¿Ayuda, por favor? Arigato!!!! USC, UCSD, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Stanford, Cal Tech

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi! I am a high school junior!</p>

<p>Freshman Year: Unweighted: 3.9 Weighted: 4.4 (the B+ was 89.911%)
Sophomore Year: Unweighted: 4.0 Weighted: 4.6
Junior Year: Unweighted GPA: 4.0 Weighted GPA: 4.9</p>

<p>SAT II: Math IIC (800)</p>

<p>SAT Reasoning Test: 2290 (Writing 800) (Math 780) (Reading 710)</p>

<p>Senior Year Course (if all goes well)
AP Lit and Comp
AP Physics
AP Calc BC
AP Spanish
Honors Gov/ Econ
Sport (Don't know if I will be kicked out of J.V. Tennis if I don't make Varsity)</p>

<p>Will have taken 8 AP classes by end of senior year</p>

<p>Award: Kumon National Ranking 2007: 1 (I don't know if this helps)
Kumon Math Completion 10th grade</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Tennis Team (10th and 11th grade)
About 200 hrs. work at Kumon after Kumon Completion
Tennis Club Executive Officer (10th grade)
Quantum Physics Secretary (11th grade)
CSF</p>

<p>Also, I'm first generation (Vietnamese/ father was POW 9 years) <--Does this help?
Thanks!</p>

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<p>USC, UCSD, UCLA look good. UC Berkeley is a match. Stanford, Cal Tech are obviously reaches, like they are for everyone who applies. Take more SAT2s and write about some sort of passion of yours in your essays....right now, your ECs seem a little bland and that is what differentiates strong and weak applicants at top schools, where many applicants have similar test scores, GPAs and courseloads.</p>

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<p>in at usc-> berkeley</p>

<p>dunno about caltech/stanford, there are some 2400/4.0 rejections. a GIRL at my school with a 36 ACT and 4.0 in sports and many EC's got rejected by standford</p>

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<p>i actually think your ECs are great. tennis and 200 service hours? hardly bland. i also think you stand a very strong shot at all the schools you listed. they're all very competitive, but i think you'll definitely get into half of them. good luck!</p>

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<p>As everybody else said, your into the UCs and USC, so it comes down to Caltech and Stanford, those are up in the air for everybody, but you do hav some things which can really help you out.</p>

<p>You should try to increase that Kumon thing. Stanford likes depth and Caltech likes math (I'm assuming it's math related). The one kid who got accepted EA from Stanford from my school had a LOT of work in one-two things, which each related to each other, and he had lower SAT/GPA than 2/3 of us.</p>

<p>So try to become president of it, or some other important position, and try to find 1-2 other ECs which relate to it, and write your common essay on it (or at least, that's what I would do).</p>

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<p>Bump Bump Bump</p>

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<p>Check your mailbox.</p>

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<p>I think your ECs are gooood :] </p>

<p>I think you’re in for a lot of schools, but Berkeley. That’s always the random wild card! </p>

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