<p>Stats:
SAT:2230 (Math:750, Critical Reading:720, Writing:760 one sitting, didn't take it a second time though maybe I should have)
SAT IIs:US:770, Bio:750, Chem:770, Spanish:800, World:760, Math II;780
GPA:4.0
Rank:2/450
Other stats:Soph yr: AP world-5, AP Psych-5
Junior Year:AP US-5, AP Chem-5, AP Bio-5, AP English Language-5, AP Calc BC-5
taking AP Physics, AP Macroeconomics, AP Spanish, AP English Lit, and AP Gov my senior year
Subjective:
Essays: wrote about my mixed heritage (Dad is Mexican and Japanese; Mom is Irish, Italian, Russian, and Romanian), and my weird feelings about it growing up
ECs: president of math team, vice president of sci olympiads, also involved in Spanish Honor Society, National Honor Society, and art club
Teacher Recs:didn't see them but I'm sure they're good
Counselor Rec: we have a pretty good relationship so I'm guessing it's good
Hook (if any): part Mexican so I guess I can be considered a URM?
Location/Person:
State or Country:California
School Type: large public school (about 450 kids?)
Ethnicity: mixed
Income Bracket:middle class
Gender:F
Other Factors:
General Comments:</p>
<p>Not bad. I’d say better than the average admit.</p>
<p>You probably mean average applicant. ^</p>
<p>And I would say something similar. Nothing about your app says that you have a particularly strong or particularly weak chance. You’re rolling dice by applying, dude. We all are.</p>
<h2>“Thanks gibby. You really helped put things into perspective. Yeah, I’ve gotten a lot of mixed responses, some telling me I have a strong chance and some telling me I don’t have a good chance because of my relatively weak EC’s. I guess I’ll just have to send my app in and hope for the best.” – Rosario1994</h2>
<p>After taking the time to respond to your post on the Harvard thread, I’m quite perplexed that are asking the identical question on a Yale thread. To me, it shows a complete lack of judgement, self-awareness and comprehension of the applications process. Your behavior indicates that you lack the confidence and critical thinking skills necessary to succeed at Yale or Harvard. My advice, given below for Harvard, applies equally to Yale, Stanford, MIT or 400 other colleges that you might apply to…</p>
<p>As posted on your Harvard Chance Thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1418974-chance-me-please-honest.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1418974-chance-me-please-honest.html</a></p>
<p>You’ve stumbled upon on an issue with chance threads: every poster will have a different opinion, and none of their opinions matter, including mine. All that matters is what an Admissions Director thinks, and as far as I know, none are posters on CC.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, here are my thoughts: </p>
<p>1) As your dad is Mexican and Japanese and your mom is Irish, Italian, Russian, and Romanian, you are of mixed-race and could check 3 boxes on the Common App: Hispanic, Asian and White – or any combination thereof. It all depends on how you see yourself. I think you should check all three boxes, as you are writing your essay about the mixture of cultures.</p>
<p>2) Harvard, and all colleges, discount community service and volunteering, as so many students just do it to make their applications look good. My daughter, who is a junior at Harvard, had no community service when she applied – zero, zilch, none – and that didn’t seem to be a problem or a concern for Admissions.</p>
<p>3) Your stats are within Harvard’s range, so you are fine. Harvard is not a meritocracy whereby the highest scoring students get chosen over those with lesser stats. That’s not how holistic admissions works. Many students every year are rejected with perfect SAT/ACT scores in favor of students with “average” stats.</p>
<p>4) Any poster that proclaims what percentage of a chance you have, has no idea what they are talking about. My daughter was rejected from Yale and Princeton, but accepted to Harvard. You would think that whatever Harvard saw in her application, Y and P would see the same thing. But that’s not how Admissions works. Every school is looking for something different – and what they are looking for varies from year to year – so, your chances actually vary from year to year. Your chances also depend on how your teacher recommendations, guidance counselor report and essays (none of which you posted) stack up against everyone else who is applying. So, it’s virtually impossible to predict with any certainty what chance you have. You just have to send your applications out into the universe and hope for the best. </p>
<p>Good luck to you!</p>
<p>Well. I wouldn’t say you lack critical thinking skills, but the diffidence comes with the situation. I don’t think your posting it shows any character deficit or anything; it’s quite natural.</p>
<p>Just relax and see how it goes. As you might’ve guessed by now, no chance thread or anything short of an acceptance letter is going to alleviate the anxiety that may’ve motivated you to post this thread.</p>