Does anyone think I have a chance at any of the colleges that I applied to?

Chance Me / Match Me
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Colleges all RD:
Fordham, accepted
Binghamton, Accepted
Stony brook, accepted
Northeastern, waitlist
UChicago, waitlist
Boston College, rejected
Emory, rejected
Columbia
U Miami
UCLA
USC
UPenn
Harvard
Brown
Yale
Princeton
NYU
Boston University
Cornell University
Duke University
Northwestern University
Stanford University

My information:
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 95 weighted. School doesn’t rank but most likely in top 10-15%

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: 15 Super scored, 1st attempt 1470 (770 math, 700 english), 2nd attempt 1420 (700 math, 740 english), 3rd attempt 1450 (770 math, 680 English)

Subject tests: Math 1: 700, US history 760, Literature 690

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.

Thanks

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I would definitely say you do have a good chance at getting into many of the colleges you listed. Your test scores and gpa are solid and you’re involved in extracurriculars. Some of your AP test scores aren’t so good, but as long as they aren’t in the subject you want to study then I think that won’t matter very much. Good luck!!!

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@oliviacloud70 Thank you so much for providing your opinion, I greatly appreciate it.

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You’d make a great addition to any of the schools to which you applied. I think you’d do well at any of them. The problem is that you come from a high scoring, tough curriculum area where so many of the kids apply to the very same schools you have. Look at the selectivity of the schools that waitlisted you and that selectivity level is about where you can start graying in the area where you have reasonable chances of acceptance. With what’s left on your list, I’d start with BU, Umiami and NYU. Depending your major and the what any given school wants to fill less full seats in their classrooms, it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to gain admissions to schools like USC and Cornell. The others are the most selective schools in the country and are truly crap shoots for most anyone.

Great grades your freshman year in college and a focus on a dept at a number of schools would give you excellent transfer chances at a number of those schools. Some of them do take hardly any transfers, but a number do take a surprisingly large number of transfer students. If you really want to get into the most selective tiers of your list, that is probably the most likely way to gain acceptance.