The Semi official "Chances at top teir school" thread!

<p>Post here if you would like to know your chances at an elite school. Post all your stats. Please post in this format.</p>

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<p>Schools you want to get in: name , name ,name</p>

<p>9th UW GPA : XX Weighted GPA :XX
Classes - optional
name (honors type)
10th UW GPA : XX Weighted GPA :XX
Classes - optional
name (honors type)
11th UW GPA : XX Weighted GPA :XX
Classes - optional
name (honors type)
12th UW GPA : XX Weighted GPA :XX
Classes - optional
name (honors type) </p>

<p>SATs (12/31/2006):
Math : score
Reading : score
Writing: score</p>

<p>SAT IIs (12/31/2006):
subject 1 :
subject 2 :
subject 3:
subject etc:</p>

<p>Optional --if neceserrary post any retakes.</p>

<p>Extra cirriculars:
9th grade ecs</p>

<p>10th grade ecs</p>

<p>11th grade ecs</p>

<p>12th grade ecs</p>

<p>Other ecs </p>

<p>Clubs</p>

<p>Background:</p>

<p>Current grade
HS name
Ethnicity
College generation
Legacies</p>

<p>Any other information: </p>

<hr>

<p>Post your stats and we will comment. This will hopefully lower the amount of clutter. </p>

<p>Also in replys include the following:</p>

<hr>

<p>Origonal posters name
Matched schools: names
Slight reach: names
Reach:names
No chance:names</p>

<p>optional: other recomended schools
reasons why you think they are matched</p>

<p>Schools:
Penn (ED), Williams, Cornell, Dartmouth, Columbia, Georgetown, Brown</p>

<p>9th UW GPA : 4.0 Weighted GPA :4.0</p>

<p>10th UW GPA : 3.76 Weighted GPA : 4.28
Classes - optional
name (honors type)
11th UW GPA : 4.0 Weighted GPA :4.8
Classes - optional
name (honors type)
12th UW GPA : (expecting 4.0) Weighted GPA :(5.0)
Classes - optional
name (honors type) </p>

<p>SATs (12/31/2006):
Math : 700
Reading : 730
Writing: 730</p>

<p>SAT IIs (12/31/2006):
subject 1 : 780 Math IIC (first time was 750)
subject 2 : 720 Chemistry
subject 3: 760 US History
subject etc:</p>

<p>Optional --if neceserrary post any retakes.</p>

<p>Extra cirriculars:
<em>Note, member since 9th grade, ALL honor positions held since 11th</em>
President of Girls for Math and Science
Founder and President of March of Dimes Club
Social Manager of ASB Student Council
Treasurer of National Honor Society
Varsity Track and Field
Member of FBLA</p>

<p>Background:</p>

<p>Current grade 12
HS name Rather Not Say
Ethnicity White
College generation: ?
Legacies: Cornell</p>

<p>Any other information: I’m a girl. I took and scored this on the AP’s: 5 Macroeconomics, 5 Microeconomics, 5 Chemistry, 5 Biology, 5 Calculus BC, 4 English Language, 3 Statistics</p>

<p>Major upward trend in GPA. I’ll discuss why it dropped (issues with one teacher, focusing too much on extra curriculars). I’ll talk about my ambition and drive to succeed.</p>

<p>I’ll try this out!</p>

<p>Schools you want to get in:
MIT EA
UChicago EA
UMichigan
UPittsburgh
Penn State
Rutgers
Rice ID
Claremont McKenna
Harvey Mudd
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Williams
Cornell
Carnegie Mellon
Northwestern</p>

<p>Class Rank 3/733
A = 92-100
so I have straight As
I have a slight upward trend in all classes</p>

