Stanford, Berkeley.. couple others

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey, I was wondering what people thought about my chances at:</p>

<p>-Stanford (SCEA)
-UC Berkeley
-MIT
-USC with one of their trustee/presidential scholarships?
-Northwestern
- U of Chicago
-UCLA</p>

<p>The main two I really care about are Stanford and Berkeley, I don't really want to go to east coast... Chicago would be alright I guess..I have a few other UC safeties like UCI/UCSD.. </p>

<p>Also, is UCB harder or about equal to UCLA in terms of difficulty of getting in?</p>

<p>GPA: Weighted 4.7/4.7, 4.0/4.0 UW
Ranked 1 at my school with about 5 others, out of about 500.
SAT: Old SAT(too bad its useless..) -1540 - 740 Verbal 800 Math
New SAT - 2210, 800 math 690 verbal 720 writing
ACT:first time 32, second time 34..don't remember breakdown
SAT IIs: 800 math2c, 770 physics, 770 us history</p>

<p>I'm in IB, took the hardest possible courseload at the school and took a couple AP tests self study.</p>

<p>Soph. Year:
World History AP - 4
Comp. Sci A - 5
Calc. AB - 5</p>

<p>Junior Year:
US History - 5
Comp Sci AB- 5
Microeconomics - 4
Macroeconomics - 5
English Lang and Comp - 5
Human Geography - 5
Comparative Govt - 5
Calc BC - 5
Physics C: Mechanics - 5 (kinda self studied, only had Physics B at school so I learned the calc stuff myself)
Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism - 4 (kinda self studied, only had Physics B at school so I learned the calc stuff myself)
Statistics - 4 (didn't take the class..self studied)
Physics SL IB test - 5</p>

<p>Finishing up IB classes and stuff this year</p>

<p>Awards:
-National Merit Semifinalist
-National AP Scholar
-State AP Scholar
-AMC 10 School Winner and AIME qualifier..</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Varsity Quiz (quiz bowl type thing) 9th/10th/11th/12th
Amnesty International -11th, 12th, treasurer senior year
Mu Alpha Theta - 11th/12th
National Honor Society - 11th/12th
IB Honor Society - 11th/12th
American Regions Math League: Did this June 2005, gonna do it again in 2006.. first team from Nevada to actually go
Science Bowl - 12th grade(didn't get to put this on Stanford EA app.)</p>

<p>My extracurriculars kinda suck.. anyways, thanks for any opinions ya share good or bad</p>

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<p>fisd:</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Safe Match
UCSD: Safety
UCI: Super Safety</p>

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<p>thanks.. any ideas on Stanford SCEA?</p>

<p>Also, I haven't taken an art class.. which is required for UCB..I put on the application that I'd take one at the community college over the spring semester to cover that..</p>

<p>One last thing, i'm an Indian(from India) male living in Nevada.. so no instate for UC schools..</p>

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<p>nobody? :(</p>

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<p>You better break out the old wine when you get your acceptance letter. All the schools well find it difficult not to accept you. You have alot of neat stuff and it seems like your the ideal american student.</p>

<p>UCLA is a little bit harder. I got to speak to some admission officers and UCLA seems to have a much harder admission process. But they will quickly toss your application in the "automatically accepted pile."</p>

<p>So let me be the first to say congrats on getting in!!!!!!!!!!!</p>

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<p>stanford super reach to crapshoot</p>

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<p>stanford is a reach, but possible. Write a great rec that shows you really were involved in something because your EC's show you as involved but not enough to devote the extra time a lot of leadership would have entailed.</p>

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<p>thanks for the comments and suggestions, wish I could change a couple things for the Stanford EA app..whatever, just kinda nervous and trying to make the month go by as fast as possible so I figured i'd ask to see what you all thought, thanks a lot :)</p>

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<p>You certainly do have a lot of APs, AND a mix of 5s and 4s.
Stanford likes ppl with a lot of APs with high scores.
You have a good shot, but your ECs are not stand-out.</p>

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<p>You should be able to get into all the UC's and you have a decent shot at Stanford. As you said yourself, your EC's aren't outstanding, but I don't think it will hurt your chances too badly.</p>

<p>good luck!</p>

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<p>you have a decent shot at stanford. If your essays are amzing (as well as teacher recs) then it will be possible. Without those tow, the stats won't speak for themselves.</p>