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I regularly browse through forums and see other people STATS, therefore I think I am proficient at evaluating the chances you have at attending some of the top universities in the USA.

So, if anyone wants me to chance them, please list your stats and also your university list below and I will reply ASAP. I am only able to chance the top universities, such as the ivies, stanford, caltech, mit, rice, georgetown, duke, etc.

Please follow this format: (only an example, not mine lol)

Background

Status: Asian Male

Country: Greenland

School Type: Small Private Catholic

Academics:

Scores:

SAT I: M800CR800W800 (M=maths, CR=critical reading, W=writing)

SAT II: Physics800Chemistry800

GPA: 4.0UW 6.0W (uw=unweighted, w=weighted, All ib courses are weighted)

Rank: 1/1000 (rank/class size)

Senior year course schedule and predicted grades:

Chemistry HL - 7

Physics HL - 7

Maths HL - 7

Further Maths HL - 7

English A1 HL - 7

English A2 HL - 7

Swahili B HL - 7

Extracurriculars:

1. Cured Cancer

2. Had an affair with George Clooney

3. Built the twin towers

Colleges of Interest:

1. Harvard

2. Princeton

3. Williams (ED) (Ed= early decision)

Hooks: Legacy at Harvard, both parents went to harvard, 4 grandparents went to harvard, 7 great grand parents went to harvard.

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I'll give it a go :bawling:

Background:

Argentinean Male

living in USA since 2002

Second biggest school (magnet) in the state of Florida

Academics:

Scores:

SAT I: M800CR650W630 (M=maths, CR=critical reading, W=writing)

SAT II: Physics (N/A) (possible above 700) Chemistry (N/A) (possible above 700) Math (N/A) (possible above 800)

GPA: 3.9UW By the end of senior year about 7.1W

Rank: 1or2/1200

Junior year course schedule and predicted grades:

APs:

Calculus BC- 5

Spanish Lit.-5

At college:

Chemistry 1045 and 1045L- (A+) in both (equivalent to a 5 in AP chem. or a 7 in Chem HL)

Second semester (next week):

Chemistry 1046 and 1046L - Possible (A+) in both (no highschoolo equivalent)

Differential Equations = Calculus 4 (grade=A+ probably, no highschool equivalent; senior college math course)

IBs:

Math SL- 7

History HL-test next year

Physics SL-7

Design Tech HL- (I have no idea what this class is, all we do is play halo all day, i'm makin a new topic on this to ask who else has the class)

Physics again because we get 2 classes for all higher level sciences

English HL-test next year

Senior Classes:

IB Spanish SL-7

IB History HL-7

IB English HL-no comment

IB Design Tech. HL-no idea

IB Math? I dont know if they're makin me take math since i'm done with every possible math course up until grad. school

IB Science? Same as math

Weightraining :) - grade=C-...no just kidding :)

Physics 3 with calculus first semester

Multi-variates Calculus first semester

Organic Chemistry second semester

Extracurrics:

Wrestling 2 years

Golf since 7th grade

MAO (mu alpha theta, math club) for 6 years, 3 years officer holding, maybe president next year

Started an SAT prep cours at my school

Validectorian

guitar hero tournament organizer for local events

countless hours in IBsurvival.com :)

Colleges:

MIT

Princeton

and all the other Ivy engeneering schools

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Yea this is for US, just like the threads on CC.

Dear God Forester... I nearly fainted when I saw the first post. >_> that was a TERRIBLE example (LOL @ the 7x legacy lmao)

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Background

Status: Nigerian

Country: United STates

School Type: Doesn't matter

Academics:

Scores:

I live in the Midwest so I took and ACT; got a 34

GPA: 3.8UW 4.37(uw=unweighted, w=weighted, All ib courses are weighted)

Rank: 8/356 (rank/class size)

Senior year course schedule and predicted grades:

Physics HL - 5

Maths SL - 4

English A1 HL - 5

Psychology- 7

Spanish SL - 4

History HL-6

Extracurriculars:

1. Baseball (All-State Player)

2. Landmines Task Force

3. Chess Club

Colleges of Interest:

1. Vanderbilt (accepted)

2. Stanford

3. Cal Berkely

Hooks: My Father recieved his MBA (Masters in Business Administration) from Stanford

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BACKGROUND

Status: Asian (Filipino) Male

Country: United States

School Type: Suburban Public

ACADEMICS

Scores:

SAT I: M650 CR 690 W 660

SAT II: N/A yet

GPA: 4.0UW 6.0W

Rank: 1/360

Senior year course schedule and predicted grades:

English HL: n/a

Spanish B SL: 7

Math SL: n/a

Bioloby HL: n/a

History of the Americas HL: n/a

Chemistry HL: n/a

EXTRACURRICULARS

1.) President and Founder of Junior Medical Reserve Corps of Flagler County- organization that aims youth to participate in community service that involves public health iniatives.