<p>9th UW GPA : 95.7 Weighted GPA :101.04
Classes - hardest course load
honors Algebra II, Biology, and English I
avd World History
German I, Gym, Intro to Improv
10th UW GPA : 96.3 Weighted GPA :104.15
Classes - hardest course load (harder than most dropped lunch)
AP Statistics
Honors English II, US History I, Pre-Calc/Trig, Chemistry
German II, Gym, Improvisation and Acting
11th UW GPA : 97.5 Weighted GPA :104.86
Classes - hardest course load (droped lunch for a P/F indepented study of AP Micro and Macro Economics)
AP Calculus AB, US History
Honors Phyics, English III
German III, Gym, Advanced Improvisation
Cumlative UW GPA :96.471238 Weighted GPA :103.3912 </p>

<p>School weights honors and AP classes by 1.13 </p>

<p>Senior Classes - (dropped lunch for extra science, self studing AP psychology outside of school)
AP Chemisty, Biology, Calc BC, US Government, English
Honors German IV
Gym, Independent Study Improvisation
SATs (4/1/2006):
Math : 760
Reading : 670
Writing: 690
Essay: 12</p>

<p>SAT IIs (6/2006):
Math II : 800
US History : 760
Physics: 740</p>

<p>Extra cirriculars:
9th grade ecs
Student Council Senator
Chess Club
Math Team
Spring Musical - Bye Bye, Birdie
10th grade ecs
Student Council
Varsity Chess team
Math Team
Spring Musical - Damn Yankees
11th grade ecs
Student Council VP (issues)
Varsity Chess Team (league champs!)
Math team (highest scorer in school)
Fall Play - 12 Dancing Princesses
Spring Play - The Sound of Music
12th grade ecs
Student Council President
NHS
Varsity Chess Team
Math Team
Theater and musicals</p>

<p>Other ecs
CTY Lancaster
FPMS Algebra I
Game Theory
Mathematical Logic
Number Theory</p>

<p>Worked in summer for: Acme, Movie Theater, Fish Market, General Store, Watied tables, buses tables, and for local Municipal Government</p>

<p>Background: South Jersey (the mason dixon line is true)</p>

<p>Current grade - Senior
public non competitive :(<br>
Ethnicity - WASP
College generation - 2nd
Legacies - Parents have 5 degrees from rutgers (both Ugrad) 1 from NYU, and 1 from Columbia, none will help me much</p>

<p>Any other information: Rubik’s cube in under 2:00
Rubik’s Revenge in under 8:00
PSAT: 209 commendation
Math and Poetry awards
rec basketball
AP Stat 5
APUSH 5
AP Calc AB 5
AP Micro 5
AP Macro 4</p>

<p>Please also put your school rank. I forgot that.</p>

<p>Mikethemaddog</p>

<p>MIT EA - slight reach
Harvey Mudd - match maybe
Harvard - reach
Yale - slight reach
Princeton - slight reach
Williams - possible match otherwise slight reach
Cornell - slight reach</p>

<p>Rapport
Penn (ED) - slight reach
Williams - near match
Cornell, - slight reach
Dartmouth, - slight reach possible match
Columbia,- reach
Georgetown,- slight reach
Brown - slight reach
Your ecs are okay but nothing amazing and top teir heavly looks at ECs. SATs are good but not amazing. However your gpa is very good. Good essays and recomendations will be your bestfreind.</p>

<p>Also guys please remembe to rate others as well. Im hopefully not gonna be the only one doing this lol.</p>

<p>it would be much cleaner if it is in this format
EA/ED SCHOOLS:
ROLLING:
RD SCHOOLS:</p>

<p>OVERALL UW GPA:<br>
OVERALL W GPA:
Do you have an upward or downward trend in your grades from 9th grade?</p>

<p>SENIOR CLASSES
name (honors type)</p>

<p>SATs (highest):
Math : score
Reading : score
Writing: score</p>

<p>SAT IIs (highest to lowest scores/ dates):
subject 1 :
subject 2 :
subject 3:
subject etc:</p>

