<p>All right, here we go. I just wanna know my chances at these schools.</p>
<p>Yale
Cornell
Carnegie
Duke
Harvard
UPenn
UMD college park</p>
<p>High school :Public
GPA: 3.96; 4.7
9 possibly 10 AP courses total most rigorous course load
SATI: 2200
SATII: 760Math lvl 2, 800 Bio, 800 chem</p>
<p>ECs:
Its Academic Captain (tv show) 2 years
International Club 2 years
NHS Officer 3 years
Volunteered at library and elem school spring fair 60+ hrs
Civil Action Project (planting trees/informing the public) 30+ hours
MathTeam 1 year
Camp counselor over summer
Karate (6 years)
Science fair projects for 3 years</p>
<p>Honors:
Karate 2 first place trophies at Eastern Regional championships
first place trophy in intramurals
first place again in a later year at ER championship
second place at ER championship</p>
<p>Science fair 1st place 2 years in a row along with toours of CIA HQ, NRC, dinners, university tours, and lots of cash prizes. in particular i was named best 11th grade project by Yale university.</p>
<p>NMSQT commendation</p>
<p>I write very good essays and can probably get teachers to recommend me fairly well.</p>
<p>So…
what are my chances?</p>
<p>location, race, economic status, etc.?</p>
<p>Chances are fair. Extra’s don’t blow me away, which is my biggest concern here, as someone who applied this year with more mediocre extras and did not do too well, relatively speaking (2 rejections/2 waitlists at Ivies). I think that your list is too unbalanced, also. Yale and Harvard are in the big reach category, with UPenn, Cornell, and Duke only a step or so behind. None of these schools can be depended on for admission. CMU–assuming a less competitive (ie not CS) major, is an appropriate match school, and UMD is a safety, but personally I would recommend that you apply to more match/high match schools…there is no reason to apply to a list of colleges that could very easily potentially leave you with only 1 or 2 choices come next April. Add more matches to cover yourself.</p>
<p>location: mid atlantic in dc metro area
gender: m
race: indian</p>
<p>i realize that my ECs stink but what can i do? i have two things that reallly really appeal to me which are karate and science projects and i can go on for pages telling them about my experiences with that. </p>
<p>i dont like getting involved in ECs for the sake of it. when i am involved, i am really involved. for example i was in my basement for 9 hours straight trying to get my science project up and running. </p>
<p>i hope the colleges dont look at ECs as much as SAT and GPA.</p>
<p>I understand how you feel, and I think that you are doing the right thing by not conforming yourself to some standard that you don’t fit into. However, check out my stats profile (click on my username and then click on stats profile), and look at my results. My extras are probably not as good as yours, but they aren’t way worse, either. You can see that even with very compelling stats (obviously, I am as qualified as anyone academically), mediocre extras kept me out of my tippy top choices. The good news is that there are many excellent, excellent schools that aren’t quite as stringent, and that even with extras that would make many here cringe, I was able to get waitlisted at Columbia and Brown, two extremely competitive schools. </p>
<p>That’s why I say (from experience), that Yale and Harvard will be tough for you, and Cornell, Penn, and Duke are pretty iffy as well. That’s also why I recommend that you add some match/high match schools–UChicago, Northwestern, JHU, Tufts, Rice, Vanderbilt, Emory, just to name a few–that are still excellent, highly selective schools, but with the door open just a little bit wider for someone like you or I to find a spot. Consider also LAC’s–a very few are as tough to get into as the Ivies, but generally the top LAC’s are as academically or near to as academically excellent as the top Universities and are also just a little bit easier to gain admission to.</p>
<p>Yale
Harvard
low chance because of low SATI (key may be the distribution, if all three parts > 700; you will have a fair chance), but since your course load is rig. (10 AP) you do have a fair chance. </p>
<p>Cornell
UPenn
Duke
Fair chance at these, Key might be to apply early Decision as the probability is higher.</p>
<p>Carnegie - Good Chance at all except CS.</p>
<p>UMD college park - Don’t know much about this.</p>
<p>Listen people, I agree with Duke and Upenn being extremely selective. Cornell is a very selective school. However, it is not in the same category as these schools. </p>
<p>I think Cornell is very overrated on these boards. Maybe this is just because I am from the tri-state area (north-east), and I saw that many of my peers off to cornell weren’t the brightest kids in the world. Some of course were very smart, but others did not have the credentials to get into even a place like Tufts. We are talking kids that had high 1200s on the SATs and mediocre grades. I guess CALS isn’t that selective in comparison with the other Cornell schools.</p>
<p>thank you for your input. i will consider other schools also.</p>