Chances for UChicago, Berkeley, Cornell...

Applying to College
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<p>Hello everyone. I’m a senior, and currently am working on applications for:</p>

<p>University of Chicago (top choice)
UC Berkeley
Cornell
Brown
Emory
Yale
Harvey Mudd
Princeton
Stanford
and Carnegie Mellon.</p>

<p>I have already applied to one safety school, but I’d like to know how likely it is that I will be accepted into at least one of the above colleges, or if I should apply to more less selective schools as well.</p>

<p>Here is some information:</p>

<p>ACT: 33 composite, 34 English, 36 math, 33 reading, 30 science.
SAT: 790 critical reading, 770 writing, 690 math.
SAT II’s: Literature-750, US History-790, Physics-790. Haven’t received scores for Math II, German, or Chemistry yet.
National Merit Semifinalist
4.0 unweighted GPA, 4.293 weighted.
Class rank: 24 out of 367
I have 9 AP classes and 6 honors classes. 5’s on the 2 AP tests that I’ve taken so far.
Senior Year Classes: AP Chem., AP Calc BC, Hnrs Orchestra, AP Micro econ., AP Macro econ., AP English Literature, AP German.
However, I transferred schools at the beginning of my sophomore year, and my first high school and middle school didn’t have many opportunities (no AP or honors classes, slow math and science programs) which prevented me from taking more AP and honors classes in high school.</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Philosophy Club 10-12, officer 11 & 12. I help choose topics and write articles for discussions
National Honors Society, 12th grade.
School MUN club 11-12, went to NAIMUN convention in 11th grade.
Literary Magazine 11-12, Chief Editor 12th grade.
Quiz bowl team, 12.
German Club, 10-12 grade, vice president in 12th grade.
Private double bass lessons.
Volunteer at public library, 1hr/week.</p>

<p>Summers:
After 10th grade-Went to two-week music camp, took a voluntary class in trigonometry.
After 11th grade-TN Governor’s School for 4 weeks, self-studied German, took an online US Government course to fulfill my school’s government requirement.</p>

<p>Application essays will probably be moderately good. I hope to major in computer science or chemistry.</p>

<p>My thanks to anyone who responds!</p>

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<p>I think it is very likely that you will be accepted to one or more of the schools on the list. Your numbers look good. The SAT Math may be little low, but you made up for it in the ACT Math.</p>

<p>This being said, none of the schools that you list are “Safety” schools. Depending on what your safety school was, I might add one or two schools in the next tier down, just in case.</p>

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<p>Thanks for your response! I’ve applied to University of Tennessee Knoxville as a safety school already. I’m thinking about applying to a few intermediately selective schools as well.</p>

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<p>You look great for Berkeley and CMU. Berkeley if you’re full pay. Your rank and scores will make ivies tough unless they love the less tangible. At the ivies, the vast majority from non top prep schools are numbers 1 and 2 in their graduating class and don’t have a CR or math score under 740.</p>