<p>I ea’ed to harvard, but after reading some of these posts and what not I am curious as if I shot for too high?
I have a 1470 800 math, 670 verbal
SAT 2’s being 800 2c, 670 physics, 630 writing
ACT 32 composite
top 4% 4.444 weighted
Several AP’s (5 on US history, 3 on psychology…)
ECs- Tennis, volunteer work, various clubs … no superstar at any of it just moderate levels</p>
<p>The rest of the colleges I applied to are: Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Dartmouth, Upenn, MIT, Stanford, Northwestern, WashU, Rice, and Amherst</p>
<p>Do you think I misgauged my chances and shot too high? Should I apply to a few safety schools? Or is there virtually no chance I will get rejected to all 12…</p>
<p>If it helps at all I’m Asian American and I come from a public school in Arizona…</p>
<p>Oh yeah… something that I think will hurt me also is the fact that I am only taking 4 1/2 classes this year…
AP calc BC
AP environmental science
AP english 4
AP government/Honors Econ
and i am a teacher assistant for a semester…
I work after schools so this is the only feasible schedule for me to undergo with the demanding work schedule</p>
<p>“no superstar at any of it just moderate levels”</p>
<p>thats the SINGLE biggest reason that people get deferred at harvard
also, trust me, being asian does NOT help</p>
<p>you’ll get in somewhere, don’t even worry about it</p>
<p>yeh you need more safeties</p>
<p>You’re applying to so many schools! How can you stand it?</p>
<p>I agree with Anonymou5, you REALLY REALLY need to apply to some safety schools, and fast. You’re within the range you need to be to get into those selective schools you’ve applied to, but with those lower end SAT IIs and lack of any major activity, there’s little than ensures that you’ll stand out and actually be accepted to any of them. Good luck though.</p>
<p>you should get into at least 2 or 3 of those schools.</p>
<p>^^ yes but dont count on it.</p>
<p>thanks, but won’t like solid a’s in physics and english kind of lessen the effect of the poor sat 2’s? I was hoping that colleges would realize that a year long class with A’s is much more of a better determinant than a single hour long test or so. Also, do you think it helps that coming from a public school in Arizona helps my chances (considering its ranked 48th out of 50 in education)…</p>
<p>no, that just shows that an A in your school isn’t that impressive</p>
<p>hrmm… that’s very true… now im starting to get really worried i really thought 12 would be sufficient, but now i guess i should add a few more colleges to the list…</p>
<p>There is a semi-significant chance that you will be rejected from all 12, I think. I don’t know a number, but the odds are not small enough for you to consider them negligible by a long shot.</p>
<p>Yeah, I agree, you should have around 2 safeties.</p>
<p>Don’t just add more schools. Add some safeties too.</p>
<p>…if i were u i’d take off some of em. its no use paying the $70 fee for that many schools. what i personally did to cut my list was "if i get into <em>insert match / safety here</em> would i still consider going to <em>insert other school</em>? ex–if u got into cornell and northwestern, which would u attend? cross the other off ur list. and replace with a safety-er school.</p>
<p>I agree with both ivymathman and anonymou5; you should get in to at least 2 or 3 of those schools, but don’t count on it. I would definitely apply to 3 or 4 safety schools that you wouldn’t mind going to and can pretty much count on getting into (for the record, I’m already in college, but I applied to 18 schools, many of which were the same as yours but about 4 of which were of somewhat less impressive status, just to ensure acceptance somewhere).</p>
<p>i guess this is horrible logic but in my reasoning somehow i figured that 3 schools that i fit into the sat categories such as like cornell, northwestern… although they are still reaches because of extra stuff… i somehow came up with 3 semi-reaches = one safety… don’t ask me how… i guess thats why im not going to college haha <–worrying</p>
<p>A safety is a school where you are about 99% likely or above to be admitted.</p>
<p>A semi-reach would be a school in which you are about 40% likely to be admitted. So, three semi-reaches (assuming independence) would be 1 - (0.6)^3 = 0.784 -> 78.4%.</p>
<p>Yeah, I wouldn’t want to stake my education on a 78.4% chance.</p>
<p>from what I hear Brown isn’t to worried about SAT scores and that seems to be what you are worried about, but you do need some safties. I’m applying to MIT, Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Brown, UPenn, NYU, and some safties so don’t worry too much about how many schools you apply to, BUT don’t spend less time applying to each one, the essays count for a lot.</p>
<p>also your SAT 2 scores are not that bad, the only one you might think about raising is the writing score.</p>
<p>I’d say you have a good shot at all 12, but there is always a possible that you could get rejected from all 12 (although I think you’d have to get really unlucky). It’s pretty slim though so i would recommend just one safety for the extreme. It’s very doubtful, but still slightly possible that you wouldn’t get in to any and then that would really really suck for you. I think with SAT IIs it depends when you took them as well. If you took them the June after you had the class then poor scores would look bad. But if you took them in october or november, which would be four, five or even six months since you had the class, then poor scores aren’t going to look bad at all. SAT IIs have a lot less weight because a good student can easily get unlucky, because of this colleges, even harvard, has a lot of leniency with scores. Anything above a 600 is good enough. It shows you do know your stuff and are capable of their college. I think you can get credit there with a 600 on some. You still have a chance at all schools.</p>