(ULTIMATE test for CC Chancers) - Come back May 2009 to see if you're right!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Mainly doing this out of curiosity, as are all the other chance threads. </p>

<p>I'm just going to throw my stats on CC, see what opinions here are, and then come back in May to see how well I was accurately "chanced." </p>

<p>Recommendations and opinions would be nice because I feel like my list of 6 schools is a bit too small and possibly a slight overshoot of my stats.</p>

<p>Here's your ultimate test. Be honest and be fair. And see you all again in May 2009!</p>

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<p>Gender: Female
Grade: Rising Senior
Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese)</p>

<p>*High School: *
NorCal high school that sends very few Ivies each year. Class of 2008 only sent 1 MIT and 1 Cambridge, about 20 to UC Berkeley, and more than half to community college =[.</p>

<p>Financial Aid:
Definite yes. Only can apply to Ivies because of their new full-ride program. </p>

<p>Stats:
GPA: 4.667 W/3.9 UW
SAT: 2180
SAT ii's: Bio-M 750, Math II 800, Chem 800
APs: CompSci A (4), Biology (5), Calc AB (5), Chem (5), U.S. History (4)
Rank: N/A (Should be in the Top 4% of a class of about 670 though. Don't know if I'm anywhere higher since school doesn't rank)</p>

<p>Significant Awards:
* Discovery Channel Young Scientist Competition (National Semifinalist)
* Numerous awards from 2 years of competition in Area's science fair (Includes Overall Division Sweepstakes winner, placing in participating category, special awards from U.S. Navy, Air Force, Institute of Electronics and Engineers, etc.)
* Participated in California State Science fair in 2006
* Local Business Roundtable winner for 3 years, in a multitude categories like creative writing, journalism, science and technology, computer science, and etc.
* Won 3rd place for History Essay Writing Scholarship
* Placed 16th in State for the California Math League Competition in 2004; placed in top 5 scores for school and county in 2004 and 2005.</p>

<p>Significant ECs:
* President/Founder of Biology Club.
* President of the History Club (2 years)
* Member and coordinating chair for city's teen council (2 years)
* Member of the California Scholarship Federation. (3 years)
* Participated in the Youth Leadership Conference on Asian and Pacific Islander Health at Stanford University during the summer of 2007.
* Helped organize a benefit concert for helping North Korean Refugees in 2007.
* Took a bunch of bio/chem/compsci/psychology classes at community college during my summers. All A's.
* More than 200 hours of volunteering done for city and local hospital
* Been in band for more than 8 years and will continue in Wind Ensemble for my senior year (love band :P)</p>

<p>Work Experience:
* Worked at UC Berkeley for a month under a high-school internship nanotech/nanoscience program this summer (Summer 2008). Somewhat selective program, for only 15 high school juniors were let in from around California. </p>

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<p>Colleges (All RD):
*Brown
*UC Berkeley
*UCLA
*UC Davis
*Harvard
*Stanford</p>

<p>Debating on:
*Yale
*UPenn
*I don't know? Suggestions please!</p>

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<p>THANKS in advance! I hope some of you guys will respond to this :] Spent a bit of time typing this out.</p>

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<p>*Brown- slight match??? Well… it used to be. Now all Ivies are crapshoots.
*Harvard- Reach.
*Stanford- Reach. </p>

<p>There’s nothing I can really say about the Ivies. Too many people of too many backgrounds get rejected… :slight_smile: </p>

<p>Safe match to safeties for all UCs and CSUs.</p>

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<p>your ECs/awards are amazing
the only thing lacking is work experience. i wouldn’t really say the internship is a working experience because you learned and studied at college. Working experience to me is more like being a bagger at Shoprite or tutoring people.
honestly you probably are at the best you can be so all i can say is good luck
i agree with Gryffon on the ivies part so i’m not really gonna chance you
i guess the only thing you can do is bring up the SAT I but if everything else is really good, a not so good SAT I is not gonna bring you down</p>

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<p>I can relate to your school, we do not send that many people out to ivies and good schools outside the state (I live in Texas). (2008: 1 M.I.T 1 Northwestern, many UT many community college). On to you ;), your test scores are awesome and it seems you are very dedicated in your EC’s. The UC’s are locks but anything is possible with Brown, Harvard, and Stanford. Just stay positive and good luck. Chance me on the thread ‘Just for kicks’ if you can.</p>

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<p>*Brown - in
*UC Berkeley - in
*UCLA - in w/ regents
*UC Davis - in
*Harvard - rejected
*Stanford - in
*Yale - rejected
*UPenn - in</p>

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<p>Haha, I would agree in that the work experience is a bit lacking, but it was a paid internship and I think, considering how many EC’s I have and how much room for it there is on the application, it would be the appropriate place to put it on my apps. </p>

<p>Any more takers? you can make it as simple as llpitch’s :]</p>

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<p>ah sigh bumping</p>

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<p>anyone else? :smiley: please and thank you?</p>

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<p>My high school sounds like yours :frowning: </p>

<p>I think you have a good chance at Brown, Berkeley, and UCLA. You’re probably in at Davis for sure. Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Penn, no one can say for sure, but your ECs are really good, so yar. Maybe raise the SAT I score a bit to be safe?</p>

<p>(What instrument do you play in band? :O)</p>

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<p>Doesn’t your class rank guarantee admission to UCs?</p>

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<p>Good ECs, but a little scattered. What do you consider most important to you? What’s your projected major?</p>

<p>*Brown- Low reach
*UC Berkeley- Low reach
*UCLA- match
*UC Davis- Low match
*Harvard- Reach
*Stanford- Reach</p>

<p>Debating on:
*Yale- Reach
*UPenn- Low reach</p>

<p>You might want to take a look at slightly less competitive schools like Northwestern, Tufts, WUSTL.</p>

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<p>to licia, i play the flute in band :stuck_out_tongue: heck yeahs, and I love it. Been first chair for all of high school >__> except in diff level bands. i got into the highest level band only last year</p>

<p>to amciw, as for the top 4% guarantee thing, I believe my counselors have a way to rank (I mean, simply put the gpa’s in decending order right?) for their own purposes to send to the UCs</p>

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<p>oh oops and to glassesarechic, i consider science research and leadership to be the most important, hence the kinda odd scattering of half leadership and half science things for my ECs. </p>

<p>The band thing I don’t know if I want to include because it kinda detracts attention from my targeted major, biochemistry (later med school hopefully). </p>

<p>Anyone want to give advice? Is it better to list a bunch of ECs and hope for “well roundedness” or just stick to mainly science ECs?</p>

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<p>Ah in addition, I would shoot for schools like WUSTL and Northwestern…if only they could give financial aid like the ivies. I can’t afford their 50k/year tuition and fees =[</p>

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<p>I play flute, too :open_mouth: First chair flautists ftw!</p>

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<p>Haha yeahh :]</p>

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<p>ahhh need to bump this >:]</p>

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<p>Ho ho If I was right about every chance I gave out on this site, I would make millions. Too bad that would only happen in my own fantasies.</p>

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<p>HA i forgot about this. BUMPING HECKA :]</p>

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<p>Brown - in
UC Berkeley - in
UCLA - in
UC Davis - in
Harvard - not in
Stanford - in
Yale - in
UPenn - not in</p>