please help with my chances!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>not really my chances, but please help to evaluate the chance for the following student. Thanks!</p>

<p>Schools considering:
Definite: Caltech, Rose-Hulman, Amherst, Williams, Carnegie Mellon, U Chicago, Oberlin (3/2 with caltech)
Also Possible: MIT, Stanford, Yale and U Michigan</p>

<p>Asian male (first generation, moved to the states at age 9)
Current Grade: 11th (will apply for freshman 2010)
Weighted GPA: 4.2 (a competitive private high school)</p>

<p>SAT: 2100 (M:800, CR: 580, WR: 720), will take another one
SAT2: Math 2C: 800, Chemistry (taken in 10th grade): 790, will take Physics and possibly French and/or Spanish this June.</p>

<p>AP: Calc BC:5, Computer Science: 5 (both taken in 10th grade)
Current AP Classes (for exam this coming May): Physics B, Spanish
Projected AP Classes for 12th grade: Chemistry, Physics C, French, Statistics</p>

<p>Current Class Schedule and First-Semester Grades:
Math: Independent Study - Multivariable Calculus (A)
Science: AP Physics B (A), Organic Chemistry (2nd sem only, no grade yet)
Social Science: US Government/Economics (A)
English: Junior English (B)
Foreign Language: AP Spanish (A-), French 4 (A)
Arts: Choir (A)</p>

<p>Projected Senior Year Schedule:
AP Statistics, AP Physics C, AP Chemistry, AP French, Sr. English, and some social studies electives</p>

<p>Activities:
Baseball: 4 yrs
Key Club: 3 yrs (~60 hrs of volunteering per year)
School Newspaper: 3 yrs (assistant editor)
Speech Team: 2 yrs (fr and so only)
Theater: 3 yrs (school plays)
** note: school does not offer NHS or Science Olympiad.</p>

<p>Other Activities:
U of Chicago summer program: A in Calc I, and A- in Programming
Study aboard in Spain (summer): A in Spanish language classes
Study aboard in Mexico (2-week spring break)
Volunteer aboard in Guatemala (2-week spring break)
Carnegie Mellon summer program</p>

<p>Honors:
Math Contests: 4 yrs (school-wide contests, almost always placed first)
French: placed in top 5 at the US high school French contest
Spanish: placed in top 10 at the US high school Spanish contest</p>

<p>Additional Information:
He is diagnosed with Asperger. Not sure if we should self-identify in the application, and also not sure if this would help or hurt his chances at the top schools. Anyone has any idea?</p>

<p>Thanks in advance.</p>

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<p>Improve your CR score on the SAT. Everything else is fine.</p>

<p>Caltech - reach
Rose-Hulman - match
Amherst - reach
Williams - reach
CMU - low match
UChicago - low match/high reach
Oberlin - I dont know
MIT - reach
Stanford - reach
Yale - reach
UMich - match</p>

<p>Please chance me?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/669709-chances-these-business-schools.html#post1062022515[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/669709-chances-these-business-schools.html#post1062022515&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>bump…</p>

<p>CR score is low largely due to the diagnosed Asperger condition (the kid can’t possibly do well on any non-straight-forward reading), so probably won’t be able to improve that score much. </p>

<p>Anyone else got any thoughts? Activities seems a bit weak, but all the aboard experience, would these help? And the strong AP and school records?</p>

<p>What about self-identifying? Any ideas?</p>

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<p>Definitely explain the situation in depth on the application. The chances are pretty good, and the scores are also good. MIT is always a reach, but some of the other schools are shoo-ins. He’s clearly excellent in mathematics, so I think his chances at these schools are quite high.</p>

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<p>bumping it up…</p>