Where can I get in?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Schools of Interest:</p>

<p>NYU
Cornell
Upenn
CMU
UChicago
Northwestern
JHU
UC Berkeley
UCSD
UCLA</p>

<p>SAT Scores: 2110 (700ish per section) Essay 10 (will re-take maybe)
SAT II Scores: 800 Math IIC, 700 Bio M (will re-take)</p>

<p>GPA: 4.54 Weighted
UW is maybe 3.8-3.9... Not too sure?</p>

<p>EC's: Very involved in multiple activities. This includes like science fairs, robotics [very time-consuming...], music competitions, student council etc.
Recs: Will be great, possibly have a professor at CMU write a rec
Essays: Should be good.
Awards: Regional awards in science, robotics, music. Predict National Merit Commended only... Will send National Merit recognition stuff to Northwestern and Chicago most likely.</p>

<p>Not a URM.
Go to a Private School.
Middle-class, won't ask for a lot of financial aid. </p>

<p>Legacy at CMU also. and Berkeley for that matter, but it makes no difference for UC's. I'm in-state by the way.</p>

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<p>UChicago
UCSD
UCLA</p>

<p>^You'll more than likely get into those schools.</p>

<p>Johns Hopkins...yes if you took a lot of science classes and did well in all of them, but I think you need to take 3 SAT II's (I might be mistaken).</p>

<p>As for Ivy Leagues, Cornell I know will accept pretty much anybody with high standardized test scores (2200+), but UPenn is more competitive I think (focus less on test scores)...likes leadership in extra-curriculars and sports (like if you're a founder/president/captain/nationally recognized).</p>

<p>I don't know about the other schools.</p>

<p>Oh yeah, I'm drawing all this information from people I personally know who got into Ivy Leagues, so I may be wrong.</p>

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<p>I'm captain of robotics team and officer of a few clubs. </p>

<p>My school doesn't rank by the way, but I'm probably top 10% atleast. </p>

<p>I'm self-studying for science AP's that my school doesn't offer and will get atleast a 4. That might or might not help for JHU.</p>

<p>Oh, and my major will either be in biology/bioengineering or economics/finance... two very different interests.</p>

<p>I'll apply ED to one of the ED schools, but I don't know which one I have the highest chance of gaining acceptance to, which is why I put up this thread. Anyone else?</p>

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<p>bump. Any other opinions?</p>

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<p>Ratings are on a scale of: unlikely reach, reach, semi-reach, good fit, likely, safety.</p>

<p>NYU... LIKELY.
Cornell... SEMI-REACH.
Upenn... REACH.
Carnegie Mellon... GOOD FIT.
UChicago... SEMI-REACH.
Northwestern... GOOD FIT.
JHU... GOOD FIT.
UC Berkeley... LIKELY.
UCSD... LIKELY.
UCLA... LIKELY.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the predictions! Anyone else? </p>

<p>Oh and...</p>

<p>which is the best university that I can get into ED?</p>

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<p>wow your list of schools is almost the same as mine! i think jhu accepts the most applicants ED, so it pays to apply early there. i think i'm gonna do that too.</p>

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<p>jhu accepts 50% ed versus like 20 or 15 regular. course that might hurt fin aid since theres no inncentive to give u any if u apply ed.</p>

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<p>I'll probably ED to JHU or Northwestern or Cornell. One of those three... I just don't know if I really have a good chance of getting into JHU with my stats. Also, is their economics good?</p>

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<p>NYU: safe match
Cornell: match
Upenn: good chance
CMU: match
UChicago: match
Northwestern: match
JHU: match
UC Berkeley: match
UCSD: safe match
UCLA: match</p>

<p>Nice range of colleges (I'm assuming you have a safety or two).</p>

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<p>Hahaha thank you for responding! I tried to research colleges that I actually had a realistic chance of getting into. Haha it's pretty evident that I can't get into MIT or Harvard no matter how much I like those universities. ;) </p>

<p>And yes, I have other UC's as my safeties. I'll probably use UC Irvine and Davis as safeties. USC is probably another match I'll use.</p>

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<p>oh wow, that's really similar to my list..</p>

<p>NYU: match-
Cornell: Reach-
Upenn: Reach
CMU: match-
UChicago: match
Northwestern: match+
JHU: match+</p>

<p>UC Berkeley: match
UCSD: match-
UCLA: match</p>

<p>(match- is more likely than match+)</p>

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<p>If you showed a strong inclination/strength in sciences (as you seem to, sorta), MIT wouldn't be out of the question. You wouldn't be a "clear admit," but you certainly wouldn't be a "clear rejected"; you'd make it to the second round, definitely, as you don't seem to show any visible weaknesses.</p>

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<p>Hahaha I have legacy at MIT, if that helps. My math SAT score is worse than my math IIC score, which may or may not hurt my application. </p>

<p>I'm highly interested in Cornell now though. I wonder what I could do to improve my application?</p>

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<p>bumping this up.</p>

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<p>and yet again, I shall bump this up. thanks for input so far.</p>

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<p>last time and I'll stop bumping this up. =]</p>

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<p>NYU... match
Cornell... low reach
Upenn... reach
Carnegie Mellon... match
UChicago... low reach
Northwestern... match
JHU... high match
UC Berkeley... match
UCSD... low match
UCLA... low match</p>

<p>Would you like to chance me on my thread?</p>

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<p>Bringing this thread back from the dead =] </p>

<p>Now I would like to ask: </p>

<p>If I had to apply ED, which [Cornell or Northwestern] would I be [more] likely to gain acceptance to? I would be applying for Economics for Northwestern and AEM or Economics for Cornell.
I think that Northwestern is more likely... but I'm not really sure. I'm kind of worried about how much people recruit at this university for finance.</p>

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<p>I'm pretty sure that Cornell accepts more ED applicants than NU but I read that there thinking of getting rid of ED
<a href="http://cornellsun.com/node/18454%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://cornellsun.com/node/18454&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>