2.) Student advisor on Advisory Board on Sex Education- Changed county's sex education policy from "abstinence-only" to "abstinence-plus;" got interviewed by news media; spoke to forum; conducted survey.

3.) Advisor on Flagler County Wellness Committee-In charge of county's health policy in schools

4.) Key Club

5.) Leo's Club

6.) Model United Nations- participated in conferences in Tallahassee, FL

7.) National Honor Society

8.) Secretary and Co-founder of the Young Democrats Club

9.) Volunteer at Flagler Free Clinic

10.)Volunteer at Florida Hospital-Flagler

11.)Volunteer at Dermatology Associates

12.)Worked at Winn-Dixie

13.) Internship with organic chemistry professor and conducted EE in Florida Tech

14.) Swim Team

15.) Volunteer at Ardent Family Care

14.) Raised money for Multiple Sclerosis reseaerch through Benefit Gig

Colleges of Interest:

1.) Georgetown University

2.) University of Notre Dame

3.) Brown University

4.) John Hopkins University

5.) College of William and Mary

6.) Duke University

7.) University of South California

8.) George Washington University

9.) New York University

10.) University of California Los Angeles

11.) University of Florida

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1.) Georgetown University - high match

2.) University of Notre Dame - match

3.) Brown University - high match

4.) John Hopkins University - high match

5.) College of William and Mary - match

6.) Duke University - low reach

7.) University of South California - match

8.) George Washington University - match

9.) New York University - match

10.) University of California Los Angeles - low match

11.) University of Florida - safety

you also mentioned columbia. it's a reach right now, but if you manage an extra 200 points on SAT should be a high match. your academics are good except your SAT score. Your volunteering work is also good. Write a good essay and you should be in at most of the schools you are interested in.

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1.) Georgetown University - high match

2.) University of Notre Dame - match

3.) Brown University - high match

4.) John Hopkins University - high match

5.) College of William and Mary - match

6.) Duke University - low reach

7.) University of South California - match

8.) George Washington University - match

9.) New York University - match

10.) University of California Los Angeles - low match

11.) University of Florida - safety

you also mentioned columbia. it's a reach right now, but if you manage an extra 200 points on SAT should be a high match. your academics are good except your SAT score. Your volunteering work is also good. Write a good essay and you should be in at most of the schools you are interested in.

alright awesome!! I'll take your word on that! :)

1.) Georgetown University - high match

2.) University of Notre Dame - match

3.) Brown University - high match

4.) John Hopkins University - high match

5.) College of William and Mary - match

6.) Duke University - low reach

7.) University of South California - match

8.) George Washington University - match

9.) New York University - match

10.) University of California Los Angeles - low match

11.) University of Florida - safety

you also mentioned columbia. it's a reach right now, but if you manage an extra 200 points on SAT should be a high match. your academics are good except your SAT score. Your volunteering work is also good. Write a good essay and you should be in at most of the schools you are interested in.

Another question, what do "match, high match, low match etc" really mean? Cause people sometimes mix up these terms. And can you give chances percentage-wise?

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Sounds like a good idea, so here's me giving it a go :P

Background

Status: American Male

Country: Wales

School Type: Small International School

Academics:

Scores:

SAT I: Math: 760; Writing: 750; Critical Reading: 630.

SAT II: French: 800; Chemistry: 750.

