The Chances Game!!! (A Whole New Spin on Chances)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>lafayette and penn state both good matches</p>

<p>Schools: Princeton ED, UPenn, Brown, Columbia, Stanford, USC, UCB, UCLA, UCSD
High School: Competitive HS in Southern California
SAT: 800M, 800W, 780R (2380)
SAT II: 780MIIC, 760BIO, 710CHEM, 700USH
GPA: 3.9UW/4.72W (weird weighting)...UC GPA=4.22
Rank: School doesn't rank, but definitely in top 10% (might be top 5%, not sure)
ECs: Very strong leadership (Newspaper Editor-in-Chief, Marching Band Drum Major, Club President)
Extra: Outstanding Recs, Good Essays</p>

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<p>Princeton ED: Reach
Stanford & Columbia: Slight Reach
UPenn & Brown: Reach/Match
UCB, UCLA, USC: Low Match
UCSD: Safety
Has a good chance of getting into Princeton ED.</p>

<p>Schools: Duke ED, Harvard, Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown, U of Chicago, UVA, Georgetown, Binghamton</p>

<p>High School: Extremely Competitive HS on Long Island</p>

<p>SAT: 800 M, 750 CR, 720 W (1550-M+CR, 2270-M+CR+W)</p>

<p>SAT II: 800 IIC, 770W.History, 760USH, 740Chemistry</p>

<p>GPA: 3.7 UW/4.03 W </p>

<p>Rank: In Top 11 out of 170 (besides that.. school doesn't rank). Done by Weighted GPA</p>

<p>EC's:Senior Class VP, Varsity Brainstormers, Mathletes (Qualified for American Regional Math League), Volunteered at the Cradle of Aviation Museum over the summer (about 300 hours plus volunteer work over the weekend) and Huntington Hospital (started this fall, should have 100 hours by September), Qualified for AIME (110 AMC12, 2 AIME).</p>

<p>Extras: Took 6 AP's in Junior Year and 6 in Senior Year, most demanding courseload out of anyone in the class. Went from private school in freshman year to public school sophomore year.</p>

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<p>Def890:</p>

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

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<p>CoolaTroopa</p>

<p>Harvard reach
Duke ED match/reach
University of Chicago/Cornell/Brown match
Georgetown high match
UVA safety
Binghamton You may be denied because they'll realize you are using them, as a safety school</p>

<p>1.) George Washington University EDII
2.) Very small DOD school in Pisa, Italy
3.) SAT I: 690 V 660 M SAT II: 700 Lit+ 680 U.S. History (having hand-checked)
4.)UW 3.5 W 3.6 Freshman 3.2 Sophmore 3.9 Junior/Senior 3.7-8
5.) 1 out of 4 students (yes really that small) took all the AP (2) and honors (3) classes available
6.) Very Good EC's and awards</p>

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<p>Slight Reach</p>

<p>Schools- Dartmouth (ED), Notre Dame (EA), Brown, Cornell, Williams.
High school- Very competitive, top private school in the Southeast
Test Scores- ACT-31 SATII Lit 710, USH 630
GPA- 3.65 UW
Rank- ~20%
EC's- In between Very Good and Outstanding
Extra- URM--> Hispanic</p>

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<p>Slight reach to all</p>

<p>Schools - WashU, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, UIUC, GaTech (Biomedical Engineering at all)
High school - Large (950+) public school in Oklahoma. Top 20% is competitive
ACT - 32 M, 34 E, 32 S, 27 R (31 Comp.), 8 essay
SAT - 690 V, 770 M, 690 CR (only time to take it..)
GPA - 3.5 (ouch. took extremely rigorous courseload with 9 APs, and the rest honors)
Rank - around 40-60 out of 950
EC's - Decent to Very Good
Extra - URM (Hispanic)</p>

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<p>Match - slight reach at washu, northwestern, johns hopkins</p>

<p>School: NYU Gallatin
High school: large competitve public school
ACT: 31comp: 34E, 29M, 27S, 34R, 11 essay
SAT: 690cr, 650m, 670w - 2010
Waiting for SAT IIs
GPA: 3.85uw
Rank: 62/473 (my high school is prty competitve)
ECs: Very good (leadership, work experience, etc)
Extra: Full IB Diploma candidate (most rigorous), good recs, good essay</p>

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<p>Calhart12: match-slight reach for NYU </p>

