Please give me percentages for colleges!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Chinese
Homeschooled
Lived in a small town in China for past two years(multicultural)</p>

<h2>SAT I</h2>

<p>Math:790
Critical reading:760
Writing:760</p>

<h2>SAT II</h2>

<p>Math 2C:780
US History:760
Chemistry:760</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars:
7-9 hours a week of Go (also called weiqu or baduk) including practice
8-10 hours a week of swimming
7 hours of Piano per week
Taught English as community service three hours a week for two months in summer
Two VBS programs at church--about 60 hours total</p>

<p>Applying maybe to Harvard (......), Stanford, UC Berkeley, Cornell, Yale, MIT</p>

<p>Please give me percentages for each one -- thanks</p>

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<p>Harvard - 9%
Stanford - 12%
UC Berkeley - 25%
Cornell - 25%
Yale - 10%
MIT - 14%</p>

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<p>No chance at any. Cant think of any school that takes people without getting grades.</p>

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<p>Not true jPoD. Lots of schools take home-schooled kids. It's just that the requirements are somewhat different. If you look in the FAQs of most schools, you'll frequently see an FAQ relating to home-schooling. Sometimes, the schools even devote a web page too it.</p>

<p>Anyway, yellowmonkey (damn, not a good screen name, really), I origionally thought you were an overseas student. Now, after re-reading your post, I'm guessing you're not. Although it wouldn't change my estimates for Harvard, Stanford, Yale, or MIT much - based on your SATs, you'd be about an average or a bit above average applicant at all four schools, in short, solid but nothing special - it does change my estimates for Cornell and Berkeley: 50% chance at both.</p>

<p>I suggest that you add some other good, but somewhat less selective schools to your list.</p>

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<p>thayellowmonkey:</p>

<p>Assuming you are a California resident,
UCB: Match</p>

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<p>Here's an article concerned with Harvard admission for homeschoolers (as well as Perdue):</p>

<p><a href="http://www.homeschool.com/articles/College05/default.asp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.homeschool.com/articles/College05/default.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Quote from Harvard Director of Admissions: "It is not harder or easier for homeschoolers to get in. It is difficult for anyone to get in."</p>

<p>Here's another page about homeschooled admissions:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.ontariohomeschool.org/admissionpolicies.shtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ontariohomeschool.org/admissionpolicies.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Quote from a Time magazine article cited on the page: "This year [2001] Stanford University accepted 26% of the 35 homeschoolers who applied--nearly double its overall acceptance rate."</p>

<p>Here's an article in the Yale Daily News about homeschooled students who go to Yale:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.yaledailynews.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=27240%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.yaledailynews.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=27240&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Here's a page on MIT's admissions website titled "Homeschooled Applicants: Helpful Tips":</p>

<p><a href="http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/homeschooled_applicants_helpful_tips/index.shtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/homeschooled_applicants_helpful_tips/index.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Quote:"MIT has a long history of admitting homeschooled students, and these students are successful and vibrant members of our community."</p>

<p>And here, just to sum it all up, is a list of hundreds of selective colleges that admit homeschoolers:</p>

<p><a href="http://learninfreedom.org/colleges_4_hmsc.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://learninfreedom.org/colleges_4_hmsc.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>You'll notice that this list includes Harvard, MIT, Yale, Cornell, Stanford, AND UC Berkeley, along with the entire Ivy League. (Actually, one interesting exception is that Columbia doesn't appear on the list, but one look at the admissions FAQ- <a href="http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/faq/admissions.php#26%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/faq/admissions.php#26&lt;/a>
shows that they DO accept homeschooled students.)</p>

<p>thayellowmonkey- You should check out those links if you haven't already seen them, there's lots of useful information about applying to the schools you listed from a homeschooled environment.</p>

<p>And jPod- don't post if you don't know what you're talking about. It took me ten seconds of Googling to prove you wrong six times over. Do a little research.</p>