Chances: Duke, Northwestern, Chicago, UCB, UCLA, UCD

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>I’m a South Asian male, immigrated to the U.S. when I was young. Not particularly financially well off, but not low enough to apply for QuestBridge.</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 UW 4.9 W
School: Highly competitive public school, ranked top 15 in the nation and former #1. We send about 10 students to elite schools each year, these past two years we had acceptances to Harvard, Brown, Northwestern, CMU, Berkeley, UPenn, Cornell, GT and a few others.
Class Rank: 4
Class Size: ~330</p>

<p>SAT: 2360 (800M/800R/760W) - first and only test
SAT II: 800 Math 2, 800 Physics, 780 US History
ACT: N/A
Course Load: Challenging, essentially a full AP/IB curriculum. 5s on AP Euro, USH, AB, BC, Stat, Eng Lang, 4 on AP World. 6 on IB Spanish.</p>

<p>Senior Year: AP Physics C (Mech and EM), AP/IB Physics 3, IB HL Math, AP Econ, AP Gov, IB SL Euro History, IB HL Film Studies, AP/IB HL English Lit.</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Varsity/Club Swimming
Captain of District Champion Varsity Academic Team
Library Volunteer, served on Teen Advisory Board for a year
Founder/VP of my school’s Cricket Club
Volunteer at Math workshops for elementary/middle schoolers
Started a monthly community teen trivia program at my local library
Summer Bridge volunteering (acclimating infoming freshmen over the summer)
Plus the list of Honor Societies (MAO, NHS, Science, Film, Spanish) with lots of associated tutoring hours</p>

<p>Honors, etc:
Top scorer at my school on the AMC 12, barely missed AIME qualification
Ranked 6th nationally as a sophomore in the Academic WorldQuest competition at Georgetown
Our school were regional PhysicsBowl co-champions
National Merit Semifinalist (234 PSAT)
Attended a business program at Stanford this past summer</p>

<p>My essay is about the impact that trivia has had on my life, starting out growing up in the northern wastelands, to Academic Team, to the national success at WorldQuest, to community outreach at my local library. My counselor said it was excellent, for what that’s worth. It’s the best I have, as I don’t have any particularly trying hardships in my life, nor have I had opportunities to travel. I’m expecting recommendations to be solid as well. </p>

<p>I’m not asking for chances at HYP or the other Ivies, since those are a reach for everybody. At the schools I mentioned above, I’m not applying for Engineering and will likely study Economics and Mathematics. Thoughts? Suggestions for one school that you think is a match for me? Thanks!</p>

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<p>you’re VERY well qualified for ucberkeley, especially since your scores are so high. I hear Northwestern is very strong for econ, so I would suggest you look into that. refreshing to see someone with realistic expectations. Chance me if you have a minute? Thanks and best of luck!</p>

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<p>Thanks, of course I’m still applying to (and would love to attend) some of the Ivies and Stanford and MIT, but no sense in adding to the clutter of “these schools are a reach for everyone.” Going to work hard this year, and good luck to you too!</p>

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<p>You’re an all-around great applicant. You’ll easily get into all the UCs. IMO northwestern and UChicago are matches, while Duke may be a low reach or high match. You should definitely apply to HYPS of you’d like;'you have a high chance of getting into at least one. :slight_smile:
Work tediously on your essays!
Please chance back: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1672761-chance-me-for-stanford-university.html”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1672761-chance-me-for-stanford-university.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>You have great STATs so you have a very good chance at all the schools. UCD would be a safety.</p>

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<p>Chicago: Reach
Duke: Low reach
NW: Solid chances</p>

<p>UCB, UCLA: Almost safety
UCSD: In</p>

<p>HYP and S and M and Columbia: Reach to High reach
Penn: Low Reach
Dartmouth: Low Reach
Brown: Low Reach to Reach
Cornell: Solid chances</p>

<p>Vanderbilt: Great chances
Rice: Very Good chances</p>