Stanford, Princeton, MIT, Cornell, Rice, Michigan

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>What are my chances of getting into Stanford, Princeton, MIT, Cornell, Rice, or Michigan?</p>

<p>I'm a white male senior, born in Puerto Rico (that probably doesn't help if I'm not latino)</p>

<p>GPA: 3.89 unweighted, 5.18 weighted (out of 5.33)
ACT: 36 composite, 36 on all subscores (8 on writing, 32 english/writing) - only took once
SAT II: Math 2 800, Physics 790, Chemistry 790
APs: junior year: English Language, US History, Chemistry (all 5's on AP tests)
senior year: Economics, Physics C, Calculus BC, English Lit, Spanish
all other classes are honors. all A's in math, science, and spanish. some B+'s and A-'s in english and social studies
school does not rank, but I'm sure I'm at least top 10%</p>

<p>extracirriculars/service:
job at local pizza place (12)
ultimate frisbee club (10,11,12)
habitat for humanity global village (11)
Senior Instructional Leadership Corps - basically teacher's assistant in soph chem class (12)
math resource room tutor (12)
religious educaiton teacher's assistant (11,12)
social service club (11,12)
assistant instructor at free tennis camp for underpriviliged kids (11)
freshman and sophomore tennis teams (9, 10)
freshman and sophomore senate - student govt (9,10)</p>

<p>honors:
national merit commended student
spanish honor society member
honor roll every semester
national test competitor for chemistry olympiad
AP scholar</p>

<p>What would my chances be for these schools? I'm applying early action to Stanford and regular everywhere else.</p>

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<p>Congratulations of the perfect 36.0 – my son also managed that (one sitting), and this is the first other one I’ve seen posted here.</p>

<p>You should be OK for Michigan, Rice and perhaps Cornell. But only top 10% is probably not showing enough continuous dedicated effort for Stanford, Princeton and MIT. Your ECs lack leadership positions, that will hurt. I would try to write a killer essay, get outstanding recommendations and try for all – you’re in the ballpark, but not quite A1 level for SPM; you might get lucky or you might get waitlisted. Coming from Puerto Rico could turn out to be a geographic plus.</p>

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<p>i forgot to mention i’m applying into engineering for the schools that require me to choose a school</p>

<p>@LoremIpsum - like I said, my school doesn’t rank, so I really don’t know what percent i’m in. i just said 10% because i’m sure that i’m in that. if i had to guess i would probably be in the top 2-3% in a class of just over 1000</p>

<p>also, from what i’ve heard, my AP English teacher that’s writing me a rec is supposed to write amazing letters, so that should help me out</p>

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<p>forgot one more thing - i was born in puerto rico but moved out after like a year, and i’ve lived in the suburbs ever since (i guess the colleges don’t know that though)</p>

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<p>bump… opinions are greatly appreciated</p>