What are my chances?

<p>I feel like these threads aren’t really accurate indicators, but hey nothing to lose.
MY STATS
GPA 3.9 Unweighted, 4.4 weighted
SAT 2180 Reading 710 Math 690 Writing 780 (not a superscore, I only took it once)
Female in Southern California
American/Persian (born in U.S.)
2nd Generation College student (father went to college)</p>

<h2>Speak Farsi and Spanish fluently</h2>

<p>SAT IIs
US History 770
Math 2 - 770
Chemistry - 700
APs
AP Euro History - 5
AP US History - 5
AP Chem - 5
AP Art History -4
School doesn’t do rankings, but I’m in top 10%</p>

<h2>- Have taken Pre-Calc and Psychology course at my local community college</h2>

<p>Senior Year Courses
AP Government/Economics
AP English IV
AP Physics C
AP Calc AB</p>

<h2>Spanish 4 Honors</h2>

<p>Intended major: Chemical Engineering
My Colleges*<em>:
Cal Poly SLO
UCLA, UC Berkeley
Common App:
Stanford
Cornell
UPenn
Rice
Harvey Mudd (A Claremount college)
University of Michigan
My essays for Stanford, UPenn and Michigan are awesome (forgive my humility lol). Cornell and Rice are up to par, Harvey Mudd is okay.
*</em> Not mentioning my safetys, but I do have them lol.
Nice teacher Recs from my Chemistry teacher, English teacher (III and IV) and math teacher (calc AB and algebra 2 Honors). Generic one from counselor.
And for my greatest downfall… ECs
Blue belt in karate
Crapload of Community service: relay for life, tutoring elementary kids, working at YMCA, Habitat for Humanity
Participated on a Advisory Committee for traffic safety (very small group, 6 people on committee total). Presented our suggestions to city council. Got lots of recognitions from that.
-Math honors society

  • honor roll all four years
  • AP Scholar with honors
    Work Experience
    -cashier at my father’s convenience store during the summer
  • paid tutor for students from various high schools in chemistry, U.S. History, math, Art History, Spanish
    Honestly, my biggest downfalls imo are lack of career/major oriented ECs and 690 SAT score (hoping math 2 score makes up for that though)</p>

<p>I would say you got a GREAT chance at all of them but Stanford and Rice. Don’t get me wrong, your stats are obviously good; the fact is that the admissions for those universities can be sometimes fairly unpredictable. </p>

<p>I’m certain you’ll end up at a good college :wink: </p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

<p>P.S.: Let me know if you’re coming to UofM (:</p>

<p>@Sandro: As far as Stanford goes, my essays were really good, I live in California (and they have a bias towards California residents), and I stressed the whole diversity thing which they’re big on too.
For Rice, well I’m not crazy about Texas anyway but my short essays were really good, it’s just this weird creative part that got me.
Anyway thanks for your feedback.</p>

<p>I see. I believe that Stanford is indeed a reach for you; I just intended to mention the unpredictability of their admissions.</p>

<p>Wish you the best of luck!</p>

<p>Unfortunately, Stanford has a bias AGAINST CA residents. They are actively lowering the percentage each year. They have a boatload of hooked applicants from CA. Long a primarily regional school, they have lots of legacy and development CA kids. Then they have community involvement and bring in lots of local UarMs.</p>

<p>The unhooked CA kid has an uphill battle, even with very top stats.</p>