Chances for those reach, reach, reach schools

vanilea · 12-28-2005, 08:03 PM

I'll just focus on the major parts of my resume
Ethnicity: Asian (i know that sucks)
GPA: 4.0
rank: school doesn't, but top percent
SAT: 2140
ACT: 32 (reading: 36, science 26/32, writing: 32, math 34)
SAT 2: math 2: 800; us history: 740; Literature: 680 (will replace with Physics: ?)

Awards:
Intel ISEF finalist
1st Kodak Award at Intel ISEF
Best of Fair- Louisville Regional Science Fair
2nd Kentucky Science Fair
1st kentucky Science Fair
2nd District math league
2nd FBLA state math

Clubs
FBLA president
NHS, Spanish Honor, Student Council, Quick Recall, math league

Sports
Varsity Tennis

Volunteer:
Louisville Girls Leadership Summit Counselor

What do you think are my chances to Harvard, Princeton, Yale?

MeyerXC · 12-28-2005, 08:18 PM

There's always a certain amount of luck when it comes to those schools that you listed. For instance, my friend has very similar credentials to yours and applied ED to yale, but was defered. Sometimes you really can't explain the logic behing those decisions. But everything else looks solid, especially that Intel thing, what kind of science fair project did you do out of curiousity?

Classof08 · 12-28-2005, 08:24 PM

wow for HYP you need a higher SAT score or at least become a merit semi finalists during the PSATs, also, your advanced in math so that helps if you're majoring in sciences.

best of luck, Id go with yale

vanilea · 12-28-2005, 09:04 PM

yeah...i took the SAT's in freshman year, and never took them again because I needed to take SAT 2's. I got a 227 on PSAT, so I'll be a sf

bball87 · 12-28-2005, 10:28 PM

you might want to add a few other places over there a step below
perhaps
Columbia/Dartmouth/Duke
Cornell/Northwestern/Hopkins

you get the picture...

vanilea · 12-28-2005, 10:33 PM

Oh of course, my safety goes down to the University of Louisville, where I already have a full ride because of science. I wouldn't take that big of a gamble. And i do believe in fit between schools, I won't die if I won't get into harvard, but it would be nice.

vanilea · 12-28-2005, 10:35 PM

Forgot one thing...I'm from Kentucky. When teh Yale recruiter came to my school, he said that coming from kentucky helped because they only have 25 people total (all four years of undergrad) who are from kentucky. So maybe there is something good from living in hicksville

bball87 · 12-28-2005, 10:46 PM

o yeah, forgot that, you prob will get into 1 out of those 3. It definetely helps.