<p>School: UChicago (EA), Johns Hopkins, Yale, Columbia, Swarthmore
High School: Really competitive private school
SAT: 2210 (790 W, 680 M, 640 CR)<br>
GPA: My school doesn't do them, but I have a 93% average
Rank: My school doesn't do that either
EC's: Outstanding
Extra: I started going to Juilliard in 8th grade, I started a newspaper there, and I'm taking a really challenging (pretty much as hard as possible) course load. Also good recs & essays.</p>

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<p>Uchicago,JohnsHopkins: slight reach (your average/93%)
Yale,Culmbia: Reach
(Swarthmore,ihaveno idea)</p>

<p>School: Princeton, Yale, UofT, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Jefferson
Highschool: public school (canada)
SAT 2200ish. (dont know yet)
GPA: 3.9ish or 4.0 (idontknowyet)
Rank: #1
EC's: good (leadership,studentcouncil,workexperience,volunteerhours ETC.(at the hostpital)
Extra: ......?</p>

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<p>You got to know your SAT and GPA, but if ur humber 1 out of a public school u probably have a good shot at JHU and U of T. </p>

<p>School: BC, Tufts, Colgate
Highschool: very competitive all-boys catholic school
SAT 670 V 690 M 740 W (660 LIT 660 MATH 1C)/ 31 ACT
GPA: 94.333/100
Rank: 28/372 (top 10%)
EC's: good volunteer stuff and sports
Extra: run my own profit-based baseball website</p>

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<p>BC: I'd say you get in.
Tufts: Slight reach, but essays will help if they are great
Colgate-Slight reach also</p>

<p>EMphasize your progress with you website and your community service. Usually a couple of activitiews you relaly care about show a lot fo passion, which is excellent. Good Luck!</p>

<p>Schools: Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Penn, Duke, Carnegie Mellon
High School: Somewhat well-known, in a highly ranked (very high) county, not intensely competitive
SAT: M: 800 / CR: 750 / WR: 780 / (2330)
SAT II: Math II: 800 / Chemistry: 730/ US History: 780
GPA: 3.98/4 Unweighted; 4.82/5 Weighted
Rank: Top 1-2%
EC's: Excellent
Awards: great
Extra: Took very hard courses(14 APs by High School End), essays are very creative and revealing, Recomendations are excellent- one is about my community service i earlier mentioned)
(Personal research that will be published (its about alternative energy), Founder and President of Science and Engineering CLub-got a lot of money for Battle Bot COnstruction, will compete, Capt. Debate Team, Varsity Tennis, Community Service in which I used my knowledge of 4 languages to help senior citizens)</p>

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<p>Stanford, Harvard, Princeton-Reach, but great shot
Cornell, Penn, Duke- slight reach/match
Carnegie Mellon - low match</p>

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<p>Searched the thread to find Tofu's stats...</p>

<p>Lehigh- match
Brown- reach but then what Ivy isn't?
Boston U- safety
Rutgers- safety
Northwestern- match</p>

<p>Schools: Vassar, University of Notre Dame, NYU, Columbia, Cornell.
High School: Home Schooled.
SAT: 640 M/ 800 V/ 760 W
SAT II: Lit: 760, World History: 740, US History: 680
GPA: N/A
Rank: ditto
EC's: Outstanding
Extra: I grew up in Africa, China and Saudi Arabia. For the last year I've been living in Vienna, Austria working at the International Theater of Vienna (One of my recommendations is from the artistic director at the theater). My parents both went to Columbia (for both undergraduate and graduate studies) as did two of my grandparents.</p>

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<p>It is harder to tell w/out GPA and rank, but your ECs, interesting background, legacy will all help.</p>

<p>NYU: Safety
Notre Dame: Match
Cornell, Vassar: Slight Reach
Columbia: Reach (chances still look very good)</p>

<p>Schools: Brown (ED), Columbia, UPenn, Cornell, Swarthmore, NYU, Kenyon, Middlebury
High School: Small private school, highly ranked, very competitive
SAT: 670 M/ 800 V/ 800 W (2270)
SAT II: Lit: 750, US History: 740
GPA: 3.9/4.0 Unweighted; 4.5/4.6 Weighted
Rank: At least top 10% out of about 55 (this is all that is officially reported)
ECs: Excellent; leadership in Spanish club and school publications. Writer for county newspaper, school newspaper, lit magazine. Participated in 2 summer writing programs. 200+ community service hours. I show a dedication to writing, language, volunteering.
Awards: Several for writing and published works; Yale book award; prizes for National Spanish Exam and state music competition
Extra: One of only 4 students to take the hardest courseload of APs available at my school from 9-12 grade; recs are excellent; personal essay is very unique and conveys my passion for writing.</p>