Please. What are my chances?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Please rate my chances for every college based on the following system:
Estimate my chances of getting in by multiple of 10s. For example, I might have a 10% chance of getting into Harvard or 20% chance of getting into Columbia or 30% chance of getting into Rice. </p>

<p>Do it by multiple of 10s where a safety would be 80-100% chance of getting in, a good match would be 40-70% chance, and a reach would be a 10-30% chance.</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Income: very low
GPA:94.5/100
Classes: All Honors and AP Calc
SAT: 760M, 700R, 650R
Rank: none
Extracurriculars:
Student Government - 1 year
Technology Club - 3 years
Science Club - 2 years
Robotics Club (Treasurer for 1 year) - 2 years
School Newspaper - 1 year
Awards:
2nd and 3rd from Tech Club at state-level
3rd from Science Club at local-level
Job:
7 months at Wendy’s
Volunteer:
3 weeks at local library
5 weeks being a tutor</p>

<p>Colleges:
Princeton
Harvard
Yale
Northwestern
Swarthmore
Haverford
UPenn
UChicago
Colgate
Colby</p>

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<p>You’re awfully demanding, however, I feel it’s impossible to truly quantify probability of admissions.</p>

<p>I’m going to have to use numbers below 10 to ideally assign numerical values to some schools.</p>

<p>Princeton 4%
Harvard 5%
Yale 5%
Northwestern 20%
Swarthmore 10%
Haverford 30%
UPenn 10%
UChicago 30% (with good essays)
Colgate 40%
Colby 70%</p>

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<p>Well, I put your odds a bit higher, but not by a whole lot:</p>

<p>Princeton 20%
Harvard 20%
Yale 20%
Northwestern 40%
Swarthmore 30%
Haverford 50%
UPenn 30%
UChicago 40%
Colgate 50%
Colby 70%</p>

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<p>Yeah, I just don’t see how the OP has a better shot than most people at HYP, so I basically halved their acceptance rates.</p>

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<p>I know I’m asking for a lot but it helps much more than to just say “I think you have a chance.” By the way, what is OP? You think my chances of getting into UChicago is that high? I always thought that it was a really selective school.</p>

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<p>Original poster is OP. Chicago is selective in that it gets great applicants and, subsequently, great students. However, it’s acceptance rate is considerably higher than it’s peer schools. While it’s peers (Northwester, JHU, Duke, Wustl etc) have rates in the lower 20s, Chicago has been in the mid to low thirties. A few years ago it was still in the forties. Your chances are good, however Chicago is notorious for accepting students based on soft factors–especially essays.</p>

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<p>Because the OP is an Asian male he’s not going to be competitive in a lot of Ivy league pools with those scores. I agree with the halved approach. I might even go less.</p>

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<p>Ouch. Actually, I appreciate the honesty. This is what I was really looking for. Any more input? It really helps.</p>

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<p>Write great essays. Work your butt off on your app. If you do that, you’ll be competitive within the asian pool.</p>

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<p>Well, I’m a junior now so what can I do in about 2 months that will strengthen my resume? I don’t really have time to pick up my GPA or anything like that. What can be done that impresses colleges but only takes about 2 months to do.</p>

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<p>I’m not sure anything could be done in 2 months that would truly impress colleges. Of course, you could book a flight to the Sudan, open up a school and medical facility and educate the youth.</p>

<p>Honestly, find a meaningful internship, get a job at least. But spend your time wisely. You may not do anything impressive, but anything you can do will help.</p>

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<p>If you haven’t already, just don’t fill in the “asian” box under ethnicity and put “no pref.”…although they may already figure it out anyways. I HATE HOW ASIANS GET THE LOWER HAND! -.- btw, I also worked at Wendy’s…for 2 years. Bad idea to go so long.</p>

<p>But I did read under the “results” thread of a low-income, asian male with around your stats that got accepted into Stanford & Yale even though “people said [he] had NO CHANCE of getting into HYPS” Even though the admissions sorta seems like a gamble game anyways, it could help you.</p>

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<p>If you do plan on not checking the “asian” box, make sure there is a “no preference” box. By checking something irrelevant (like other) or wrong (like black) would be a bad idea in that your name, which I am assuming sounds asian, is plastered all over the sheets of paper in front of the admissions officer.</p>

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<p>Well, I think admissions people will already assume I’m Asian if I put “no preference” because my last name is pretty Asian.</p>