Apps sent, Was it Worth It?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>I sent my apps to Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Caltech, and Cornell. (Safety is KSU) So I cover this, the great leap between my safety KSU and Cornell is due to the fact that if I want to go far away for college, my dad says it has to be a great one. I love 1 hour from KSU.<br>
Here are my Stats:
White Male from a small Farming Community in KS
Income: >$40,000
High School: Public
Financial Aid: Yup</p>

<p>Test Scores
Act:33
Math Level 2: 730
Physics: 700
U.S. History: 600 (Uck no AP classes sucks for preperation)</p>

<p>GPA: 4.00
Rank 1 of 25
AP Classes offered: None</p>

<p>Top EC’s
NHS President
FBLA Webmaster and placed at State Competitions
Student Government Treasurer for 2 years
Class Vice President
Placed first at KSU’s Programming Contest
Top rating on trumpet solo at state music
1st Chair Trumpet in Concert and Pep Band
Scholar Bowl Captain</p>

<p>Essays: Good, the one for the common app was about growing up in a farming community. Thought that might be unique.</p>

<p>Hooks: Geographic Diversity?
Thanks in advance, was it worth it?</p>

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<p>Well if you didn’t apply, you would have a 0% chance, right?</p>

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<p>I guess thats one way to look at it, but seriously, do I have a chance?</p>

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<p>your sat 2 scores a low, but since you’re from a rural place, you have a better chance than if you came from the suburbs</p>

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<p>Thanks, I believe the low Subject test scores are due to my school’s lack of any AP course. Frankly, my education at a small high school was rather lacking.</p>

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<p>They might like the whole farmland boy thing, but maybe you should consider applying to some non-Ivy/non-top tier colleges too, just in case. KSU is a good safety, but even 2400/4.0/private boarding school kids have several safeties if they are applying to an Ivy, because you just never know.</p>

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<p>Someone hit me with some numbers.</p>

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<p>HYP: Reach (10%~)
Caltech: Reach
Cornell: Slight reach</p>

<p>I estimate a 50-50 chance of you getting into one of those…</p>

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<p>If you applied to Cornell ag school you have a chance. A certain number of slots are kept for kids coming from Agg background and they can get in with lower scores. Good Luck</p>

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<p>Thanks, though I am pretty much undecided so I applied to engineering, as I know I want to go into something similiar to that.</p>

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<p>no SAT I’s???</p>

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<p>No… Is that a problem?</p>

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<p>Unless they were required it’s not a problem. You did very well on the ACT.</p>