Chances for UCs and others!

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Location: School in California, live in Alaska
High School: Respected Private Boarding School</p>

<p>Academics:</p>

<p>UW: 3.96
Weighted: 4.32
UC Weighted: 4.1
Rank: school doesn’t rank
Difficult course load with many honors and 7 APs</p>

<p>Scores:</p>

<p>SAT I: Math 740, CR 780, Writing 800 (total: 2320)</p>

<p>SAT II US History: 790
SAT II Biology: 770
SAT II Spanish: 740</p>

<p>AP Euro History: 5
AP English Language: 5
AP US History: 5
AP Biology: ?
AP World History: ?
AP Lit: ?
AP Spanish: ?</p>

<p>Extracurriculars: </p>

<p>(1 year, only offered Freshmen year) Electric Car Club, built from scratch a functioning car (10+ hours/week)
(3 years) GSA, promoting gay and lesbian tolerance. 1.5+ hours/week
VP 11th, President 12th
(3 years) Helping Out Pets Everday volunteer at animal shelter, 2+ hours/week
(2 years) Prison Library Project, 1+ hours/week
(2 years) Peer Writing Tutor, 1.5 hours/week
(1 year) Dorm Prefect, 3+ hours/week (senior year)
(3 years) Cross Country, 1 year JV 2 year Varsity
(3 years) Track, 1 year JV 2 years Varsity
(1 year) Drama, freshmen year
(2 years) Cohost of weekly online radio show at school
(2 years) Enviromental Club–Recyling 1 hour/week
(1 year) Prom council</p>

<p>Summer Veterinary Internship
Summer job in tourist shop
(3 years) Nationally Recognized (by the Endowment for the Arts) Summer Art Camp</p>

<p>Honors and Awards: </p>

<p>National Merit Semifinalist
History Department Award
Biology Apartment Award
AP Scholar</p>

<p>Chance me for these please! (not complete list)</p>

<p>Harvard (double legacy)
Brown
Dartmouth
UCB
UCLA
UCSD
Macalester</p>

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<p>Are you an in-stater or out-of-stater (for California)? If in-state, I’d say:</p>

<p>Berkeley/UCLA: match
UCSD: safety</p>

<p>If applying as an OOS, then you’d have a good shot at all of them (including the privates), though it’s considerably more difficult for OOSers.</p>

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<p>I’m in in-state for tuition, out of state for admission. It’s a weird thing having to do with me going to boarding school in California.</p>

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<p>Harvard: in
Brown: probably in
Dartmouth: good chance
UCB/LA: match
SD/Macalester: Safety</p>

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<p>Just to edit my double legacy status at Harvard, my parents only give $100 a year. Not dropping a couple million here and there like some with lots of dinero :stuck_out_tongue: You still think I’m in there?</p>

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<p>Harvard: Who knows. Nobody does. Not even the admissions guy that decides.
Brown: Nice chance.
Dartmouth: Not bad.
UCB/LA: Should be admitted to one or the other. </p>

<p>The rest are safeties.</p>

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<p>In at all–</p>

<p>Normally Harvard would be difficult–but considering your UW GPA is 3.96, SAT I is 2320, SAT IIs add up to 2300, you have a double legacy and you live in Alaska, I don’t see a problem.</p>

<p>The rest are all Safeties to Safe Matches, except Dartmouth and Brown, which are Matches.</p>

<p>Best of success.</p>

<p>P.S. So do you plan to major in Biology, Spanish, or something else?–Pre-law history major is my guess.</p>

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<p>Well my UW GPA is using my school system of an A+ = 4.33. I don’t know what system is used here at CC.</p>

<p>Thanks for the comments Calcruzer, especially since you are being much more generous than I expected. I really thought that you had to have some kind of amazing EC passion to even be considered for Harvard.</p>

<p>I don’t have a specific major in mind, but history is definitely a possibility. And funny you mention pre-law, since both my parents are lawyers.</p>

<p>The things that really scare me are 1. I did almost nothing freshmen year and 2. I have no leadership except President of the GSA, however active that club may be at my school. </p>

<p>Oh and I don’t know if makes much of a difference, but I’m gay and will probably write my essay about breaking down a lot of barriers at my somewhat conservative school.</p>

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<p>My guess:</p>

<p>Harvard (double legacy): 65% Chance
Brown: 65% Chance
Dartmouth: 65% chance
UCB: In
UCLA: In
UCSD: In
Macalester: In </p>

<p>Good luck! If you like Dartmouth and Brown perhaps consider adding Stanford, Amherst, or Duke just to hedge the bet.</p>

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<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>What about my chances at Amherst?</p>