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Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>alright guys heres my full list--tell me where i can get in.</p>

<p>Indian, Male, Junior, NorCal--Silicon Valley</p>

<p>GPA: 3.6-ish UW/4.2-ish Weighted Top 20 percent of class (Very competetive school, out of 40 graduating seniors, 12 went to l33t institutions, IVY leagues/CC top schools)
SAT: M: 800 V: 740 W: 730 --2270
SAT II: MII: 800 Physics: 800 Chem : 800
PSAT: 210
AP's: 13 by end of senior year: 8 right now</p>

<p>Soph Year:
Euro: 4
Physics B: 4 (dont know how)</p>

<p>Jr Year
AP Physics C E&M/Mechanics: Self Study
AP US History
AP Stats
AP Chem
AP Calc AB</p>

<p>Hopefully I can take more advanced math not taught in high school in addition with Calc BC next year (Multivariable Calc). I would learn BC this summer.</p>

<p>Most rigorous courseload blah blah....
Bad grades come in humanities, etc.</p>

<p>EC's/Awards:
Nat'l Merit Commended
Chem Olympiad School Winner, Second highest in District 54/60.
AIME qualifier, got a 4/5 on it.
COSMOS Summer Program
Santa Clara Engineering Seminar Participant
FIRST Robotics President, Webmaster; Team went to nationals this year
placed 44th.
Founder of my Schools robotics
Fluent in CAD, C programming, HTML, and after this summer Java.
Chess Club Founder/President. Chess Rating~(1600)
NHS member
SHS member
MHS member
Varsity Debate 3 yrs, JV 1 yr: Seal of Distinction
Varsity Tennis 4 yrs; Ranked in top 100 NorCal</p>

<p>Community Involvement:
SCORE employee, tutoring kids.
Licensed Soccer Referee, AYSO
Community Service @ local library
Robotics Camp Counselor for little kids.</p>

<p>GREAT Recs</p>

<p>Hopefully Good essays:</p>

<p>Targets:
Ivies, MIT, Stanford, Caltech, CMU, UCB, UCLA, rest of UC's.</p>

<p>Also Check out my team website for robotics, it won the FIRST award for excellence. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.pinewoodrobotics.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.pinewoodrobotics.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I like your user name, and your apparent appreciation for pounding the keyboard with relentless intensity.</p>

<p>(sorry for the lack of usefulness in my post, but eh, what can I say?)</p>

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<p>lol...each letter actually means something...its all a coherent word</p>

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<p>Ooh now I'm even more intrigued!</p>

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<p><em>squints at title for hidden message</em></p>

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<p>everything is looking very good except for the GPA..</p>

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<p>hmm...one thing about the GPA is that i messed up my soph year, and got back on track jun. year. </p>

<p>About the ranking thing, I might be in the top 10 percent by the time i apply, but im not 100 percent sure. In addition, the way my school weights, I take a lot of EC's, and they are graded on a 4 scale, bringing my GPA down.</p>

<p>So given the GPA, what are my chances...</p>

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<p>asdjkl:</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Safe Match</p>

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<p>same with me..i messed up sophemore year and got back on track junior year too</p>

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<p>thanks flopsy...yeah goodcolleges I was very sophomoric in 10th grade. I also only screwed up the second sem. gradeswise bcuz of AP Euro/English/Writingg. This year I was able to take AP's/classes that i was passionate about.</p>

<p>Guys I really want to know how much this GPA thing will hammer my chances. I can maybe get my SAT up to 2300+. Then do I have a chance at MIT?</p>

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<p>asdjkl, i actually have a similar name to your and people thought i didn't put any thought into it lol.</p>

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<p>Match for Berkeley/UCLA</p>

<p>CMU SCS or CIT?</p>

<p>Depending on your GPA it would probably be a reach for Ivies (depending on which one), SCS, Stanford, MIT. These schools are very competitive and usually have an overwhelming majority of applicants (maybe 97%?) in the top 10%. I think the avg applicant is in the top 1-5%. Even with your high school's competitiveness the top 20% will hurt a bit. </p>

<p>I think hopefully the rest of the UC's would be your safeties.</p>

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<p>supposing that i get in the top 10 percent of my class--what happens then?</p>

<p>my school has this weirdo percentage system--if you are in the top 10 percent you can state that, else you state your gpa. Its a small class where the ppl are hella smart. Senior Class: 11 National Merit Semi's out of 40, not including all the commended scholars. </p>

<p>For math/science im definitely #1,2, or 3 gradewise--Ive gotten all A's.
Debate/Sports bring my GPA down, and actually affect my class rank.</p>

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<p>I would think that if you can state you are in the top 1% to 2% if you exclude the sports and ECs, then you'd have a case at the Ivies, MIT and Caltech--otherwise the GPA is what's hurting you.</p>

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<p>your chess rating is uscf right? or is it a yahoo or uscl rating? rofl</p>

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<p>hm pinewood debate...do you know jerry hong?</p>

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<p>uscf.......</p>