****CHANCES***** let's see the replies, dawgs

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Yo I’m a rising senior CLASS OF '07!!!
Can you all help me out?</p>

<p>I want your opinion on if I have a shot at Brown, </p>

<p>CalTech, MIT, UVA, Vanderbilt, and Univ. Maryland </p>

<p>College Park</p>

<p>White Male
SAT I: 2380 (790 CR 790 M 800 W)
SAT IIs: 800 IIc, 730 phys (am retaking phys, </p>

<p>taking chem in october)</p>

<p>GPA: 3.88 UW
Rank: ~10/350 at a public hs</p>

<p>APs:
SOPH:
4 World hist
5 Calc ab
5 Chem
JUNIOR:
3 US hist
5 Comp sci a
5 Eng lang
5 Calc bc
5 Phys c mech
5 Phys c e&m (self-study)
5 Stat</p>

<p>plus multivar. calc junior year (A-) and will take </p>

<p>diffeq 1st semester of sr year at a local state u</p>

<p>ECs:

  • Varsity badminton, tennis
  • Club rugby
  • Key club
  • County Physics Olympics team
  • Math club
  • Model un conference
  • Computer club
  • Breakfast of Champions
  • Junior classical league
  • Future business leaders of america
  • Young republicans club
  • Maryland math league school top scorer, 9th </p>

<p>place statewide

  • School representative to university of maryland </p>

<p>computer programming contest

  • University of Maryland Math Contest Finalist, </p>

<p>school top scorer

  • AP Scholar Award after soph. year
  • Will be National Merit Finalist
  • Will be National AP Scholar after jun. year</p>

<p>Work Experience:

  • Youth Baseball Umpire
  • Filing clerk at a law firm
  • Lifeguard at a prestigious country club</p>

<p>Thanks for reading this.</p>

<p>so WHAT ARE MY CHANCES?!</p>

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<p>Your AI is 223, placing you in the 7 out of 9 category. This means that of all the people that apply to the Ivies (and Caltech and MIT), between 22% and 33% will have better grades and test scores than you and 67% to 78% will have worse grades and test scores.</p>

<p>Since the acceptance rates at some of your schools are:
Brown-17%
Caltech-21%
and MIT-16%
these usually would all be iffy, but since you have tons of 5s in AP courses, good ECs, good academic competitions, and good work experience, I rank you as follows:</p>

<p>MIT–reach (about a 35% to 40% chance)
Caltech–match to slight reach (about a 45% to 55% chance)
Brown–match (I rate your chances at about 50% to 60%)</p>

<p>At the other schools
Uva-average UW GPA 3.8 or so and average SAT is 659/671
Vanderbilt-average UW GPA is 3.85 and average SAT is 665/690
and Maryland–average UW GPA is 3.85 and average SAT is 615/645</p>

<p>so UVa and Vanderbilt are matches and Maryland is a safe match (in-state)</p>

<p>Personally, I would apply EA (Early Action) to Caltech and go there if accepted. Your stats match them closer than anyone. </p>

<p>Good luck.</p>