Chances for Wharton/Stanford/MIT?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Please chance me for:
Cornell
Columbia
UPenn Wharton
Stanford
MIT
UChicago
Brown</p>

<p>Asian male
Public High School in NYC
GPA: UW: 95 % W: Not Reported
Rank: Top 15/600</p>

<p>Scores:
SAT: 1450/2160 First time, will retake
SAT II’s: Math 2: 800 US History: 740 Physics: 680 Plan on taking Chinese (Native speaker) and maybe Literature?</p>

<p>Courses: All my courses have been the most challenging offered, although my school does not have too many APs. </p>

<p>AP’s: Taken AP Calc AB, AP Language and Comp, APUSH - don’t know the scores yet.
Will take AP Calc BC, AP Literature, AP Chem</p>

<p>College Courses: Pre-Calc and Intro to Psych taken at local university</p>

<p>EC’s
-Tons of music – Band, Orchestra, Jazz – Four years, numerous awards at county and state levels
-HPREP – 1 yr. Medical program at Cornell Medical School
-ARISTA/ NHS

  • Tutoring- tutor students of all ages, volunteer and private (paid).
  • 300+ hrs. community service at the same places. In and out of school.
    -FBLA – county website development award
  • Moody’s Mega Math Challenge – Team won honorable mention $1000 prize</p>

<p>Challenges Overcome: Parents have been divorced since 3. Moving from FL to NY after freshman year. Maybe I could work these into my essays?</p>

<p>This summer I will have a paid internship at the Bill Clinton Foundation, which is a non-profit organization. </p>

<p>Only leadership positions have been in musical ensembles. </p>

<p>Please let me know what you think, even if it’s bad. Also, I’d really appreciate it if you have any suggestions for target schools. For safeties I’m pretty much set with CUNY and SUNY schools.</p>

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<p>Cornell YES
Columbia MAYBE
UPenn Wharton NO
Stanford NO
MIT NO
UChicago MAYBE
Brown NO</p>

3

<p>Thanks for your input. Could you explain the NOs?</p>

4

<p>Raise your SAT scores, and your ECs are weak.</p>

5

<p>I don’t think divorced parents is significant enough to be worth writing about…</p>

6

<p>Cornell-low reach
Columbia-reach
UPenn Wharton-don’t know
Stanford-reach
MIT-reach
UChicago-don’t know, I think reach</p>

<p>Sat is low, you are part of an overrepresented majority, sat2s could be better and I think that your essya topics may be a bit weak. But your gpa and extracurriculars seem pretty good.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/949527-i-can-haz-chances-columbia-nyu.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/949527-i-can-haz-chances-columbia-nyu.html&lt;/a&gt;
Brown</p>

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<p>Your rank is good and your M+CR SAT score is mediocre for said schools (maybe slightly above average for Cornell), but then again it depends on your breakdown. A 720/730 breakdown is more favourable than a 800/650 breakdown so you might have to elaborate on that. Your M+CR+W SAT score, however, is average at all schools listed, and below average for an Asian.</p>

<p>Remember that all colleges only look at 2 SAT II subjects now, with the exception of Georgetown, so you may only want to retake US History. Also, universities will completely ignore the Chinese SAT II score if you are Chinese so I wouldn’t bother with that.</p>

<p>Your ECs are average at best, with a significant lack of leadership. Your parents divorce, though a sad and significant incident, is not something that is unheard of or commonly life changing so I may want to avoid that as, to the admission committee, you may seem desperate for a sympathy acceptance or something of the sort.</p>

<p>You may want to elaborate on your music ensembles as you have leadership roles and they seem to be something you are passionate about/have shown commitment to.</p>

<p>Based on your SAT II Math score, I will presume that you have around 770 for Math SAT I and 680 for CR and I will say the following:</p>

<p>Cornell - 4/10
Columbia - 2/10
Wharton - 1/10
Stanford - 1/10
MIT - 1/10
UChicago - 2/10</p>