Please Chance me for Harvard, Stanford, Yale, and MIT?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Stats:
Male, Midwest, Caucasian, No hooks</p>

<p>Academia :
GPA: 3.994UW
SAT: 2300 (800 M, 720 CR, 780W)
SAT II: 800 US History, 780 Chem, 800 Math 2
AP Tests: APUSH (5), Euro (5), Calc BC (5), Lang/Comp (5), Stats (5)
Senior Year Courseload: Multivariable Calc., AP Econ, AP Comp Sci, AP Lit., CIS Comp, CIS Spanish 5, AP Physics, AP Chem.
Major Awards: National Forensic League Degree of Honorx2, Degree of Excellencex2, ExCEL Nominee, 2 time Tri-Athlete Award, AP Scholar w/ Distinction, National Merit Commended, AIME Qualifier</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Cross Country (4 years): Captain, All Conference, State Qualifier, Academic State Award Winner, Academic State Gold, Academic State Silver, 2 time Scholar Athlete of the Year, 3 time section qualifier, three varsity letters, Nike Regionals/National Qualifiers Participant, Section Champs while I was Captain</p>

<p>Swimming (4 years): Captain, 2 time Academic State Silver, 3 varsity letters, most improved, 4 time section qualifier, True team section runners up, 4 time true team section qualifier, True team State Qualifier, Section Finalist (100 Breastroke)</p>

<p>Girls Swim Team Manager for 1 year.</p>

<p>Track and Field (4 Years): 3 Time True Team Sectional Qualifier, 2 Time Sectional Qualifier, Most Improved two years in a row, Scholar Athlete of the Year, 2 Time Varsity Letter Award Winner, Honor Roll Time in 2 events (Mile-4:30, 2 Mile-9:45), 3 Time Sectional Medalist</p>

<p>Debate (3 Years): 3 Time State Qualifier, Novice Classic Debate State Quarter Finalist,
JV Classic Debate State Quarter Finalist, NFL Degree of Honor, Degree of Excellence, 2 time Letter Award Winner </p>

<p>National Forensic League (3 years)</p>

<p>Student Council (3 Years): Officer, Organized various things, including running a school wide Community Cup that includes a $1000 prize and a choice of charity, and also ran initiative for healthier district school lunches, 2 letter awards</p>

<p>National Spanish Honor Society (2 Years)</p>

<p>National Honor Society (2 Years): Dialogues Committee, Service Committee</p>

<p>Various Leadership Conferences
LINC: LINC 101 - Leadership Class, get school credit on my transcript
LINC Leadership, Leadership, do large scale leadership with Freshmen and newbies at school
LINC 301: Captains training</p>

<p>Summer Activities:</p>

<p>Job experience: I teach swim lessons</p>

<p>Volunteer Work: Tons with NHS 300+ Hours Total? + Every summer since 7th Grade I help teach “Space Camp” for little kids, Captain+organizer for a local “Relay for Life” </p>

<p>Running Camp: (400 Mile Club)</p>

<p>Swimming Camp</p>

<p>Star Wars Collectable Card Game Club: I played competitive star wars collectable card game. I went to states, regionals, and nationals! Got 8th in Regionals, 2nd in a local tourney, and competed in nationals </p>

<p>Triathlons: I independently train and compete in triathlons</p>

<p>Thank you very much!</p>

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<p>Bump!!!</p>

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<p>Do you by any chance have a class rank? If you’re in the top 1-2% (which I see no reason why you shouldn’t be), I believe most all those schools would be pretty high high match/low reach (not because of your qualifications, but because they’re hypsm).</p>

<p>Kill your essays, and good recs should definitely get you in one of those places. MIT tends to like candidates with more major technical awards like Siemens, Intel, etc…</p>

<p>Chance me back? <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1329105-chance-me-uofm-purdue-cmu-georgia-tech-uiuc.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1329105-chance-me-uofm-purdue-cmu-georgia-tech-uiuc.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>You are Winner Bart 2385 - any above would take you.</p>

