What are my chances for Top 20 schools?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I am a junior currently, and i am Asian</p>

<p>GPA:
3.86 (unweighted)
5.59 (weighted)</p>

<p>Class Rank: Top 5%</p>

<p>APs:
World History: 4
European History: 3
Human Geography: 4
(I took AP Chem, got an A, but I got a 2 on the exam)</p>

<p>SAT: 2140</p>

<p>Subject Test: World History (680)</p>

<p>I haven't taken the ACT yet</p>

<p>Classes, I am taking:
AP Biology
AP Calculus BC
AP English Language
AP US History
Computer Programming I
Discrete Mathematics
Greek III Honors
Political Philosophy Honors</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Varsity Basketball (3 years)
Science Olympiad (1 nationals)
History Bowl (3 nationals)
History Bee (3 nationals)
Geography Challenge (1 nationals)
Ocean Bowl (1 nationals)
Envirothon
School Duel
Science Fair (4th at States)
District Geography (1st place for three years running)
Euro Challenge
Model United Nations
Newspaper
Student Council
Mu Alpha Theta
Rho Kappa
English Honor Society
President of Science Club
Chemistry Olympiad</p>

<p>Volunteer: Over 180 hours
Greek Festival
Intern at Federal Lab
YMCA for autistic kids in India</p>

<p>Schools I am interested in:
MIT (reach)
UChicago
Duke
Penn
Stanford
Cornell
Columbia
USC
Wake Forest
UNC-CH
Rice
UCLA
Syracuse</p>

<p>What are my chances?</p>

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<p>Unfortunately, you look like the typical high-SAT asian with ECs all over the place. It will all depend on your essays and recs, where you will hopefully demonstrate your focus and potential. Assuming average essays,</p>

<p>MIT (reach)
UChicago - reach
Duke - reach
Penn - reach
Stanford - reach
Cornell - low reach
Columbia - reach
USC - match
Wake Forest - low match
UNC-CH - high match
Rice - high match
UCLA - match
Syracuse - match</p>

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<p>Essays - average to good
Recommendation letters - amazing</p>

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<p>TBH, that SAT score isn’t in the high range really. Only chancing the schools I know about.</p>

<p>MIT (reach)
UChicago - reach
Duke - low reach
Penn - reach
Stanford - reach
Cornell - low reach
Columbia - reach
USC - match
UCLA - match</p>

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<p>From you list, your matches are USC and below (minus Rice)</p>

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<p>Your SAT is a little bit on the low end, but you will still reach:
UChicago
Duke
USC
UCLA
and maybe Columbia-they look for really good essays to cover up the SAT score ^ ^</p>

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<p>As reported on the government’s college navigator site <a href=“http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/:[/url]”>http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Admittance Rates <=10%
MIT
Stanford
Columbia</p>

<p>Admittance Rates 10-<=20%
Chicago
Duke
Penn
Cornell
USC
Rice</p>

<p>Admittance Rates 20-<=30%
UCLA</p>

<p>Admittance Rates 30-<=40%
Wake Forest
UNC-CH</p>

<p>Admittance Rates >40%
Syracuse</p>

<p>The painful truth is that most of your schools need to be considered reaches; certainly any school with an admit rate <=20% needs to be looked at that way. When schools reject more than 80% of applicants things can get very quirky. Scan the boards here and you’ll find people being rejected with your stats while others with lower numbers are getting accepted.</p>

<p>Also, UNC-CH and UCLA are very popular with out-of-state applicants so while your statistics are competitive, the admit rates at those schools are much lower for OOS. Syracuse is the only outright safety on your list.</p>

<p>Having said all that, my guess is you’ll get into Syracuse, Wake, probably UCLA & USC, maybe UNC and maybe Rice.</p>