GPA: 4.0UW

Rank: Don't have one but in the top 10%

Senior year course schedule and predicted grades:

French B HL - 7

Chemistry HL - 7

Geography HL - 7

English A1 SL - 7

Math SL - 6

Music SL - 7

Extracurriculars:

1. Violin player. 2nd place in Cardiff in 2008.

2. Varsity Badminton.

3. Theatre; Wrote the spring play 2011 and was the lead in the spring play 2010.

4. Sports Leaders and Primary School Assistant during lunch times.

5. Started a Primary School Theatre Club.

6. Went on a Community and Service Expedition to Tanzania.

7. Volunteered in an Old People's home (Summer 2009); Volunteered at a Farm (Summer 2010); Volunteered at a Fair Trade Store (Summer 2011)

8. Experience with TV Commercials.

9. Basketball Team.

10. Member of String Quarter.

11. Member of School Orchestra.

12. Fluent in French, Welsh, Japanese, English and German. (Sort of fits in ExtraCurriculars because I learn Welsh and Japanese outside of school).

Colleges of Interest:

1. Middlebury

2. Vassar (ED; Early Decision)

3. Brown

4. Tufts

5. Stanford

6. Colombia

8. Bard

Hooks: Both parents went to Stanford. Aunt and Grandmother went to Vassar.

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Sounds like a good idea, so here's me giving it a go :P

Background

Status: American Male

Country: Wales

School Type: Small International School

Academics:

Scores:

SAT I: Math: 760; Writing: 750; Critical Reading: 630.

SAT II: French: 800; Chemistry: 750.

GPA: 4.0UW

Rank: Don't have one but in the top 10%

Senior year course schedule and predicted grades:

French B HL - 7

Chemistry HL - 7

Geography HL - 7

English A1 SL - 7

Math SL - 6

Music SL - 7

Extracurriculars:

1. Violin player. 2nd place in Cardiff in 2008.

2. Varsity Badminton.

3. Theatre; Wrote the spring play 2011 and was the lead in the spring play 2010.

4. Sports Leaders and Primary School Assistant during lunch times.

5. Started a Primary School Theatre Club.

6. Went on a Community and Service Expedition to Tanzania.

7. Volunteered in an Old People's home (Summer 2009); Volunteered at a Farm (Summer 2010); Volunteered at a Fair Trade Store (Summer 2011)

8. Experience with TV Commercials.

9. Basketball Team.

10. Member of String Quarter.

11. Member of School Orchestra.

12. Fluent in French, Welsh, Japanese, English and German. (Sort of fits in ExtraCurriculars because I learn Welsh and Japanese outside of school).

Colleges of Interest:

1. Middlebury

2. Vassar (ED; Early Decision)

3. Brown

4. Tufts

5. Stanford

6. Colombia

8. Bard

Hooks: Both parents went to Stanford. Aunt and Grandmother went to Vassar.

Would you choose Vassar over Stanford?

Vassar ED - 80% in.

I think you have a shot at Stanford. If you could get the CR over 700, it would be good.

Tufts might waitlist you.

Brown - probably in.

Columbia - if you spell it correctly when you apply it would be better :P

Middlebury - depends on your essay, but probably in as well.

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Would you choose Vassar over Stanford?

Vassar ED - 80% in.

I think you have a shot at Stanford. If you could get the CR over 700, it would be good.

Tufts might waitlist you.

Brown - probably in.

Columbia - if you spell it correctly when you apply it would be better :P

Middlebury - depends on your essay, but probably in as well.

Haha isn't that embarrassing :P Thanks for this though! And yeah I'd choose Vassar over Stanford because I really want to be on the East Coast and Stanford really is the complete other end of the country. I'll tell you how the ED works out :D

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Does anybody know how difficult it is to get into the Ivys for a Graduate Programme at Stanford, Yale, Columbia, and Harvard? I'm hoping to go in for a Business degree and their websites aren't exactly very specific (as expected). I need to know what I should do at Uni to get an "edge" so to speak., beyond maintaining high grades that is. Also I'm doing my Undergraduate degree in Law, so I'm not sure how that's going to translate, but I assume they're going to just see how I did in my exams and such and see if they're good enough. I also realise I have to give the GMAT and score an insanely high mark, but I will be working on that.

ALso I don't know if my IB and schooling ECs should be counted unless they were something exceptional and worth mentioning.

Any advice is welcome.

Arrowhead.

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Does anybody know how difficult it is to get into the Ivys for a Graduate Programme at Stanford, Yale, Columbia, and Harvard? I'm hoping to go in for a Business degree and their websites aren't exactly very specific (as expected). I need to know what I should do at Uni to get an "edge" so to speak., beyond maintaining high grades that is. Also I'm doing my Undergraduate degree in Law, so I'm not sure how that's going to translate, but I assume they're going to just see how I did in my exams and such and see if they're good enough. I also realise I have to give the GMAT and score an insanely high mark, but I will be working on that.

