Chance a geometry/yoga enthusiast!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Goal schools - MIT/YALE/BROWN
all RD.
(I'm applying to a few other schools EA.)</p>

<p>BACKGROUND
Female Asian attending a New England private day school (extremely competitive, 30% of students go on to attend Ivy Leagues)</p>

<p>SENIOR YEAR SCHEDULE
AP Physics; Linear Algebra honors; Psychology; Spanish 4; Creative Writing; Literature+Moral Ideals (core English course)</p>

<p>SCORES
APs--
Chemistry, Calculus BC, Music Theory, US History, Chinese ALL 5's
SAT II--
Math 2 800; Chemistry 750; Chinese w/Listening 790
SAT January 2010--
2180 total (660 CR 800 M 720 W) - retook in October, most likely about 2300 </p>

<p>ACHIEVEMENTS
*USA Math Olympiad qualifier 2007 (top 500 in nation)
*Top individual score at New England regional math meet 2008
*Junior Engineering Technical Society competition 2010 - #1 team in state, #2 team nationally
*National Spanish Exam 2008, 2009 - silver medal
*EGM Mathematics Prize 2009 - top 9/10th grade math student in school
*Rensselaer Medal 2010 - top junior science student in school; $60,000 scholarship to RPI
*AIME math exam qualifier 2007-2010; top 1% out of roughly 250,000 test-takers
*Top 6 in state out of ~3000 for AMC math exam; four years 2007-2010</p>

<p>ACTIVITIES
*Math team - captain
*Avid practitioner of Bikram Yoga (an intensely vigorous practice; 90-minute sessions in 105-degree heat)
*SSAT Math tutor for underprivileged students through a national non-profit organization
*Physics Olympics 2010
*Junior Engineering Technical Society </p>

<p>WORK EXPERIENCE
*Front Desk / Studio management at well-established hometown yoga studio; 2008-present
*Teacher of middle school Chinese classes through aforementioned non-profit organization; summer 2010</p>

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<p>Being Asian and from New England, you must be extremely competitive to be accepted to the schools you mentioned - especially Yale and MIT. With your current SAT score, it will be very difficult, but if you end up getting above a 2300, I would say your chances increase quite a bit. It seems like you are very invested in math and science and have been very successful in such activities, so you should definitely play that up.</p>

<p>Overall, if you bring your SAT score up, you have just as strong of a chance as anyone else. Once you have the strong ECs and fabulous grades and test scores, it’s a crapshoot and you’ll have to wait and see.</p>

<p>By the way, what is your GPA?</p>

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<p>thanks for your thoughts. My school doesn’t actually calculate GPA nor rank… I don’t know why. My graduating class has 130 people, though.</p>

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<p>Great EC’s and Awards although SAT score is relatively low for schools on your list, and we don’t really have a sense of your grades…that information could help out though.</p>

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<p>Your application is strong, but I am not sure about MIT/ YALE/ BROWN…</p>

<p>Are you an Indian?</p>

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<p>I’m Chinese. (Hence, the Chinese standardized testing and classroom course that I taught through an internship.)</p>

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<p>The competition among Chinese (and Indians too!!) is brutal. bdw best o luck</p>

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<p>LOL “AIME math exam qualifier” that isn’t much at my school around 20 kids, and around 2 or 3 qualify for the AIO-J and USAMO. </p>

<p>anyway if you have around a 3.95 uw gpa you should have a decent shot.</p>