very short but interesting

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Please evaluate my chances. i'd appreciate any advice.</p>

<p>Asian male, Public School in VA
GPA: 4.0 UW: not that high
APs: all APs this year, 2 5s junior year.
SAT: 2260 combined. (710 V)
AMC: 125 AIME: 7
ECs: not great. but still shows some consistence in interest. Don't really have an EC i participated for 4 years because I moved.
math team, i'm actually really good, not like everyone else who just participates
varsity sports my 9th,10th year.
community service: president 11,12
tutoring
some other useless ECs I won't include on App.
Hook: maybe living in 5 different countries, therefore being "multicultural"?</p>

<p>MIT(EA), Princeton, Stanford, Columbia, Ponoma college
Cornell, University of Chicago (EA), Rice, UVA, Cornell
University of Michigan, Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University</p>

<p>i got into one safety so i only have 1 safety on my list.</p>

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<p>does this seem like a good list? i'd welcome any advice on which to take off.</p>

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<p>Most of your schools are extremely high reaches. When you say "low UW GPA," how low do you mean? Your SAT scores are good -- not great for HYP, but solid -- but the problem is that HYP seem to expect everyone to be spectacular at academics AND ECs. National level, etc. Interest is good, though. Your ECs are decent but fairly standard. I'd say you're in Case Western. I'd suggest you cut out one of the long shots: Columbia, Stanford, or Princeton (seeing as you already applied to MIT). </p>

<p>Applying to Princeton, Stanford, Columbia, AND MIT may be kind of overkill. U Mich, Carnegie Mellon, and UChicago are looking pretty good, and Cornell looks like a reasonable reach.</p>

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<p>Sorry, I worded that wrong. A few of your schools are very high reaches, but you do have a pretty good list there, as long as you like your safety.</p>

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<p>oops.. I meant W instead of UW. thanks.</p>

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<p>MIT(EA), Princeton, Stanford, Columbia, Cornell - rejected</p>

<p>Ponoma college, University of Chicago (EA), Rice, UVA, Carnegie Mellon University of Michigan - slim to average chances (will probably get into two of these)</p>

<p>Case Western Reserve University - in</p>

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<p>do i really have no chance at those schools datadriven? would having lived in 5 different countries be a "hook"?</p>

<p>do you think I need some more of less selective schools?</p>

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<p>You appear to be in-state for UVA, so you have good chances there. I'd put Cornell in datadriven's second category (possible admit).
The top ivies and MIT are really hard to get into, even with your great stats.</p>