ALso I don't know if my IB and schooling ECs should be counted unless they were something exceptional and worth mentioning.

Any advice is welcome.

Arrowhead.

By Business degree I'm assuming you mean a MBA.

The biggest factor that the Ivy B-Schools look for is your work experience. A minimum of 2 years work experience is recommended after you get out of college. Since you're at LSE with the advantage of just s 3 year degree (as compared to US undergraduate 4-year degrees), you could even use the extra year for more work experience.

Apart from that, they will look at your application essays that are supposed to make you stand out (the usual stuff the Ivy undergrad admissions looks for) as well as recommendation letters from your employer. These are all secondary of course. The primary goal would be a flawless college GPA (or a First Class Honors in your case) along with a bunch of extra-curriculars from college (that again make you an all-rounder). Oh and I totally missed the testing - you need to take the GMAT (another SAT style standardized test). Check out the Harvard 2+2 program.

EDIT: Didn't really read your entire post so I informed you about stuff like the GMAT as if you had never heard of it.

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I was reading your qualifications with my jaws on the floor, then saw your ECs and realized you're aactually human :)

Ok, I guess I'll give it a go as well:

Background

Status: Latino-ish Male

Country: Brazil (and soon hopefully dual citizenship Brazil-Switzerland)

School Type: Small Private International

Academics:

Scores:

SAT I: M620 (ew...i know re-taking it in October)CR750 W680 (not much of a math whiz but a bit of a linguist :D)

SAT II: French800 Math Level 2 660 (might re-take it but deadline is too late for my top choice Uni since I'm applying for Early Action)

GPA:no idea how this system works :P

Rank:not1st but up there (my class of 50 students is somewhat polarized...REALLY highs and REALLY lows and just a few people sprinkled in the middle)

Senior year course schedule and predicted grades:

Chemistry HL - 6/7 (hopefully 7 if I can remember bond angles properly and pay more attention to calculating enthalpy changes)

Physics SL - 7

Maths HL - 6 (definitely as high as I'm capable of...not a natural mathematician but got this through working my butt off)

English A1 HL - 6/7

French A2 SL - 7

Econ HL - 6/7

Extracurriculars:

1. Basketball Varsity team (probably the worst (2nd worst) player on the team but shhh :) )

2. member of the MUN club (I actually enjoy this one, not only doing it for college)

3. Work at a refugee center

4. Volunteer at a local soup kitchen (meet new people, free food, it's all good :) )

5. 4 years guitar lessons (planning on re-starting)

6. Planning on starting drumming

Colleges of Interest:

1. Stanford (1st choice Early Action)

2. Hahvahd (Bostonian accent ftw)

3. Rice

4. University of Miami (Criminology major looking pretty good)

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Background

Status: Asian Male (Arab)

Country: Oman

School Type: The Sultan's School (a scholar living in a dorm)

Academics:

Scores:

SAT I: Will be taken in November

SAT II: November in Maths II and Physics

GPA: Don't really know but it is approximately 3.75

Senior year course schedule and predicted grades:

Mathematics HL: 7

Physics HL:7

Arabic A1 HL: 7

Chemistry SL: 7

Economics SL: 6

English A2: 4 :(

Extracurriculars:

1- Volunteering: Summer School supervisor, organizer and magazine editor and IT teacher for students from year 7-9. And look after them for one month

2- Taught mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and Arabic with two of my friends as CAS project to prepare IGCSE students for their exams in May/June 2011

3- English teacher assistant for year 9 students

4- Taught the scholars which live in the dorm (physics, chemistry, maths and economics)

5- Organized and performed a traditional show for the national day celebration in our school.

6- Football playing and got the third place in Dubai Unity Cup

7- Works in our family farm.

8- Selling cooking gas cylinders in with my father.

9- Volleyball, U16 lead to become second place in Mucsat league for private schools. And was the captain of the team and won the School tournament

10- Prepared a presentation for the hospital in my region about Occupational Health in Arabic

and much more...

Colleges of Interest:

1- Princeton

2- Harvard

3- Stanford

4- MIT

5- Yale

and others from Ivy or top unis in US

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Hi all,

I'm in the first year of IB in Norway and I've come to the conclusion that studying abroad for me is very important, and after finishing the IB here I want to get out to the UK/US as soon as possible. US is sort of on top of the list at the moment and that's my reason for posting here.

