Rank me for HYP please :)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm looking at HYP, Stanford, JHU, Amherst, Williams, Wesleyan, Georgetown, MIT, etc... Can't think of too much more to put on here. Please give me an opinion on how strong my application will be. Thanks a ton :D</p>

<p>Race: W
Gender: M</p>

<p>Academics:
GPA - Unweighted: 3.98
GPA - Weighted: 4.31
Class Size: 32
Rank: N/A</p>

<p>Scores:
SAT I Math: 800
SAT I Critical Reading: 740
SAT I Writing: 800
SAT I Total: 2340
SAT II Literature: 720
SAT II Math Level 2 (IIC): 770
SAT II Chemistry: 800
AP USH - 4
AP Lit - 4
AP Calc AB - 5
AP Calc BC - 5
AP Psych - 5
AP Stats - 5
AP Chem - 5</p>

<p>Senior Year Courseload:
Performance Jazz Band
AP Environmental Science
Linear Algebra / Diff eq.
AP Gov
AP Comp
AP Physics C - Mechanics
AP Music Theory</p>

<p>Significant Extracurriculars:
Environmental Club (Founding member)
Beta Club (Treasurer, President)
Science Olympiad (Founding member, state medalist)
Varsity Jazz Band (1st Trombone)
Thespian Society (Honor Bar Award (2nd highest))
Photography (Exhibit at local cafe)
Mock Trial (Outstanding Attorney at Regionals, Founding member)</p>

<p>Volunteer/Service Work:
Mission trip to Steubenville, Ohio, U.S.A.
Mission trip to El Hogar, Honduras, C.A.
Vacation Bible School
Highway Clean-up
Beta Club (assorted)
NHS Tutoring</p>

<p>Honors and Awards:
AP Scholar with Distinction
National Merit Semifinalist
Thespian Honor Bar
5th place State Science Olympiad - Chemistry Lab
"Outstanding Attorney" Mock Trial Regionals
Induction into Beta Club
Induction into NHS
Induction into Thespian Society</p>

<p>Summer programs:
Junior Statesmen of America
National Youth Leadership Forum
Presidential Youth Inaugural Conference</p>

<p>Other:
Prepared legislative paper for Ohio Senate/House, received an offer for co-sponsorship</p>

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<p>Your stats are excellent, however ECs are average for HYPSM.</p>

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<p>That’s what I’m worried about. Thank you though.</p>

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<p>Don’t worry, you may get into some nice schools, you just can’t be sure. Are you an URM, or from an underrepresented state (WY, ND, ID, etc), a legacy? Do you think you’ll get glowing recommendations? Sometimes if a student’s excellent character qualities come through, those will balance decent but not fabulous ECs.</p>

<p>Just be sure to have some safeties you love.</p>

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<p>Bump? One more comment?</p>

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<p>Looks great but a lot of HYP applicants will have similar stats/ECs.</p>

<p>What are you planning on majoring in?</p>

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<p>ur stats are impressive, but they can work against u if u focus only on them and not ur personality. u’d be normal at harvard or yale. take it from a yalie, stats are now more than ever detrimental to applicants, u can pull like 1000 of them off the street, and you’ve proved that u can do well anywhere, and u don’t even need the ivy league or any of these schools. show what u can contribute as a human interacting with other humans, not numbers vs. other numbers, if u catch my drift.</p>

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<p>Where do you rank, have you seen your school’s grade distribution. Colleges will know where you rank.</p>

<p>Where’s the foreign language?</p>

<p>I’d say the ECS are not HYPS level as presented here, but I’ve seen kids produce brilliant applications an get around that. The others look good.</p>

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<p>School doesn’t rank.
About 20% get 4.0+
About 40% get 3.5-4.0
About 40% get 3.0-4.0
Grade inflation.</p>

<p>I plan to major in environmental engineering.</p>

<p>I took three years of Latin and my school doesn’t offer a fourth.</p>

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<p>you’re fairly mid pack among the applicants who aren’t immediately thrown out, so you have a chance. Don’t dream too much though.</p>

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<p>JHU, GT, Williams, Wes: In
HYPSM: low reach</p>

<p>Lol beta club, sounds like American Pie Beta house. That might work against you if the Adcom is up with pop culture.</p>

<p>You have 2 leaderships, a 3rd one would be fantastical; 3 leaderships and above is just same as 3. Why are you not presidents of clubs u founded? </p>

<p>You have like no awards so that might hurt you. Awards only matter at a state level or national/ international. The Science Olympiads and those State Math are great.</p>