<p>PSAT: </p>

<p>APs/IBs (grades/ dates):</p>

<p>Other Test Scores (AMC/ TOEFL/ AIME/ etc.):</p>

<p>Optional --if neceserrary post any retakes.</p>

<p>MAJOR ECS (when you participated in them/ for how many years) (this includes paying jobs):</p>

<p>AWARDS/ RECOGNITION:</p>

<p>Background:</p>

<p>Current grade
HS name
Ethnicity
College generation
Legacies</p>

<p>Essay Topic:
How are you recommendations doing?:
Any supplements?:</p>

<p>Any other information:</p>

<p>which ever way people wanna format it im okay. just post all the stuff necesseray otherwise WE can not help.</p>

<p>Here is mine. Sorry I did not organize my ECs.</p>

<p>Schools: MIT (please oh please!) , Caltech , Harvey Mudd, UC berkly, Yale, Stanford, pepperdine, UCLA (not so much)</p>

<p>Im currently going into ternth grade. </p>

<p>9th : 3.75 uw – 3.75 w
English 9cp
Algebra 1cp
Health/Geography/Careers
PE
Spanish 1
Physical science cp </p>

<p>9.5 (elearn.byu.edu) 3 .0 (not on my transcript however)
Geometry semester 1 and 2 taken ONLINE over summer</p>

<p>10th: max 4.0 uw – max 4.0w
ACD English 10cp
Algebra 2cp
ACD World history
PE
Spanish 2
ACD Biology Cp
Mass Media</p>

<p>11th : max uw 4.0 – max w 4.6
English 12 IB OR English language composition AP
Math Analysis H
US history AP
Spanish 3 cp
Chemistry H
computer science ap</p>

<p>12th: max uw 4.0 – max w 5.0
English 12 IB OR English language composition AP<br>
Calculus AP
Physics AP
Computer repair ROP
Economics and Politics AP </p>

<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ACD = Academy. I am in the academy which changes certain courses to be acd courses. These courses are focuses on my choice of topic, for me computer repair specifically and business and IT in general. So my essays in English for ex. would than be based on computers.</p>

<p>ROP = Off campus class with hands on training. </p>

<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^
ECs :</p>

<ul>
<li><p>Plan on over 100 hours of community service (20 already) </p></li>
<li><p>Became comptia A+ certified (certified pc technician) at 15</p></li>
<li><p>Getting a job at the geek squad my 10th-11th grade summer (may stay much longer, and i have already secured the job) </p></li>
</ul>

<p>*Business and IT (Computer technician emphasis) Academy student 10-12
—Academy program includes job shadowing, internships, and interviews of professionals. Also includes field trips to businesses, museums, libraries etc focused on my topic. My focus is on computers and business (however at any time if i choose I may go into the engineering academy) </p>

<p>*Creator and President of FCEF (future computer engineer forum) This is a club i am made this year (10th grade) where we discuss new and upcoming technologies and design (realistic) products ourselves. We even try and sell one product to a company (like Toshiba, Samsung, lg, etc.) every semester!</p>

<p>*Creator and President of TOHS donation club. I am also creating this club (this year) where every 4 weeks we will run a donation drive to help those in need. At the same time we collect boxes from every class room for food donations every 2 weeks. Proceeds go to food share and other foundations like mana. I have a partner ship with food share already. </p>

<p>The who cares list:</p>

<p>*National honor society (member) (requires 3.5 gpa and leadership skills) </p>

<ul>
<li><p>Member of CSF(member) (requires 3.5gpa and 10 hours of com. service a semester)</p></li>
<li><p>Created websites for both of my clubs fcef and tohsd. </p></li>
</ul>

<p>EC’s Cant really count yet</p>

<ul>
<li><p>RSI summer program 11-12th grade summer</p></li>
<li><p>Plan on taking more technician tests from comptia.org(network+, project+,etc)</p></li>
</ul>

<p>*Starting to program so ill have some programming ECs hopefully!</p>

<ul>
<li>Was 5th class president, not sure if colleges care because some people say it does matter while other say they don’t really consider it a good sign of leadership
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</li>
</ul>

