Predict the results for me for top schools, and I'll post the decisions when I get them!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Schools:
Columbia (Deferred ED)
Cornell
Harvard
NYU
Penn
Yale</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<p>SAT I (breakdown): N/A
ACT (breakdown): 35 C (35 E 34 M 36 R 34 S 10 W)
SAT II: 790 Math II 740 USH
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.91
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 12/602 right now, but should go up like 5 places after this semester
AP (place score in parenthesis):
AP World: 4
APUSH: 5
AP Calc AB: 5
AP Language: 5
AP Chem: 4</p>

<p>IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load:
AP Lit
AP Calc BC
AP Bio
AP Gov
AP Micro
AP Stats
AP Comp Gov (Self Study)
AP Macro (Self Study)
Academic Decathlon</p>

<p>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Around 32 medals for Academic Decathlon (national, state, and regional level), highest scorer on team at 2014 nationals and at Round 1 competition, currently the highest scoring student in the state (AZ)</p>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Academic Decathlon (Team captain 10,11,12) [First time any school in our district has placed 1st at regionals and state, qualified for nationals and placed 6th in the nation, had lots of media coverage since our team really came out of nowhere. I've spent hundreds of hours studying for it]
Physics Club (Founder/President, 12)
Chemistry Club (11, President 12)
Calculus Club (VP, 11,12)</p>

<p>Job/Work Experience: N/A
Volunteer/Community service: Tutor and helped organized fundraisers and competitions for academic decathlon
Summer Activities:
Boys State
Essays:
Common App is unique I think, it's about skateboarding and how I grew up on it
The Penn essay is even better though, I wrote about the 7 sectors of knowledge and how it is exactly what I've been doing in AcaDeca</p>

<p>Teacher Recommendation:
From my AcaDeca coach, we're incredibly close and I've had 4 classes with her, I consider her a close friend rather than a teacher so it's very good I believe
Counselor Rec: Average, she knows my name and that's a big deal at a large public school that hasn't ever sent a student to an ivy
Additional Rec: From my calc teacher who I've had for two years. We're close, but not as close as acadeca coach
Interview: N/A/
Other</p>

<p>Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Physics
State (if domestic applicant): AZ
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Large public (2400 kids)
Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican)
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: $130k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM</p>

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<p>I would imagine u would get into most of them lol </p>

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<p>Didn’t mean to put the part about the penn essay in there, I just copied and pasted this from an earlier chance thread so ignore that please!</p>

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<p>Mid-low reach for the Ivies (except Cornell & Penn)
High match for Cornell, Penn, & NYU.</p>

<p>Just remember, most of these schools admit less than 10%, and even lower if you’re not a legacy or recruited athlete. I hope you have safeties and mid/low matches because this is a woefully incomplete list.</p>

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<p>I hope you applied to safeties lol. And how can you like schools centered in such urban/city places and then like a school like Darthmouth (in a rural place). Just curious. I think you have a good chance at all those schools. </p>

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<p>@nsemazita Of course I have safeties, I just felt I didn’t need to get chanced on them, hence the “safety”! And actually I don’t have Dartmouth on there, the most rural is probably Cornell, but Location really isn’t the biggest factor to me</p>

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<p>I would say that there’s a fair chance that you will get into at least one. I am going to agree with LTLion15 here and say that Cornell, Penn, and NYU are the most likelies.
The only concern I have is that you don’t seem to have any testing related to your declared major such as AP Physics and SAT II Physics, and the only thing on the application related to your declared major is the club you started this year. However, it is kind of late for that.</p>

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<p>@NotNeruda‌ Actually my major is undecided, and you don’t declare a major at most of these schools until after sophomore year. My school actually doesn’t offer AP physics either, only honors (which I took) so I didn’t have the curriculum for the SAT II.</p>

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<p>Bump, no one has predicted a real result yet!</p>

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<p>I predict Cornell, Penn, NYU. Depends on what you applied to for Penn though. nvm ignore these</p>

<p>Cornell is 50% odds.</p>

<p>NYU is almost guaranteed.</p>

<p>Penn Sciences: 25%</p>

<p>Penn Engineering: 20%</p>

<p>Just kidding, missed one element.</p>

<p>I think realistically you have a 75% chance for all the schools except Harvard, Columbia, Yale.</p>

<p>Harvard is 50, 50.</p>

<p>Columbia, Yale are probably like 60, 70% chance. </p>

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<p>@sweetcornundrum‌ Im applying to Penns college of arts and sciences, if that helps.</p>

<p>Anyone else?</p>

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<p>If you’re applying to UPenn, you should stop referring to it as Penn as that can be confused for Penn State. </p>

<p>More likely than not, you’re not going to get either of Harvard/Yale. People telling you that you have a 50-60% chance for these two schools don’t know what they’re talking about. You have fair chances at UPenn/Columbia/Cornell, but in the end does it really matter what your chances are? What’s the difference between getting in when you have a “70%” chance and getting in when you have a “10%” chance? </p>

<p>That being said, I think you’ll get one of Columbia/Cornell/UPenn.</p>

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<p>@ZeeTee Yeah, I wanted the thread to be definite predictions like accepted or not, and then come March I’d post the results and people would see how well the predicted it, but it doesn’t seem like it’s catching on. I agree about Harvard and Yale though, honestly I don’t even think I’ll get in hahaha</p>

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<p>Bump </p>

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<p>Anyone want to give me a prediction?</p>

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<p>Prediction: not meaning to be mean, but you don’t have any safeties listed. I don’t think you have a realistic chance at any of them because nothing jumps out from your EC’s. </p>

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<p>Columbia
Cornell
Harvard
NYU
Penn
Yale</p>

<p>@auntbea Essays and letters of reccomendation play a fairly large part as well. We also don’t know the family situation, so it’s unfair to say there isn’t a realistic chance based on the activities. These schools aren’t only looking for National Champion debaters and Google Science Fair finalists. Also, if would make no sense to predict the outcome of a safety. The poster said that s/he had them. </p>

<p>HOWEVER, the odds are not in your favor to get into any of them. Your best bet is NYU. You should not consider any school that accepts less than 20% of it’s applicants a “likely” accept. You have at least an 80% chance of being rejected at every school here except for NYU. There is no such thing as a high match ivy. That is a myth. The people saying that are likely going just by SAT scores (which are increasing for every elite school). Focus on high match schools like NYU, Northeastern, and Boston College. Make sure you have enough schools like that :smile: </p>

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<p>I think that you have nothing to keep you out and a lot to get you in! Your ECs and grades are excellent and I’d see you getting into at least one of these :slight_smile: Good luck! Chance back?
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<p>@CaliCash‌ Thanks for the advice! I looked in to Northeastern and might apply since they don’t have a supplement, and Boston sounds like a really cool city.</p>

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<p>My predictions based on nothing but my gut feeling:</p>

<p>Accept:Cornell, NYU, Penn
Waitlist: Yale
Reject: Columbia, Harvard</p>