Chance a Junior

Pakistani Male (born in US)
Income: ~150k

Grades (note the upward trend):

9th (3.75 UW):

Algebra H B+
Biology H A
English H B+
History H A
Health A
PLTW A
Gym A+
Spanish A

10th (4.0):

Chemistry H A
English H A
Gym A+
Band A+
Pre-Calculus H A
Spanish A
AP World A
Baking A

11th (4.0 UW):

AP Biology A
AP Calculus AB A
AP US History A
AP English Lang A
Band A+
Spanish H A+
Physics H A+

12th Schedule:

AP Economics
AP English Literature and Composition
AP Statistics
Band
AP Spanish
AP Government and Politics
AP Physics B

SAT I: 2310 (770 M/760 CR/780 W) one sitting

SAT II:

World History (680)
Biology E (770)
US History (760)
Math II (800)

GPA (out of 4.0): 3.92/4.54

Rank: 10% of 430 students

AP (place score in parenthesis):

World History (5)
English Language and Composition (5)
US History (5)
Calculus AB (5)
Biology (5)

Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):

AP Scholar with Distinction
National Merit Commended

Minor Awards (Local/School etc.):

High Honor Roll
Honor Roll
Scholar Athlete
Runner-Up General Knowledge Contest
several other various ones…

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):

8th:

Youth Symphony Orchestra

9th:

Youth Symphony Orchestra
Debate Club JV
Club Baseball
Writing Novel (self-published Junior Year)

10th:

Youth Symphony Orchestra
Debate Club JV
Marching Band
JV Baseball
School Weightlifting
Writing Novel

11th:

Youth Symphony Orchestra (Section Leader)
Marching Band (Section Leader)
Debate Club Varsity
Varsity Baseball
School Weightlifting
Science Olympiad
Moody’s Mega Math Challenge
PUBLISHED Novel!!!
Feminist Club (Secretary)
NHS

12th (Predicted):

Youth Symphony Orchestra (Section Leader)
Marching Band (Section Leader)
Debate Club Varsity
Varsity Baseball
Science Olympiad (Captain)
Feminist Club (Secretary)
NHS (Webmaster)

Job/Work Experience:

About a month working in fast food restaurant

Volunteer/Community service:

Various hours logged for NHS
Helping elderly neighbor with housework and chores
Volunteering in temple
see below
~ 80 hours in all

Summer Activities:

9th:

Baseball on competitive team
Traveled to Pakistan to help improve education for children living in impoverished areas

10th:

Baseball on competitive team

11th:

Traveled to Pakistan again to continue to help improve education for children living in impoverished areas
Columbia Summer Program

Teacher Recommendations: 9/10, teachers I am planning to ask love me and I can only ameliorate these relationships
Counselor Rec: 7/10, he doesn’t really know me and vice versa

Other

Intended Major: Economics

Hooks: Baseball? Not recruited by any of these schools but still…
Also I speak 4 languages (Spanish, Hindi, Panjabi, English)

Damn, that took a while to write! Anyways, I hope you guys appreciate the effort I went to in writing this at 2 AM lol . I will chance back, but chance me for the following schools using the x% Y/ x% N method. For example:

Harvard 10y/90n
Stanford 5y/95n

You’re new here, so possibly you haven’t seen this thread: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/939227-reminder-no-one-not-even-me-can-give-you-an-accurate-chance-at-mit-p1.html. It’s about MIT, but holds true as well for Harvard.

You sound like a wonderful candidate, as will the vast majority of students who are rejected. Recommendations and essays will probably determine the outcome, and we are not the people reading those.

You should read this thread: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1420290-chance-threads-please-read-before-posting-one-p1.html

Best of luck to you!