Please Chance me for these Top Schools

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>My mother, my grandfather, and two uncles attended Brown and my mom interviews for them and my father attended Yale and he interviews for them and my grandfather and uncle attended uPenn </p>

<p>I'm currently a junior and I'm wondering what my chances are at: Brown, Yale, UPenn, Northwestern, Wesleyan, NYU, WUSTL, Columbia, Stanford, Bowdoin, Michigan (honors),Harvard, and Williams</p>

<p>Jewish, Caucasian male at a top public school on long island</p>

<p>I'm not sure what my exact GPA is but I have gotten all A+s in every class I've taken except for my AP Stat class that I received a A- in </p>

<p>SAT I: 2240 CR: 750 Math: 710 Writing: 780 (12 essay)
ACT: 32
SAT II: Math 1c: 720 will also take bio and us history
PSAT: 215 probably NM comendation
By the end of my high school career I will have taken 11 APs: AP Stat (4), Ap Euro (5), AP French, ap composition, ap US history, AP bio, AP literature, AP psychology, AP gov't,AP economics, AP calc AB I will probably be an AP scholar with distinction</p>

<p>ECs: Sports editor School Newspaper (11th grade) and will be Editor in chief for senior year
Co-editor of school public relations magazine
Regular contributor to literary magazine with potential for editor
Model Congress member
Rachel's challenge club
Principal's Decision committee(9th grade)
Guitar for seven years
National Honor society
French honor society peer tutoring coordinator
300+ combined Communtiy service hours at boys and girls club and at a home for those who suffer from severe brain trauma</p>

<p>Summers: New York Film academy at princeton, Brown summer program, Northwestern film program, science research </p>

<p>Also entered Intel, Siemens Westinghouse dupont challenge, Oracle Thinkquest, and Toshiba explora vision </p>

<p>Essays i'm sure will be very strong as will Recs</p>

<p>Please tell me what you guys think are my chances at these schools thanks preferably in the form of percentages
Also will it hurt me if I dont take an AP science class such as AP physics in my senior year? (I will be taking AP psychology though)</p>

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<p>come on guys please respond</p>

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<p>Brown - 45%
Yale - 35%
UPenn - 30%
Northwestern - 60%
Wesleyan - 60%
NYU - 95%
WUSTL - 25%
Columbia - 10%
Stanford - 10%
Bowdoin - 65%
Michigan (honors) - 65%
Harvard - 5%
Williams - 5%</p>

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<p>amptron2x you really think I have that poor of chances at these schools what is the reasoning for this?</p>

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<p>its cause your username is "snake"</p>

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<p>I think you have really good chances for all of these schools. All A+s is really amazing.</p>

<p>What is New York Film Academy/Northwestern Film Program? Is it too late to sign up because those both sound amazing...</p>

<p>edit: Looked up New York Film Academy - WAYYY to expensive
Couldn't find Northwestern for high school students...</p>

<p>No festivals or competitions?</p>

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<p>those look like pretty high percentages to me. do you want us to tell you that you have over a 75% chance of getting into x school or something? because it is half-arbitrary. my brother got into stanford but not MIT, and harvard but not yale.</p>

<p>i'd say 50% at Brown, 40% at Yale, and 30% at UPenn cause of legacy, and around 10% for the other traditional top schools (Stanford, Harvard, etc.)</p>

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<p>Aptron's post seems pretty accurate, and certainly isn't indicitive of "poor chances."</p>

<p>Getting a 45% chance of acceptance at Brown is about as good as it gets. Ivy-caliber and ultra-competitive LAC's are so competitive that it is impossible to call them a "match" for anyone.</p>

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<p>Weslyan,Washington Univ. of St. Louis and Bowdoin should all be 80% or better chance. But,and I'm going to give my honest opinion, other than great stats and a fabulous family,you do not seem unusually interesting enough to stand out from the other stellar applicants whom the Ivy League attracts. In fact, you appear to have had a very privileged life without contributing much back,other than the 300 hours community service which I recommend you document and write about in your apps. Your moniker isn't going to get you any fans either,in my opinion.</p>

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<p>Very,very likely admit to NYU,especially in light of your interest in film and presumed ability to pay full freight.(NYU is not big re:financial aid). Probably a rejection from Stanford as I have seen much better credentialed applicants who add diversity get outright rejected from Stanford. Plus Stanford might not like the Yale in your family,if you know the history.</p>

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<p>directorscut the northwestern film program is called the national high school institute and you can choose to do film there also i read your thread and was interested in what festivals you entered because I would enter them but i don't really know of too many that I could potentially enter</p>

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<p>snake13.
why do you go on cc to brag about your mom and dad being alumni at brown/yale, then ask for your chances for brown and yale? And to top that, OBJECT when someone gives you mediocre chances at these schools?
What did you expect to hear?
100% acceptance to Brown/Yale?
IDIOT.</p>

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<p>Snake - </p>

<p>On the contrary, I think you have a pretty good chance of acceptance at the schools where your folks are alumni. Look at the overall acceptance rates at Brown and Yale for last year. I think Brown was around 15% and Yale was around 10%. Even the ED rates were below 25% (as I recall) for both schools. Having a 45% and 35% chance at these extraordinarily selective schools is, as the poster above put it, just about as good as it gets.</p>

<p>As for the other Ivies and Stanford, your stats are about average for an applicant for these schools (and for Harvard a touch below average). Consequently, you have about average or a bit below average chances at these schools. For WUSTL, your stats are a somewhat above average, so you have somewhat above average chances there. (The accept rate at WUSTL last year was around 17% so a 25 or 30% chance is pretty good).</p>

<p>By the way, I'm going to revise my estimate for Williams. Your stats are actually a bit above average for Williams, so 5% is way too low. I'd say you have an above average chance there, about a 25 to 30%.</p>

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<p>alright thanks for the clarification amptron2x as for ineedhelp i'm not bragging or gloating I simply want to honestly know what my chances are at these schools and the only reason I was objecting was because I've had previous chances threads in which others have given me much better chances and I just wanted to know why there was such a disparity in these opinions and what makes you so high and mighty that you can just blurt out these bs rash assumptions</p>

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<p>snake13, i believe a lot of people on this site..'have fun' saying oh you'll never get into yale, or stop showing off that your family went to ivy leagues. i believe you are a very good candidate at the top schools, but just like everyone else, there's never a 100% chance you'll get into say, Harvard. unless your parents donate some large building worth billions. maybe.</p>

<p>do your parents interview students as full-time careers? just curious.</p>