<p>If your son/daughter applied to the same schools and/or you guys know something about any of the schools I am applying to, can you compare my stats and give me a chance. Greatly appreciated.</p>
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<li>State or Country: NY</li>
<li>School Type: Private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian</li>
<li>Gender: M</li>
<li>Legacy Yes/No: N</li>
<li>Recruited Yes/No: N</li>
<li>Important ECs:
Math Team 3 years-varsity- 1st in the county
Science NHS 2 years- science team participant; tutor
Spanish NHS 2 years- tutor; volunteer
Flag Football 3 years
Asian Cultural Club 3 years
Volunteering 4 years- veterans home, retirement home, YMCA
Tutoring 4 years for math, science, history, english, spanish (through Guidance)
Medicine club 2 years</li>
</ul>
<p>Also, I take the most rigorous classes available.</p>
<p>Also applying to:</p>
<p>Northwestern, JHU, Penn, Duke, Cornell, Rice, UMich, Georgetown, Washington University at St. Louis, University of Chicago, Emory, UC LA, UC Berkeley, Columbia, Cooper Union</p>
<p>DS graduated from a top NYC private school last year. It is a very competitive pool. You can have a look at the common data sets to get a good idea what it will take. </p>
<p>Here are some stats from his school’s scattergrams:</p>
<p>Accepted students:</p>
<p>Columbia: average SAT 2290 average rank: top 4%</p>
<p>Duke: average SAT: 2140 average rank: top 15%</p>
<p>Chicago: average SAT 2180 average rank: top 15%</p>
<p>Note: I did not factor out legacies and there were many in this group.</p>
<p>Emory: average SAT 2120 average rank: top 30%</p>
<p>^^ But most parents probably don’t want to post their kid’s stats here for privacy and you s/b able to get the relevant info from the common data set so you can see how your chances are. It’s also more complete and accurate that way since you can see the 25th percentile, 75th percentile, etc.</p>
<p>Go to the school website. Look for the “search” function and type in “Common Data Set”. You will get that schools common data set. It usually comes in about three different sections.</p>
<p>Use these scatterplots from a large suburban high school in Southern California that has a substantial Asian student population. Acceptance to a school is more than just SAT and GPA, but if your scores and GPA put you in a field of all acceptances, then you look to have a good chance.</p>
<p>Did a quick run through with the colleges that you mentioned in your original post. UMich is a possible. UCLA and Berkeley would also be possibilities if you were instate. As an out of state applicant, things are tougher. No data on Cooper Union. As for the rest of the colleges mentioned, your SAT score was lower than the scores of the applicants accepted.</p>
<p>You wanted to know real world results from actual SAT/GPA scores. Pray for the best and be sure that you have some safety/match schools. Good luck!</p>
<p>What is your unweighted GPA as that is the GPA? This is what the colleges on your lsit will be looking at as there is already an expectation that you will be taking the most rigerous courses your school offers</p>
<p>Your list is very top heavy considering that this is going to be an extremely competitive year for college admissions as the number of apps are up at many of the schools on your list.</p>
<p>Being from NY is also going to be a disadvantage because you are going to have to stand out amongst all of the high scoring kids coming out of the NYC specialized high schools, top NYC private schools, top performing students from Long Island and Westchester county. Unfortunately there is nothing in your profile that makes you stand out or that will differientate you from many similar students who will present an almost identical profile.
Regarding the UC’s I gree with ellen that it is really going to be tough for you to get in. In addition, if you need $$ at almost 40k/yr for OOS, the money will not come.</p>
<p>How come you do not at least have SUNY schools down as rolling admissions saftey schools? You could probably even get admitted to the Honors program.</p>
<p>All you could do is toss your hat in and hope for the best.</p>
<p>Chicago does not have engineering, either. Where are your safeties? There are none on your list. What are your passions? What makes you stand out? Sorry to be harsh, but it looks like you are after prestige names without considering your chances, actual goals, financial considerations, etc.</p>
<p>Listen to Sybbie. You need safeties and matches on that list, and if you really want “engineering”–whatever you mean by that–forget the University of Chicago.</p>
<p>Want to agree with the other parents that you need safety schools. This is not advice I offer you specifically, but advice that applies to all students; everybody needs safety schools and clear matches! You may very well be accepted to one of your reach or high match schools, but all students need a fallback. Please take a look at schools with later deadlines that have solid engineering departments and shoot off a couple of applications to safeties. </p>
<p>Parents who have been on CC for a couple of years have memories of Andison, a tippy-top applicant with wonderful EC’s, who didn’t have safeties, ended up not getting into the schools on his list , and took a gap year. (Happy ending: The gap year was fulfilling and I think he’s now at MIT.) The parents want to be sure you have alternatives next fall. Even if you were a 4.0 with 2300+ scores, you would still need safeties and lower matches. Please find some quickly.</p>