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<p>If you are an athletic recruit, you have a good shot at Yale and Harvard. </p>

<p>I don’t see a fit for MIT unless their athletic coaches have any input.</p>

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<p>To call these schools a match for anyone is to not at all understand admissions. You’re in the running, but that doesn’t mean anything except that along with 60% of the applicants, you have stats that won’t keep you out.</p>

<p>Many factors now come into play. Home state, quality of your HS, who else is applying from your school and region, your income. Then it’s all about the essay. What you will say that make them want you to be among the 7% (or really the smaller percent of unhooked) they want on campus. Most people with your stats will not get into these schools. Most 4.0/2400s will not get in.</p>

<p>So make sure you have some more realistic schools you love too.</p>

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<p>Update: My class rank is 5/553.</p>

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<p>I am an alumni of Harvard university, who has worked in the admissions office for about two years (not anymore, of course). We used to look at apps like yours, and think, “this is a guy who is either lying on their application, or a guy whose parents have tried to breed him for Harvard since he was born, and he just happened to be smart as well”. It doesn’t really matter if that is true or not, but that’s what the admissions officers are going to be thinking. That the only reason that you want to go to that school is for the name, and you did all of these activities just to boost your resume. Think about that when writing those essays, you actually have to come across as a person, rather than a robot who has no life</p>

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<p>Apparently, somebo123 is 17 years old, taking the SATs, and he’s an alumni of Harvard and Wharton.</p>

<p>Check out his previous posts:

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<p>Anyways, I think you’re a very driven kid and you’re in the ballpark for all those schools you mentioned. As long as you enjoy what you’re doing and it comes across in your essays, you should be happy when decisions come around.</p>

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<p>I’m just trying to make a point. Of course I’m not a Harvard alum. Half the people on CC lie about this stuff. And sure as hell, nobody has a clue whether or not the OP will get in to any of these schools. It’s just too competitive. I think I’m about to start a chance thread boycott. Who’s with me??</p>

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<p>^ Actually, chance threads can help people realize that they need to apply to some safety schools or that their perception of a safety school is skewed.</p>

<p>Anyways, bart, I think you have a shot at each of the schools, but if you get in, it will probably be for athletic recruitment. If you don’t want to want do a varsity sport in college, you still have better than average chances.</p>

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<p>Somebo123: Just because people lie on this site doesn’t make it right for you to blantantly do so. If you don’t want to participate on this part of the forum, you’re more than welcome to do so; just leave alone those that choose to utilize the threads. The fact that you made up something to attempt to hurt someone else’s feelings, and a very bad one at that (apparently I have no life now?) is reason enough for you to get banned from this site. It’s definitely true people lie on this site, but most of them don’t lie to purposely to make a frankly shallow comment like yours. Lowlives like you can do what ever you want, just don’t infringe on the activities of us normal people. Go ahead and start a boycott, I doubt no one cares besides insecure users like you.</p>

<p>And to those that were helpful, thanks =). I’ll try not to worry about the process until the next year comes around.</p>

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<p>REACH! I wonder what the first four is gonna have in your school!</p>

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<p>Athletic recruits get recruited in summer and early fall. So you should contact the coaches to see if there is any interest now.</p>

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<p>I agree with whalewhale. Some people have too high expectations for themselves, and should consider reasonable safety schools, below what they think they can get in. The OP is obviously not one of these people. Sorry OP, I truly did not want to hurt your feelings, but you have to know that all the time, there are stories of people like you getting rejected from places like that, and all the time, there are stories of “average” kids getting in. You have an exceptional resume, one that will get you past the “first cut” of the admissions process. After that, nobody truly has an understanding of the inner college admissions boards. Talk to your school counselor. He/she has surely seen many people get accepted and rejected to these types of schools, and will be able to give you a more cohesive picture. For all I know, you could be lying about your entire identity. If you want to hear what all these strangers have to say about your chances, I would strongly reccomend against taking these opinions into much consideration, considering all the lowlifes like me who populate this website, who are not really people who you should believe</p>