Because CC doesn't have nearly enough Asian American chance threads...

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>If anybody here is bored enough to chance another semi-asian, it would be much appreciated! Thanks :D</p>

<p>The List:
MIT (Super "i'll get in when pigs fly" reach)
Princeton (Likewise)
Cornell
Carnegie mellon
Georgia Tech
University of Florida (Safety [I'm instate here...])
U Alabama</p>

<p>The Stats</p>

<p>SAT: Round II **2240<a href="CR%20740,%20M%20760,%20W%20740">/b</a> Round I: 1970 (CR 660, M 660, W 650) <--I'm very happy and college-minded today, I brought my score up 270! (to other college seekers, please do study for the SAT the first time you take it, and put forth a serious effort. It goes a long way!)
ACT: 30 (not submitting)
Subject Tests: Still yet to take, sadly, but I'm in the 750-800 range on practice tests (Physics and Math II)!
GPA: **UW. 3.98, W. 4.43<a href="Two%20B's%20in%208th%20grade%20Algebra%201%20are%20keeping%20me%20from%20a%204.0;%20I%20don't%20know%20how%20many%20colleges%20look%20at%20that,%20though">/b</a>
Race: Mixed (Asian American, Greek, Canadian)</p>

<p>Course load
11th
AP Physics C Mech; Honors Calculus with Precalculus; Honors US History; Honors English III; AP Eng. Lang; Spanish III
12th
AP Physics C E&M; AP Calc BC; Yearbook; American Gov/Economics; Spanish IV; Senior Thesis(On the metaphysics of Leibniz and Newton)/Philosophy; AP Eng. Lit
(I'm taking the maximum AP courses offered by my school)</p>

<p>EC's. (For brevity's sake, I'll only include the big ones... all other standard clubs like NHS and Mu Alpha Theta I am simply a member..)
· Vice-President Student Government (12)
· The MATE ROV (Submersible remotely controlled robot) Competition (This is a BIG one. I've spent over 700 hours as the lead electrical engineer for our group of 6 independently led high school students. I've built circuits that teachers told me I should buy premade, and I've invested hundreds more hours studying and exploring Electrical Engineering to do so). "
^We've won second and third place at our state competition (second against UNF!), and we will try one last time this year.
· Robotics Club: I founded a robotics club at my school, and I instruct weekly meetings. We will be exploring basics in mechanical and electrical engineering.
· Volunteering: I volunteer at a local organization for inner city children. I am the one of the managers of a breakfast program that feeds 400 children every week. I have accumulated over 300 hours volunteering weekly there.
· Cello: I've been playing for over 12 years, and I've been in a bunch of orchestras and won several awards. I also teach an adult student once a week.
· Martial Arts: I'm a black belt and an assistant instructor. When the dojang was in business (grades 7-11), I taught weekly children classes by myself. . </p>

<p>Awards:
· <em>insert fancy name here.</em> I'm gunna keep the name of the award off to preserve anonymity, but I won the leadership/citizenship/service award at my school in 11th, which is the highest award given out by my school.
· A myriad of academic "school sponsored" science/english/math awards.
· The MATE ROV Regionals winner: Second place (10), Third (11), First in Poster category (11).
· National Merit Program Recognition, pending further results (PSAT 212; Florida cutoff 2011: 210)</p>

<p>So what'dya say? From a subjective and completely inconsequential point of view, what kind of chance do I have at the schools listed above? Thanks so much for your help :D.</p>

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<p>If you got your SAT to at least 2200+, you’d actually have a chance at your reaches because the rest looks good.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the chance. I actually got a 2240 (740, 760M, 740)on my second try; I guess my post was just confusing. </p>

<p>Anybody else have opinions? How high do those pigs have to be flying to have a legitimate chance at Pton (SCEA, probably) or MIT?</p>

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<p>CM, GT, UA, UF - in</p>

<p>Cornell - chances are good
MIT - chances pretty slim, but go for it :smiley:
Princeton - extremely slim, but why not try?</p>

<p>Good luck :)</p>

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<p>What will be your major? </p>

<p>Your 700 hour project needs to appeal to MIT for you to make it since everything else “whatever” material for a half asian (black belt is kind of cool).</p>

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<p>Thanks Chrome16!</p>

<p>Texaspg, </p>

<p>I’m planning on entering into electrical engineering, as that is what I’ve done on our ROV team (and I really love it). </p>

<p>Thanks for your advice. I’ll try to do that; any suggestions in particular? I’m definitely going to try to emphasize it in the MIT essays (as I did on the common app essay for other schools).</p>

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<p>If you were doing research, they normally ask for input from your research advisor. Did you work with anyone outside of school? I can’t imagine teachers at school knowing much electrical engineering to help you with circuits or assess your work.</p>

<p>Here is what i see in MIT application pertaining to what you did. so you may want to set up a website if you have nt already done so.</p>

<p>Inventions/Robots/Etc.: If you have blogs, videos, websites or pictures about things you have built or created including robots, inventions, etc., please share the url with us below: </p>

<p>You also have a section 9 in part 2 (anything you want to talk about section) where you can talk about it.</p>

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<p>Texaspg, </p>

<p>I actually didn’t work with many people outside of school. I relied mainly on textbooks and online lectures on youtube, textbooks, and my history teacher who was an electrical engineer in the navy. So, sadly, I don’t’ think I can play that card. </p>

<p>Thanks for your input. We have a blog set up on which I post all of my circuit designs and such, as well as other team developments, so I think that shall work quite nicely :D. Thanks again for your help!</p>

<p>Does anybody else, perchance (see what I did there?), feel compelled to waste a few minutes to chance? :smiley: Thanks all! :D</p>