<p>Hi I am new to this site. Over the few days I have been wondering how are my standings in admission, so thinking about them gives me anxiety, which made me make an account. I am aware of the people on this site who have ridiculously high gpa and sat/act with tons of extracurriculars and they still say "chance me" for whatever reason. i am not like this.</p>
<p>I am afraid my sat of 2150 ( 730 cr, 750 math, and 670 writing) is too low for some of the top tier schools. My subject sat score are like low 700 for math II and chemistry, 760 for USH. and I average 4 on 6 AP tests. I take all the hard classes. To many people, this is good, but then again i am asian (and i know without affirmative action, schools will be swamped with asians and whites only). My gpa is pretty high and my ec's are not too good, but lots of community service volunteering. I don't do much hs clubs because the people who run them are just students interested in leadership than in what the club is really about (although feel free to disagree, can't blame them. I can give you some proof if you want it). I can give you my full resume, but i really don't want to be "that guy."</p>
<p>I know I worry way too much, but i need to get it off my chest, whether I can make some of the colleges like Duke, Brown, Upenn, JHU and i want you guys not to sympathize with me but give me a hard judging to see if i qualify (again i know i didn't put my full stats because I'd rather be modest than be an asshole). Am i too average, boring?Can you guys recommend safeties, i already got USC and UCs down. Thanks guys.</p>
<p>I feel like i am between the Ivie students and the good,decent applicants. Also, I am going for biology major; before it was bioengineering, but that major is ridiculously competitive. </p>
<p>PS yes i know my writing score is terrible but im not going to retake it.</p>
<p>sorry, upenn, duke,and brown, You wont even have a 0.0001% chance unless your gpa is 4.00UW or unless you have a AMAZING essay( By amazing I mean so good that it would literally make the adcoms cry), or if you had a disadvantaged background and you emphasize that in your essay . Although your chance is very low, THERE IS STILL A CHANCE, so if you really want you can apply. You can get into usc or uc-davis, riverside and others, but berkely and la are still prolly reach colleges for you, but you have a better chance in those than upenn, duke or brown.</p>
<p>Your chances are as good as anyone else’s who’s not URM/recruited athlete/legacy/etc. However, they’re 0% if you do not apply, so go ahead and do so. Your test scores may be on the low side, but they’re still decent enough to be overlooked if they like the rest of your app. At this point, you can only make sure to present yourself in the best light possible through your apps. Make sure you have safety/match schools that you love.</p>
<p>For top UC’s: If you’re a CA resident, it cannot be emphasized enough how UC’s care more about GPA than test scores, specially if you’re of low socioeconomic status. Race isn’t considered by the UC’s, so being Asian won’t be a disadvantage. I have friends who got into Berkeley/UCLA w/1800s SAT scores, so your test scores won’t be an issue. They’re definitely in the range.</p>
<p>So much depends on your essays, how you can make yourself stand out. Hardship story not required if you don’t have one, nor is some super achievement; find an occasion in your life which demonstrates your character’s strengths.</p>
<p>thanks for the feedback, although i’ve heard that adcoms don’t want a sad sob story or a pity story. also my gpa is near 4.0 so do i get at least a .000099% chance now? jk please don’t actually answer.</p>
<p>Well a pity story is different from a hardship story. The first one involves feeling sorry for yourself and showing bitterness, the latter one involves succeeding despite certain issues and expressing how you grew/learned from them.</p>
<p>A 3.8+ unweighted GPA is the general rule of thumb, so you should be fine. For the UC’s, you want a 4.1+ UC-weighted GPA.</p>
<p>Lololol your chances can’t be any lower than the general acceptance rates, unless you’re a below-average applicant -which you’re not.</p>
<p>You have a perfectly decent chance. GPA is most important and if you’re near 4.0 unweighted that’s all any school will ask for. And your SAT is also perfectly fine; at least it’s not low enough to rule you out. Your odds at your top choices will depend on the rest of your application. No, your chances are not great, but they’re not great for anyone, even students with perfect 4.0/2400 SATs. The odds are not in anybody’s favor unless you combine stellar academics with being a recruited athlete or something like that.</p>
