC, Carnegie,
Wharton, Duke, Columbia

GPA: 3.99/4.0 (B+ or A- in Gym in the freshman year, others all A’s and A+'s)

PSAT: 230 (NMS)

SAT 1: 2340 (M: 800, C: 800, W: 740 11 essay) one sitting

SAT 2: Math IIC: 800, Physics: 750, Chemistry: 780, US History: 760, Literature: 770

AP test: BC Calc (5), AB Calc (5), Physics 1 (5), Physics C (5), English (5), US History (5), Chemistry (5), Stats (5), Econ(5), Chinese (5) I’m not Chinese.

Senior Year Course Load

  • AP Gov
  • AP Bio
  • AP Comp Sci
  • AP Art History
  • AP Psych
  • AP Literature
  • Gym

Awards

  • two times AIME Qualifer w/ Dis. H.R.
  • one time USAMO Qualifer
  • one time AMC12 School winner
  • DECA Nationals
  • some guitar contests awards
  • violin contests awards
    and some other awards

EC

  • Varsity baseball for three years (10-12) (co-captain)
  • Math Club (9-12) president
  • Chinese Club (9-12) president
  • Volunteer work at elder’s house playing violins 1000 hrs + (since 7th grade)
  • Volunteer work at summer camp, playing with kids & have a session teaching them how to play guitar (250+)
  • Varsity Swimming two years (10-11)
  • been playing violin and guitar since 8.
  • DECA (4 years)
  • Yale Global Scholars summer program
    and some other as well.

Rec: Good
Math teacher’s father is at the elder’s house I volunteer at. I’ve known him for over 5 years.
English teacher: Had her class for three straight years. She likes me.

Essay: great.
counselor rec: surprisingly, her mother is at the elder’s house I volunteer at. She loves me.

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Good stats but other than BC - all of these are extremely competitive schools to get into. Would add in one or two more matches that you would be comfortable attending.

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Seriously?

You know you are as good a candidate as any at those schools, obviously your chances even better at the less selective schools. It wouldn’t really surprise me if you got into all of them, but your chances of getting rejected are highest at the most selective ones. You know all this, I don’t know what you can possible hope to learn with this post…

Now, we can just sit back and wait for some dope to come in here and make some really dumb comment about “Asians”…

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Sigh… people getting into Harvard: “How do you think I would do in the RD round for these other schools that I just want to apply for the options?”

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Oh please, please just stop.

At best, ‘chancing’ for applications that are complete and submitted is just scratching the itch: it won’t help and it drives both you and the people around you crazy.

It does not make one iota of difference what anybody on CC says: it won’t help you make any decisions and it won’t make you feel any better.

And at worst, it is compliment fishing.

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On your application, it would be clearer if you used a recognizable term like “nursing home” or “assisted living residence” “Elder’s house” is not common terminology and at the very least would need to be plural possessive, unless “Elder’s House” is the name of the institution.

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I do find all the “I got in to Harvard. Do you think I’m competitive for these other schools?” threads a bit tedious.

Yes, you are competitive. Obviously. You are already in great shape. Whether you get in will be up to the adcom.

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thanks guys. But I never mentioned in that post that I got into harvard…

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Seriously? Look, if you got into Harvard EA, what’s the point of applying to nine other schools? It’s either trophy-hunting, or you are pathologically needy of outside approval. Having “options” means one or two schools that you might want to go to Harvard over. But BC, Stern? What’s the point? Please tell me that you posted this topic just for some ego-stroking, because if you are actually applying to this many schools after getting into Harvard, you should have your head examined.

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Did you apply to Harvard EA? Because in your profile, it said you were accepted to NYU Stern, but from your old posts, it says you applied to Harvard EA. Regardless, you have fine chances at all of these schools, but they are all crapshoots.

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You are probably in at BC and CMU but all the other ones have really low acceptance rates so tough to predict

@spayurpets Believe it or not I have several friends at Stern that picked Stern over Wharton, Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell & Columbia. They all have incredible jobs on Wall Street and Silicon Valley which goes to show it’s really the individual that matters and not the school.

Anyway it’s not far-fetched at all someone would prefer Stern. The draw to the school is the ability to study business in the business capital of the world plus other international business capitals through the schools vast study abroad network.

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@qwertyzxc Fair enough, I could see why someone might opt for Stern over Harvard, but we’re talking about a student who purportedly applied EA to Harvard, was accepted and has still decided to apply to 9 other schools. If you want to go to Stern, apply to Stern, but don’t chalk up 9 other applications just to pad your ego. Now, having read back a little, it may be that the OP had some legacy connection to Harvard, so that may be why he applied EA there. But from there, it can’t be likely that there are nine other schools that you want to attend over Harvard. If it were the case, then he should not have applied EA to Harvard in the first place. I would think a good school college counselor would have steered some better application behavior because the OP is also damaging the opportunities for his fellow classmates.