Chances at MIT/Caltech/Harvey Mudd?

<p>Info:
From Arizona
Gender: Female
Race: Caucasian
Grades: 4.777 weighted academic, 4.6 weighted, 3.9 unweighted
Class Rank: top 1% (2/416)
SAT II’s: Chemistry: 790; Math II: 800
SAT I: 660 CR, 730 Math, 710 Writing (11 essay) 2100 total
(This was a bad day for me, and I usually get around a 760 in math on practice tests, but I’ll retake it in october)
ACT composite: 34
National Merit Commended</p>

<p>Classes Taken:
Frosh: H Bio, Spanish II, Algebra II H, P.E., English I H, World Geography H, Concert Orchestra
Soph: H Chemistry, Spanish IIIH and Dual Enrollment, English II H, Symphonic Orchestra, Trig/Pre-Calc H, Earth Science H
Junior: AP Calculus BC, AP US History, Symphonic Orchestra, AP Chemistry II, Spanish IV H Dual Enrollment, English III H, Chamber Orchestra
Junior Summer: Harvard SSP: Multivariable Calculus and (With some coaxing from my current chemistry professor) Biochemistry
Senior: Gov AP/Econ H, Symphonic Orchestra (Concert Chair), English IV AP, Biology II AP, Physics H, Human Physiology and Anatomy
((I am graduating with the most science credits possible- 7))</p>

<p>EC:
Piano for eight or nine years. This year I was invited to a state-wide competition in February (they aren’t common in my area)
Symphonic Orchestra- audition-only, superior-rated, nationally recognized high school orchestra. Adjudicator’s award sophmore year, and this year, we went to the national festival of gold and performed in Boston Symphony Hall
Chamber Orchestra-select group, invited to play at city hall and various paid gigs
Performed in superior-rated quartet in the Solo and Ensemble festival
Currently seated as Concert Chair
Science Olympiad:
Soph: school team placed second in state. I won a gold medal in the Math Applications lab event
Junior: I was treasurer. Team placed third. I placed first in Write-it Do-it, and Five Star Science (A combination event of all five science disciplines), second in Rocks and Minerals, and third in Robot Ramble
Senior year, I am president of the club. Competition is in March
Arizona Chemistry Challenge
Soph: one of three selected from the school to compete. The three of us swept the awards, getting a perfect score on the lab (excecuted by me), and tied for first place on the individual exam, and I earned a silver medal for the individual exam (due to a tiebreaker).
Junior: Was selected again for Division II competition, on an AP level. Scored third on the individual exam, and another perfect lab score, and best time on the free response, winning by a margin of almost 100%.
Senior Year I am to coach the Div. I team from my school on request by my chemistry teacher
Ambassadors Club Sophomore and Junior Year
NHS junior year, Secretary for senior year
Historian of the Orchestra Club
Vice President of Mu Alpha Theta
Vice President of Science Club Junior Year, President Senior Year
(already listed) Treasurer and then President of Science Olympiad</p>

<p>Lauds:
National Spanish Exam: Bronze Medalist ((Newspaper mention))
((Chem Challenge and Science Olympiad Awards)) ((Also Newspaper mentioned))
Chemistry Student of the year both sophomore and junior year
Rotary Youth Salute
Superior Performer- Solo and Ensemble Festival.</p>

<p>Work Experience: Three Dog Bakery
Assistant bakery chef/Sales floor/Cash Register Tech Support</p>

<p>Intended Major: Chemistry, Biology
Minor: Music (if possible), Perhaps Mathematics</p>

<p>Intended:
MIT (EA)
Caltech (EA)
Harvey Mudd
Tufts
University of Chicago
Harvard
Washington University in St. Louis
Johns Hopkins</p>

<p>Safety:
U of Arizona (free tuition!)</p>

<p>Washington University in St. Louis. Not University of Washington St. Louis.</p>

<p>Your SAT 1 score is the only really weak part of your application to these schools. If your CR score was 700+ and you boosted your Math score to 750+ I think that you’d be fine getting into at least a few of your top colleges. Your ACT is good, I’m not sure about which schools you could just send that to or which ones you need to send your SATs because of the SAT II requirements. Anyways, you seem right on track. Good luck!</p>

<p>Thanks for the correction! I’m just used to calling it WashU, I didn’t know exactly the official name! </p>

<p>Anywho, I know MIT and Caltech will accept the ACT scores, but Harvey Mudd won’t take them. They were pretty terrible scores, but I will retake them in October.</p>

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<p>Wrong. HMC changed that policy for next year.</p>

<p>ooh. i think, though, you’ll be fine because you’re a girl, in which caltech/mit LOVES (not to be sexist or anything…im a girl myself). and since your ACT’s are pretty good, i wouldn’t worry about the SAT too much.</p>

<p>lol your in, with the possible exception of harvard and mit. How do i take the national spanish exam?</p>

<p>MIT and Caltech I believe are your only reaches. But if you have other things to balance it out (ECs), you will be in good shape :-). Chance me? <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/816473-chance-aa-female-elite-schools-updated-stats.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/816473-chance-aa-female-elite-schools-updated-stats.html&lt;/a&gt; <–Include Yale also!</p>

<p>lol your so successful. that is all i got to say</p>