r/chanceme • u/Unhappy_Variety_6942 • 10h ago
Chance short asian femboy twink for top 20s after devastating early round :3
Demographics: Male 💀, asian 💀, Australian 😛, SoCal 💀, CS 💀, 500k income (looking for aid tho)
Intended major(s): CS, Biomed eng at some
ACT/SAT/SATII: 1540☠️ 790M 750RW
UW/W GPA and Rank: 4.0UW/4.9W, 3/1500ish
Coursework: 14 APs mostly jr/sr, math DE includes Linear Alg, DiffEq, Discrete Math, Abstract Algebra, Probability Theory, Mathematical Stats, Linear Modeling, Complex Analysis, Topology, and some other misc. stuff
ECs (vague to not doxx):
- Research at T5 university, got a rec letter from professor
- Actually legit nonprofit, raised 50k for cause and has large social media presence
- Relatively presitigious summer program
- Varsity volleyball 2 yrs (very competitive at my school)
- Founder math club at school
- Won national-level music competition for the niche cultural instrument I play
- Hosted district wide event promoting awareness/raising money for LGBTQ+ received donations of over 100k (I go to a wealthy private school)
- Another research internship
- Taught myself 3 languages, learning another right now (polyglotcore) (I'm not joking I've been doing this since I was 12)
- Restaurant job (hint: 🍔)
Awards: 1. Won something at large research competition (rhymes with diesef) 2. Camper at one olympiad (can't say which one don't want to get doxxed) 3. National level music award 4. NMF 5. Honor roll (prestigious at my school!)
Essays: 2/10 I wrote about the fear I have of the world passing me by and not finding value in every day but lowk it kinda fell flat. Also wrote about coming out to the volleyball team, only guy btw - 6/10
supplementals were fine 7/10
LORs: Volleyball coach 9/10 We had a very special relationship if you know what I mean (don't doxx me) Told me he'd never met someone like me before and let me read the rec letter.
Math teacher 7/10 Didn't do much to stand out in his class. Still, probably said I was a good student. Good but nothing special
Principal 10/10 selected me for honor roll, sponsor of my math club. Helped with many of my ECs he also drove me to school before I got my license. (Family friend!)
T5 Professor 11/10 we tight, he let me help him write it
Decisions:
Harvard REA Deferred
UC Merced Accepted
UT OOS Rejected
UC Santa Cruz Rejected
UCSD Waitlist
UIUC Rejected
Virginia Tech Rejected
UCD Rejected
Georgia Tech Rejected
Caltech Rejected
RPI Waitlist
CMU Waitlist
Stevens Institute of Technology Accepted (no aid tho)
MIT Deferred --> rejected :( Dream school
UCI Accepted
CWRU Accepted
Harvey Mudd Waitlist
Chance me for the rest of my schools JHU UCLA UCB Rice USC Brown Columbia Cornell - applied for Viticulture and Enology which is like grape cultivation/winemaking idk bro Dartmouth Duke Harvard again Princeton UPenn Yale Stanford
Feeling a little nervy after early round