<p>Uh, you know it’d be much easier to chance you, had you given us your real stats. You talk a lot about what your “expected” GPA is without telling us your true GPA. For all I know, your GPA could be a 3.2 - 3.4, but you’re merely talking yourself up to a 3.7 - 3.8. So what’s the truth? </p>
<p>How do you junior year grades look? Straight A’s? Couple of B’s? Understand that junior year is one of the most important years in high school, so how you did this year really makes a difference. Also your SAT score is really weak, and given that you’re nearing the end of your junior year, and you claim to be doing all of these “amazing” things over the summer, you probably will not have enough time to bring up your stats. </p>
<p>Also, I really don’t think you understand what a hook is. Learning some subjects b/c you have a lot of free time b/c your extracurriculars are so unsubstantial is not a hook. A hook is if you had legacy to somewhere (CMU as you say) or you live in Korea (like I did) as an international student. </p>
<p>More about your hook, you talk a lot about your learning calculus and linear algebra in a mere few weeks, but where could you justify this? Are we just listening to the words of a high school junior with an obvious bloated ego? Or have you participated in any exams or contests to prove this? Looks like you aren’t an AIME/USAMO person either, and while I understand you’re not a math contest person (obvious based on your lack of math contest stats), you sure talk about how you learned advanced courses in mathematics. You don’t have any awards at all in fact…you take French? Do you do the national french contest? Any awards there?</p>
<p>Your stats…when you break them down, aren’t nearly as substantial as you make them out to be. Or maybe I’m wrong and it’s only that they’re unimpressive in the eyes of Asian people (Korean over here). If you get into any of the top schools that you listed, it’ll be quite an injustice to the wayyyy harder working Asians in this world b/c they have SAT scores that are 400 points higher and perfect GPA’s.</p>