<p>Hello, please chance me :) </p>
<p>My scores and GPA are low for some of my universities, but parental pressure leads me to apply to them anyway. My GPA went on a downward trend when I moved and switched schools and did the IB program. I went from all As to getting Bs and As :( Also, my ACT scores became very skewed the second time around, but led to the same composite score. </p>
<p>General
Class of 2010
Gender: Male
Race: Asian
Income: Upper-Middle
Location: suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Born: Cebu City, Philippines - moved to USA at age 7
Citizenship: Philippines</p>
<p>GPA
4.02 (Weighted) - school doesn't publish UW or class rank</p>
<p>ACT
Composite: 30 and 30
English: 31 and 29
Math: 31 and 26
Reading: 30 and 36
Science: 29 and 28
Writing: 29 and 29
Superscore: 33 -- would greatly benefit from this</p>
<p>SAT Subject Tests (November 2009)
Math Level 2:
Biology:</p>
<p>IB
French SL - 4
Physics SL - 4
Math HL
Biology HL
English HL
European History HL
Extended Essay: Geography</p>
<p>AP
US History - 5
Human Geography - 5 (self-study)
Macroeconomics - self-studying this year</p>
<p>ECs
- Knowledge Bowl Captain (Grades 6-12)
- Quiz Bowl Captain (Grades 10-12)
- Earth Club Leader (Grades 9-12)
- Founder of Gay-Straight Alliance (Grades 11-12) - still not school official due to conservative administration, but I'm working hard on it
- School Newspaper Staff Writer/Photographer (Grades 10-12)
- Debate (Grades 11-12)
- Diversity Club (Grades 9-11)
- Mentor One Program with meteorologist at NOAA (Grade 9)
- Honors Society (Grades 9-12)
- Minnesota Business Venture
- Young Democrats (Grades 9-12, ~50 hours)
- Church Volunteer (Grades 9-12, ~300 hours)</p>
<p>Work Experience
Starbucks Barista (July 2008 - May 2009)</p>
<p>Universities
- Cornell
- Northwestern
- McGill (top realistic choice, pay attention to this one!)
- Carnegie Mellon
- University of Washington - Seattle
- University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Boston University
- University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
- Case Western Reserve</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>4 out of 7? Or out of 5? (For IB)</p>
<p>IB scores are out of 7 
but 3 is passing. Most schools award credit for 4/5 scores.</p>
<p>Also, for Gay-Straight Alliance, I’ve fought very hard but the administration has been very unsupportive. The last time I talked to the principal about it, he called me “a pawn of adults with liberal agendas,” I might write one of my essays on this. </p>
<p>For Earth Club, I’ve raised $4000 to replace paper towels with energy-saving hand dryers at my school. </p>
<p>The mentorship program was 10 hours a week of hands-on time, and 10 hours of ‘outside’ time, and it lasted from October - April. </p>
<p>For Starbucks I worked on average of 15 hours per week.</p>
<ul>
<li>Cornell-reach</li>
<li>Northwestern-reach</li>
<li>McGill- low reach</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon- reach</li>
<li>University of Washington - Seattle-match</li>
<li>University of Wisconsin - Madison-match</li>
<li>Boston University-low reach/rough match</li>
<li>University of Minnesota - Twin Cities-saftely imo</li>
<li>Case Western Reserve- don’t know this school =)</li>
</ul>
<p>This is only based on your stats. How does your ACT superscore to 33 if none of your subscores are at or above that? Hopefully you can do a little better on ur IB stuff this year but I don’t have IB at my school so what do i know? =D </p>
<p>Your essay idea sounds FANTASTIC. Run with it, use your voice, essays are very, very important! You will be fine! Chance me back if you can! Its somewhere in this forum haha =)</p>
<p>Thanks for the chance!
My ACT superscores to 33 because I got a 36 in Reading.</p>
<ul>
<li>Cornell -reach</li>
<li>Northwestern -reach</li>
<li>McGill -match</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon -reach</li>
<li>University of Washington - Seattle -in</li>
<li>University of Wisconsin - Madison -in</li>
<li>Boston University -match</li>
<li>University of Minnesota - Twin Cities -in</li>
<li>Case Western Reserve -in</li>
</ul>
<p>The only damaging thing I see in your application are the IB scores. I don’t know how you got the 4s when you got 5s in your other APs…at my school, 4 is the closest you can get to a fail without actually failing…it usually translates to around 50 something…but your extracurriculars are great, and the ACT is good too. The school I’m not sure about is McGill…but I think you’ll be able to get in. Good luck.</p>
<p>EDIT:
- my ACT superscores to 32, not 33. Wishful math. That was embarrassing haha.
- SATII - Bio: 700, Math: 640 (ugh)
- ACCEPTED to University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
- ACCEPTED to University of Wisconsin - Madison</p>
<p>sinboliz:
Thank you for the chance!
My French and Physics classes were basically study halls, but I know that’s not an excuse for getting bad scores. I didn’t study that much for them, but I really didn’t study for APUSH of Human Geo either… I really don’t know.</p>
<ul>
<li>Cornell - reach</li>
<li>Northwestern - reach</li>
<li>McGill (top realistic choice, pay attention to this one!) - a few of my frieds are applying here “the ivy of the north” reach</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon reach</li>
<li>University of Washington - Seattle ?</li>
<li>University of Wisconsin - Madison ?</li>
<li>Boston University - match</li>
<li>University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - reach</li>
<li>Case Western Reserve - match</li>
</ul>
<p>Okay so honestly for me your GPA is the killer. I dont know how your citizenship will affect things either. I dont understand how ACTs translate hah sorry</p>
<p>But on the other hand its really cool that you immigrated here and are so self-motivated</p>
<p>based solely on number i’d go with what I said above but if you promote a good “hook” and really sell it then who knows?
You’d def stand out to me</p>
<p>Thanks for the chance!</p>
<p>ACT 30 ~ SAT CR+M 1350 </p>
<p>I don’t think the citizenship thing matters that much since I am considered a domestic applicant (US permanent resident) unless its anti-affirmative-action against Asians. </p>
<p>I’m already accepted into UofM - Twin Cities and UW - Madison.</p>
<p>Your IB scores so far are not good. And when you say that most schools award credit for 4/5, that may be true for some schools but not those of Swarthmore’s caliber. You need a 6 at HL for college credit, I believe.</p>
<p>I think you have a really great chance as long as you get your IB scores up.</p>
<p>Well, just to let everyone know…
(my university choices changed a bit)</p>
<ul>
<li>Cornell: rejected</li>
<li>Northwestern: rejected</li>
<li>McGill: rejected :'(</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon: accepted</li>
<li>University of Michigan - Ann Arbor: ???</li>
<li>University of Wisconsin - Madison: accepted</li>
<li>University of Minnesota - Twin Cities: accepted w/ $$$</li>
<li>Rensselaer: accepted w/ $$$</li>
<li>Case Western Reserve: accepted w/ $$$</li>
<li>Colorado School of Mines: accepted w/ $$$</li>
</ul>
<p>UMich: waitlisted</p>
<p>This might have been due to me submitting my application within 2 minutes of the deadline. And sending in my teacher-recs, transcript, and ACT scores a month late. And not really paying the application fee.</p>