i help you... please help me (especially CalCruzer)...

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>hey guys… i often help you guys out with chances, so i’d really appreciate it if i could get some good feedback here… also, this is my last chances thread, so after this i will not pollute this board and will only help by chancing people… here goes… please read…</p>

<p>I am a Rising Senior</p>

<p>COLLEGES:</p>

<p>Reaches: Princeton, Columbia, UChicago (EA) Cornell (ED because its my favorite)
Matches/ Safties: Syracuse, McGill, NYU</p>

<p>DATA STUFF:</p>

<p>SAT: 670 M, 730 V (1400) 720 W (2120)
660 M, 740 V (1400) 770 W (2170)
Composite: 670 M, 740 V (1410) 770 W (2180)</p>

<p>GPA: This is a bit complicated, but stay with me haha… i have around a 90 average at my Canadian private school which i attend… this translates to a 4.0 apparently (below)… i had a 4.0 at my old school in grades 9 and 10</p>

<p>(<a href=“http://www.ridleycollege.com/ftpimages/180/download/download_group3229_id109982.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ridleycollege.com/ftpimages/180/download/download_group3229_id109982.pdf&lt;/a&gt;)
This sheet is sent to all the colleges to which i apply… its very accurate from my experience in both systems…</p>

<p>APs: US History (awaiting results); next year: English Lit, English Comp, Macro Economics, European History
<strong>Note</strong>: Not many APs are offered at my school and i have taken a REASONABLY DEMANDING COURSELOAD</p>

<p>ECs: Varsity Hockey 4 years, Varsity Rugby 3 years, Varsity Soccer 2 years, School Prefect, Debating (NATIONALS this year… possibly WORLDS next year), Jazz Band 4 years, ~ 120-150 hours community service</p>

<p>Awards: Deans list all through grades 9 and 10, Ridley Scholar Grades 11 and 12, Academic Tie, Geography Award, History Award, English Honorable Mention</p>

<p>I think thats it… i probably forgot a thing or two… if so, please remind me… thanks guys for your help all through my college admissions adventure…</p>

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<p>… but not only calcruzer…</p>

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<p>I think your GPA is GREAT! a 4.0
Although there’s the thing you don’t have many APs, but as you said your school doesn’t offer many APs, so very understandable.</p>

<p>I think your SAT needs some work</p>

<p>Your ECs are great but doesn’t have some kind of common theme. Sports, Jazz band, debate.</p>

<p>If you have good essays and recs, I think you will have good chances at your matches and UChicago, but for Ivies I think your SAT needs some work.</p>

<p>Hope this helped!
I’ll be counting on you to “chance” me, too!
my stat is actually on “what’s my chance” so…
if you have time…</p>

<p>neway, I think you have good chances at your matches at current standings.</p>

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<p>thanks a lot… bump</p>

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<p>You can’t apply ED to Cornell and EA to another place…</p>

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<p>oh?.. i was unaware that it was single- choice… i thought i could just deny acceptance to UChicago if i got into Cornell… but i stand corrected… thanks… i will only apply ED to Cornell then…</p>

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<p>out of curiosity, how does your school justify a 90% in canada as being equivalent to a 97% in america?</p>

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<p>fair question… first, in canada, an 80 and above is an A instead of a 90 and above… so that means that you get a lower number for the same quality… also, my school is more rigorous… at my american public school, i had around a 98… at ridley, i have around a 90… so its pretty accurate if you use me as a case study…</p>

<p>any more insights on chances?</p>

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<p>cornell is not that difficult to get in early</p>

<p>because i know a couple people from my school that got in</p>

<p>and the girl had 1700 on her SATs and no EC’s really.</p>

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<p>wow… thats somewhat encouraging…</p>

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<p>yeah but the bad thing is like ok so i know a guy that got into MIT and another guy that got into cornell</p>

<p>and the guy that goes to cornell gets like almost nothing in financial aid
while the guy that goes to MIT gets 20k </p>

<p>and i guess thats sometimes the difference between certain ivy league schoools</p>

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<p>bump please</p>

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<p>bump again</p>

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<p>An American<em>in</em>Canada, sorry to have not responded sooner–I only just saw your post. I’ll be back in a second with chances.</p>

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<p>Well, you didn’t post your SAT II scores–and you’ll need to take two of them for Columbia, Princton, and Cornell I believe. Presuming that you get around a 730 each on these, I estimate your AI as 225, which puts you in the 8 or 9 category–meaning 11% to 22% of students applying to the Ivies will have better grades and test scores than you and 78% to 89% of students who apply will have worse grades and test scores than you.</p>

<p>The acceptance rates for these schools in 2005 were:
Princeton-13%
Columbia-13%
Cornell-29%</p>

<p>On the other hand, your ECs are impressive, you are right at the top of the grades (not just a 4.0 with an 87 score, but with a 90), and you went to nationals in the debate–which really carries a ton of weight at a school like Columbia. And your sports background along with the debate results will carry the day at Cornell–especially if you plan to play any of these in college.</p>

<p>I rate your chances as follows:
Princeton–about 40%
Columbia–about 45% to 55%
Cornell–about 60%
Chicago–about 65% to 70%</p>

<p>All of the others–Syracuse, McGill, and NYU should be safe matches to matches in my view.</p>

<p>I know you are considering Cornell ED–and that’s okay if that’s really where you want to go–and your sports background will help you there more than it will at Columbia. But if you are interested in Columbia, I think your debate background really could be what gets you in. And I say that to very few foreign students.</p>

<p>Best of success wherever you decide to go.</p>

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<p>Let me add one last note here:</p>

<p>Getting into any Ivy is always a bit of a reach–so you might very well want to take your 60% chance here (Cornell) and firm it up to around 65% or so by applying ED versus taking a 50% shot (Columbia) which is iffy. This is especially so if you really like Cornell better. </p>

<p>I just wanted to point out that Columbia is a chance for you–and isn’t for very many people–which is what I was trying to point out in my last post. I think four former US presidents went there–and it has the highest starting salary of any college in the US for some majors (for example MBAs in venture capital out of Columbia average $180,000 salaries). And many of our Supreme Court Justices also went there. </p>

<p>Anyway–it’s your call–so consider carefully–I’m just giving you options here to consider. Good luck.</p>

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<p>thank you very much</p>