Caltech/MIT chances? (Kind of an odd case)

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>I’m sending out applications now, and I’m wondering what kind of chances I have. (My second choices are Stanford, Harvey Mudd and Harvard if anyone knows about them as well.)
Anyway, onto my unusual application. There are some holes and shortcomings that will hurt me, but also some added bonuses that most other people won’t have:</p>

<p>The bad
-Basically no extra-curriculars (Science Olympiad and Quiz Bowl. No job, no band, no service, no sports)
-Not much leadership in general
-Scores aren’t quite what they should be (670 on reading and 700 on writing, although math was 800)
-Didn’t really apply myself until 10th or 11th grade</p>

<p>The good
-Will probably be first in class
-Rigor of coursework: plenty of AP; teaching myself differential equations now; about the equivalent of ~5-6 years of German and Spanish, about 3 in French. I’m planning on finishing French and starting a 4th language by summer.
-I’m sure the writing and recommendations will be good enough
-I have autism, which will help if schools are looking for personal challenges.</p>

<p>So, how likely is an acceptance letter from any of these schools? Thanks in advance!</p>

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<p>Slim. Some applicants have incredible depth in one or two extracurriculars, tons of leadership in them, 2400s, 4.0s, 5’s on countless APs, etc. and still don’t even dig up a waitlisting. If you get in, it’ll be by presenting your autism as an incredible sob story with a romantic tale about overcoming it. Also, present your Science Olympiad and Quiz Bowl work as a natural consequence of you memorizing countless arbitrary facts and thus a way of you overcoming autism. (I know that’s not quite how autism works, but they don’t.)</p>