<p>I'd say you've got some damn good chances anywhere and everywhere.</p>
<p>By the way, is my school messed up or something? It only offers one AP class, whereas it seems everyone else on these boards has been taking AP's since they were sophmores or even freshman.</p>
<p>I think it just depends on your school and your ability</p>
<p>I think you have great chances at all schools. Princeton may be your only iffy school, but it would be no surprise if they accept you!</p>
<p>you have very excellent chances at every school you applied to, and although princeton is still a reach for anyone, your stats/EC's are very impressive. your school sounds incredible -- mine looks like crap in comparison, and doesn't even offer half of the courses, specifically AP's, that yours does</p>
<p>Thanks for your reply! Yeah, Princeton is crazy hard :)</p>
<p>True, but with legacy and with your great stats, I'd be surprised if you didn't get into Princeton.</p>
<p>Hahaha, thanks for your estimation.</p>
<p>Here is an update that I sent to all my colleges:
-National Merit Finalist
- My science bowl team made regionals (so far) for the National Science Bowl Competition
- One of my music pieces was announced to be premiered Dresden 2006 - Sound, City, Silence composition competition (for piano trio).
- I was accepted to attend the Third International Workshop for Young Composers (rolling acceptance)
- Third prize for International de Composition pour Orchestre d'Harmonie (performance in June)
Hopefully it will help? :)</p>
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<p>**Remember that there are TONS of students from CA with similar stats **applying...whenever people browse CC, they seem to forget that there are people out there who have never heard of or will hear of CC who have similarly awesome stats...the question is, though, how many more people out there than in here? twice as many? 3X? or is it maybe 10X?
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<p>Wrong. I would bet there are under 500 kids in the whole state of california with stats as good as him.</p>
<p>^^present me with some evidence or don't counterclaim</p>
<p>those stats look very impressive to me</p>
<p>also, realize that people on CC are mostly the people who care more about college anyway, so there is a much higher acceptance rate, I think. For example, while Princeton may be 11% acceptance rate, if you look at the posts in the Princeton board, I think there was over 40% acceptance rate? (given, people who were rejected may not have posted.....but still.....there has to be some meaning to that!) I would say comparing your stats to other people already accepted at Princeton is a pretty good indication of where you will be going =]</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I am terrible at judging myself, and I can't tell whether I have good chances or not. haha. but your's looks amazing! Especially all that music stuff!</p>
<p>^^I disagree with comparing to Princeton stats...mostly because those were ED stats and this is the RD round, and I strongly believe that the RD round is much harder</p>
<p>That may be true, you never really know though.</p>
<p>You have very solid chances! I hope you get in everywhere :)</p>
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<p>What kind of double standard is that when you have not presented me with any evidence? His SAT score alone puts him in the 99th percentile. Add on to that the number of AP exams he has taken(and done well on). In addittion his GPA is good at a presumably top high school in california. All add up to show that very few kids are at his level numbers wise.</p>
<p>I agree with ryan2288. I am from California, and I definitely did not have those stats when I applied to Yale. Still though, every case is special.</p>
<p>ryan, I'm not saying that he won't get into his top choices (on the contrary, I believe he has a very strong chance at each of these places). I do, however, believe that putting him in the top 500 Californians requires more evidence. Maybe I've been reading around CC too much and seeing similarly high scores just as much, but also do realize that the word "tons" is subjective...</p>
<p>plus, the main purpose of my post was to make sure that the OP realizes that there is a chance he won't get into his top choice colleges</p>
<p>with that, I ask that we not hijack his thread</p>
<p>Thanks for your guys' concern :)</p>
<p>Even if what Anonymous99 says is true, I still think you have great chances. Dartmouth went out on a limb with you, and gave you a likely letter. Surely that is an indication of something.</p>
<p>correct me if im wrong... phillips exeter is ranked higher than andover correct? I would kill to attend any of those schools</p>
<p>My best friend is studying in phillips exeter, i wanted to apply too but knew that i realistically had no chance whatsoever</p>
<p>tchaikovsky why did u leave andover??</p>