My chances to my dream colleges please...

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello, I am new to these forums and wanted to know what my chances were to get into some of my top colleges namely: Stanford, MIT, CalTech, Princeton, UC Berkley, Cornell, or maybe Dartmouth/Duke/Columbia (legacy at columbia)</p>

<p>Gender: M
Ethnicity: Iranian, speak Farsi Fluently in addition to English
School: Flintridge Preparatory in California
GPA: Average unweighted: 4.0 Weighted: 4.68
Class Rank: NA I'd estimate about top 7 out of 108, our school sends about 12 each year to Ivy League's/Stanford each year
Grade: Rising Junior</p>

<p>I have taken the SAT but it was just for a summer program back in January. I did not try very hard on it: my scores were Math: 800 CR: 640 Writin: 660 (12 on Essay). I will obviously be taking it again for college this coming year my Junior year and expect to perform significantly better as I will study.<br>
SAT II scores are not great Math IIC: 800 and Biology M: 720 (ugggg)
On my APs I can only project but I am near certain that I got 5s on all three: AB Calculus, Biology and European History</p>

<p>Course Load: I have taken the most rigorous course load possible at my school
11th grade schedule:
AP Photography, AP BC Calculus, AP US History, AP Chemistry, AP British Lit, AP French Lit</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
I founded and am the CEO of the Financial website fiscalfrenzy.com
Passed Advanced Level CM for Piano
Played Piano for Orchestra
Have Painted for many years and have held galleries, (dont think this matters much)
Founded our school's Investment Club
Co President of Chess Club
Co President of The Collective Club (baciscally democratic club)
Commissioner of Publicity for French Honor Society
Vice President of French Club
Student Senate Treasurer
Science Club Vice President
Wrote for the Science Club Newpaper
Strategic Games Club active member
School newspaper Opinion Columnist
Interned at a Heart Surgeon's office helping with filing and other work over the summer
Interned at Dr.'s lab in CalState Pomona in researching radioactivity levels in soil based on nearest telephone poles. </p>

<p>Community Service:
This and my Standardized tests are where I am lacking:
St. Vincent Meals on Wheels-Helped cook and ferry food for the needy-80hrs
Los Angeles Homeless Drive 2 years-15 hrs total
Sycamores school for kids-organized several activities- 20 hrs total</p>

<p>Awards: Honorable Mention: Los Angeles County Science Fair, 1st Place: Los Angeles County Science Fair, 5th National French Exam, French Honor Society member</p>

<p>The poor SAT score will likely go up about 200 points mbe a bit more, sorry for the long post but this is basically my application in a nutshell. I am a pretty good writer so I will write pretty strong essays and have two very good teacher recs from my math teacher and my english teacher.. </p>

<p>Thank you in advance for all the help</p>

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<p>if you push your SAT score to 2250 like you're saying, then you're the classic great candidate who will just have to wait and see how many top tier schools take him. when you get to those schools, there is no telling who gets in and who doesnt</p>

<p>Your EC leadership positions are impressive, but I'd look for something different like another internship for the next summer</p>

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<p>bump...bump...anyone else please?</p>

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<p>You have good chances if u get the SAT above even 2100. However, how can you be in AP photography? And why would you take 2 calc ap courses? seems stupid to me</p>

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<p>AP studio art is an Advanced placement in which you send in your portfolio, and Calc AB AP is first and Calc BC AP is the second level Calculus, thats how it is at most schools</p>

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<p>bumpersticker</p>

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<p>yeah, ok i understand the studio art one, but Calculus BC is AB + some more chapters. Taking just BC tests out of everything AB would.....and wouldn't you just review for the first semester of BC what u already learned from AB???? Its like taking both Comp Sci exams...</p>

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<p>on your extra curriculars:</p>

<p>you have too many leadership roles... distinguished universities would prefer if you had a couple to a few clubs/inititives that you either played a key role in or lead. it's about feeling passionate about something in life, have a singular drive. </p>

<p>here it looks like an assemblage of a bunch of clubs with random leadership roles&lt;/p>

<p>not my opinion, just an assessment</p>

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<p>its better to take the BC calc test too though, because the level is harder. some schools offer AB one year, then BC the next. other schools, like mine, offers honors precalc and then you go straight to BC and take the BC test in senior year. or you just take regular precalc and go to AB and take the AB test senior year.
its different for every school i think.</p>

<p>ttfrenzy, take the ACT too if you like. some people do better on it and get like...34 the first try. or you can try to get your SAT up to 2200+. I say 2200 and not 2050 because you're ecs are pretty impressive (esp the CEO thing). </p>

<p>i suggest you do apply to duke. it's a good school but imo its not at the same standard as HYPS MIT CalTech Berkeley, etc. I can safely say that it'll be a match for you. </p>

<p>consider some more "safe" schools. HYPS MIT CalTech Berkeley, etc, are schools that are unpredictable beacuse the best of the best of the best apply...and imo everything depends on luck once you qualify for those schools.</p>

<p>i suggest UMich, BC, Tufts, UCSD (oos might be difficult but its a decent UC school after berkeley and ucla and its a match)</p>