Please Chance Me, I've posted so many times already

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>I currently attend Stuyvesant High School as a junior and want to be a biomedical engineer. I am Asian and neither of my parents attended college.
Academics:

  1. 96.3 Unweighted GPA (4.2)
  2. 2310 SAT (710 R, Rest are 800)
  3. 760 Physics SAT II, 800 Math SAT I and II
  4. AP World 4, AP Physics B 5
  5. Taking APUSH, APCS
  6. Senior Year: AP Chem, AP Gov, AP Calc BC, AP Physics C
  7. Continental Math League Contest winner
  8. Made AIME sophomore (130.5 AMC 10, 4 AIME) and junior (102 AMC 12, 3 AIME) years.
  9. Could possibly go to NYSML and ARML this year
  10. Represents Stuyvesant Math Team for NYCIML contests </p>

<p>EC’s

  1. Attends church and has 280 volunteer hours from it.
  2. Volunteer hours from helping victims in Coney Island after Hurricane Sandy
  3. Cricket Team since sophomore year (Could be captain or at worst vice captain senior year)
  4. Homeroom Leader for my homeroom junior year, so I’m part of the Student Union
  5. Stuyvesant Math Team for all three years
  6. Co-president / Started the ping pong club with over 100 members
  7. Stuyvesant Physics Olympiad Club for junior year
  8. Treasurer of Historical Movie Watchers Club in Stuyvesant
  9. Avid rock climber at Brooklyn Boulders
  10. Harvard Summer Program course for tissue engineering (more so to show I am serious about my major)</p>

<p>Assuming my essays, interview, and recommendation letters are great, what are my chances of getting into these schools?</p>

<p>Princeton Engineering (Single Choice Early Action)
Columbia SEAS
Harvard
MIT
Cal Tech
U Chicago
Cornell
Stanford
UPenn
Northwestern</p>

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<p>Catria is the main chancer here, and he responded to your post quite truthfully. </p>

<p>The bottom line is, all of those schools are extremely selective and have a perchant for turning down overachieving asians. </p>

<p>It all comes down on your essays and recs, which need to be very cogent and focused. But you still should have a safety. </p>

<p>Harvard and Stanford are the most selective of the bunch.
MIT, Columbia, UPenn, and Chicago are low reaches.
Cornell, Caltech, and NWU are high matches/low reaches.</p>

<p>By most measures, you should make it to at least one of those schools, but you probably don’t want to take chances.</p>

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<p>The one that I’m really interested though is Princeton SEAS, what would you rate that as?</p>