Please chance me for these schools! (Stanford, UMich, UPenn, USC, UCLA)

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Can someone chance me?

Applied Major: ChemE
HS GPA: 3.5 (Unweighted)
SAT: 2020 (CR 570, M 800, W 650)

College: Top 50 University
GPA: 3.05

Background: Current Engineering Project Manager at Apple, unstable financial background, left school to take care of family finances, over 1,500 community service hours in high school, Boy Scouts Eagle Rank, Research Assistant for 3 years in high school, several internships (Research at UCSF for 2 years, Research at UC Davis for 1.5 years, Process Engineer Intern at a robotics company for 2 summers, Field intern at an upstream oilfield services company), paid for school through winning several scholarships.

Essays: Very Strong (I talked about how I dropped out of school after 2 years of college to support my family’s finances, after some time in Industry, I learned how important a college degree is and I want to come back and finish my degree)

Letters of Rec: Math lecturer, and TA (who’s research lab I joined after taking his class)
Stanford Letter of Rec: Stanford Alumni/Lecturer and now Engineering Manager at Apple and TA (Who’s research lab I joined after taking his class)
USC Letter of Rec: USC Alumni and now Sr Engineering Manager at Apple and TA (who’s research lab I joined) and Linear Algebra lecturer

State: CA

Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: M

Applied: Stanford, UPenn, UMich, USC, UCLA

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I hate using the word “guaranteed” but I believe there’s above a 90% chance you will get into USC and UCLA. I haven’t done much research regarding UMich admissions so I will refrain from giving you my opinion on that one. I would say with you are a decent candidate for UPenn but your GPA could use work. Stanford? Total crapshoot. I don’t know what transfer admission is like but a college that has an undergrad admit rate of below 5% is insane.

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