What are the odds?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hello everyone! Just a quick post on my shots on making it into the schools I’m applying to.

Cumulative GPA - 5.0 weighted, 4.0 unweighted
APs (all 5s):
AP Human Geo
AP Euro
APUSH
AP Lang
AP Lit
AP Chem
AP Physics
AP Bio
AP Gov
AP Spanish
AP Comp Sci
AP Psych

2390 SAT (800 CR, 800 M, 790 W), 1 try

Subject Tests:
Math II - 800
Chem - 800
Physics - 790
Spanish - 790
US History - 800

I have seven solid letters of recs from an English teacher, two history teachers, two science teachers, and two math teachers.

XCs:
Red Cross club, VP, three years, lots of volunteering
Model United Nations, VP, two years, started the club from scratch won multiple awards at national competitions
Hospital volunteering during the summer, 200 hrs
Worked in retail senior year, cashier
School Journalism, news editor, two years - interned for a summer at a small city paper
Mock Trial, two years, multiple awards
Led to the school science olympiad team to win the county olympiad for the first time in 20+ years

About Me:
Location - Southern California
Asian American male, 2nd generation, both parents unemployed

Schools (biophysics/biochem):

  1. UCLA
  2. UCI (legacy)
  3. UC Berkeley
  4. UCRiverside
  5. UCSD
  6. USC
  7. Caltech
  8. MIT
  9. UPenn
    10.Columbia
  10. UDub (legacy)
  11. HYP
  12. Brown
  13. Cornell
  14. UChicago

Thanks guys!

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Wow. I have to say I’m really impressed. I don’t know a lot about many of the schools on the West coast since I’m not applying there but I’ll post for the schools I understand better. These percents are just based off of my judgement so take it as you will.

  1. Caltech -- Likely
  2. MIT -- Probably
  3. UPenn -- Likely
  4. HYP -- Probably
  5. Brown -- Probably
  6. Cornell -- Very likely (what college btw?)
  7. UChicago -- Very very likely
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Thanks for the any and all feedback, man. For Cornell, I applied to A&S.

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Being Asian American makes it harder for you but you will have no problem with your extraordinary academic success. Wow! You are a brain! I wouldn’t be surprised if you got into all of them, you’re an exemplary academic student.
Gosh, did you really have to apply to all of these? You’re hogging up all the acceptance letters you genius

  1. UCLA: Accepted
  2. UCI (legacy): Accepted
  3. UC Berkeley: Accepted
  4. UCRiverside: Accepted
  5. UCSD: Accepted
  6. USC: Accepted
  7. Caltech: Accepted
  8. MIT: Accepted
  9. UPenn: Accepted 10.Columbia: Accepted
  10. UDub (legacy): Accepted
  11. HYP: Rejected, Accepted, Wait list then accepted
  12. Brown: Accepted
  13. Cornell: Accepted
  14. UChicago: Accepted

I am jealous

Chance me http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/17970054#Comment_17970054

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Haha, thanks… I’ll be sure to check yours out.

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Also forgot to mention a five in AP Stats and AP Calc B/C up there.

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Did you score a 12 on your SAT essay?

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Bump!

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Woah! Really impressed with your academics and ec’s !!!

  1. UCLA: Match
  2. UC Berkeley: Match/Reach
  3. UCSD: High Match
  4. MIT: High Match
  5. UPenn: High Match 10.Columbia: Match
  6. Brown: Reach/Match
  7. Cornell: High Match
  8. UChicago: High Match

Good Luck!! I hope you do well :smiley:
Chance back? :slight_smile:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1730451-will-chance-back-please-help-chance-for-an-international-student-for-basically-ivy-leagues.html#latest

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I honestly think you have a high chance at any of these schools! Wish I had your SAT Score, and the AP’s and E.C.'s are also very impressive. Awesome job, best of luck to you!

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I love how everyone is deciding OP has a brilliant chance at Uchicago.
Scores will never ever get you into UChicago.
I know a guy who put UChicago admissions brilliantly
“I’m not applying to Uchicago because I think it’s bullshit that my admission will be decided on whether I can write 1000 words about my favorite ice cream”
OP, unless your essays are super super unorthodox, Uchicago is a reach.

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  1. UCLA - Match
  2. UCI (legacy) - Safety
  3. UC Berkeley - Match
  4. UCRiverside - Safety
  5. UCSD - Safety
  6. USC - Low Match
  7. Caltech - Low Reach
  8. MIT - Low Reach
  9. UPenn - High Match 10.Columbia - Low Reach
  10. UDub (legacy) - Safety
  11. HYP - Reach
  12. Brown - High Match
  13. Cornell - High Match
  14. UChicago - High Match

Chance back: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1728527-chance-an-international-student-p1.html

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Thanks for the feedback, guys. Yeah, I knew that about UChicago, but why not give it a shot? I think I did pretty well on the essays, especially since the UChicago prompts were definitely some of the more interesting ones out there.