<p>SATs: I plan on taking the SAT and the SATII at the end of 10th grade and/or the end of 11th grade (not sure yet) Have yet to take any PSATs but ill update after i take some practice tests from books i have. Yes, I am already studying. Taking a practice SAT from a book I have in the coming weeks. Ill let you know my current score.</p>

<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Application : obviously haven’t written an essay. Ill have good recommendations . </p>

<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Me: Live in southern California (30 min to LA) and I am male of Italian ancestry (born in new York) .
Legacies : Dad went to Hofstra. That’s it I guess.</p>

<p>Schools you want to get in:
Princeton
U Chicago
Duke
JHU
Vandy (evaluate scholarship chances)
Emory (evaluate scholarship chances)</p>

<p>UW GPA: 4.2 out of 4.3
W GPA: 4.28 out of 4.3
Class Rank: 1 out of 160
Will have 9 AP’s</p>

<p>SATs:
Math : 780
Reading : 750
Writing: 800</p>

<p>SAT IIs (12/31/2006):
Chemistry: 800
Math II: 800
US History: 800</p>

<p>AMC 12: 115
AIME: 5</p>

<p>Statewide awards in math and science
Medical Research
Habitat for Humanity
Varsity Tennis 4 years</p>

<p>bump…im busy and i will rate so more of you guys later. also more people chance each other!</p>

<p>oh oops, i’m new here so i didn’t see this:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=229064[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=229064&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Schools: UVA, William and Mary, Harvard, Yale, Brown, Auburn, VA Tech, Princeton</p>

<p>OVERALL UW GPA: 4.0
OVERALL W GPA:4.3
Do you have an upward or downward trend in your grades from 9th grade?
I’ve gotten all As all throughout high school. I should note that I should have a 4.5 weighted GPA, but I took some unweighted classes that brought it down.</p>

<p>SENIOR CLASSES
IB Physics HL
IB Senior Science Investigations Physics
IB Math II SL
IB Spanish II SL
Journalism 4
IB English II HL
IB Topics of the 20th Century HL
TOK</p>

<p>SATs (highest):(i’m re-taking in Oct.)
Math : 690
Reading : 630
Writing: 730 (11- essay)</p>

<p>SAT IIs (highest to lowest scores/ dates):(taking Math IIc, Physics, and Lit. in Nov.)
Math I :720
Lit : 630
subject 3:
subject etc:</p>

<p>PSAT: 198</p>

<p>APs/IBs : IB Psychology SL - 6</p>

<p>MAJOR ECS (when you participated in them/ for how many years) (this includes paying jobs):

  • newspaper throughout high school - managing editor (11,12) (this takes up tons of time)
  • Lit magazine (10,11,12)
  • NHS- president
  • Spanish Honor Society (11,12)
  • Spanish Club (10,11,12)
  • Key Club (10,11,12)
  • flexible job at a local company
  • Hollins Summer Program (classes in creative writing and Forensic Chem.)
  • Summer program at BU (classes in business and mass comm.)
  • Tutoring a 7th grader in math
  • Tutoring elem. school kids
  • Created a newsletter for a company
  • Volleyball (both school and club sport) (9,10)
  • Band - 1st chair (9)</p>

<p>AWARDS/ RECOGNITION:
-Excellence in Journalism Award (11)
-Excellence in English Award (9,10,11)
-Quill and Scroll (11)
-Editor of Hollins program literary journal
-Published in a local news magazine</p>

<p>Background:</p>

<p>Grade: 12
HS name: Edison
Ethnicity: white
College generation: ?
Legacies: UVA (dad and grandma) and Harvard (grandad)</p>

<p>Essay Topic: not sure
How are you recommendations doing?: I’ll have some really good ones.
Any supplements?:maybe a copy of my school newspaper</p>