<p>I assume you’re a CA resident if you’ve applied to the UCs? </p>
<p>Matches for you might be Case Western Reserve, Tulane, Boston College, Wake Forest, Lehigh. I know very little about these schools since my daughter was not interested in them, but these are schools that students who are applying to Ivies often choose as matches. Others here might have other schools to suggest.</p>
<p>Did you apply to all the UCs? If so, Merced and Riverside are safeties. Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz and Irvine are schools that I would say are safeties except that all UCs are harder to get into as a biology major, so it’s harder to be certain. However, you definitely have an excellent chance at those schools. Davis, San Diego, UCLA and Cal are going to be harder. I would peg Davis as a match for you, but again, they are drowning in bio majors so you just have more competition than other students do.</p>
<p>oh please… some of these comments are absolute bull. 0.0001%? Jeez la weez… My sister got accepted into Upenn with an sat score of not even a 2100. Thats right, you saw that correctly. Not even a 2100. Were also asian and basically she had exactly the same academic profile as you. Also, she only took 2 APs tho she got a 5 on both the AP exams. Plus on a side note, she also was admitted to Columbia, Dartmouth, and UChicago. So apply! You have a decent chance…</p>
<p>Might check out Holy Cross-very good school with nice campus 1 hour from Boston. HC has strong biology program and terrific pre-med program. Holy Cross meets 100% demonstrated financial aid and good alumni network. The Holy Cross website is informative, GREAT school.</p>
<p>@anxxghost Don’t discount ‘just plain awesomeness’. Students get accepted all the time to Ivy League schools with this person’s credentials. It’s not likely, but NOBODY is likely.
Keep the faith.</p>
<p>I’d love to help you feel better about your chances, OP, but I can’t.</p>
<p>You feel the way you do because you’ve drunk the kool-aid. You’re responsible for the way you feel.</p>
<p>You can get a GREAT education with your stats, but to think you have to get that education at one of the schools you’ve named is RIDICULOUS. </p>
<p>If you want to feel better, it’s time to get some other schools on your list and quit whining about your chances at ivies. Everyone has the same chance at ivies. Get over it.</p>
<p>When you’re ready to open up your eyes to ALL the great schools out there, let us know and we can help.</p>
<p>Just based on your CR+M score you are in the upper part of top 2%. There is no school in this World where you are not going to make top 50% on this particular criteria (exclude some particular programs). You can apply anywhere and be reasonably confident you have much better odds of getting in than the avg. acceptance rate for particular school suggests.</p>
<p>@sadlarry eh… there def on the stronger side but there’s nothing eye catching. Let me see I dont think it was more than 100 hours being a lab assistant over the summer. Also… I think she won some big science award cuz she was able to find a way to date i think… Alligator teeth or some other body part lol…?? But yeah thats about it</p>
<p>@sadlarry maybe something about my older brother would help too… He just got accepted to Yale early but he is absolutely ridiculous in GPA and SAT… if you wanna know he got 5s in ALL 12 AP exams, 4.1 GPA (A+ count as 4.3) unweighted, and 2380 on the SAT. BUT HE HAS NO EC. LIKE ZERO LMAO… So hopefully Im a mix of my sister and brother XD </p>
<p>Your stats (by themselves) are neither high enough to get accepted, nor low enough to get denied, at any individual school among the US News top ~20 universities or top ~20 LACs (with the possible exceptions of MIT and Caltech, where your SAT-M probably is too low). However, your stats are high enough to make at least one acceptance to some excellent college very likely, provided you submit well-prepared applications to a balanced reach-match-safety list of colleges. So focus on completing that balanced list.</p>
<p>As for your topic question, the following are some colleges where the 75th percentile SAT M+CR scores are in the 1430-1440 range:</p>
<p>Boston College
UIUC
Colgate
Case Western
U Rochester
Whitman
Grinnell
Minnesota (TC)
Northeastern
Kenyon
Bryn Mawr
Georgia Tech
(Source: stateuniversity.com)</p>
<p>These are all excellent schools. If you applied to, say, 3 or 4 of them, then you should have a high chance of admission to at least one (barring sloppy/late applications, bad LORs,etc.)</p>
<p>Don’t overlook cost considerations. Have you run the online Net Price Calculator on the schools that interest you?</p>