Penn, Harvard, Cornell & Yale ED Chances (I'll Chance You Back I Promise)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>WGPA - 4.41
GPA - 3.89
Class Rank - 8/750</p>

<p>Students Helping Honduras - 3 Years (President/Extremely Involved)
- Helped create a student letter exchange program in this club
- Made Announcement/TV Commercials to promote the club
- Helped come up with fundraising ideas.
- President for 2 consecutive years</p>

<p>Model UN - 3 years (vp)
The School newspaper (chief editor) - 3 years
Yearbook club - 3 years
Chemistry Olympics - 3 years
National honors society - 2 years
National science honors society - 2 years (vp)
National Spanish honors society - 2 years
Started science Olympiad society - ran as pres. For 2 years</p>

<p>Volunteer at United way organization - 4 summers (over 350 hours)
Volunteer at eye surgery center - 2 summers (over 150 hours)
County library abettor - 4 summers (approx. 100 hours)
Alzheimer's walk volunteer - 3 years
MUN Conferences - 3 years</p>

<p>Personal tutoring job - Made over 2000 dollars. Used it to fund my trip to Honduras
Money gram traveling agency job - made over 1000 dollars. Used it to fund my India trip</p>

<p>Traveled to Honduras for volunteering
Traveled to India for volunteering</p>

<p>Participated in the Google science fair competition
Participated in the national astrophysics competition
Won scholastic literary award for a short story 850 dollars scholarship
Won chemigation science competition</p>

<p>Started a charity at school to help infected individuals (HIV, Ebola etc) in Africa. Made over 1000 dollars and donated it to WHO.</p>

<p>Senior Course Load:
AP Physics C
AP Spanish Language
AP Calculus BC
AP Human Geography
AP Statistics
Honors Discrete Math</p>

<p>SAT - 2100
ACT - 31</p>

<p>SAT Subject - Math II (720), Chemistry (750), Physics (780)</p>

<p>Total AP Classes Taken - 8-10 (Senior Year Included)</p>

<p>Hooks:
Immigrant. Moved here in 6th grade and was immediately put on remedial ESL classes. I made my way to the top and took challenging courses like honors English. I have pretty decent recommendations from 4-5 teachers.</p>

<p>What are my chances? Post link if you want me to chance you back!!</p>

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<p>You have great stats and extracurricular activities! I think your only weak points are your test scores, which are still very good, and your unweighted GPA, which is still very good as well. You have a great shot at UPenn and Cornell, and I think you have decent chances for Harvard and Yale! Best of luck to you and please look at my last thread and chance me :)</p>

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<p>If you take the ACT again and get a 33 or higher, and don’t get it (to at least Cornell!), frankly, I doubt anyone gets in to any of these schools. I have heard Cornell is the easiest to get into, so you will likely get in there, as well as Penn. As for Harvard and Yale, it’s a toss up for anyone, but you have as good of chance as anyone. Also the ED will help. Good luck, and chance me back at <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1707933-chances-at-univ-of-wisconsin-univ-of-michigan-univ-of-illinois-nyu-georgetown.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1707933-chances-at-univ-of-wisconsin-univ-of-michigan-univ-of-illinois-nyu-georgetown.html#latest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>You have an impressive courseload and awesome ECs.</p>

<p>The two things that are lacking:

  • Test Scores
  • “Wow” factor (major awards, etc - basically things that set you apart)</p>

<p>You can definitely boost up those test scores. Sit down and take one or two practice tests and I think a 33+ should be within reach (or a 2200+).</p>

<p>Chances (with current scores):</p>

<p>UPenn - mid reach
Cornell - mid reach
Yale - high reach
Harvard - high reach</p>

<p>If you manage to pick up those test scores:</p>

<p>UPenn - low reach
Cornell - high match-low reach
Yale - mid-high reach
Harvard - mid-high reach</p>

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<p>demographics
assuming asian female;
harvard yale: mid-high reaches
penn: mid reach (what school? ED or RD?)
cornell: high match/low reach (are you applying to the CAS? and did you apply ED, if you did, probably a high match).</p>

<p>good overall, but grades a bit weak, testing rather weak, and none of the ECs are truly standing out THAT much.
Chance back? <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1665423-downwards-trend-poor-class-rank-high-aspirations-will-chance-back.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1665423-downwards-trend-poor-class-rank-high-aspirations-will-chance-back.html#latest&lt;/a&gt; </p>

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<p>@theanaconda‌ I’m an indian male. And I am applying ED to yale so I can’t apply ED to penn!</p>

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<p>@tooty44‌ Any specific books you recommend for SAT/ACT prep?</p>

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<p>I would definitely recommend the official ACT Book and the official SAT Book.</p>

<p>I believe the ACT is titled like “The Real ACT…”, is red, and has 5 practice tests</p>

<p>The official SAT book is a big blue book.</p>

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<p>Penn - Accepted
Harvard - Waitlisted
Cornell - Accepted
Yale - Accepted/Waitlisted</p>

<p>I love that a ton of the EC’s are volunteering! It really says a lot about you. :slight_smile:
Penn loves people who take the situation into their own hands and excel as you have. I wish you the best of luck on your apps!!!</p>

<p>Please chance me back :slight_smile:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1708065-chance-me-harvard-carnegie-mellon-etc-i-will-chance-you-back.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1708065-chance-me-harvard-carnegie-mellon-etc-i-will-chance-you-back.html#latest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I think your volunteering and extracurricular activities will really help with Penn. Yale and Harvard are toss ups for anyone but ED should definitely help with Yale. As others have said, get that ACT up to a 33 plus and you will be admitted for sure into at least one of these I think. Don’t push aside the importance of essays either!</p>

<p>Chance me back?</p>

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<p>I think your test scores are kind of low also, but I do think you have a great shot at a lot of these schools because of all the amazing EC’s you’ve done! Wish you the best :slight_smile:
Penn- mid to low chance
Harvard- low chance
Yale- low chance
Cornell- mid to high chance</p>

<p>PLEASE chance me also!
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1708463-chance-me-for-ut-austin.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1708463-chance-me-for-ut-austin.html#latest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;