Please Help!!!What are my chances?(app inside)

2forme · July 16, 2006, 6:14pm

O.K. guys I need your help. I am a Caucasian who is going to be a senior next year..(yay 07!!), and I need to know what you guys think

SAT: 2230 (Math:760 RC:700 W:770)
SAT II: MathIIc:800, Chem:740 (PLanning to take bio and maybe us hist)
AP: CalcAB:5, Chem:5
Private School, dosen't rank
GPA:3.6/3.85

Courses for next year:
English IV
AP Calculus C
AP Biology
Organic Chemistry/Physiology
AP Psychology
AP Computer Science AB

other
President of Musicians Council-Boston Youth Symphony
Principal violist in BYS
(I really love the viola. I have won several citywide/statewide competitions, but nothing that huge, really)
Principal violist in school orchestra
Captain of the varsity golf team-2 years
School String Quartet
BYS quartet

Summer:
international tour with orchestra
international tour with orchestra
High school summer school
EPGY-Stanford
MITES
Job at Togo's Sandwiches

I am pretty sure my recs will be good, knowing my teachers

Here is my list of possible colleges. I included my safeties and reaches
U of Chicago
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UCSD
UC Davis
USC
NYU
Stanford
UPENN
MIT
Princeton
Cornell
Boston University
Johns Hopkins University
Northwestern

Please tell me what you think! you can add colleges if you think there is a good one i should consider, or if you dont think i'll get into any of these.

blah123 · July 16, 2006, 6:19pm

how can u do all of those? hasnt MITES started already? and EPGY overlaps with the time

2forme · July 16, 2006, 6:20pm

oh sorry i didnt make that clear. Those are all my summer activities for my high school years

blah123 · July 16, 2006, 6:31pm

so you're at MITES right now and EPGY was last year right? I'm quite jealous cuz I didnt get into MITES this year...lol. I think that MITES will help you incredibly since like 80 percent of MITES got into MIT last year I think. Thats about the only school I can help you with.

2forme · July 16, 2006, 6:40pm

thanks! hmm anyone else have a take on this?

2forme · July 16, 2006, 8:04pm

what are my chances for stanford, my #1?

confused_student · July 16, 2006, 8:09pm

Your chances at Stanford are the same as all the 2400 valedictorians applying to Stanford, as well as the athletes with 2000s, URMs with a 2100s, and rich legacies with 2200s.

Best of luck to you. If it's your number 1 choice though, definitely apply SCEA. That will help you get in and increase your chances a good amount.

vu_preuss_06 · July 17, 2006, 9:40pm

Wowzers, MITES 05 right here... I think you have a good shot everywhere, but that GPA is definitely going to hurt you, but if you do well at MITES, and it's reflected in evaluations, it'll help offset the GPA. I think the toughest schools on your list are: Princeton, Stanford, and Berkeley. Princeton is arguably the toughest school to get into because of their low acceptance rate in RD, and both Stanford and Berkeley don't accept supplementary materials, such as your evaluations. You definitely have a good shot at MIT if you are able to network and do well this summer.

flopsy · July 17, 2006, 11:36pm

2forme:

Assuming you are a California resident,
UCB/UCLA: Match
UCSD: Safe Match
UCD: Safety

Foofoff · July 18, 2006, 6:46pm

...You said you're Caucasian. MITES is for minority students. Caucasian is not a minority.

Want to explain this one to me?

vu_preuss_06 · July 18, 2006, 6:50pm

You no longer have to be a minority to participate in MITES.

Foofoff · July 18, 2006, 6:55pm

Then why is it still called "MINORITY Introduction to Engineering/Entrepreneurship/Science" or whatever those last couple of words are?

I'm confused.

blah123 · July 18, 2006, 7:53pm

minority just mean that ur from a disadvantaged background

tokenadult · July 21, 2006, 9:05pm

It's illegal in the United States for a lot of former minorities-only programs to operate as they once did. They can still market themselves mostly to minority students (that is a legal, and in my opinion commendable, form of "affirmative action") but they can no longer restrict their program solely to ethnic minorities. A lot depends on whether or not the program is supported by taxes--a private donor has more freedom to treat people unequally than a government entity.

grr89 · August 22, 2006, 7:14pm

Which courses did you take at MITES and do you think you will get good evaluations from them.

also, there were only three people from boston this year, and only one was caucasian and I don't think he had taken Calc, so are you just making this stuff up? if not, who are you?

boy654321 · August 28, 2006, 2:38pm

did you actually attend MITES 2006 or were you just accepted and then declined to go?