Please chance me for UCs, Columbia, MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Cornell, and others!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello,</p>

<p>These are my stats:
GPA: 4.6
SAT scores: 2130</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>6 years working in professional kitchen
3 years working in catering business
3 years performing in a circus (unicycle, juggling, and trapeze)
2 years unicycle trainer for said circus
2 years varsity cross country
3 years National Honors society (2 years as officer)
6 years of ASB (3 years secretary, 1 year events coordinator, and 2 years Student Body President)
4 years International Thespian society (1 year secretary, 1 year vice president, 1 year president)
Junior year-Head of School search committee (student rep for choosing new principal)
6 years of drama program (9 productions: 4 lead roles, 1 as sound director)
3 years INTERACT Club (Rotary Community service club: 2 years secretary, 1 year vice president)
2 years Computer Science club (Founder and President 2 years, club studied AP Computer Science together)</p>

<p>Awards:
International Thespian Society President's List
Double letter in drama
Letter in Cross Country</p>

<p>Community service:
Volunteered at local hospital
Rotary
Completed 600+ hours at various community service opportunities
Read 4 Life (provides books for underprivileged children)</p>

<p>Job experience:
2 years as year round unicycle trainer
1 year working at grocery store</p>

<p>AP Classes taken:</p>

<p>10th grade:
AP English Language and Composition</p>

<p>11th grade:
AP English Literature and Composition
AP Environmental Science
AP Chemistry
AP United States History
AP Calculus AB</p>

<p>12th grade:
AP Physics B
AP European History
AP Calculus BC
AP Biology</p>

<p>I have taken every single AP class my school has to offer, except for AP Art.</p>

<p>I'm not sure how much this matters, but:
First generation college student (mom graduated high school, father did not)
Born to two teen parents</p>

<p>I've worked very hard to get where I am today, and I would just like to see where I stand when it comes to applying for University. I'm not even sure where I should apply.</p>

<p>Please chance me for any of the following schools:
UCLA
UC Berkeley
UC Santa Cruz
UC Santa Barbara
UC Irvine
Columbia
MIT
Princeton
Harvard
Stanford
Cornell
Yale
UPenn</p>

<p>Any and all input is appreciated! :)</p>

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<p>…Bump…</p>

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<p>UCLA match
UCB : high match/low reach are u OOS?
UC santa cruz match
uc santa barbara match
columbia low reach
HYPS reach (for everyone)
U penn mid reach
cornell low reach
MIT mid reach
best of luck
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<p>Your application is a unique one. Whichever college admits you will add quite some diversity to their class. This might be way off but ill give it my best shot!</p>

<p>UCLA: Accepted
UC Berkeley: Accepted
UC Santa Cruz: Accepted
UC Santa Barbara: Accepted
UC Irvine: Accepted
Columbia: Denied
MIT: Denied
Princeton: Denied
Harvard: Denied
Stanford: Accepted
Cornell: Accepted
Yale: Denied
UPenn: Accepted</p>

<p>Your essays will really determine whether some of those “denied’s” turn into accepted. Congratulations on making it this far and hopefully you keep on bettering yourself in the future!</p>

<p>It’d be sweet if you could chance me <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1601346-hyps-mit-wharton-chances.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1601346-hyps-mit-wharton-chances.html&lt;/a&gt; posts 34 and 37 have some more information if you’d like to make a more informed post. Thanks so much and good luck!</p>

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<p>UCLA- low reach
UC Berkeley- reach
UC Santa Cruz- match
UC Santa Barbara- match
UC Irvine- match
Columbia- reach
MIT- reach
Princeton- reach
Harvard- reach
Stanford- reach
Cornell- reach
Yale- reach
UPenn- reach</p>

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<p>Thanks guys! I will chance you back as soon as I finish my homework!</p>

<p>Your input is very appreciated! :D</p>

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<p>I was recently accepted to Princeton. Where are your SAT subject test scores? Those are mandatory for consideration to most of these schools. You will not get in without them. You have stunningly diverse activities. What are you passionate about though? How can you communicate this? That is the test. Princeton rejects thousands of 2400’s. They took me and I’m a 2200 with 760 Math and 720 Mol Bio; perfect GPA; maximized curriculum and extended it through online; and Eagle Scout. Your SAT is decent. Generally, first looks on the table are top 99% (2200+, so I was quite happy to just get it :); but they don’t throw you off the table if you got a 2000+. So, you are being considered, and they profile you. They see you are a busybody. Not bad, but how is the focus? We can see that he can do everything and handle a workload, but how does he have focus/passion in his life. That is what it all comes down to. Plenty of great colleges will take someone like you, and give you good money. You have an excellent application showing diversity, but hopefully you showed focus in your essay and interview. That is going to be a major factor in determining your status. Passion gets you into the Ivies. Intellect alone is useless without passion, to paraphrase Kahn.</p>