Chances @ harvard

<p>Asian Male
Middle class
Long Island</p>

<p>SAT: 2400
ACT: 35 ACT composite
SAT 2 Biology M: 800
SAT 2 Chemistry: 800
SAT 2 Latin: 800</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA: 96
Rank: top 5 %</p>

<p>NOTE: I want to add Something: i got a c in s.s. on a final in 9th grade, will that affect me?</p>

<p>I volunteer at a hospital, so far 200 hours.
Latin club
FBLA- tresurer
SCio- treasurer
I also swim, but not that great in it?
A couple of other stuff… hisotry club, newspaper, etc… nothing that big!</p>

<p>Hey, thanks for responding if you do, but I want to know my chances in the following schools:</p>

<p>Cal Tech
Columbia
Duke
harvard
MIT- Sloan
Princeton
Stanford
uChicago
Yale
UPenn- Wharton</p>

<p>Thanks alot for your time and for your responses!</p>

<p>obviously you have great stats, but nothing that really sticks out from your average asian male from long island (which is probably the worst part of your app haha). You should get into Duke though, and probably caltech since they are very stats oriented. Out of the others, you will get into a few of them, maybe half or a little less than that. its tough competition out there being an asian from long island, even with near perfect stats like you have.</p>

<p>ummmmm… thanks alot</p>

<p>I agree with ckmets.</p>

<p>um, i disagree. I want to apply early decision to upenn wharton, mit sloan, or columbia. Although being asian and coming from long island, i think they will accept a person who has a 2400 on their sat.</p>

<p>Well if you were so sure, why did you ask us?</p>

<p>SATs dont mean everything. Val with a 2370 waitlisted from MIT at my school this year, tons of ECs including building houses in nicaragua,teaching migrant workers english, and he was an intel finalist. I go to a competitive school on long island.</p>

<p>Nobody’s putting down your accomplishments…you’ve done an amazing job. It’s just that college admissions has become so damn competitive that high scores and gpa can’t determine college admittance anymore.
So colleges look at other things like ECs, recs, essays…</p>

<p>Harvard and many of those schools that you mentioned are very weird in admissions. They’ll reject a 2400 and then admit a 1900…you never know. That being said, I still think you have a good chance at those schools.</p>

<p>Harvard’s rejected an IOI and IMO gold medal winner in the past also…</p>

<p>Hmmm. On June 8, the OP posted the below. I assume he’s playing the game of “what if I really had these stats and ECs.”
"Hello, I’m new at College Confidential. I want to know my chances at
Brown
Dartmouth
Duke
Swarthmore
Amherst
Wesleyan
U Penn
Princeton
Yale</p>

<p>My SAT is : 2380
SAT Biology: 800
SAT Chemistry: 800
SAT Math IC: 760
SAT Math IIC: 770
SAT Latin: 750
SAT US History: 790</p>

<p>I am ranked in the top 10% of my class, in a competitive high school
I am asian, middle class</p>

<p>I volunteer at a hospital- 500 hours
FBLA vice treasurer
Science Olynmpiad- regional and state awards,
Latin Certaumen Team
national Junior Honor Society
Global Language Honor Society</p>

<p>I also participated into Brown Summer Progrma for 3 weeks.
i also founded a club that provides some money for old people or the retirement center. and i play football too… funny asian person playing !"</p>

<p>i think you have pretty good chances, i mean for upenn wharton, if you apply early decision, you can get in, since i heard they have a 99.1% chance of anyone who has a perfect score applying getting in!</p>

<p>for brown and harvard, they more difficult to get in early decision, but good luck, and i hope you get into the school that you want!</p>

<p>since you have a perfect score, I might add:
if these help, by the way, these are the stats for 1600, not 2400, but probably an idea?
Princeton early:97.9 %
Brown early: 54.9 %
haravrd early: 61.4 %
columbia early: 99.1 %
cornell early: 97.6 %
dartmouth early: 99.4%
penn early: 99.1%
yale early: 81.3%
stanford early: 89.2 %</p>

<p>I don’t understand why people are so OCD about stats. Looking at what Northstarmom pointed out, the OP boosted his SAT scores up, which makes no difference at all… (2380 vs. 2400 cmon now…). The OP even ommitted 3 SAT II scores in this post, and IMO I think scoring well in those 6 subjects as you had posted before is better than scoring 3-800’s. He even went from 500 volunteer hours to 200 volunteer hours… Are you trying to prove that perfect scores are worth more than 300 hours of volunteering? Your updated list includes the top 9 universities as ranked by USNews (what’s your planned major, as this is a wide array of schools).</p>

<p>personally, volunteering should not be done unless it is fun.</p>

<p>stmkrop3214 , where did you get those percentages? Are they recent or old?</p>

<p>Btw, I like how Brown is the lowest out of all of them. Must be true about how they care a lot more about GPA and grades than Standardized test scores.</p>

<p>i got it from college confidential</p>

<p>and yes im truely amazed that brown has a low acceptance rate. Brown has been getting harder and harder to get into, and the acceptance rate has decreased alot… it has a lower early decision acceptance rate than princeton!</p>

<p>since you picked top schools and top schools are always unpredictable, its impossible to say how much of a chance you have. You do have a perfect SAT, but again Harvard rejects half of those. Your EC is below average for those top schools…and top schools stress EC…they want diverse student body…</p>