Guru Will Chance You for Top Tier Schools

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Public school in PA - school sends 10-20 each year to ivies
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Asian (Indian)
Major: Economics at some schools, finance at others</p>

<p>SAT: 2220 (800 math, 720 writing, 700 reading)
SAT 2: Math II = 800
Chemistry = 740
Rank: Approximately 6/1060…not totally sure about 6 but I was 8 as a sophomore and I think I will be around 6 right now.
GPA: 4.0 UW
APs: 3 (calc AB, statistics, chemistry) by the end of junior year, 7 (economics, french, psychology, calc BC) by the end of senior year
Rigor: Pretty hard but my school offers several APs and I have not taken some (history & engilish)</p>

<p>Awards:
National merit commended (possibly/probably semifinalist)
AIME qualifier (114 AMC 12 score if that matters)
Distinguished honor roll
Highest average in 2 french classes
Various tennis awards</p>

<p>ECs (definitely a weak point for me too…don’t have too much here)
JV Tennis 9-10, Varsity tennis 11
Interning at a local place that provides food/housing assistance for the needy. I do data entry, statistical analysis, grant management, and an assortment of other things here.
Volunteered at physical therapy institute/retirement home ~ 50 hrs
Student government representative in 10th grade, senator in 11th and 12th
NJHS VP in 9th grade, NHS in 11th and 12th (induction cabinet member)
Key club, Ping pong club, Indian cultural club
Working at Weis Markets as a cashier starting July 2009 and at a tennis camp starting July 2009 as well
Might be working as an SAT math tutor (not sure about this yet, but if I do it will be on my own, not part of any business)</p>

<p>Schools:
Cornell (ED) - econ major not AEM
UPenn - Wharton
UVA
NYU - Stern
PSU Schreyers Honors College
Michigan
Princeton
UChicago
Villanova</p>

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<p>Thanks for your help elytron, just as I thought! I’ll keep preparing for the SAT, and will do my best over the next year and a half! :)</p>

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<p>Thanks for the help! yeah i figured MIT harvard and princeton were all reaches and im still aiming to improve ec’s
by the way, for major i was planning on doing bioengineering and still take pre-med courses so i’d still be able to apply for med school if i choose to</p>

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<p>ah, silly me. boston u, northeastern, american, emerson, boston college</p>

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<p>TP9:
Cornell (ED) - High Match, Probable IN
UPenn - Wharton- High Reach
UVA- Low Reach
NYU - Stern- Lower Reach
PSU Schreyers Honors College- In
Michigan- Match
Princeton- High Reach
UChicago- Mid Reach
Villanova - In</p>

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<p>times:
BU- reach
North Eastern- Low reach
American- Low reach
Emerson- Low reach
BC- reach</p>

<p>BUT, your odds at all of those schools will dramatically increase if you can get your sat above 2000</p>

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<p>ive heard psu honors is just as hard to get into as most ivys. could be speculation, however</p>

<p>****EDIT:</p>

<p>BU, really a reach? seems as though youre just going off my sats, ive only taken them once and i finished like 2 of the sections. i didnt even have a conclusion on my essay. now that i consistently finish my practice tests with </p>

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<p>Just wondering, how are you qualified for chancing?</p>

<p>Not knocking you off or anything, I mean this as innocent/non-sarcastic/attacking as possible.</p>

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<p>yes, i’m curious as well. i mean what validates guru status?</p>

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<p>timesnewroman: its difficult to go off anything but the sats, thats about all you gave me</p>

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<p>lots of reading, knowing lots of people who have and have not been accepted to schools, and years of living in the most obsessively college-oriented school district known to man</p>

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<p>fair enough, i’ll give a tad more.</p>

<p>1880 sats, yes it sucks</p>

<p>fluent in german, work as court translator (although i only scored 730 on the II after attending 3 years of german school. Curve was ****, i guess)</p>

<p>3.7 unweighted gpa</p>

<p>ranked 30/314</p>

<p>2 sport varsity athlete</p>

<p>give free swim lessons to underprivileged children</p>

<p>lifeguard (red cross, cpr certified)</p>

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<p>ok so here is my stuff:</p>

<p>white girl</p>

<p>act-29
sat- 1880 (660,630,590)
(they hate my essays… idk why… im really decent in ap english…)</p>

