What are my chances???

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>Schools I would like to be chanced at: Stanford (REA), Princeton, Yale, Upenn, Dartmouth, Duke, Rice, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Asian-American</p>

<p>SAT: 800 Math, 770 Writing, 710 Reading (Retook for both reading and writing 800, will def improve)
GPA: 4.0 unweighted (school doesn't weight).
SAT2: 800 Math, 800 Chem
AP Tests: Calc BC 5, Chem 5, Language and Comp 5, U.S. History 4, Chinese 5</p>

<p>Very competitive high school (high-ranked): Rank 5/667</p>

<p>Courses: Most rigorous according to school counselor (4.0 fresh (no honors), 4.5 soph (3 honors), 5.0 junior (5 AP's), pending for senior year (4 AP's and TA spot)</p>

<p>Activities:
-Concertmaster of youth symphony (one of the most prestigious in the state) for three years
-founder of symphony student council (for promotion, fundraising, etc)
-Two-time soloist (winner of symphony solo comp. in fresh, soloed in soph, soloing this year)
-Soloist with school orchestra (twice)
-Microfinance project leader over the summer to a third world country
-Volunteer teacher at a poor school in the third world country
-200+ hours of volunteering with my symphony (audition volunteer, performances, fundraisers, etc.)
-Volunteer at Hepatitis B screenings, teacher assistant at a summer culture camp,...</p>

<p>Awards:
-Honor Guard: selected as one of top 15 in school
-AIME qualifier
-National Merit Scholarship semifinalist
-AP Scholar with distinction
-First prize, symphony competition
-CMEA (state music festival) highest recognition
-Third place and fourth place (two-different years) at a national competition for violin</p>

<p>Essays: Very good
Recs: Very good, additional rec is very, very good</p>

<p>Sending in art supplements (for violin) to all colleges, Live audition at Stanford (Strong performance)</p>

<p>Please chance me!</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>Based on your academics, you definitely have a chance to get in.</p>

<p>However, your EC’s aren’t that impressive. From an asian to another asian:</p>

<p>Just another with a pretty impressive, but similar music achievement…</p>

<p>Violin doesn’t really help either (like one of the most overrated instruments of all time)</p>

<p>If you played like the, erhu or tuba or something, that would have maybe helped more :P</p>

<p>However, the process is really holistic, and a crapshoot for all, so no one is really going to give you an accurate representation of your chances.</p>