Rural Applicant Chances

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I: Didn’t take; no one at my school takes the SAT
[</em>] ACT: 33
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Maths 2, 760 Chemistry (currently enrolled in a dual credit course for chem, had to self-study somewhat)
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/204
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Calculus BC (5) (School does not offer AP courses; I had to self-study Calculus II)
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: Calc III (completed, A+, online through CTY), Linear Algebra (completed, A, online through CTY), Honors Eng 4, Honors Chem 2, Civil War, Honors Bio II, Human Anatomy and Physiology, Honors Stats, Spanish 3, Differential Equations (online through CTY), Intro to Computer Science (MITx/edX) | Next semester I will likely self-study AP micro/macro econ and Real Analysis, and I will take the edX course 6.00.2x
[</em>] Other course information: All courses are A’s after freshman year (no A-'s). I took an AP English course (online) during 11th grade, and a Trig course (online) and a Udacity Comp. Sci course during the summer after 10th grade
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 5th Nats. for GPML/Mathleague in Sprint event for 11th graders, 5th State for GPML Sprint for 10th grade (I don’t know how this compares to people who do well on the AIME)[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Competition maths (captain), tutoring, Speech and Debate (LD president), NHS (president), FCCLA (officer), I program in my free time (made some Khan Academy exercises and made a browser extension)
[</em>] Summer Activities: 2013: Boys State (county treasurer and party treasurer (but not state treasurer!)), Calc III | 2012: Udacity Comp. Sci, Trig, Taught sister Algebra II (she was able to skip Alg. II thereafter, and my councilor’s letter reflects this)
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<p>Other:[ul]
[<em>] State: Missouri (I am in a predominately farming community)
[</em>] School Type: Small public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[li] Aspired Major: Maths or Econ or Comp Sci[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Schools of interest:[ul]
[<em>] UChicago
[</em>] MIT
[<em>] Princeton
[</em>] Harvard
[<em>] UPenn Wharton
[</em>] Stanford
[<em>] UC Berkeley
[</em>] WSTL
[<em>] Cornell
[</em>] Georgia Institute of Technology
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<p>Thank you. If you want me to chance back, just add a link to your reply.</p>

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<p>U Chicago: Reach
MIT: Reach
Princeton: reach
UPenn Wharton: Reach
Stanford: Reach
Berkeley: Match (can you pay full-freight?)
WUSTL: Reach
Cornell: Reach
GA Tech: Match</p>

<p>Is Mizzou no good as a safety?</p>

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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>Your ACT and SAT II scores seem top class; your GPA, extracurricular activities, and rank are stellar as well. Econ and CS majors are ridiculously competitive, so I advise you to add a safety or two.</p>

<p>UChicago-Reach
MIT-Reach
Princeton-High Reach
Harvard-High Reach
UPenn Wharton-Reach
Stanford-High Reach
UC Berkeley-High Match
WSTL-Low Reach
Cornell-Low Reach
Georgia Institute of Technology-Match</p>

<p>Chance me at <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1583658-chance-me-ut-austin-texas-m-will-chance-back.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1583658-chance-me-ut-austin-texas-m-will-chance-back.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Do you have $50,000 for GTech and UCB? (costs OOS, no financial aid)</p>

<p>Other than that, your list is mostly composed of “unpredictables”. They may be within reach but they’re so selective it’s impossible to know whether you’ll be among the lucky few or not.
You have everything to place these schools within reach, so instead of 1:15 or 1:20 odds, your odds are about 1:3 or 1:2.
Consequently, as of now, you need to find schools where your odds are higher but will challenge you more than Mizzou (I hope you applied to the HOnors College, and applied to Truman State too).
If you need financial aid, look at the 100% need schools - they’re all highly selective so select schools with 20-25% admit rate or more.
[100%</a> Meet Need Colleges | CollegeGreenlight](<a href=“Colleges with Need-Blind Admission for U.S. Students”>Colleges with Need-Blind Admission for U.S. Students)</p>

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<p>“Consequently, as of now, you need to find schools where your odds are higher but will challenge you more than Mizzou (I hope you applied to the Honors College and applied to Truman State, too).”
I now have my Sunday planned for me; thank you.</p>