On a 1 - 10 Scale...

Chance Me / Match Me!
1

<p>How likely do you think I am to get into these schools??? rate on a 1 - 10 scale</p>

<p>Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Cornell
Columbia
Brown
Duke
Stanford
JHU</p>

<p>african american female</p>

<p>Sat1: m:690 cr:630 w: 600
Sat2:
chem:770
bio:720
Math2:660 </p>

<p>apchem:5
plan to take 6 more if i dont get into harvard</p>

<p>schedule(senior) straight a's first semester
ap calc bc
ap bio
ap stat
ap american studies 2
ap spanish 5
ap english</p>

<p>Academics:
All honors or Ap classes (total 8) since 9th grade, straight A's
A averages in college courses over the summer
rank 8/6XX
gpa: 4.55/4.6
hs ranked in top 100 schools </p>

<p>extracurric's:
too many to list (community service, 2 sports, student government, leadership positions in three organizations, three insturments, three languages, academic clubs, science internship etc..)</p>

<p>awards:
many academic (biology, chemistry, physics), service, and leadership awards. congressional medals (bronze, silver, and gold), awards from my church and community
national achievement
venture scholar (I dont really kno what that means!)
more but I dont feel like listing all</p>

<p>recommendations:
I think they will be good because both teachers asked me if they could write them because they thought I was one of their best students in many years.</p>

<p>Do you think my grades will make up for my low scores ???</p>

2

<p>Harvard-7
Princeton-9
Yale -8
Cornell-9
Columbia-8
Brown-8
Duke-9
Stanford-9
JHU-9</p>

3

<p>Harvard-6
Princeton-6
Yale-6
Cornell-8
Columbia-7
Brown-7
Duke-9
Stanford-6
JHU-9</p>

<p>Definitely good chances, but I would have some safeties and backups for sure.</p>

4

<p>The Ivies will all be reaches for you. If you can get the SAT’s up it will help your chances, but right now the picture that your painting is that your SAT’s don’t match up with your GPA. This can cause a bit of a problem because it looks like you are a big fish in a little pond with an inflated grading system. The others are close to matches, I would also work on finding some more safeties.</p>

5

<p>Harvard - 5
Princeton - 5
Yale - 5
Cornell - 7
Columbia - 6
Brown - 6
Duke - 8
Stanford - 6
JHU - 8</p>

6

<p>Not to be a jerk, but I think it’s all going to come down to how much the school wants URMs. Your GPA and rank are great, but your SATs are definitely very low for the schools. I have an URM friend who got into Cornell with low SATs though, so maybe you have a chance too. GL!</p>

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<p>^agreed. I think your GPA significantly will improve your application though…as this is more heavily seen in admissions. As north_face says, though, I’m sure a few schools might not go so low on the SAT for a URM. But you’re in very good shape with that solid GPA. nice work!</p>

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<p>oh yeah, I definately have safeties/ matches but I already got into them! I’m not crazy lol!</p>

<p>and yeah I suck at SATs, I don’t know why I did so bad, I should have taken the ACT also.</p>

9

<p>Those SATs are going to hurt you, but being an URM will help.</p>

<p>Harvard-5
Princeton-8
Yale -7
Cornell-9
Columbia-8
Brown-8
Duke-9
Stanford-8
JHU-9</p>

10

<p>I agree with kameronsmith- the sat’s will hurt you because it shows a disconnect between your high gpa and the difficulty of your high school</p>

<p>Harvard-4
Princeton-6
Yale-5
Cornell-8
Brown-5
Duke-9
Stanford-6
JHU-9</p>

11

<p>in defense of my school, were one of the top 100 hs in america, the only school to be recognized higher than us in state standaridzed testing is a private magnet in the area (me and only one other students got perfect scores). I guess its hard to prove here, but our school is def not known to have grade inflation or to be easy. I understand the assumption though, thats what low sat high gpa usually means. Already students ranked much lower have been accepted to penn, brown, columbia, and dart. not urm, but i dunno their sats.</p>

<p>but thanks for the opinions, and gl to you guys also</p>

12

<p>Harvard-3
Princeton-5
Yale-3
Cornell-9
Brown-6
Duke-9
Stanford-2
JHU-9</p>

13

<p>thanks for the chances!</p>

14

<p>bump…</p>

15

<p>i guess no more opinions</p>

16

<p>Harvard 4
Princeton 5
Yale 5
Cornell 7
Columbia7
Brown5
Duke 8
Stanford 5
JHU 9</p>

<p>chance me back </p>

<p>Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Cornell
Columbia
Brown
Duke
Stanford
JHU</p>

17

<p>1920 SAT… that may be too low</p>

18

<p>Harvard-3
Princeton-6
Yale-3
Cornell-8
Brown-5
Duke-8
Stanford-2
JHU-9</p>

19

<p>Please chance back,
Chance at Princeton</p>

20

<p>International student from a very small mining town…
SAT I: 1890( first try)
SAt II: 2150( first try)
TOEFL: 112( first try)
couldn’t afford to go to a big town to take it more than once</p>

<p>Regional History Olympiad -2nd ( 9th grade)
Regional English Olympiad -3rd ( 10th grade)
Regional English Olympiad- 2nd ( 11thgrade)
Regional Sociology Olympiad - 1st (11th grade) followed by ->
->National Sociology Olympiad-1st( 11th grade)
Regional English Olympiad- 1st ( 12th grade) followed by ->
-> National English Olympiad- participation ( 12th grade)
Government merit recognition award
Rotary award
City Council merit recognition award and some sort of medal
more than 1500 hours of community service with Save the Children and an anti-aids association
GPA: 9.99 out of 10.00
valedictorian ( 155)
National seminar on EU villages
film club- organizer</p>

<p>classes this year:
Romanian
English
French
Italian Studies
Philosophy
History
Introductory psychoanalysis
Geography
Science
English Cultural Studies
Physical Education
Plastic arts
Religion
World Literature
Latin
Technology of information and communication </p>

<p>part of the editorial staff of our high school magazine
I have recently been acclaimed as one of the students who has won the greatest number of awards in our school( in an article )
coordinated a research activity in our high school ( it consisted of applying questionnaies, collecting and interpreting data, publishing it + I was the coordinator of the entire group who did this)
my activity as a volunteer implied some sort of research activity ( went to dif. schools, applied questionnaires, collected the data + direct work with the children at a daily center
National Children’s Forum ( participated about 5 times)
great recs.
intended major: sociology
can I please get an honest opinion?<br>
oh, also had an interview - went very well
the interviewer said it was definitely interesting as I was the first person he had interviewed who was not into pure sciences</p>