What are my Chances? University of Chicago, Princeton, Duke, etc.

<p>Going to be a senior this fall.</p>

<p>I'm interested in going into a pre-law course. My undergraduate major is still undecided but my best subjects are history and the sciences. Business and Patent law are possibilities.</p>

<p>I'm doing early action to University of Chicago and Princeton, dream schools.</p>

<p>Here's my reach schools for regular admission: Wash U in St. Louis, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Duke, and UC Berkeley.</p>

<p>My only SAT score is a pretty weak 2070, but I've been taking a summer-long SAT course where I've been taking past SAT tests and I've eventually started reaching 2320-2350. After I did terribly on the SAT (which I only did practice tests for), which was last winter, I've started to heavily invest more time and money into getting the best SAT score possible. </p>

<p>I have a 3.82 GPA, top 10%, in an incredibly competitive public school in Oregon. Weighted rank AND standard rank was eliminated not long ago.</p>

<p>School only offers AP courses for juniors and seniors on most cases.</p>

<p>AP Results
US History: 5
Physics C: Mech: 4
Calc AB: 5
Chemistry: 5</p>

<p>AP Classes senior year: AP English Lit, AP Government, AP Economics, AP Biology, AP Calc BC</p>

<p>SAT II Scores
US History: 770
MathII: 770
Chemisty: 800</p>

<p>EC:
1. Key Club President (Junior-Senior)
- Holds bi-weekly meetings, organizes weekly volunteering events, assists over fifty students in finding community service opportunities. Key Club member since Sophomore year.
- Raised $2000 dollars for Transition Projects, a Portland city-funded homelessness program
2. Young Republicans Club VP (Junior-Senior)
- Holds weekly meetings
- Campaigned with a political action committee earlier this year for Republican candidates in the local election, 3 of our 4 candidates won
- Held 3 public forums at our high school this year, one for local leader candidates (mayor, council members), one for school board candidates, and one for major Republican politicans (Republican US Representative Greg Walden and several State Representatives)
- Raised over $1000 dollars last year due to massive upsurge in activity with political groups
3. Interned for a financial firm during this summer (Junior-Senior)
- Mostly acted as a front desk receptionist/filer
- Learned crucial information on the federal/state tax code
- Assisted with financial research on clients
4. School Orchestra (Freshman-Senior)
- Primary second violinist, woo.
5. National Honors Society Secretary (Senior)
- Organizes everyone's community service hours
- Utilizes Key Club experience to organize volunteering programs for NHS members
6. Chinese Club VP (Junior-Senior)
- Organized two fundraisers
- Honors Society
- Helped encourage a ton of junior-high students to enroll into Chinese classes, which isn't popular at our school, which in effect, forced the school to create more classes for Chinese
7. Campaigner (Sophomore-Junior-Possibly Senior?)
- Campaigned for local election candidates (grassroots), door-to-door fliers, fundraising
- Campaigned for school board candidates (grassroots)
8. Speech and Debate (Freshman-Senior)
- Promoted to Debate captain for next year
- Won two district titles for Public Forum debate, one for Cross Examination debate, one for Radio speech</p>

<p>Upper-middle class Asian (ugh) American in a conservative suburb of Portland.</p>

<p>Princeton has SCEA you can apply to only one of them.
Any way both are high reaches unless you write a great essay.</p>

<p>good ECs because they are very relevant to what you want to do! gpa seems kind of low, but probably because its unweighted… seriously need to bring up SAT score because with a 2070 and asian background, princeton is far off. good luck :D</p>

<p>Thanks, I am truly trying to set my goal up for the highest SAT score this October.</p>

<p>Raise that SAT!! Your extracurricular a are normal for applicants to these schools. Try to find something to make u stand out to admissions committees. AP scores are good of course would’ve been better if you could take more of them. GPA is solid…
All that being said and always knowing that Ivy League is a low for the best candidates,
UChicago is a low reach/reach
Princeton is low reach/reach only if u apply EA</p>

<p>I would highly recommend applying to one of your dream schools EA. </p>

<p>UChicago: mid reach
Princeton: high reach
Wash U: mid reach
Vanderbilt: low reach
Northwestern: low reach / high match
Duke: low reach
UCB: mid reach</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

<p>You’re an extremely competitive applicant. However, you DO need to raise that SAT. Also, don’t forget the importance of the essays!</p>

<p>UChicago: mid reach
Princeton: high reach
Wash U: mid reach
Vanderbilt: low reach
Northwestern: low reach / high match
Duke: low reach
UCB: mid reach</p>

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<p>In order of admission difficulty from hardest to least difficult,</p>

<p>Princeton
Chicago
Duke
NW
Vandy
WUSTL
UCB</p>

<p>If you raise your SATs over 2300 and all your SAT subjects to 800, and if you win some competitions for debating, you will get into all those schools.</p>