Stanford, CalTech, MIT, etc.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Reaches:
Stanford (EA)
CalTech
Harvard
Yale
MIT
Princeton</p>

<p>Safety/Match:
USC
UCLA
Berkeley</p>

<p>Profile:
Male
Caucasian
Out-of-state
Highly competitive public (ranked 90 something in US News)</p>

<p>Projected major: Computer Science or Computer Engineering</p>

<p>Test Scores:
SAT I: 770 CR, 800 Math, 800 Writing (12 E) = 2370</p>

<p>ACT: 35 (35 E, 34 M, 34 R, 36 S) (Might not submit. Thoughts?)</p>

<p>APs:
5 English Lit
5 English Lang
5 Bio
5 USH
5 Human Geography
5 Euro
5 Comp Sci A
4 Comp Sci AB - self-study :-( </p>

<p>SATIIs:
800 MathII
760 Bio-E
760 USH
(might take lit in the Fall. Thoughts?)</p>

<p>PSAT: 225 (National Merit Finalist for sure)</p>

<p>GPA/Classes:
4.0 UW. Don't remember weighted. Our weighting scale is really odd... (about 3rd / 600)
1 AP sophomore (Euro)
4 APs junior (Lit, Comp Sci A, Bio, APUSH)
5 APs senior (Calc BC, Chem, Physics, LitII, Spanish 5)</p>

<p>All honors other than APs. Taken as many APs as possible (school only has 6 periods and band occupies 1)</p>

<p>ECs:
Math Team Captain (2 years) - 3 Math Team letters
Drum line Captain (1 year) -2 Band letters
Computer Science Club Founder/President - lead tutorials on different programming languages/APIs
Robotics Programming Project Lead (3 years) -1 Letter
Quiz Bowl (member)
Jazz 1 drumset player (3 years)</p>

<p>150 hours community service - computer tutor at library. Led children computer workshops. 1 letter</p>

<p>Paid, full-time internship at market research company as Flash/ASP.NET programmer - ActionScript/Flash applications - will ask for rec</p>

<p>Awards:
National AP Scholar
NCTE Essay Contest Finalist
National Merit Scholar
Dartmouth Book Award
other insignificant stuff...</p>

<p>Other:
Wrote several original cadences for drumline. Arranged 2 percussion features (pop music)
Built own computer (meh)
Lead competitive Team Fortress Clan (haha will they care?)</p>

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<p>Bump :frowning: 10char</p>

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<p>Stanford (EA)
CalTech
Harvard
Yale
MIT
Princeton</p>

<p>All of these are reaches for most everyone, ID say you should get into at least two of them.</p>

<p>Safety/Match:
USC
UCLA
Berkeley</p>

<p>Great stats, they all seem like matches. Good luck! I am sure youll do well.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/741546-johns-hopkins-ea-brown-will-chance-back.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/741546-johns-hopkins-ea-brown-will-chance-back.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Why not submit a 35 ACT??</p>

<p>Its pretty much corresponds to your SAT score and reinforces it. In other words, a 35 will not hurt you.</p>

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<p>Meh. It seems like 35s are much more common than 2370s and up. Also, I scored on the low-end of 35 and my subscores weren’t as impressive.</p>

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<p>do you mean NCTE nominee? no one finds out about the results of submissions until the fall, unless your high school class of '08</p>

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<p>Send the ACT Score! And if i were you, i would take maybe one more SAT II in october. literature sounds good haha. otherwise you are a really really really amazing applicant. you will probably get into stanford EA and at least one of the HYP.</p>

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<p>if you’re out of state, ucla and berkeley will not be safeties. you have a shot of getting in, but it’s not a guarantee by any means. you should get into usc. the rest are reaches.</p>

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<p>@elytron Yeah, my mistake. I meant nominee. Do you know when in the Fall we find out results?</p>

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<p>Wooo! I won the NCTE contest!</p>

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<p>I would submit the SAT score. 35 ACT converts to a 2340 and plus, although universities tell you that they don’t favor one thing over the other, they actually are a little biased to those who submit ACT scores.</p>

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<p>It will come down to how well you’re able to communicate a passion and that you’re an interesting person. None of your ECs pop in the presentation here, hopefully you can make that happen in the app.</p>

<p>I think you’re into the second list and the rest will depend on a brilliant application.</p>

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<p>@ hmom5; just out of curiousity, what do you mean by the second list (like they make it past the first cut of applicants?) and (kinda a weird question) but how many “lists” do these schools usually have? do you know?</p>

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<p>I think hmom means the safety/match list.</p>

<p>you are a solid applicant. I agree with hmom, though. And why not submit the 35. It makes it look as though you did solid on both tests. And they’ll probably end up selecting your highest score between the two, anyway.</p>

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<p>No, I meant his second list of schools above.</p>

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<p>@hmom5</p>

<p>What do you mean “pop”? Elaborate on what I did? Tactful choice in words?</p>

<p>I tried to my accentuate my 4 captaincies (5 if you include freshman year Student Council President) and my work experience (forgot to mention snowboarding instruction and orchestra pit percussionist at professional theatre)</p>

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<p>your SAT is better than ACT. Sending ACT will jsut be mroe $$$$ out of your pocket to convey something that isn’t as good as an 2370</p>

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<p>Keeping in mind I don’t know what I’m talking about…:</p>

<p>Random crapshoots/reaches:
Stanford (EA)
Harvard
Yale
MIT
Princeton</p>

<p>USC - safety
UCLA - safety
Berkeley - match
CalTech - low reach</p>

<p>By the numbers, you should get in everywhere you apply. But elitist schools don’t go by the numbers past a certain point - so your 2370 versus your 35 isn’t going to matter that much in the long run I don’t think. I would send in the 35 where you think it matters to validate the 2370. But 2370 is awesome. :-)</p>

<p>Because the Ivies are all basically luck of the draw, I can’t really say much, except for the fact that your ECs are a bit weak seeming, but if you accentuate what you did with them in your essays you should have as good a shot - or, actually, better - as anyone else.</p>

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<p>i think your stats are pretty similar to my friend’s… and i’d say the same thing back, your academics are definitely up there, but really, i don’t think anyone can predict how the ivies/your reaches are going to look at your application.</p>

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<p>lol @ TF2 clan. Good chances none the less.</p>