Asian Canadian Male - RD Chances?

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<p>Asian male from Windsor Ontario Canada
Honor roll student: A average (80%+) for every year of high school
Special honor roll student: (90%+) for grade 10
Taken every enriched/gifted course offered (projected enriched credits: 20)
Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, English; working knowledge in French</p>

<p>SATs:
waiting, took december administration
SAT II:
Math IIC 800 Physics 760 Chemistry 730</p>

<p>My essays are going well, I’m still editing</p>

<p>Averages (Marks from our school are deflated and the schools know it because every year, we have at least 3 people going to Ivy or Psuedo-Ivy, so our marks are increased by 10% automatically)</p>

<p>Nine: 87% (A)
Ten: 92% (A)
Eleven: 87% (A)
Current marks: 89% (A)</p>

<p>English Enriched: 77% (B+)
French Enriched: 88% (A)
Chemistry Enriched: 97% (A+)
Physics Enriched: 79% (B+) (highly deflated)
Biology Enriched: 85% (A)
Calculus Enriched: 96% (A+)
Geometry and Discrete: 94% (A)
Computer Science: 95% (A+)</p>

<p>Competitions: (at least top 10% on all national contests)
AMC: 123
AIME: 7
ARML participant all 4 years. Massey Ontario A ranked 15th in North America against big state all star teams. Individual medallist.
COMC: 64
Euclid: 73
York Science Olympiad Team finish 3rd in province
Great Lakes Science Olympiad Team finish 1st overall 1st in Bio 1st in Chem
Sir Isaac Newton Contest: 97%ile
Avogadro Contest: 97%ile</p>

<p>Athletics:
Competitive Swimming, high school team, travel team
Club:
15+ hours/wk spread over 8 practices
Club Record Holder in two events
Southwestern Ontario regional champion in two events
Highschool:
City Champion in one event
Provincial Qualifier</p>

<p>School Clubs:
Debate team
Science club
Robotics team
Night math participant
Sunday math participant (by invitiation, ARML team is selected from this pool)</p>

<p>Work Experience:
Chef’s assistant at Chinese restaurant on saturdays for 5hr/wk</p>

<p>Personal Circumstances:
Currently living alone, parents working in other cities, does this kinda count as hook?</p>

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<p>Hey g man, I just got accepted ED from Toronto.</p>

<p>About being Canadian, make sure to push the awards that you received, because they are really into that down there. I found that I had much fewer awards and accolades than my American friends, because I think Canada generally doesn't have as many oppurtunities (You may have noticed that nearly every American has "national merit semifinalist" as an EC. I haven't seen many oppurtunities like that in Canada.)</p>

<p>Your marks and SAT scores were pretty similar to mine (The 87% in Grade 11 is a tiny bit iffy), but don't be afraid to sent in supplementary letters explaining certain things about your transcript. For example, Americans take geometry in Grade 9, while Geo. and Discrete is a notoriously difficult course in Canada, and you got 94%, which is awesome.</p>

<p>Your application seems pretty strong to me...If you're SAT scores turn out well then I'd say you have a great shot. </p>

<p>One last thing, about your other ECs (debate, robotics...), make sure that any title or position is known. Even junior director of blah blah blah sounds better than just plain "member". </p>

<p>Good luck and e-mail me if you have any questions...</p>

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<p>Well, we have our midterms in January, and I think I can get the following courses to jump:
French to 90
Geo and Discrete to 100 (our school makes the tests really hard >100 is possible)
Calculus to 98
English to 80+
Bio to 93 or so</p>

<p>Physics will continue to slump because we have this teacher from India with impossible tests. (5 pages in 35 min periods O_O) So our class average is 65 or something.</p>

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<p>Chaz, where do you go to HS?
I go to Vincent Massey, um... it's pretty well known and the environment around here really drives up ppl's motivation to get those math marks. :D I bombed this one test for Geo so my mark went down, or else it would've been 100...</p>

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<p>CHAT.....I think I know someone at your school....don't want to release names though.........do you know a Noah G?</p>

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<p>Unfortunately no</p>

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<p>bump, bump....</p>

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<p>i think your chances are pretty good personally. btw, what does "bump" mean?i've been seeing it a lot lately.</p>

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<p>people use bump if they want to bring attention to their topic by putting it back at the top of the list of topics in a forum</p>