<p>gpa 3.8ish unweighted
(i’ll have completed 15 ap classes by the end of my senior year… so far i have 9)
gpa weighted- no idea, 4.5/4.6?</p>

<p>top 10% in my class
(i go to corbett OR, it got number 8 in the nation according to times this year if that means anything)</p>

<p>EC (all the senior year stuff is assumption)
varstiy volleyball all four years, captain for two
softball junior and senior year
honor roll all 4 years
volunteer leading a youth volleyball camp in the summer for a couple weeks each year
work at tad’s chicken n dumplins (started this june, will continue until next fall)
club volleyball since 4th grade</p>

<p>my recs will be brilliant ive known my teachers for a long time</p>

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<p>times: with the ec’s and rank, i think North Eastern, American, and Emerson go to the cusp between high match and reach</p>

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<p>mollybusk, need some schools</p>

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<p>can you do mine? rather than retyping it, i can just give you the link <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/745511-what-chances.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/745511-what-chances.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>thank you!</p>

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<p>In the fall, I’m going to be a junior. Over the summer, our college counselor has given us the “homework” of finding 20 schools we might be interested in and try to categorize them as either Reach, Match or Safety. I’ve started my list, but could use some help and advice.</p>

<p>A little about me:
White female from California
Projected ACT score: 32-35 (that’s what I’ve been scoring in diagnostics and practice exams)
SAT II: Spanish - 750, Math II - 700 (retaking in the fall), projecting 780+ in French, will also take Chem but no projection yet
APs: Spanish - 5, next year I’m taking Calc AB, Chem and World, and then [projection] Calc BC, Physics C, English Lang senior year
GPA: 4.43 weighted
Good ECs</p>

<p>My list so far:
Georgetown
GWU
American
Carleton
Vassar
Macalester
JHU
Claremont McKenna
Princeton
Yale
Tufts</p>

<p>This is not a list of schools I’m for sure applying to, only a preliminary list of colleges I think I might like. I am aware that the safety/match/reach ratio will be quite off.</p>

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<p>Hi elytron,
If I don’t have any award at all, just solid GPA, SAT and ECs and good essays etc., low income, crappy school and I’m Asian, can I have any chance at HYP Rice and Stanford ?</p>

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<p>Guru! Here’s my thread…
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/746723-chance-someone-who-totally-lost-college.html#post1062910087[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/746723-chance-someone-who-totally-lost-college.html#post1062910087&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I would really appreciate your outlook and feedback :slight_smile: In the thread, or in here, it’s all good!</p>

<p>Thank you!!</p>

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<p>Damn bro, you’re seriously getting swamped now that we’re all jumping on the bandwagon… Hope you have time. Really Appreciate it!</p>

<p>Chinese Male from Oregon, will be senior
ACT: 35 composite, 36 Math, 35 Sci & Writing, 33 Reading, Essay 9
SAT II: Math II 790, Physics 790, 760 Bio M, Will be taking Chem later
SAT I: 2210, 790 math, 690 Reading, 730 Writing
PSAT: 221, thus very probable finalist
APs: AP Lit and Lang (4), Rest 5’s: Physics, Bio, Psych, Econ Mac Mic, Calc AB, will be taking Calc BC, Chem, Stats, and US history next year</p>

<p>GPA: 4.3 weighted so far
Class Rank: Probably ~10/700 after this second semester</p>

<p>ECs:
-Pianist for 12 years, Formed own trio (which won best in state + Scholarship) + played Beethoven’s 5th Concerto for 300+ with Symphony
-Dunno if Middle school counts much for anything… FLL Robotics Open European championship 1st International team
-OMSI rising star Volunteer for a summer
-Summer intern at Welch Allyn (medtech company)
-FRC robotics team member, 23rd in nation
-Captain of FTC robotics team, 11th in state + small award
-Speech and debate 2 yrs, won a few regional awards
-This summer intern at Radiation Medicine department of a University, working on project with Radiation Oncologist
-ISEF Alternate, 2nd best team project at NWSE (northwest science expo)
-Hope to get work from above published into a medical journal (Our Oncologist mentor says it’s possible)
-Plus 150+ hrs of Volunteer work</p>

<p>Schools in order of difficulty: (BTW, I’m applying to either Biology, Biomed, or Premed majors)</p>

<p>Stanford
JHU
Northwestern
Cornell
Rice
Washington University St. Louis
USC
University of Rochester
Case Western
Duke</p>