Princeton or Harvard with my stats?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I know it's a big stretch, especially with my stats, but which of the two should I apply to: Princeton or Harvard?</p>

<p>Hispanic Male
Medical Magnet School</p>

<p>WGPA-94.4 & 3.78
SAT I superscore: 2000 (600 CR, 710 M, W 690: 12), but I think my CR will go up with the December exam I took
SAT II: 680 Math I, 630 Math II, 610 Bio, 590 US Hist
Rank 39/179</p>

<p>Pretty much AP my school offers (like 9)
Only went to Spanish III
Couldn't take Spanish III H of W Geo H due to schedule conflict</p>

<p>State Sci Fair- 4th in category (Botany)
ExxonMobil State Sci Fair-State participant</p>

<p>AP scholar</p>

<p>HOSA (medical club)- state for med spelling 5th, this year state qualifier for dental term (pending for place)</p>

<p>Japanese Culture Club (favorite club essay)
Multicultural Dance-Indian dance</p>

<p>NHS/Mu Alpha Theta/Student Council/SHS</p>

<p>Helped homeless, AIDS/HIV during a week-long mission trip
BEXAR Medical Association-auctioned off goods for charity</p>

<p>UIL Spelling/Vocab- 13th regions, 2nd district team/team captain
UIL solo class 2: 2
UIL sight reading class 1: 1
UIL concert class 1: 2</p>

<p>Worked at mcDonalds one summer-asked to be shift manager </p>

<p>UIL-5A, should be a 3A though but we're so competitive that we count in the 5A category</p>

<p>Recs-really good
Essay-I'm thinking it's good from what I've heard</p>

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<p>I hate to do this, but I do not think you are going to get in to either of those. There are plenty of other outstanding schools that aren't quite Princeton/Harvard like. Maybe reach for a top school like Cornell or Tufts.</p>

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<p>GPA/rank and test scores are way too low. Rank is way too low. EC are nothing special. URM status won't help you enough. No chance at either...don't waste your money.</p>

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<p>apply, there is no way to tell. just go for it</p>

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<p>well which of the two, if I had to apply, should I apply to?</p>

<p>I'm pretty sure I broke 2100, if that's any consolation prize.</p>

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<p>both, haha i like harvard better but its all about preference. If you can afford applying to both and you have enough time - do it.</p>

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<p>ok...since I guess I have absolutely no chance at the listed schools, what about these:</p>

<p>Middlebury
Carleton
Pomona/Claremont McKenna
UT (in-state)
UPenn
Stanford</p>

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<p>Same things that I mentioned earlier apply to Stanford and Penn. If you want to apply to a top school as a reach maybe try Chicago...they can be pretty forgiving in some areas.</p>

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<p>what about the LACs?</p>

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<p>Don't really know about Middlebury, but Pomona and Carleton aren't very reasonable reaches IMHO.</p>

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<p>So they're far reaches?</p>

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<p>They're both unlikely reaches.</p>

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<p>he definitely has a chance at harvard and princeton
his urm status will definitely give him a shot, regardless of his gpa and test scores
just apply</p>

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<p>Sorry Glucose, not much chance if Brown didn't even defer you.</p>

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<p>You can always give HP a shot if you have the app money to spend. At HYP, you're competing against many URMs with better stats. So your chances are very slim. But HP may see something attractive in your presentation that may not now be apparent to you. If you don't try, you may later regret not having applied.</p>

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<p>Sorry dude. Look for some safeties.</p>

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<p>Sorry, but I can't see you getting into those schools. Maybe Bowdoin or Tufts if you get your scores up, though? Even those would be reach, though, given your class rank.</p>

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<p>I was deferred from Brown, not rejected. I must've put it wrong somewhere else.</p>

<p>So I have like no chance at these LACs?! I find it hard to believe.</p>

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<p>she obviously has a chance because another black person got accepted to stanford with similar stats</p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=275545%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=275545&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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HOSA (medical club)- state for med spelling 5th, this year state qualifier for dental term (pending for place)

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<p>I'm a state qualifier for Dental Terminology this year too.</p>

<p>By the way, I'm currently the #1 Dental Speller in the nation. =)
haha yay
All the way from Texas Area II.</p>