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Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>I have posted this, but I a final list as well as a grounded optimism.</p>

<p>General:
HS Senior
Asian male (Vietnamese)
Middle Class
IB Anticipated Candidate in a school that sturggles without the program</p>

<p>Academics:
-IB candidate
-Rank: 4 out of 725 weighted, 1 out of 725 unweighted
-GPA: 4.00 (unweighted)
5.38 (weighted based on 6 for AP/IB, 5 for honors/pre-IB, 4 for regular)
-SATs: 2250 (800 CR, 800 Math, 650 Writing 1st sitting)
-ACTs: 35 Composite, 34 English, 35 Math, 33 Reading, 36 Science, 8 Writing first setting
-SAT Subject Tests: 800 WH, 800 Chemistry, Math eEvel II pending
-AP exams: APWH, APES, APHG (5s); AP Chem, AP English Lit, AP Calc AB (5s)</p>

<p>ECs:
-Quiz Bowl (grades 10-12, Captain for 11-12, and only veternan on the team
-Hospital Volunteer (despite not interested in medical field, I have been doing ER Guest Services for almost a year because the people I meet there are interesting, and because there are a variety of people because it is in a tourist area) Summer 2011- Now
-Elementary school mentor and tutor (a founded group based on helping anelementary school at an at-risk aread) Feburary 2012- now
-Founder of Film Society, a club that runs mainly film producation. My film teacher and sponsor left to get a job at Full Sail. March 2012-Now
-Currently compiling a writing portfolio for Alliance for Young Artists & Writers (working one on one with a teacher) </p>

<p>Interests:
Weird: Chemistry or Chemical Engineering and Film Studies (Maybe uniqueness maybe a small hook )</p>

<p>List:</p>

<p>The “Fitzgerald level writing” reaches (<10%):
-Yale University
-MIT</p>

<p>The reaches with a prayer of hope (10-25%):
-Dartmouth University (high AI index according to “A for Admission,” but things change)
-Amherst College (lower rep of Asians)
-University of Chicago (does not look at SAT writing, so I have a perfect score in their eyes)</p>

<p>The “low”-reaches (high selectivity, better than average test scores) (25-40%):
-Rice University
-Bowdoin College
-Northwestern (more for the departments than the campus vibe)</p>

<p>The matches (40-60%) (Lower selectivity, higher than average scores):
-USC
-Boston College</p>

<p>Safeties (>75%):
-New College of Florida
-University of Florida</p>

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<p>Well you seem to have all your ducks in a row, what do you expect us CCers to do for you? Your self-chances look pretty accurate. I guess all you can do right now is work on some really great essays.</p>

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<p>I just wanted a confirmation. Is there anything specific about the school that I don’t know? Anything to boost my chances? Etc. Etc. Etc.</p>

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<p>Consider EA/ED. Submit your ACT score, it’s a higher equivalent than your 2250 SAT (2290–2370, according to the ACT: [The</a> ACT | Estimated Relationship between ACT Composite Score and SAT CR+M+W Score | ACT](<a href=“http://www.act.org/aap/concordance/estimate.html#.UHXsmLLN_kc]The”>http://www.act.org/aap/concordance/estimate.html#.UHXsmLLN_kc)). ECs look good; compared to other CCers maybe not, but well we all know how CCers are. ECs don’t show much focus/specialization, reading your post I had no idea you were interested in majoring in Chemistry/Chemical Engineering.</p>

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<p>Rice, NWU and Bowdoin are reaches all right but 25-40%? That seems a bit high (on my scale that kind of odds are “high matches” instead)</p>

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<p>I hope you got the film studies part :-). </p>

<p>I should probably edit that I will apply EA to Boston College, University of Chicago, and New College. </p>

<p>Maybe for Bowdoin, I can see the "reach"ness in it. But Rice and Northwestern both have acceptance rates of about 20%, and I have higher ACT scores than the middle 50 for both. If I write a good essay for both, maybe I can get into the two. The 25-40% is closer to 25% than anything, but I feel good about those two colleges</p>

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<p>^I also took 3 years of chemistry. Chemistry I Honors, AP Chemistry, and IB Chemistry III HL. I was also slated to do chem lab at Science Olympiad, but the seniors insisted that they do chem lab -_-. Also, there was no point in starting a chemistry club, since science club had a small number of attendees.</p>