Think I will get in to a reach-for-everyone school? Will chance back

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Sup, rising senior here. I'll post my stats and you all tell me if 1. I can improve anything in the next four months and 2. if you think I will get in to any of these schools. Not a troll thread, just wondering if you think I will get in to some of the following schools:
MIT (EA), Princeton, Harvard, Stanford (Group 1)
UChicago (EA), Caltech (EA), Purdue (with full ride?) (Group 2)
I have a safety with a full ride, don't worry.</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2270: 800CR, 760 M, 710 W, 7 essay. Retaking
[</em>] ACT: 36, 8 essay
[<em>] SAT II:800 Math2, 800 USHist, 780 Chem (retaking), 700 Spanish with listening (retaking)
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): tied for 1 out of over 300 but not sure if reported
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):
Art History:4
US History:5
English Lang:5
Chemistry: 5
Statistics, self studied: 4
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load:
AP English Lit
AP Calc BC
AP Physics C, both
AP Bio
AP Comp Sci A
AP Spanish Lang
A required religion class
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NMSF, USNCO (not honors but very high qualifying score [57/60]), Eagle Scout, competing in Intel STS and possibly Siemens if my project ends on time, AP Scholar with Distinction
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Boy Scouts, 9-12, (Troop Guide) (Eagle Scout) (Crew Leader)
Basketball Stats Keeper 9
Chess team 10
Academic Team 9-12 (Captain, JV 10) (Captain, Varsity 12), lots of local, state, and some national awards
Math Team 10-12
Chemistry Club 11-12 (Hopefully president, 12)
NHS 11-12
Another school service club 11-12
Intramurals 9-12 (if it even matters)
A middle school outreach program 11-12
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Research starting in August of this year, possibly an unpaid internship starting around then as well.
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service:
20 hours NHS
20 hours tutoring hispanic middle school children
30 hours on my Eagle Scout project
20 other hours from Boy Scouts
30 hours volunteering at a hospital
20 hours miscellaneous
about 140 hours total so far, possibly 10-20 more in the next few months
[<em>] Summer Activities:
This summer: Governor's Scholars program. It's a 5 week, live-in, competitive program paid for in full by my state.
[</em>] Essays: Decent to Good
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Good to outstanding
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Pretty good
[<em>] Additional Rec: Possibly from research mentor, no idea
[</em>] Interview: Not a clue</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Kentucky
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Private (religious)
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: Probably only going to get real FA from H and P
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):None[/li][/ul]
Remember, I'll chance back. I think I'm missing some small ECs and I have some non-major but non-trivial awards too.</p>

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<p>You’ll definitely get in to at least one. Awesome SAT, GPA, even EC’s through the roof. Just make sure u have solid essays. Their are plenty of kids like u and the essay is where they get separated</p>

<p>Chance me?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=16214901[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=16214901&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thanks. I’m just getting worried and, as sad and reprehensible as it sounds, need a confidence booster.</p>

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<p>You really don’t need to worry. Along with your grades and test scores, you have a lengthy list of extracurricular work. </p>

<p>I have heard a lot about how UChicago is big on the essay portion of the application, so i would suggest putting as much time into it as possible.</p>

<p>Other than writing a solid essay and keeping the grades up, you’re pretty much set from the looks of it! Good luck! (Though you won’t need it)</p>

<p>chance me?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1535511-community-college-transfer-chance-me.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1535511-community-college-transfer-chance-me.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Another day another bump. And it seems that I will need to put some extra work into my essay, so I’ll definitely try to make it pop.</p>

<p>I was thinking about writing about this time by brother had a really bad disease when I was a freshman and almost died, and how that sparked my interest in chemistry and biology. Is that too much of a sob story or too common of an essay topic? It definitely is true, but I have other things I could write about too, I suppose.</p>

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<p>Although the story may be true, it is very clich</p>

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<p>Dude, you’re perfect i’d say you get into MIT if you can write good essays. Same with Stanford. Harvard isn’t as predictable. Stanford isn’t as incredibly hard to get into as most people think though because one must realize it IS in Cali. and Cali has a ton of kids. </p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1533529-chance-senior-his-upcoming-stuggle.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1533529-chance-senior-his-upcoming-stuggle.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1533018-chance-me-please-i-chance-back.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1533018-chance-me-please-i-chance-back.html&lt;/a&gt; please :D</p>

<p>I’d say you have a decent chance in most of the ‘reach’ schools. You’ll really have to work at the essay though as someone else said even though your ECs are pretty decent.</p>

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<p>Thanks d00ds. Sorry for exposing everybody to my insecurities; I feel more confident now.</p>