please help me out?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Half Indian, Half Chinese,... weird, i know...CT resident, Male, upper middle class, very competitive high school</p>

<p>3.5 uw gpa, 4.2 weighted</p>

<p>SAT1-
Math - 720
CR - 700
Writing - 680</p>

<p>SAT2-
mathi-720,
mathiic-680,
us hist-660
--> i kno there are low but ill retake em in hte fall and prolly get 750ish for both maths and low 700s for us history</p>

<p>every year i took the most rigorous courseload my school could offer</p>

<p>my school doesnt offer AP's before junior year and in freshman and sophomore year you can only take two honors classes... in junior year i only had one non-honors/ap class (regular health was mandatory for a graduation req)... took 4 APs 3 honors junior year...</p>

<p>Love history and english, really good at it... weird im asian and better at humanities than math and science, but there you go.</p>

<p>ECs...
Sports
Wrestling varsity 4 years
Varsity Track 4 years
-medaled in two events at regional junior olympics
Debate, 4 years varsity, captain senior year
-5th place state finals sophomore
-3rd place state finals junior year</p>

<p>Clubs
Peer Mediation 4 years, leader 1 year
FBLA 4 years, treasurer 2 years
Atlas Wrestling Club (coached by olympic coach)
USA Track and Field
Mock Trial 4 years, co-capt 2 years</p>

<p>Vol Work
-ASHA youth group- raise money to send to poor villages in india so that they can build schools, helped found it
-200 hours various at library, hospital, senior center
-Helped with FBLA to raise 1200 dollars for my friend who started his own cancer foundtation (he had a case of cancer that only 9 other people in the world have... scary...almost died)</p>

<p>Jobs
-Academic Tutor(raised a kids grades from c's/d's to a's/b's)
-Little League Baseball Head Umpire
-started business which is like a tutoring agency type of thing</p>

<p>Highest possible scores on all my CAPT tests (connecticut aptitude placement test or sumthing like that), state merit recognized</p>

<p>Tied with two other people for highest possible grade on Junior Writing portfolio(put best writing together and people assess your writing)</p>

<p>Ribbons on Natl+State latin exams</p>

<p>School doesnt rank...</p>

<p>AP's
-junior year
--psych - probably 4 on exam
--govt(american) - probably 4 on exam
--english - probably 4 on exam
--us hist - probably 4 on exam
-senior year
--stat
--comp gov
--english</p>

<p>Reqs - teacher in the school who is widely known to write best reqs(wrote them for the kids who got into the princteons, harvards, standfords, etc) loves me and will write a great req for me, got another dept head who really likes me to write a good req
-close with guidance counselor(hes the faculty in charage of peer mediation)</p>

<p>Essays - will be strong</p>

<p>Will spend summer between junior and senior years teaching poor village kids in thailand(where mom grew up) english</p>

<p>So... after that.... chances at (safe, match, reach)...</p>

<pre><code>* Amherst C
* Boston C
* Brown U
* Columbia U Columbia
* Cornell U
* New York U
* Swarthmore C
* U Calif Berkeley
* U Calif Los Angeles
* U Calif San Diego
* U Chicago
* U Connecticut
* U Michigan
* U North Car Chap Hl
* U Notre Dame
* U Pennsylvania
* U Texas Austin
* Wake Forest U
* Washington U St. L.
</code></pre>

<p>Triple legacy at UC Berkeley, Single Legacy at UPenn, parents tought at michigan (does that help)</p>

<p>plus, i used to live in michigan until like, 4th grade and i love it.<br>
... thanks</p>

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<p>crouton:</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Reach (out of state)
UCSD: Slight Reach (out of state)</p>

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<p>You have almost no safeties. Your SATs and GPA make ivies highly unlikely. The Ucs OOS are also big reasches and Berkeley can not count legacies. So you're really looking at Wake, UConn and possibly NYU. Penn ED is worth a shot if your parents are very active/generous alum.</p>

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<p>Your AI measure is around 208 to 209. Raising your SAT IIs to Math 750 and US History 700 would make the AI 211--which was exactly the cutoff point for acceptance this year at the Ivies. </p>

<p>Since you have excellent ECs and good recommendations and a strong essay (so you say), then you have about a 50-50 chance at an Ivy. I would say you would have a much better chance at Cornell (but not at their architecture or business school), Brown, or Penn (but not at their Wharton school) than at Columbia.</p>

<p>As far as the UCs, since you are OOS you have a much better chance at UCSD (or UCSB or UCD if you are interested in them) than at UCB or UCLA where your chances are zero.</p>

<p>Since OOS, I'd rule out Texas and UNC-CH. But you have a good shot at Michigan, especially if your parents taught there.</p>

<p>As far as the others:</p>

<p>Amherst/Swarthmore/Chicago--match to slight reach
Notre Dame/WUSL/Wake Forest/Boston College--match
NYU--match (regular school) to reach (Stern)
Connecticut--safe match</p>

<p>Also, I agree with suze that you need 1 or 2 real safeties. I also agree your best shot is either Penn ED with the legacy, or as an alternative, Amherst or Swarthmore ED if you are really interested in going to one of them.</p>

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<p>you'll get into uconn, but all of the other schools are either extremely competitive or have fickle adcoms.</p>

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<p>I'd say Michigan and UConn are pretty safe.</p>

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<p>agreed --^</p>

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<p>thanks. any other suggestions?</p>

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<p>bump {10 char}</p>

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<p>Beef up your GPA/SATs a little and you'll have a good shot at Berkeley. You deserve it, good luck.</p>

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<p>and for safeties i kinda figured that uconn was one and ut austin was one</p>

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<p>50-50 at an ivy? I disagree.</p>

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<p>One of the most delusional lists I've seen on CC.</p>