<p>I am wondering what are my chances with these schools. </p>
<p>Here are my stats. </p>
<p>SAT I: Math 770, CR 720, WR: 670, Total: 2160
SATII: Math I: 720, Math II: possibly 800, looking to retake if not, Chem: waiting for scores</p>
<p>Do you think I should retake SAT I? </p>
<p>GPA: 4.0 </p>
<p>I have a strong EC’s and semi-strong awards/accomplishments</p>
<p>Location: Honolulu, HI
Chinese Male </p>
<p>Schools:
Caltech
MIT
UC Berkeley
UC Santa Clara
Stanford
Carnegie Mellon
University of Pennsylvania
Columbia University</p>
<p>Please chance me! </p>
<p>I also have another question: I’ve been getting mail from Harvard and Princeton even though I never requested anything. Is that a good sign? Should I apply to those schools too? I don’t know what that means, so if anybody could help me, it’d be appreciated!</p>
<p>There is no UC Santa Clara- it’s UC Santa Cruz. As an out of state applicant, your chances at the UCB are around 1 in 10, which is just about what they are for the rest of the colleges on your list, with the exception of UCSC. You need some serious safeties and matches, because the chances are you may not get into any of those schools. And as far as the mail from P and His concerned, they probably got you name from the college board, and send those letteres to everybody who does well on the SATs or PSAT’s. They are fishing for applicants.</p>
<p>Without some strong ECs the ivies on your list, as well as Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, and CalTech are all big reaches.</p>
<p>Choose one or two and refocus your list to some safer schools. The thing is that none of your reach-y schools need any more asian males, especially the tech schools and Berkeley. Berkeley is even looking to scale back on asians after the lack of diversity in their incoming freshman class.</p>
<p>And you’re just not, judging from this post at least, even a really impressive applicant.</p>
<p>By all means, apply to one or two. But look into LACs and even other UCs.</p>