<p>Asian Male
Magnet High School in Maryland
UWGPA: 3.89 WGPA: ~4.53</p>
<p>Super Score SAT 2260
SAT II - Bio 800 (will take Math II in the fall. I'll probably get around 780-800)</p>
<p>APs:
Government 5
Biology 4
Micro Economics (took it this year)
Macro Economics (took it this year)
Lang (took it this year)
World History (took it this year)
Calc AB (took it this year)</p>
<p>ECs:</p>
<p>Student Member of the county board of education (starting next fall)
Internship at Morgan Stanley (starting next fall)
County SGA (2 years)
Class President (3 years)
Co-founder of my school's Science National Honors Society
National Honors Society (2 years)
Varsity Cross Country (2 years)
JV Lacrosse <a href="total%202%20years">captain 1 year</a></p>
<p>What do you think my chances are for some of these following schools?</p>
<p>UPenn (Wharton)
Harvard
Stanford
Notre Dame (Mendoza College of Business)
Georgetown
Yale
Brown
UVA (McIntire School of Business)
Cornell
Berkeley</p>
<p>Your GPA and your SAT scores are a tad low to give a definitive chance response. You’re really put in that “in between” spot where you really could go either way. Your ECs are good and show a general trend toward economics and business (I certainly hope that internship with Morgan Stanley goes well, because that’s a great achievement!). I can’t offer much more advice than strongly commit to the ECs you love, work as hard as you can on your essays and get glowing recs. I think out of some of the top colleges you’ve listed you can get accepted to 1 (considering they’re crapshoots – they follow the “apply to 5, get in to at least 1” philosophy haha).</p>
<p>UPenn (Wharton) - reach
Harvard - high reach
Stanford - high reach
Notre Dame (Mendoza College of Business) - high match
Georgetown - high match
Yale - high reach
Brown - reach
UVA (McIntire School of Business) - high match
Cornell - low reach (if you’re applying to Dyson, which I presume you are)
Berkeley - high match</p>
<p>P.S. There’s 2 Econ degrees at Penn: the College of Arts and Science degree and the Wharton degree. The difference is that the CAS is a more traditional economics approach while the Wharton is business-minded. Note that getting into CAS is MARKEDLY easier than getting into Wharton.</p>
<p>Your GPA and SAT is a little bit low for Asian applicants to tippy-top schools, but I’m sure you are already aware that even perfect academic stats do not guarantee admission.</p>
<p>On the other hand, you have some pretty interesting ECs, nicely removed from the Asian stereotypes and that will definitely work in your favor: you’ll stand out because your interests are different. County-level SG participation, the Morgan Stanley internship and your involvement in Cross Country and Lacrosse make you unconventional and thus interesting.</p>
<p>I’d guess you:
probably won’t get into HYS, where you’d likely need perfect grades and national-level awards to make the cut.
will get at least one acceptance between UPenn, Brown and Cornell.
will get into the vast majority of the remaining schools on your list.</p>
<p>Somebody please help me
I am a student from India.
My 10th board exams results: Overall 93%, 9.8 cgpa.
My 11th results: 75%, rank, 6th in about 250 students.
I am in my 12th.
My sat result is 2350, 800-m, 790-cr, 760-ws.
MY sat 2 results 800-phy, 790-chem, 780-maths level2
My course load: I am an Indian, we have the toughest pre college science regime in the world, and i am in a special class in my school where they are specifically training us for the IITJEE, the hardest engineering entrance exam in the world. Got in that on full scholarship on merit.
College level calculus, physics and chemistry.
National science olympiads: 2nd in class, 6 th in class, in consecutive years.
International maths olympiads: 4th in class, 2nd in class in consecutive years,
When i was in 6th standard, got into Homi Bhaba Science talent search examination, interstate.
A lot of talent search exams.For eg,
NSTSE, all india rank 2000, bio score all india rank 32.
Now my EC’s
Chess competitions when i was 6 years old, 8 years old and 12 years old. All of them interstate, certificates and everything.
Karate from when I was small, blue belt, gold,silver and bronze medals in katha,kumite , etc
Piano 8th grade with merit, Trinity guildhall.
Violin 3rd grade with merit, ABRSM.
I was a piano tutor for a short while.
School cricket, football teams.
Class representative, also a playwright for a class play.
Do I have a chance at an IVy league college Mech engineering.</p>
<p>his sat scores are in the 50% range, or average range for Harvard.</p>
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<p>his gpa scores are a bit low, but gpa means nothing without taking into account anything else. it is about 2 Bs I think in total for all of high school</p>
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<p>Oh, really? I’m sure all those in the Yale acceptance thread have national awards? Unless you count “national ap scholar” an “aime” as national awards, I guess</p>
<p>Tomatox1, SAT scores in the mid-range and below are rarely enough to get accepted to an elite school unless you also have some very strong hook – URM, off-spring of the famous or of faculty, athlete in short supply, a well-connected legacy, perhaps even the only qualified applicant from Wyoming. The unhooked need to generally be at the very top of the range and LOTS of students with perfect or nearly-perfect academic stats get rejected every year. If the OP is good enough to qualify to play for an Ivy League Lacrosse team, then he may indeed have that hook. </p>
<p>The OP’s ECs could well get him the acceptance nod to HYS if his essays and descriptions of his accomplishments strike the proper chord. But this is a chance-estimating thread and the competition there, especially for unhooked slots, is totally brutal. Overall, I did say the OP should do extremely well, so what’s the beef?</p>
<p>Yes, Tomatox1, I believe that at least half of Harvard’s class is filled with students who first fill other institutional needs and only secondarily fill its academic standards. Also perhaps 10% of the slots are filled by international students, and for the majority of them English is a second language. You’d expect Harvard to tolerate slightly lower SAT scores from this group, would you not?</p>