Norway's not really good on universities abroad and doing the IB is really the only chance to get into the better universities. Another problem I am going to face is getting letters of recommendations, as it's not a normal procedure here at all. Surely, I can get something, but is it important that it is from a very 'special' person and does it have to be really good? Would a normal teacher do?

Basically, I'm into computer programming, so I would apply for computer science (or something alike) and I'm wondering about my chances at some of the top universities, in particular:

Stanford

MIT

Ivy-Leagues

And in general, are Ivy League universities a lot harder?

As for my grades, from what I've understood, IB grades don't count for much as long as they are good and SAT's will count for most of it. What SAT's will I most likely have to take for computer science in one of the top uni's?

As I'm in the first year, there's still room for improvement and I haven't gotten predictions yet, but here is roughly where I'm at:

History HL 7

Physics HL 6

English HL 6

Math HL 5-6 (Math SL 7)

Economics SL 6 (a 7 shouldn't be hard here)

Norwegian SL 6

Another thing I'm wondering about is whether Math HL is very important, and what would look the best, a 7 in Math SL or 5-6 in Math HL? The thing is that my school actually doesn't offer Math HL, so I'm doing it through an Online course, which if I go through with, should count as some kind of bonus or look good, as I'm seeking the harder challenge academically?

Then onto my EC's. I think they're quite good as they're also closely related to what I want to study. But do you think they're good and how important are EC's? Can they assure me a spot, for instance, if my grades are not top notch?

Will have an approved CAS diary

Programming Course in Stanford Uni in 2010 got me interested into programming and in 2011 I started freelancing in web development. I have built a wide portfolio and I am now establishing my own website (sort of company) that does web consulting, guides and features a blog about my challenges as a programmer. I have used web development for creating free websites for people as service and I am still doing so.

I have also started some bigger projects on the side in Python and I hope to have some good applications ready by the summer (for instance a graphing program for Economics).

I regularly attend Coding Dojo's with my uncle (basically partner-programming on exercises with people who work with programming and are known in the community, in their 20's, 30's 40's).

I am proficient and know PHP, MySQL, Python and HTML/CSS very well. At the same time I am learning Java and C++.

I have started an initiative to giving Python programming lessons for fellow students at my school (currently at about 20 hours, but will be more than 100 by the summer and I plan on expanding this idea)

I have worked and work as a news writer for one of Norway's most prominent game-coverage sites (for free) and have qutie a good recommendation letter from the editor-in-chief.

4 years ago, I was part of the initiative to starting a LAN party in the local area (computer party sort of, google it if your'e not familiar). At first it was small, but has since evolved and I am practically the sole owner (but working together with the management of a youth club). Last event in January we sold out 150 tickets and even had extra seats set up which were filled and are now in contact with another place that will give us about 600 seats. For this I have done various tasks: administration, website development, sponsor applications, etc.

Member of Rotaract (Rottary youth organization) and have been giving some speeches there

Attented the Rotaract Youth Leadership Awards and was awarded a diploma.

I am attending an MUN soon, which is Model United Nations and is supposed to be well recognized among universities. Basically we are assigned a country and run a model united nations at a location. This will be in Southern England, but I might go to the main MUN conference too, which is in Haag.

As for sports, I played football until I was 16. I am now working out at a gym and taking tennis lessons (Probably not very important, but this at least, is included in the CAS diploma)

Hopefully you can pinpoint me in the right direction, and as you can see I have tons of questions and I'd love to get them all answered. If you have a school to recommend, I will gladly listen to you about that too! :)

Cheers,

Anton

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I would post this on College Confidential. They have a forum dedicated to What Are My Chances? threads, and I would say you're more likely to get more answers there.

From my knowledge, 4HLs is good, especially if you can get the 6 in HL Maths.

But really, your SAT scores are probably more important. You should probably do the Maths SAT Subject Tests, one or both, I'm not sure. You'll have to do 2 at least, so maybe just choose an area that you like or are confident you'll do well in.

Your ECs are pretty good, of course it helps that they are related to what you want to study.

A lot of the top US college selection is luck, because they have so many applicants who are as outstanding as each other. But I'd say you have probably as good a chance as others.

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