Comments on: What are my chances at Stanford/UPenn/MIT/Dartmouth? http://www.bizxa.com/what-are-my-chances-at-stanfordupennmitdartmouth.html Business Xanadu Online Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:55:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jb http://www.bizxa.com/what-are-my-chances-at-stanfordupennmitdartmouth.html/comment-page-1#comment-9527 jb Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:11:09 +0000 http://www.bizxa.com/what-are-my-chances-at-stanfordupennmitdartmouth.html#comment-9527 I would say no for Stanford and MIT and maybe with a great application for Penn and Dartmouth. No to Stanford because your stats are low for an unhooked applicant (hook=recruited athlete, legacy, minority=50% of class) and you have average ECs. With a >10% admit rate, they only take the extraordinary. No to MIT because you do not list any exceptional math/science achievements. MITexpectss at minimum you've been involved with AIM, AIME, Intel, Westinghouse... At Penn and Dartmouth your stats make you an average applicant. If you can find some way to stand out, you have a shot. Excellent references and an excellent essay may put you over the top. But don't count on any of these schools, have some great safeties. This will be the hardest year in history to get into top colleges. The competition among Asian candidates is the most fierce. All of the ivies except Cornell take >15% and the pool comes from both Asian Americans and international Asians. A recent book reports that Asian candidates need 50 point higher than a white candidate on the SAT at ivies. What will hurt you most is th 3.5 at the harder school. Ivies get high stats candidates from the world's toughest schools and their admits are the top students at those schools. I would say no for Stanford and MIT and maybe with a great application for Penn and Dartmouth.

No to Stanford because your stats are low for an unhooked applicant (hook=recruited athlete, legacy, minority=50% of class) and you have average ECs. With a >10% admit rate, they only take the extraordinary.

No to MIT because you do not list any exceptional math/science achievements. MITexpectss at minimum you’ve been involved with AIM, AIME, Intel, Westinghouse…

At Penn and Dartmouth your stats make you an average applicant. If you can find some way to stand out, you have a shot. Excellent references and an excellent essay may put you over the top.

But don’t count on any of these schools, have some great safeties. This will be the hardest year in history to get into top colleges. The competition among Asian candidates is the most fierce. All of the ivies except Cornell take >15% and the pool comes from both Asian Americans and international Asians. A recent book reports that Asian candidates need 50 point higher than a white candidate on the SAT at ivies.

What will hurt you most is th 3.5 at the harder school. Ivies get high stats candidates from the world’s toughest schools and their admits are the top students at those schools.

]]> By: me http://www.bizxa.com/what-are-my-chances-at-stanfordupennmitdartmouth.html/comment-page-1#comment-9526 me Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:01:09 +0000 http://www.bizxa.com/what-are-my-chances-at-stanfordupennmitdartmouth.html#comment-9526 Good chances if you apply early decision at UPenn. What are your SAT II scores? Good chances if you apply early decision at UPenn. What are your SAT II scores?

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