What Are My Chances?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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SAT I (breakdown): 750 CR, 800 Math, 800 Writing, 2350 Composite
SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Chemistry
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank: 5/433
AP (scores): U.S. History (5), Chemistry (5), Psychology (5), Calculus AB (5), English Language (4), Spanish Language and Culture (4)
Senior Year Courses: AP English Literature, AP Macroeconomics, AP Government, AP Physics, AP Biology, AP Calculus BC
HONORS on Common App: USNCO Semifinalist, Lincoln-Douglas Debate State Semifinalist, Girls State delegate, National Merit Semifinalist, National Honor Society

ACTIVITIES on Common App: Cancer research at local university; Founder and director of charity that helps disabled students; President of school choir (invited to Carnegie Hall this year); Math team; Competitive pianist and volunteer pianist at nursing home for six years; We the People team top 5 in nation; Church youth worship leader and mission trips every summer; Mock Trial team 3rd in state and qualified for nationals (varsity level, and this was our team’s first year); Policy debate team and state tournament semifinalist
Job/Work Experience: Kumon Math and Reading Center - tutoring, data entry operator, and grader
Summer Activities: Research internship, summer school, mission trips, traveling, eating lots of ice cream
Essays: About growing up in Mississippi, research, and creating music
Teacher Recommendations: Waived Math and English; I was Math teacher’s favorite student, and English teacher and I are just really great friends (we even text).
Counselor Rec: Waived, but he likes me for being really open. I met with him a lot more than most students.
Additional Rec: Research mentor - says I know a lot about lab techniques, love science, and always ask questions
Interview: Have them scheduled; the ones I have done lasted a little over an hour and went well.

State: Mississippi
School Type: Public somewhat competitive (About five Ivies a year)
Ethnicity: Asian (LOL at my lyfe)
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: Upper-middle, not applying financial aid
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none

I am applying to Harvard, Yale, UPenn, Brown, Columbia, Duke, Georgetown, Stanford, Cornell, Vanderbilt, WashU, and safeties. I was deferred from Stanford EA.

Evaluate me pls before I have an aneurysm from all this college poop, though I will probably have one in three months.

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You’re such a strong applicant. It really kills me every time I see your ethnicity and makes me sick of being at a disadvantage for something you were born as and can’t change. Your stats are similar to many other high achieving Asians and will be a hurdle for you to overcome. But I am rooting for you!!!

Harvard: Rejected
Yale: Wait listed
UPenn: Accepted
Brown: Accepted
Columbia: Rejected
Duke: Accepted
Georgetown: Accepted
Stanford: Rejected
Cornell: Accepted
Vanderbilt: Accepted
WashU: Accepted

You can do it.

chance me :slight_smile:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1727267-homeless-to-harvard-chance-me-chance-back-p4.html

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I generally agree with Homeless2Harvard. I’m sure you’ll get into a fair number of those schools, though I’m always worried when I see applicants applying to most/all of the Ivy’s. I can’t imagine someone being happy at both Brown and Columbia…

Nonetheless, as long as your supplements are gone, I would at least expect you to get into Cornell, Gtown, Duke, Vanderbilt, and Wash. Everything else is up in the air.