My Chances? Junior Please Help Stanford, MIT, Northwestern, Harvard

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I am a junior and will be graduating in the Class of 2012. Could someone please help inform me of my chances at MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Northwestern, CalTech, Berkeley, and UPenn?
THANK YOU A BUNCH</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): Superscore Critical Reading 740 Math 800 Writing 800
ACT: 34 Composite (36 English, 36 Math, 33 Reading, 31 Science)
SAT II: Chemistry 800 Math II 800
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): Unweighted 3.95/4.00 Weighted 4.18 only APs weighted
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 4/430
AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 AP Calc AB, 5 AP US History, 5 AP English Lang., 5 AP Chemistry, 4 AP US Government, 5 AP Biology, 5 AP Microecon, 5 AP Macroecon, 3 AP Psych
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Comp Sci, AP Statistics, CIS Writing, CIS Literature, AP Spanish, AP Physics C, world history
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commended, National AP Scholar, National Econ Challenge 2nd Place, 3rd Place Individuals State Econ CHallenge, National Spanish Exam Silver Medal, 2nd Place Twin Cities Econ CHallenge
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): NHS (Executive Board Leader), Math Team Varsity Member (No Leadership), Basketball Varsity (No Leadership), Econ Challenge (Captain), Football 2 Years (No Leadership), Youth Group at Church (No Leadership), Ping Pong Team Varsity (Captain)
Job/Work Experience: Worked in summer for Shoreview Youth Baseball League as an umpire, worked for Mounds View Basketball Association as a referee, Worked at the University of Minnesota as a Lab Assistant in an electrical engineering lab
Volunteer/Community service:NHS Volunteering, SAT Tutoring (Not very many hours)
Summer Activities: Tournament Basketball Season, AP Physics C class through Northwestern
Intended Major: Economics/Chemical Engineering/Applied Economics
State (if domestic applicant): MN
School Type: Large Public (around 2000 kids)
Ethnicity: Caucasian (White)
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: $60,000-$80,000</p>

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<p>I thik you have a really great shot at northwestern and berkely.</p>

<p>caltech and UPenn - if you have a fantastic senior year maybe you can pull it off
MIT, STANFORD, Harvard- their ur reaches (Still aply just dont wast ED on them.)
Take on more leadership roles and ECs… main thing. but i think you should think about a couple more schools to apply to.</p>

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<p>Good Luck! :)</p>

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<p>Anyone else please?</p>

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<p>Only send your SAT scores. They are better.
Northwestern, Berkely, and UPenn-high matches/approaching safeties</p>

<p>All of the others are matches, but at schools of that rigor admissions are a crapshoot. I will say I would be surprised if you didn’t get into any of these.</p>

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<p>No Ivy is a safety. Don’t ever think that. But you have above average chances at NU and Berkeley. Decent chances at the rest. Stay active, stay studying, write great essays.</p>

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<p>I think you havea an good chance of getting into these schools, all you need to do is work on your essay!!!</p>

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<p>Many people on CC always forget that Ivies are not all powerful. Many non-Ivies are ranked higher and harder to get into than lower Ivies. I often see things saying, you’re in at Duke/Northwestern but Upenn and Cornell are reaches. Duke and Northwestern are both ranked higher than those two ivies. For the class of 2014 Duke had a lower acceptance rate than Cornell, 16% vs. 18%. So if somebody tells you that you have a high match at Duke or other prestigious non-ivies, and then they say you are a reach at low ivies, they are wrong.</p>

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<p>I’m liking your test scores and GPA. I don’t know how much of a math/science emphasis MIT/Caltech want in their applicants, but I don’t see much of a math/science emphasis in your EC’s. </p>

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<p>2nd Place at what level, exactly? State? National? If national (or even state), that stands out a lot, especially if you want to study economics in college.</p>

<p>All in all, you have a very solid application. I’d be surprised if you didn’t get into at least 1 or 2 of the schools you listed.</p>

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<p>What do you guys think I could do to improve my chances at a place like MIT, Stanford, or Harvard?</p>

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<p>If you are interested in economics at Northwestern and are good at math, you may want to check out MMSS; it’s a fantastic program that goes well with economics.
[MMSS</a>, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Northwestern University](<a href=“http://www.mmss.northwestern.edu/]MMSS”>http://www.mmss.northwestern.edu/)</p>

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<p>MIT, Stanford, Cal Tech and Harvard are no doubt high reaches. UPenn and Berkley are Mid Reaches while NW is a low reach. Academics could be better though still strong enough. ECs are def. not gonna get the attention of the top most schools on your list, but may be ok for the lower schools on your list.</p>

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<p>@stewta</p>

<p>Penn is ranked higher than duke and nu.</p>

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<p>sorry you’re right. Both are higher than Brown and Cornell though.</p>

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<p>hakuna matata bro</p>

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<p>@314159265
The National Econ Challenge 2nd Place is a “National” Award of 2nd place at the national competition</p>

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<p>^FYI, Northwestern is a three time national champion in College Fed Challenge. :slight_smile: [College</a> National Fed Challenge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_National_Fed_Challenge]College”>College National Fed Challenge - Wikipedia)</p>

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<p>Anything more?</p>

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<p>bump…</p>