<p>SAT I:
Math 760
CR 710
Writing 710 (12 on essay)
Taking them again in oct. hoping for:
800
730
760</p>
<p>SAT II:
Taking Tomorrow, here are suspected scores
Math II: 800
Phys: 780-800
French 700+</p>
<p>APs waiting for scores (these are suspected also)
Calc AB: 5
Phys :B 5
US Hist : 4-5
Eng: 2-3</p>
<p>Schedule for next year:
Calc BC at local college
AP Physic C (not sure which one) online or at local college
AP stats
Regular Gov./Econ
AP Chem
AP Bio
AP Francais!</p>
<p>ECs
-Piano average an hour a day for 10 years, Chopin etudes, Rachmaninoff moment musicale etc.
-Peer helping (tutoring, counseling little kids)
-Runner: 4:32 mile, 16th at North Coast Section for cross country, Ive run at national indoor scholastic champs.
-Math club pres. Of my schools chapter of Mu Alpha Theta
Eco club active member, taught elementary schools to recycle, and about rainforest, planted trees in community projects etc.</p>
<p>I got a $2285 scholarship to a tech camp this summer itll be fun
Ive won some math awards but not big ones
I taught Calc to myself cuz I wanted to advance so I could get into good schools</p>
<p>I want to go to
MIT
Princeton
Harvey Mudd
Cornell
Franklin Olin
Cal Poly
Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Oh yeah i forgot GPA
Math: 4.0 uw, 5.0 w
Eng. 3.0 uw, 4.0 w
Soc Stud 3.33 uw, 4.33 w
Sci 4.0 uw, 5.0 w
All together
3.76 uw, 4.52 w
8th in class of 367</p>
<p>^same as laxgirl07 except Olin would be a match/reach. You have a very good chance at getting into the candidates' weekend, and after that, you can't really predict anything from your previous merits. Cal Poly??? I'm assuming that this is a super safety? Why no UC's?</p>
<p>People, once and for all, you need to understant that GPA is NOT the issue at private colleges, it's class rank. He goes to a school where a 3.7 puts you near the top of the class! That said OP, your
sats and ECs are weak for your schools.</p>
<p>Well, I agree class rank is what's important for private schools, but I presumed the op put in the GPA for the public school on this list (Cal Poly), which is necessary for us to give chances there.</p>
<p>I do agree the ECs are weak and could ruin the other efforts (grades and test scores)--and that the op picked the toughest schools to apply to considering the test scores.</p>
<p>The AI score here (if the SAT II scores come out as projected) is 219.5--which would be a slight reach for Princeton, and a match for Cornell and MIT except for those ECs. I rank you as Princeton--reach, and slight reach for Cornell and MIT.</p>
<p>Franklin Olin is, along with Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, the toughest college in the country to get into right now. They accept 90 students from the 550 applications they get and enroll 50% of the acceptances. They provide their students with essentially free tuition to the school with absolutely the best engineering professors in the country.</p>
<p>The 550 applications are likely to increase tremendously this year as word of the free tuition (and housing) gets out, and the people who are in that 550+ applicant pool are likely to have AI scores that average around 225-230, so this is a slight reach to reach normally--and with your ECs a major reach.</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd I would consider a match.</p>
<p>Oh, and Cal Poly. You are OOS which makes it harder, but I still consider this a safety to match for you. It's not nearly as tough as the others to get into.</p>
<p>Consider adding Caltech to your list. It is also really hard to get in like MIT, but I found a good strategy for college admissions is to have a good safety or safety-match and then apply to a bunch of reaches to improve your odds of getting into at least one reach. Oh, and Cal Poly is significantly easier to get in than all of these other schools, so that could definitely be your safety.</p>
<p>why is his ecs bad... he has an amazing mile time and he's been playing piano for 10 years... all he needs is a nice essay about his passions and demonstrate his mad piano/running skills somewhere :P </p>
<p>ps. apply stanford... you'll probably have a nice chance there... like kinda half reach? but still good chance</p>
<p>yeah i do plan on running college
in fact, my mile time would already boost me close to the top of most of the teams of the schools i would wanna apply to..
