Do I have a chance in the schools that I'm applying to?

Chance Me / Match Me
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Background: Son of immigrants from Pakistan, fluent in 3 languages

School: Top 60 school in NY, top 550 in the country (US News)

Grades: ~92 Unweighted, and 94.8 weighted. School doesn’t rank but most likely in top 10% (in the top 30s)

APs: (13 AP classes, but 15 AP exams in total)
9th: Environmental, 10th: World, Art History, Bio, 11th: US, Psych, Lang, Physics 1&2 (1 year class in my school), 12th: Spanish, Macro/micro Economics (1 class in my school), Literature, AP Calc AB, AP Chem

AP Scores: Environmental: 4, World 5, Art History 5, Bio 3, US 5, Psych 5, Lang 5, Physics 1: 2, Physics 2: 2

SAT Scores: 1510 Super scored, 1st attempt 1470 (770 math, 700 english), 2nd attempt 1420 (700 math, 740 english)
(I will retake the SAT in December and I’m aiming for a 1560)

Subject tests: (I took them in November so I’m guessing the score) Math 1: 750, US history 780-800, Literature ~700

Extracurriculars:
Math club (9, 10)
Mock Trial (11)
Asian Club (11)
Environmental Club (12) VP
DECA (12)
National Honor Society (12)
Sunday school in my Mosque (9-10)

Volunteering
Around 170 hours (total) in my Mosque from this school year and last school year (I started going to volunteer after I finished their Sunday School, and help teach kids, set up chairs, distribute books, and hand out snacks during the break).

Work Experience
I am a sales associate in a local business that sells surgical instruments. I deal with customers placing orders over the phone, and the website. I will be promoted to Product Acquisition Manager in 2018.
I also run 2 online businesses that sell clothing and shoes online. I started them in April.

Awards:
School Related: Finalist in the Earth Science Weekly Essay Contest (National), 1st Place in NYS Chemagination Contest (State), 1st Place in Mid Atlantic Region Chemagination Contest (Regional)
Extracurricular: 2nd Place in my Mosque’s Sunday school in 2016, 1st Place in 2017.

Colleges (All regular decision)
Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Columbia, Stanford, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Duke, Emory, UCLA, USC (California), Georgetown, Boston College, NYU, Stony Brook, Binghamton, University of Miami, Dartmouth, Brown

Thank You

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The only weaknesses I think I have are that I had a few Bs, 82 in Bio, 84 in Algebra 2, 86 in Precalc, 88 in an elective (Research, but only 10-15 students from each grade are selected to be able to take it), 86 in Physics 1+2, and I think I will have an 88 for Calc AB and a 85-87 in AP Chem for the first quarter of this year.

The major I’m probably pursuing is Business Administration.

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Your list is extremely reach heavy. Are you happy at a SUNY? If not, I would take away some of the reaches and add some matches.

It also seems prestige hunting instead of looking for a strong fit.

Also, what’s your budget? USC and UCLA give no aid for OOS applicants.

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UCLA offers little to no financial aid to out of state students so is your family fine with a $65K/year price tag for you to attend?

UCLA does not offer a Business Administration Major nor do they have an Undergrad Business school, so what major are you applying at UCLA?

You do look like a competitive applicant but consider UCLA as a Reach school.

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Thank You for replying, I don’t mind going to Stony Brook or maybe Binghamton for undergrad, but I would prefer NYU. I’m applying to so many reaches, because I want to see if I get into any of them. Also my parents and I are fine with any price, but thank you for providing this information

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Gumbymom, I didn’t even know they didn’t have a business administration major or an undergrad Business school, so I’m very thankful that you let me know, after looking through their undergraduate majors I would probably pursue Business Economics