Total AP’s/IB’s taken (score): 3 AP’s (Statistics: 5, Physics B: 4, USH: 4)
Senior Year Courses: AP Calc AB, AP English Lang, AP Biology, AP Macroeconomics. Self studying AP Micro, and BC Calc
Course load: GC said “the most difficult of any student”
Other stats: AP Scholar, National Merit Commended
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<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* Essays: I thought they were pretty solid
Teacher Recs: Probably very good
Counselor Rec: Excellent
Major EC’s:
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<p>-Started a school radio station
-Founding Member of School Television Club (Responsible for programming on public access channel.
-French Club President
-Captain of Fed Challenge Team
-Co captain of Math team (high scorer in 9th and 11th grade)
-Layout Editor, Webmaster, and writer for award-winning school newspaper
-Lots of Community Service … approx 80 hours/year.
-Peer Tutoring, Autistic Pen-pal, hebrew school helper, soup kitchen
-Playing Piano for 11 years
-Captain Varsity Ski Team
-Varsity Tennis Team
-Certified Soccer Referee
-Went to John’s Hopkins CTY Program and took “Fast-paced HS Chemistry” (a full year chemistry course condensed into 3 weeks, receiving high school credit, allowing me to skip a grade)
* Work experience: Summer Paid Internship at Marketing Firm (40 hours per week)
* Hook (if any): none</p>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<pre><code>* State or Country: New York
School Type: VERY competitive public (sends top 10% to Ivy’s)
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Upper Middle Class
Financial aid?: None
Intended Major: Economics or Mathematics or Business
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<p>Other Factors: Submitted Piano Performance</p>
<p>Please Chance Me For:
Harvard
Yale
MIT
Dartmouth
UPenn
Williams
Cornell
UVA
Northwestern
WashU
NYU
Emory
UMich
McGill
URochester</p>
<p>Haha, I’m not too sure, but I’ll give the chances a shot.</p>
<p>Harvard - High Reach
Yale - High Reach
MIT - High Reach, not toooo strong in science, but you’re applying for Econ
Dartmouth - Reach
UPenn - Reach/Low reach
Williams - Lower Reach
Cornell - Low Reach/High Match
UVA - Match</p>
<p>Good GPA, Great test scores, Good ECs, but no academic awards outside your school and a slight shortage of honors/AP courses (8 APs are fine for most places, but not for HYPS and MIT/Williams/Amherst where the average applicant will have taken 9-10)</p>
<p>Fine at all the other schools IMHO.</p>
<p>P.S. I was 3.96 UW and 1450/1600, President of two active clubs (including the richest and most active one), Team captain of the cross-country team, ran a campaign for an outsider trying to become a member of the local school board (who won) and also won regional math awards and was accepted to Brown–but I never even considered that I had the slightest possibility of getting into HYPS. I’d say your stats are fairly similar to mine. (Worse GPA, better test scores, equivalent ECs). Your stats are probably slightly better than mine, overall–but just barely.</p>
<p>Good luck. And I think in your case, it’s worth a shot at the top schools.</p>
<p>Thanks Calcruzer… that is pretty much exactly the “chances” my guidance counselor told me. But she is relatively new to our school, so I just wanted some outside opinions. Also, thanks for the advice. I don’t have my heart set on HYM, just all my teachers told me to apply, because they said I have a shot. Not going based on prestige or (now w/ harvard’s tuition prices), my favorite schools are Dartmouth/Williams. Although it definitely would be hard to turn down Harvard (and possibly yale), if I did get manage to get in. I also agree that my weak spots are only having school-based awards. I have a few more, but I didn’t list them cuz they were all just junior book awards. I am just curious though, why do you put Williams as harder to get in than Dartmouth/UPenn? Is that because I am not as well suited for a pure liberal arts school (because of my math/econ interests), or is it actually that much harder to get in???</p>
<p>Harvard –<em>Coin flip (50/50)
Yale – Coin flip (50/50)
MIT –</em>Coin flip (50/50)
Dartmouth –<em>A (80/20)
UPenn – A (75/25)
Williams –</em>A (75/25)
Cornell –<em>A
UVA –</em>50/50 (they take 40% of class from out of state)
Northwestern – A
WashU –<em>A
NYU –</em>A
Emory –<em>A
UMich</em>–*A
McGill – A
URochester – A</p>
<p>Wow! Thanks for the very specific chances thread! So, the consensus seems to be that my 690 writing SAT score wont really hurt me that much? Also, I was afraid it might be harder because I come from an area with a lot of applicants to northeast schools.</p>
<p>Harvard - 30%
Yale - 30%
MIT - 35%
Dartmouth -55%
UPenn - 60%
Williams - 60%
Cornell: 75%
UVA: 85%
Northwestern: 75%
WashU: 80%
NYU: In
Emory: In
UMich: In
McGill:In
URochester: In</p>
<p>I don’t agree with Calcruzer (Williams/NU/WashU too high on his list IMO). Dartmouth/ Penn are slightly more selective than Williams in my experience, Northwestern is about the same as Cornell. WashU is less selective than both.</p>
<p>I’ll focus on Wash U–definitely a reach because of the ever-prevalent “Tufts syndrome”. Wash U is known for wait-listing many of its “over-qualified” applicants because 1) it doesn’t have that high of a freshman yield, and 2) it may think that many of its “over-qualified” applicants will reject Wash U in favor of the Ivies. As for the others, you stand a great chance.</p>