And also consider that I'll definitely improve senior year and then I'll be even be better as FR in college.</p>
<p>The point I was making about Franklin Olin isn't that it's 90 out of 550 applicants--it's that it's 90 out of 550 applicants where every applicant has an AI of about 225 to 230. Harvard and Yale get lots of applications from people with AI rankings of 180 to 210 who think they have a shot, but who actually have about a 0 to 10% chance. Almost none of these types of people apply to Franklin Olin because it doesn't have the same prestige factor or name recognition. </p>
<p>A 20% acceptance ratio from 550 applicants with AIs of 225 to 230 is more impressive in my mind than a 8 to 10% acceptance rate from a school with applicants that range from 180 to 235 with an average of around 220.
Nevertheless, lots of those accepted at Franklin Olin will go to the Ivies for the same reason--the prestige and name recognition that come from going to these schools. Only when the Franklin Olin name becomes more recognizable will this change--and by then the acceptance rates will be down to 10% or less as the applicant base increases.</p>
<p>And suze, a 1470 overall SAT I does make you a slight reach at MIT when your Math SAT I score is 760, your Math SAT II score is 800, your Physics SAT II score is 790, you are taking AP Chem in addition and you have great math grades (4.0 UW 5.0 W in math). Next time try putting in the pertinent data--and not just the stuff that supports your viewpoint, please.</p>
<p>ok the other thing:
my parents never married, and were together for like 4 years, separating when I was 3.
yeah what a sob story...
anyway, my dad sued for custody of me for like 8 years and prolonged and ran my mom into debt. then she had 4 car accidents that weren't her fault, and then she broke bother her arms and fractured her back at a company party when she fell and hurt herself. She's had primary custody of me all this time.
Does all this random and disadvantageous stuff help or hurt me?</p>
<p>Geez this is addictive
anyway more diddlies..
And im hoping for really good recs because my teachers have been more or less parents to me (as in they support me and flatter me more than my own do)
and essays will be outstanding because i will work all summer on them and go over several drafts with my teachers (eng program at my school is really strong)
otherwise im looking for a Siemens research mentor while I teach myself Laplace Transforms on the internet! :)
Also:
I got 99.5 on AMC 12. I made stupid mistakes. I needed 100 to move one to AIME. Should I tell MIT I got 99.5 or should i just pretend I never took it?
By the way:
AMC practice: won a book "E the story of a number" and $20
and Trigstar: $75 as School's 2nd place finisher...</p>
<p>shh i think u should pretend you never took it... or rather don't think of it that way... like think of it as it not being your strong point and MIT not wanting to see it... not to put you down.. just for like statistical purposes-- i'm only a freshman and i got a 112.5 on AMC12 and twenty something people from my tiny public school (<1000) took the AIME... like you would probably want to add that on if you were applying to any lib arts schools... but for an engineering or a math-based major.. i'm not sure they want to see that</p>
<p>one last comment... a 760 is nothing to ashamed of... because of the cruel curve on the sat is... a 760 is like one problem wrong, two if you had a lenient curve... it could easily be a silly mistake.. i'm not sure how much colleges will distinguish between a 760 and a 800 AND you do have a 800 on sat iic to prove that you do know math so... just a point</p>
And suze, a 1470 overall SAT I does make you a slight reach at MIT when your Math SAT I score is 760, your Math SAT II score is 800, your Physics SAT II score is 790, you are taking AP Chem in addition and you have great math grades (4.0 UW 5.0 W in math). Next time try putting in the pertinent data--and not just the stuff that supports your viewpoint, please.
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Middle 50% score range of admitted students:
SAT I Verbal [690, 770]
SAT I Math [740, 800]
ACT Composite [31, 34]
SAT II Math [740, 800]
SAT II Science [710, 790]
SAT II Humanities [700, 780]
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<p>A 1470 and the other scores you mentioned are commonplace for MIT applicants. Many, many, many people with such scores get rejected. At a school like MIT, no standarized test scores can push the school into the "match" or "slight reach" category. Hello, it's MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. </p>
<p>If what you say is true and an applicant's chances at MIT are much higher than the acceptance rate simply because of five such numbers and a course labeled as AP, I would be jumping off my walls in celebration.</p>