Will I get in?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi, I am a white female from MD in the class of 2014. I plan to major in biomedical engineering. I have no legacy at any of the schools I'm applying to and my parent's income is about 60k. </p>

<p>These are not my safeties, just my reaches, but I'd like to know if I really have a chance or if I'm being delusional:
MIT
Hopkins
Yale
Columbia
Cornell
UPenn
Duke</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA (4-point scale): 4.0</p>

<p>Weighted GPA (5-point scale): 4.24 (how does taking 6 AP's and 9 honors classes only give me this)</p>

<p>Rank: DNR</p>

<p>SAT score: 800M/800W/740CR (2340 total) I was determined to only take it once because I was tired of wasting my money on testing. </p>

<p>SAT II scores: Math 2 (800), Bio E (740)</p>

<p>AP scores: sophomore: World History (4), junior: US History, Calc AB, Enviro, English Lang, Physics B, senior: Calc BC, Physics C, Bio, English Lit, Spanish Lang </p>

<p>ECs:
-Field Hockey (captain), play on local club team, being recruited by DII/III schools, various awards, play in rec leagues in summer
-Lacrosse (captain), various awards, play in rec leagues in summer
-Green Team (co-president), wrote a grant with my friend for 2k, grow produce gardens at our school where the food is donated to school cafeteria and local soup kitchens, use one bed to teach elementary and high school students about sustainability and the environment
-Spanish Honor Society (president), tutor students who don't speak english in math
-National Honor Society
-Tri-M Music Honor Society, member of school's chamber orchestra</p>

<p>employment:
-work as a hostess 15-20 hours a week at a local restaurant
-every other day next year I go to the local military base and try to figure out how to stop neurotoxins from killing people</p>

<p>honors/awards: national merit (at least commended), sigma xi high school award (science honor society), likely ap scholar with distinction</p>

<p>recs/essays: my essays are going to be really...different, which may be a good or a bad thing, but they will be me. my recs should be really really good.</p>

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<p>I think you can definitely reach or be accepted to all those schools.</p>

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<p>Yep i think you’ll get into most of those schools. I know a girl with kinda the same resume (and scores) as yours and she got into Harvard, Yale, Stanford…
Good luck !!</p>

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<p>I would say you’re in at Hopkins, Cornell, and maybe Duke.</p>

<p>Penn and Columbia are maybes. You’ll probably get into either one or both of them.</p>

<p>Yale and MIT are… ehhhh… crapshoots for everyone. (I’m sure you’ve heard that a million times.)</p>

<p>I could see you getting into all of these schools, frankly.</p>

<p>If you’re into reciprocity, and you would like to help a fellow Marylander, chance me back. :)</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1520857-chance-me-these-8-lacs.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1520857-chance-me-these-8-lacs.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>OKAY don’t worry at all lol. You will most likely to get into them all! if you feel like you don’t know try having an interview with some. (there are people in your area that can do it for you, no airplane provided haha) have an amazing essay as well. It will show that you are interested in attending them.</p>

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<p>Your list is too reach-heavy. You need at least 3 more schools with acceptance rates of 40-50% which you’re sure you can afford (run the Net Cost Calculator on each site). At these schools, you’d be quite sure to get good financial aid awards, which based on your family income is absolutely necessary for you to stand a chance.</p>

<p>Yes you have a chance, but it’s statistically 1 in 10 or 1 in 5 at best. Meaning that if you don’t have other schools you’re applying to, at worst you have 80% odds of ending up in nearby community college (as this happened to LOTS of CC kids who were crying here last March/April.) I’m sure someone with your profile would NOT be happy in this scenario, so make sure you include other schools similar to the schools listed but much easier to get into.</p>

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<p>I agree with MYOS. No you’re not going to get into all of them, but if I were to guess, you’ll probably get into a couple.Your stats are excellent and your ECs are very good as well. Add some more safety and match schools to your list. Good luck!
Edit: Just saw on your post that these are just your reaches. I would now say that they’re not unreasonable reaches for you.</p>

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<p>OP: if you are female athlete interested in biomedical engineering/biology/engineering and you are applying to MIT…you should extend beyond your limited provincial circle to the Midwest to include Washington and the West to include Stanford and Caltech…</p>

<p>…I’m glad you have Duke from the South on your list. Duke and Stanford seem particularly suited to your interests/lifestyle…</p>

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<p>lol these are just my reaches! I would be insane to apply to only these schools. My parents wont let me apply anywhere off the east coast</p>

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<p>That’s unfortunate. That would be like the parents on the West coast not allowing any of the students to apply to the northeast schools…which makes absolutely no sense!</p>

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<p>It would be hard for me to afford to travel all the way from cali to md and back, its mostly an economic thing.</p>