<p>Any other information: interested in business and/or communications</p>

<p>Schools you want to get in: Rice, UChicago, Johns Hopkins, Duke, WUSTL, Columbia, Emory</p>

<p>9th UW GPA : 3.94
Classes
Biology A (highest non-AP)
Adv. Alg & Trig
Speech/English
American Gov’t/US History II
Spanish II
Family Consumer Science/9th Grade Art</p>

<p>10th UW GPA : 3.83
Classes
Chem A (highest non-AP)
AP Bio
Pre-Calc A
Spanish III
Eastern Civilizations/Western Civilizations
Beginning Drawing/Beginning Design
Honors English</p>

<p>11th UW GPA : 3.90
Classes
AP Chemistry
AP Calc AB (no BC offered)
Personal Finance/Economics
Spanish IV
World Geography/Computer Programming
Physics A
English Literature/English Language</p>

<p>12th UW GPA : ?
Classes
Sociology/Beginning Jewelry
AP Psychology
AP Eng Lang/AP Eng Lit
Anatomy & Physiology/Ecology
Advanced Drawing/Fashion Merchandising?
Gen. Physics at state college
Calculus at state college</p>

<p>SATs: 2100 | 2100
Math : 770 | 750
Reading : 640 | 600
Writing: 700 | 750
*Highest combo: 2160</p>

<p>SAT IIs:
Biology M : 760
Chemistry : projected 740+
Math IIC : projected 740+</p>

<p>Extra cirriculars:
9th grade ecs
Volleyball</p>

<p>10th grade ecs
Speech
Drama Crew
Diversity Club</p>

<p>11th grade ecs
Diversity Club
Speech
Drama crew
Junior Leadership</p>

<p>12th grade ecs
Diversity Club
Speech
Drama crew
Probably Model U.N.</p>

<p>Other ecs
Volunteering at local hospital (100~ hrs by earliest app date)
Hopefully getting a job in the next few days.
Church attender
Chinese classes</p>

<p>**
Recommendations:** I’ll have one good rec for sure.</p>

<p>Current grade: 12th
Class rank: ~top 8-10%
Ethnicity: Chinese!
College generation: Not the first or second…
Legacies: Nothing significant.</p>

<p>Any other information:
National Merit Semifinalist
Honor Roll- 3.5+ 0GPA
Lettered in Speech & Drama
Second & Third in Speech districts</p>

<pre><code> I’m going to med school after my undergrad.
Will be studying 2 of the following: biochemistry, psychology, neurobiology, behavioral biology
</code></pre>

<p>me.duh</p>

<p>Rice: Match
UChicago: High Match
Johns Hopkins: Match
Duke: Reach
WUSTL: Match
Columbia: Reach
Emory:Match</p>

<p>Coola Troopa
EA/ED SCHOOLS:Duke</p>

<p>ROLLING:U of Michigan, SUNY Stonybrook</p>

<p>RD SCHOOLS: Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Columbia, U-Penn, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, U of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, UVA</p>

<p>OVERALL UW GPA: 3.73
OVERALL W GPA: 4.00
(I hope to bring this up for Senior Year… Duke requires 1st quarter grades for ED applicants.)</p>

<p>Do you have an upward or downward trend in your grades from 9th grade?
Downward but with harder courseload each year (6 AP’s for Junior Year) for UW GPA… W GPA has been around the same for all three years!</p>

<p>SENIOR CLASSES
AP Chemistry
AP Literature & Composition
Tournament Debate/Study Hall (one for each semester)
AP US Government & Politics
AP Psychology
DNA Lab Partnership H
AP Statistics (Ind. Study)</p>

<p>SATs (highest)
Math : 800
Reading : 700
Writing: 700
I’m planning to retake this October.</p>

<p>SAT IIs (highest to lowest scores/ dates)
Math IIC: 800, 10/05
World History: 770, 06/05
US History: 760, 06/06
Chemistry: 740, 06/04
Physics: 730, 06/05
Bio M: 720, 06/06
Math IC: 710, 11/04</p>

