Stanford, Rice, Ivy League. Are the chances against me?! :/

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>General Information:</p>

<p>Sex - Male
State - Idaho
Ethnicity - White
School - Public (Not the best, not the worst)
Major - Linguistics/Neurobiology
Parents attended college
No Alumni for any of the school</p>

<p>Statistics:</p>

<p>ACT Score:
Composite - 34
English - 33
Math - 35
Reading - 33
Science - 36</p>

<p>SAT Score: (Hopefully they'll use my ACT scores instead)
Critical Reading - 680
Math - 720
Writing - 750</p>

<p>SAT Subject Test Scores:
Biology M - 760
Math II - 750
Chemistry - 790</p>

<p>School:
Unweighted - 4.00 (Straight A's)
Weighted - Fresh (4.00), Soph (4.125), Junior (4.5), Senior (N/A)
Class Rank: 3 of 408 (top 1%)
AP Scores: Bio (5)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars/Awards</p>

<p>Competitive Jump Rope (11 years)
-Captain (3 years: organizing shows, leading practice, choreographing routines, and teaching younger kids)
-Regionals (11 years)
-Nationals (11 years)
-Worlds (3 years)
-Performed on David Letterman
-Jumped in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
-Jumped for many basketball halftime shows (Utah Jazz 3 times)
-Appeared on ESPN and Fox Sports
-Appear in the JUMP! movie</p>

<p>Jump Rope Awards:
-over 100 regional gold medals
-8 trophies (best jumper/group in event in all of nation)
-over 35 national gold medals
-20ish national silver medals
-5 world gold medals
-Overall Male Jumper 14 and under (2007)
-2nd Overall Male Jumper 15 and above (2009,2010)
-3rd Place Team in world (2007)
-6th Place World Overall Male Jumper (2010)
-Currently hold 4 national age division records
-Hold 1 Grand national Record
-Hold 1 Guinness Official Record.</p>

<p>Piano (9 years)
- 4/5 hours per week
- scored 5 (top score) in state piano competition (2008 - 2011)
- Have a trophy for having over 20 points</p>

<p>Volunteering/Leadership: (Total 250hrs community service)
-Jump Rope Captain (2010-2012)
-Teach Elementary Kids Jump Rope (2007-2011, 1hr/week)
-International Club (2010-2011 and Advisor in 2012)
-Science and Math Quiz Bowl (Captain, 2011-2012)
-National Honor Society (Secretary, 2011-2012)
-Tutor Kids in AP Biology (2011-2012, 30min/week)
-Volunteer at Science Museum (2011-2012, 3hrs/week)</p>

<p>College I want to attend in order of most to least desirable:
Stanford
Rice
Harvard
Columbia
University of Pennsylvania
Princeton
Duke
Washington University in St. Louis
Berkeley
University of Washington
Whitman
Lewis and Clark</p>

<p>Thank you sooooo very much if you actually read all of this and gave me an accurate judging. It really does help quite a bit to have the input of others, especially since many of my colleges seem to have neither rhyme nor reason for selecting their freshman classes. I will gladly chance back if you post the the web address to your post here.</p>

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<p>Stanford: I would say you have a good shot. While you’re not an URM or first-gen, you do have pretty good ECs and geographical diversity (Idaho). It’s still a high reach of course, but probably like 20%
Rice: Match. Your ACT is definitely in range. 60+%
Harvard: No idea. You can’t predict it. ?%
Columbia: Good luck, but second most selective after Harvard. High reach = ?%
UPenn: If you apply ED, you probably could get in. Mid reach if RD, low reach if ED
Princeton: Good luck, but unknown.
Duke: If you apply ED, I heard it’s not as hard to get into. ED: Low reach. (Over 50 percent)
WUSTL: Match. 60+%
Berkeley: Probably safety.
UWash: in 95+%
Whitman: in 95+%
Lewis and Clark: in 95+%</p>

<p>Chance me back?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1168046-thread-has-interesting-title-ill-chance-back.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1168046-thread-has-interesting-title-ill-chance-back.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>The chances are always against you.</p>

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<p>Don’t forget a safety in your list. You never know… Best of luck to you!</p>

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<p>I think the OP has enough safeties. Good list. Also, your ACT is much better than your SAT.</p>

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<p>Stanford high reach
Rice match
Harvard high reach
Columbia low reach
University of Pennsylvania reach
Princeton high reach
Duke high match/low reach
Washington University in St. Louis match
Berkeley low reach
University of Washington safety
Whitman safety
Lewis and Clark safety</p>

<p>your unique passion for jump roping will help you out here. also, a lot of schools accept either the ACT or the SAT. you might want to look into that, as you could just submit your ACT instead of your SAT. of course, you’ll still have to submit subject tests, but your scores there are pretty solid. good luck!</p>

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<p>Your secretarial work in the national honor society makes your application truly memorable. I hope that you enjoy stanford.</p>

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<p>Haha, sarcasm.</p>