Oh my gosh check this out! My chances, an uncut list of colleges

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Grades in advanced courses:</p>

<p>9th: GPA- 3.75uw, all I remember
10th: 3.8
Precalculus H- A
English H- B+
World History H- A
Chemistry H- A+
Spanish 3- A-
AP Psychology- A (4 on exam, no studying lol)
11th: guessing it will end up 3.83 based on so far
AP Calc- A-
AP English Comp- A-
AP US History- B+
AP Chemistry- A-
AP Music Theory- A+
Physics H- A
12th: Courseload
Multivariable Calculus- some local college
AP Literature
AP Government/Economics, semester each.
AP Biology
AP Physics
AP Spanish Language</p>

<p>Cumulative GPA: 3.79uw, 4.55w. 12 APs total.</p>

<p>SAT I: 2340, 750CR/800M/790W. No SAT IIs yet, will probably take Biology, Chemistry, Math IIC, whatever else is necessary.</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<p>Math Honor Society: 10-12.
Academic teams: Math, Science, Spelling. Highest scores in school for most of them.
Habitat for Humanity: 10-12.
Volunteering at church's homeless shelter: Informal management position (no one has formal titles besides the owner but there are those who labor and those who manage) a few hundred hours by senior year, about 80 so far.
Hospital Volunteering: Going to start, hope to do a lot.
Talent show participation: Won sophomore year at first talent show school had.
Math Tutoring: 5 hours per week since sophomore year.
NHS</p>

<p>Approximate total community service time: + or - 200 hours. Estimated by senior year 500+.</p>

<p>My ECs are crap because my school had no clubs until I was a sophomore so 10-12=maximum dedication.</p>

<p>Intended major: Psychology or Biology major, music minor. Double major would be nice if anyone knows where I could do that.</p>

<p>Recs: All the faculty loves me and I'm well known, so I have loads of resources for recommendations.</p>

<p>Schools (not a very narrowed list yet):</p>

<p>Harvard EA
Dartmouth ED
Cornell
Brown
Amherst (I've been thinking about LACs)
Reed
Oberlin (Double major program, music conversatory and college.)
Swarthmore
UCs
Tulane
Austin College (automatic medical school acceptance program with Texas Tech)</p>

<p>Tell me reach/match/safety and also where I could get some money. A percentage estimate would be nice as I'm mathematically inclined.</p>

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<p>Need to work on the ECs more.</p>

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<p>Yeah that definitely is my weak point. You did see the leadership position crammed in there right?</p>

<p>Who wants to give me my chances?</p>

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<p>Grades/SAT wise you're fine.</p>

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<p>How about those specific colleges?</p>

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<p>what were your scores from the AP tests</p>

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<p>I'm a junior so really the only AP test I've taken is psychology because I took the class a year earlier than most people are allowed to. Got a 4 on that. Didn't study at all, but that gets me college credit.</p>

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<p>I thought Harvard was SCEA..</p>

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<p>Oops, I guess I meant to type that. Nonetheless, same meaning pretty much.</p>

<p>Come on guys, evaluate my chances at the colleges I listed!</p>

<p>I don't need this other stuff. I mean, of course stats evaluation is okay to some degree.</p>

<p>If you're going to say I can't go to Harvard in my dreams even, tell me why ya know.</p>

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<p>Great SAT, grades are good (not excellent, a few Bs), BUT ECs are not so hot. If you don't have any "hook" -- a reason why HArvard should pick you, I don't see you getting in. You're only a Junior though, plenty of time to do somehting proactive!!!</p>

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<p>What about the other ones?</p>

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<p>I would say right now all those schools with the exception of Tulane and Austin college are reaches. Top UCs are reaches unless you're in-state, in which case Berkeley and LA are slight-reach/match. </p>

<p>If you got involved in some more ECs, and had some officer positions this year and next, I would say you'd be highly competitive at any school in your list.</p>

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<p>Let's assume I'm a resident because I can easily achieve that.</p>

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<p>Godfather:</p>

<p>Assuming you are a California resident,
UCB/UCLA: Match
UCSD: Safety
UCI/UCSB/UCD: Safety
UCSC/UCR/UCM: Super Safety</p>

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<p>Anybody else?</p>

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<p>Are there any other opinions on my chances at any of those colleges that you are familiar with?</p>

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<p>"Let's assume I'm a resident because I can easily achieve that."</p>

<p>What does that mean?</p>

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<p>Very good chance at every UC and Tulane. I don't like giving ivy preditions since they're SO hard to predict. 10% of VERY smart people get accepted to schools like Yale and Harvard.</p>

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<p>Yargg,</p>

<p>What I meant was, I have family in California and my family owns several houses there so I can move there for the entirity of senior year and gain residency that way if necessary.</p>

<p>The UCs are kind of at the bottom of my list though, so if residency isn't going to happen that's okay.</p>

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<p>as i said in my thread, i envy ur standardized test scores, and i forgot to mention u take a lot of aps. i lack those and i think those are more important.........</p>