What are my chances with these schools?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>MIT
Caltech
Berkeley
Cooper Union
Princeton
Columbia
Cornell
Carnegie Mellon
RPI
Rutgers
UMich
UIll - Urbana Champaign
GA-Tech</p>

<p>(All engineering)</p>

<p>I have pretty decent EC's with 10+ years of piano, president of two clubs/teams: math team and math honors society, some work experience during all three summers, passed first round of AMC 12 and got a 5 on the AIME, participated in chem, physics leagues with the team getting a rank near the top, took 8 aps - five 5's and two 4's and one 3. (all has to do with a science/math except for AP Chinese)</p>

<p>have a sorta bad sat of 2060 super score (cr/math/wr - 580/800/680)
have an act score composite of 32.
rank 13/~550 in a fairly competitive school (top 3%)
Taking all the ap/honors courses that I can take.
Weighted GPA of 4.594 (of the 4.6 scale) (Honors/AP gets +1 to grade; ex: A+ in non honors/ap = 4.6; A+ in honors/ap = 5.6)
Unweighted GPA of 4.0262 (4.6 scale)</p>

<p>if you guys could just put a yes, no, or maybe next to each school, that'd be really cool. I know some of those school are pretty far fetched, but let’s see how it goes.</p>

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<p>forgot to mention:</p>

<p>I’m asian male
family income: ~100k a year
East coast(NJ)</p>

<p>AP Biology – 4
AP Chemistry – 5
AP Statistics – 5
AP Computer Science – 4
AP Chinese – 5
AP Calculus BC – 5
AP Environmental Science – 3
AP Physics C Mechanics – 5</p>

<p>Achieved AP Scholar with Honor
Achieved AP Scholar with Distinction</p>

<p>SAT II Biology – 690
SAT II Chemistry – 780
SAT II Math II C – 800</p>

<p>Volunteering:
Hospital – ~10hours/month
Tzu Chi (Non-profit organization that inspires love and humanity)-10hours/month
Teaching Chinese Yo-Yo – 1 hour/week
Chinese Summer Camp – (2007-2009) – 8 hours a day for 5 days over the summer (Teacher for Chinese Yo-Yo)
National Honors Society Tutoring – 2 hours/week
Math Honors Society Tutoring – 1 hour/week</p>

<p>Piano – 8 hours/week – (1997 – 2009)
– performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Monmouth University for Cecilian Music Club’s Young Artist Competitions (
– NJMTA (New Jersey Music Teachers Association) – achieved High-Honor/Honor for 7 years
– NJMEA (New Jersey Music Educators Association) Audition – participated for seven years – Charlotte Rubinow Award – all received Outstanding (highest mark)
– NJMEA Competition – Won 2nd place in a duet (2007)</p>

<p>Chinese School – 3 hours/week – 1995 – Present
– Represented Chinese school in the ACS (Association of Chinese Schools) Speech Competition of 2007</p>

<p>Work Experience:
Worked at Lee Feng Company, Taipei, Taiwan (worked as custodian in 06’, telemarketer in 07’, 08’) (~6 hours/day, 5 days/week, 3 weeks)</p>

<p>RPI – Renssalear Medalist Winner
New Jersey Governor’s School of Sciences Nominee/Attendee (Summer 2009)
MathZoom – Math Summer Camp for 3 weeks (Classes for 6 hours a day – 5 days a week)
Science and Engineering Program – MAGNET program in Manalapan High School</p>

<p>Courses in Freshmen Year:
Intro to CompSci/Tech Draw
SE AP Biology
Honors English I
World History
SE Honors Geometry, Honors Alg II (both in the same year, counted for half year worth of credits each)
Spanish II
Gym</p>

<p>Courses in Sophmore Year:
SE AP Chemistry
SE AP Statistics
Honors English II
AP US History I
Spanish III
Gym
SE Honors Precalc</p>

<p>Courses in Junior Year:
SE AP Physics C Mechanics
Electronics
AP English Lang & Comp
SE AP Calculus BC
Honors Spanish IV
Gym
SE AP Computer Science AB</p>

<p>Courses in Senior Year:
AP English Lit & Comp
AP US History II
Chorus IV
SE Honors Multi-Variable Calculus
SE Honors Research
AP Physics C Electricity
Gym</p>

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<p>that CR score will kill you, try to raise it</p>

<p>MIT high reach
Caltech high reach
Berkeley high reach (because you are OOS, if in state, it could be a high match)
Cooper Union high reach
Princeton high reach
Columbia high reach
Cornell reach
Carnegie Mellon low reach / high match (they will accept you if you pay full $$)
RPI match
Rutgers match
UMich match
UIll - Urbana Champaign match
GA-Tech match</p>

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<p>MIT - potentially
Caltech - potentially
Berkeley - pretty good chances
Cooper Union - yes
Princeton - maybe
Columbia - maybe
Cornell - pretty high chances
Carnegie Mellon - yes
RPI - yes
Rutgers - yes
UMich - yes
UIll - Urbana Champaign - yes
GA-Tech - yes</p>

<p>I think you have pretty good chances for most of these; seems like you have a solid background out of school and in school. I think the SAT CR score and gpa would probably hurt you the most (depends upon exactly how competitive your high school is) but I think your SAT Math make up for a overall low score. Your APs and SAT IIs are also pretty good, and you seem to be showing a very strong math background all around. Your high school courses are pretty challenging too and factoring in the piano and work/volunteering, I’d think that you have high chances of getting into most of these (assuming that your recs and essays are pretty good too).</p>

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<p>Thanks. I’m retaking SAT’s on 10/10. Hopefully I’ll hit a 650 at least in cr. I’m not so good at it =S. I’m pretty one sided. =[</p>

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<p>bumppppppppppppppp</p>

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<p>Just got back the score of my 2nd act test. first test was 29/35/27/36. second test is 34/34/28/31.</p>

<p>columbia, gatech, and mit superscores the act.</p>

<p>superscore would be 34/35/28/36. composite = 33</p>

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<p>The SAT score is going to hinder your chances at a lot of the top schools you have listed. Anyway, heres my take:</p>

<p>MIT-reach
Caltech-reach
Berkeley-reach
Cooper Union-reach
Princeton-reach
Columbia-reach
Cornell-reach
Carnegie Mellon-high match
RPI-match
Rutgers-in
UMich-match
UIll-match
Ga Tech-match</p>

<p>Please chance me?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/785985-please-chance-me-nyu-stern-ed-other-schools.html#post1063296101[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/785985-please-chance-me-nyu-stern-ed-other-schools.html#post1063296101&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Would it be better if I don’t submit my SAT at all? My ACT scores are 29/35/27/36 (32 composite) and 34/34/28/31 (32 composite).</p>

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<p>Man the reading score on your last ACT kills the CR in SAT, if you don’t do well on the SAT in Oct. then you should submit the ACT scores.</p>

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<p>You really need to get CR at 700…drop everything you are doing for the next few weeks and get this done!~!!! What ever it takes, get CR to 700, when this is accomplished chances will be:</p>

<p>MIT - IN
Caltech IN
Berkeley IN
Cooper Union IN
Princeton reach
Columbia reach
Cornell IN
Carnegie Mellon IN
RPI IN
Rutgers IN
UMich IN
UIll - IN
GA-IN</p>

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<p>All I really know about is -
georgia tech- in for sure
columbia- try to get 650 on reading, and very high match
cornell- same as columbia, not as competitive though
sorry i do not know more, but thanks so much for chancing me!</p>