Which schools should I apply to?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>My school limits the number of applications to 6, so I have to pick schools wisely. I have decided to apply to schools where I have a chance because I don’t want to end up being rejected from all schools.</p>

<p>2280 SAT (800M, 740CR, 740W)
800 Math II, 800 Physics, 800 Chemistry
IB: 43/45 Predicted, Full Candidate
No GPA/Rank/APs offered at my school</p>

<p>8 International Math Competition Awards (nothing amazing, average AIME qualifier level (6 points at AIME))
1 National Award for Business
7 School Awards</p>

<p>President/Founder of 3 Clubs in School
Run successful business
Internship at Barclays
Organized 3 science projects
Student Council
2000 hours of community service
Varsity Basketball
10 Major leadership roles</p>

<p>4 Languages</p>

<p>Chinese
No Financial Aid
Great recommendations/essays.
International Applicant.</p>

<p>So far, I know the following are schools I am definitely applying to:</p>

<p>Wharton (maybe ED)
UChicago EA
UMich EA (Ross pre-admit)</p>

<p>The following are schools I am considering:
Princeton
Brown
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Stanford
UC Berkeley
Emory
Carnegie Mellon</p>

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<p>It’s very difficult to gauge your chances without a GPA/rank, so I’d advise you to compare yourself to other kids in your school who have gotten in to HYPM etc. in the past. </p>

<p>But from what I can tell, you’re objective stats are great, but your ECs seem weak. That doesn’t mean you aren’t a competitive applicant for the schools you listed, however.</p>

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<p>Without a GPA or Rank how will you even apply to a school? Just wondering.</p>

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<p>^Usually the colleges end up recalculating the GPA’s of the kids applying there, so as long as he has good grades, he should be fine.</p>

<p>And many schools either don’t offer a ranking system or don’t disclose ranks to colleges.</p>

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<p>My school doesn’t send a GPA but if they did, it would be around 4.0UW and 4.7W or so.</p>

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<p>Also, I thought 2000 hours of community service would be a major boost to my ECs.</p>

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<p>No when colleges look at extra-curriculars they aren’t really looking so much at volunteer and work experience. Why? Because anybody can go to the Mustard Seed or whatever and serve soup to homeless people. Or anyone can get a job at Starbucks. The only real work experience that would be relevant would be like at internship at a hospital or an office or something.</p>

<p>Your ECs are weak because none of them are outside of school, and you don’t really excel in any of them.</p>

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<p>Actually, a lot of them are outside school; I just havent specified because I dont want to release my identity. Sorry about that. Also, the 2000 hours aren’t in the purest form of community service, such as cleaning streets- they involve internships (one of them has 10% selectivity and most other interns are Ivy League students), teaching students etc. I basically got that many hours from doing five different activities.</p>

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<p>Basically what I’m saying is that nothing stands out. Your SAT is good not great for those schools, and your SAT IIs are perfect. Without a GPA it’s difficult to chance you, but I would say your chances are about 10% at those Ivies and Duke and Stanford, making them high reaches. While the others are matches or low reaches.</p>