Please chance me! MIT, Wharton, Princeton etc.

Applying to College
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<p>Asian male from Southern California, public school</p>

<p>Possibly Econ/Finance/Management Science/OR major</p>

<p>Applying to:
Wharton (ED)
MIT (EA)
Chicago (EA)
Harvard (EA)
Columbia SEAS RD
Princeton RD
Yale RD
Northwestern
UMichigan</p>

<p>UC berkeley
UCLA</p>

<p>UW GPA: 3.85
W GPA: around 4.4</p>

<p>SAT: 2300 (800CR, 750M, 750WR)
SATII: 800 US History, 790 Chem, 790 Math II
AP's: Comp Sci A: 5
Euro: 5
US History: 5
Calculus AB: 5
Chemistry: 5
Macroecon: 5
Microecon: 5</p>

<p>IB diploma Candidate</p>

<p>Senior Schedule: IB classes- Mathematics HL, History HL, English, Physics, French, </p>

<p>School Extracurriculars
-Relay For Life (10,11,12) Team Captain
-FBLA (10, 11, 12) Team Captain
-Math team(11,12) Cabinet officer
-NHS: (10,11,12)
-Solar Car (10,11,12) Specialist
-Debate (11, 12)</p>

<p>Volunteer Work
-Currently serve as vice president of a student-run organization to raise funds for human rights in Southeast Asia
-Volunteer at church: I play piano for the worship service
-School related volunteer: NHS
-I teach Mathcounts at local middle school</p>

<p>Internships
-Currently an intern for a local business</p>

<p>Job Experience
-Private tutor</p>

<p>Awards/Honors
-AMC 12: 112.5
AIME qualifier 10-11
-AIME: 6
-US National Chemistry Olympiad National Qualifier
-AP Scholar with Distinction
-National Merit Semifinalist
-Won several FBLA awards at the local and state level; also have a national award for top five in an event, awards from a United States representative, a California state senator, a California assemblyman, and two city councils.
-School award for excellence in French
-Music Teacher Association Advanced Level Certificate and Music Theory Award
-MTAC Panel finalist
-a few team awards for solar car</p>

<p>I played piano for 13 years</p>

<p>Reccomendations should be glowing. </p>

<p>CHANCE ME PLEASE</p>

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<p>I don’t know enough about the UCs to really comment. As for the rest, you’re in good shape, but they’re tough schools to get into, so it’s a crapshoot. I’d say that UMich is a match, and the rest are reaches.</p>

<p>UMich loves the IB. Its acceptance rate for IB students is extremely high. (The number itself is deceiving, though, as a large chunk of that high IB student acceptance rate comes from one in-state IB school.)</p>

<p>You’ll be a competitive applicant, but no guarantees.</p>

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<p>Aren’t you missing an HL ;)?</p>

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<p>Your grades, and scores look to be competitive at each of these schools. It’s a nice set of ECs, which shouldn’t hold you back.</p>

<p>Which leaves recommendations and your essays.</p>

<p>Keep in mind that most of your list has very low admissions rates, even for competitive.
applicants.</p>

<p>I think Harvard is going to be SCEA. This is brand new for 2011-12, so check to make sure that this won’t limit your ability to apply ED or EA to your other schools.</p>

<p>Good luck</p>

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<p>UC’s should definitely be a match, since ur a in-state applicant as well. IDK about the rest though.</p>

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<p>Thanks for your feedback, guys!</p>

<p>@RedSeven: what do you mean by “reach”? sorry im not too familar with College conf. shorthand haha</p>

<p>@zephyr15: do you think i’d have a good chance of getting into at least a few?</p>

<p>I’d really really love to go to MIT or Princeton haha =)</p>

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<p>Nice, I got similar olympiad results except with physics instead of chem, although, if I understand correctly, are you saying that you qualified for one of the ~ 5 (or 6?) national chemistry olympiad spots? If so I think this would be a very significant advantage over many other applicants and would put you in a great position. Of course, like the others have already stated, worry about your essays and recs coming up now. I’d say you’re def a match for Umich, UC Berkeley, UCLA and possibly northwestern (underinformed about that school). This is of course, my own very humble opinion. Would you mind <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1183511-chance-me.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1183511-chance-me.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Harvard is going to be single-choice early action, so you won’t be able to apply to any of the other schools early.</p>

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<p>tom</p>

<p>I think you have as good a chance at any of these schools as anyone. However, though your stats are truly fantastic (or else you wouldn’t really have a chance), for schools like HYPSM they’re not truly exceptional. These schools have <10% acceptance rates, and unfortunately reject many stellar candidates. It’s really a numbers game, and impossible to predict how many of these you’ll get into (sorry). On the other hand, if your application sizzles, it’s possible you’d get into many of them.</p>

<p>I believe most people applying to schools at this level apply to about 10 (maybe a few more) schools total, with at least one true safety, and one ‘near’ safety. </p>

<p>With your numbers Michigan is the only ‘near’ safety see (though some on the Michigan Board might disagree with this assessment). Possibly the UCs, but honestly, I know nothing about those.</p>

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<p>With those numbers, you’re in at Cal and UCLA, especially since you’re in-state. The Ivy Leagues are a crapshoot for anybody. :P</p>

<p>Which year did you make Panel Finals? Maybe you played in the same Honors Recital as I did…</p>

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<p>Trust me, an in-state applicant with those stats is almost guarenteed admission to all UC’s. I would say all UC’s are safeties.</p>

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<p>@zephyr15: What do you think about my extracurriculars? Are my SAT scores and stuff the only things that are “saving” my chances?</p>

<p>@hopeful: nah. i just made the national round (top 1000?)</p>

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<p>bump! 10char</p>