Please chance for Vanderbilt, Cornell, and Brown!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Do I have a decent shot at based on these stats alone?
I'd just like to know if I am a candidate for any top schools; I get pretty insecure when I go on these forums and see people with these outrageous standings.</p>

<p>I'm Asian but didn't specify my ethnicity. My last name gives it away though.</p>

<p>Freshman year (I got B's in electives and no honors/APs offered)
Geometry: A/A
Biology: A/A
English 9: A/A
Healthy/Geography: B+/A
PE: A/A
Beginning Art: A/B+</p>

<p>Sophomore year (took an early period class, no APs offered)</p>

<p>Dance: A/B+
English: A/A
Trigonometry: A/A
Chem: A/A
Sociology: A/A
World History: A/A
Spanish: A/A</p>

<p>Ranked 3/~500 at my first HS</p>

<p>Junior year (transferred to extremely competitive new school)</p>

<p>English Honors: A/A
Pre-Calculus: A/A
AP Biology: B/A
AP Physics B: B/B
Spanish: A/A
USH: A/A</p>

<p>It was hard to adjust to in the beginning due to the competitive environment; my grades suffered a bit. I chose to take the most difficult APs offered at the school.</p>

<p>Senior year:
AP Stats: A
AP English: A
AP Calc BC: B
AP Chem: A
AP Econ: B+
Spanish: A</p>

<p>So my "grand" total GPA for soph and jun years:
~3.8 UW
~4.1 W
I wasn't allowed to take any advanced classes for the first 2 years of HS, otherwise it'd be higher</p>

<p>SAT: 2240
SAT II: Math 2: 740 and will take AP Bio, AP Phyz, or Chem later
ACT: 31
Rank at new school: at least top 15%, not sure?
AP exam scores so far (will take 5 more this year!):
AP Physics B: 4
AP Biology: 5</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<p>Science/space center intern: explained exhibits to visitors, trained others and managed telescopes, enviroscience and planetarium show development projects (over 400 hours of commitment total)
Teams actively participated in: Environmental and Astronomy</p>

<p>Biotech lab research associate at 5 prime therapeutics company (a very professional and enriching experience)</p>

<p>After-school math tutor sophomore year</p>

<p>~50 hours of community service outside of work</p>

<p>2 summer enrichment classes at UC Berkeley ATDP</p>

<p>played badminton 2 years</p>

<p>Piano player for 12 years, quite experienced and played at school talent shows. Also hosted a sort of music ensemble at a retirement care home</p>

<p>Drama club 2 years
Mathletes club secretary
Assistant stage manager for school play</p>

<p>MY "HOOK": </p>

<p>Female, applying (for some) engineering - bio and chemical - majors</p>

<p>My parents divorced my sophomore year so I moved and transferred schools. huge shift. My mom has made extreme sacrifices for my education.
My sister has had microcephaly and epilepsy her whole life and I was her caretaker growing up. Mentioned a bit about everything in all my essays.</p>

<p>Please and thank you!! ^__^</p>

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<p>Vanderbilt ED chances: 65-80%
Vanderbilt RD: 40- 50%</p>

<p>Brown and Cornell I have no idea, but I’d certainly not be surprised if you got in. Are you applying for Cornell engineering? I heard it was death.</p>

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<p>I know a person who has similar (but slightly higher, 3.88 UW and 2300+ SAT superscore) stats as you (Female that applied for Cornell Engineering) and got waitlisted, but I am convinced that her essays weren’t too strong since she has a weak work ethic. If you poured your heart and soul into your essays and showed an upward/consistent trend in your grades I’m sure you will get into Cornell Engineering (Cornell recruits a lot of women and minorities. Someone told me that women have a 35% chance of getting into Cornell’s Engineering school.) Wish you the best of luck! </p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1271083-finished-applications-chance-ivies-other-schools-updated.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1271083-finished-applications-chance-ivies-other-schools-updated.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I applied RD to Cornell for bio-engineering, which is not that popular. I really hope to get in… Thanks for the feedback!</p>