Chances: MIT / HPS?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Mainly looking to get into MIT, will also apply to HPS.
Brother goes to MIT, that might help</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Chinese, male</p>

<p>Weighted: 4.225
Unweighted: 3.975 (1 B+ French freshman year)</p>

<p>SAT I:
Math: 800
Reading: 720
Writing: 670
Total: 2190</p>

<p>SAT IIs:
Math 2: 800
Physics: 800
Chemistry: 800
Biology M: 790</p>

<p>APs:
Physics B: 5
Physics C Mech: 5
Physics C E&M: 5
Biology: 5
Chemistry: 5
CompSci A (self studied): 5</p>

<p>Not much extra curric.</p>

<h1>1 school tennis team</h1>

<p>Lv10 C/M (piano)
Tutoring younger kids piano (with pay)
Summer internship with prof. in Davis (molecular dynamics)</p>

<p>Pretty bad school:
Last year 1 UPenn (off wait list), no other ivies
1 CalTech
0 MIT/Stanford</p>

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<p>Any input is appreciated</p>

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<p>why do you have soooo many AP physics…?</p>

<p>anyway, you have a really good chance but your SAT is a bit low. then again MIT doesn’t care about writing so…</p>

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<p>What about the other schools? Harvard/Princeton/Stanford?</p>

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<p>Great UW GPA and SAT II scores–but what happened with the ECs?</p>

<p>No chance at HPS because of the ECs unless you’ve published a paper on Physics research.</p>

<p>MIT maybe–but unlikely because of the lack of ECs–particularly no participation in science or math competitions.</p>

<p>You should try for Caltech–you’d have better chances there because they aren’t as worried about ECs as MIT and HYPS are. Also, consider Franklin Olin and Coopers Union for this reason. These schools are more worried about you being “smart” and less worried about you being “community-active”.</p>