<p>PSAT:214 </p>

<p>APs/IBs
AP Euro: 4 (2005)
AP English Language: 5 (2006… the rest are 2006.)
AP Spanish: 3
AP Calc BC: 3
AP Calc AB: 5
AP USH: 5
AP Physics B: 4
AP Bio: 4</p>

<p>Other Test Scores (AMC/ TOEFL/ AIME/ etc.) </p>

<p>11th Grade: (AMC (110)/ AIME (2))… well that’s around average, I guess.</p>

<p>MAJOR ECS (when you participated in them/ for how many years) (this includes paying jobs):</p>

<p>Debate (10-12)
Mathletes (9-12, qualified for ARML this year.)
Brainstormers (10-12, was on Long Island Challenge last year.)
Spanish Club (10-12)
Cradle of Aviation (Summer after Junior Year)
Junior Class Vice President… now Senior Class VP, :smiley:
Knowlege Masters (9)</p>

<p>CTY Courses
Intro to Biology (9, Skidmore)
Intro to Physics (10, Skidmore)
Number Theory (11, Franklin & Marshall)</p>

<p>Note: I went from a private school to a public school sophomore year.</p>

<p>AWARDS/ RECOGNITION:
National Merit Commended Scholar… New York won’t be at 214 this year.</p>

<p>University of Rochester Book Award (one of eleven awards given to those with the highest Weighted GPA’s.)</p>

<p>Knowledge Masters Team: 1st Place in New York</p>

<p>National Honors Society</p>

<p>Principal’s Award for Citizenship</p>

<p>AIME Qualifier</p>

<p>Some other little unimportant things…</p>

<p>Background
Current grade: Senior
HS name: Cold Spring Harbor High
Ethnicity: Caucasian
College generation: ???
Legacies: Sibling legacies at Duke & Harvard… if those count, lol!</p>

<p>Essay Topic: I got two great ideas… my volunteer work at the Cradle & one about my goldfish (who is turning 8 this October!)</p>

<p>How are your recommendations doing?:Pretty good, I’m getting one from my AP Language teacher & another from my AP Physics teacher.</p>

<p>No hooks at all…</p>

<p>Harvard: Reach
Princeton: Reach
MIT: Beyond Reach
Columbia: Don’t know anything about this school
U-Penn: match
Cornell: Match
Johns Hopkins: Match
U of Chicago: Match
Carnegie Mellon: Low Match
UVA: Match</p>

<p>Strengths: CTY courses, AIME qualifier (your score wasn’t so good but just qualifying is relatively unique on apps)
Weaknesses: Basically all of your EC’s are academic. So you’re applying just as an academic candidate, but others who are purely academic applicants will likely have better awards and test scores.</p>

<p>anyone do my chances???</p>

<p>Weasel 8488:
Comments: Weak EC’s, strong numbers
UChicago- Match
Duke- Match/Reach
JHU-Match
Princeton-Reach
don’t know too much about vandy/emory</p>

<p>LizzieE:
Comments: strong passion in journalism, strong courseload, weak test scores
UVA- strong match
HYP- high reach (work on those damn scores, that includes sat 2)
Brown- reach
not sure of the others</p>

<p>coolatroopa:
Comments: decent numbers, a lil weak ecs, legacies yay lol
duke- light reach
princeton- HIGH reach (with those ecs? very improbable)
harvard- reach (with a strong essay and rec, you have a chance, better than princeton)
mit- high reach (numbers strong, but not strong in the math/sci region, and ecs aren’t that strong)
columbia- reach (very competitive for nyers, you have a shot)
cornell- match/reach (not terrible chance)
jhu- match/reach
u chicago- match
uva- match
carnegie- safety/match</p>

<p>im doing those in my format, because it’s just easier for me to read,</p>

<p>Weasel8488: Thanks for the chances! What about Duke (applying Early), U of Michigan (applying as soon as possible) & Stonybrook?</p>