Chance a NYC Junior for Princeton?

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<p>Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Pacific Islander
School: Small Competitive New York School
No Hooks</p>

<p>Academia:
GPA: 3.95 UW
Rank: 2/460
SAT: 2250 (680 M, 800 CR, 770 W)
SAT II: 800 US History, 800 World History, 770 Biology E
ACT: 34
AP Exams: Biology (4),
Self-studied - Psychology (5), Environmental Science (5), World History (5), European History (5), Art History (5)
Regents: US History (100), World History (100), Living Environment (90), Chemistry (86), Earth Science (100), Spanish Proficiency (100), Spanish Regent (91), Algebra I (83), Geometry (87), Algebra II/Trigonometry (82), English (94 -1st time, 100 – second time) – I’M TERRIBLE AT MATH, JUST FYI lol</p>

<p>Senior Year Course load: AP Calculus AB, AP US Government & Politics, AP English Literature, Honors Physics, Leadership, Volleyball.
Self-studying: AP US History, AP English Language, AP Human Geography, AP Micro economics, AP Macro economics.</p>

<p>Major Awards:
International Moot Court in The Hague Champion
Judicial Review Essay Contest Winner
AP Scholar with Distinction (Will be National AP Scholar after next year) </p>

<p>Extracurricular:
NYC Moot Court (2 years):
2010-2011 Lead Oral Advocate (Plaintiff)
2011-2012 Lead Oral Advocate (Plaintiff) - Team Captain</p>

<p>International Moot Court in The Hague (3 months – Inaugural team)
Lead Oral Advocate (Defense) –Champion (Team), Individually ranked 1st, Best Oral Advocate, Best Oral Advocate (Defense)</p>

<p>NYC Mock Trial (2 year):
2010-2011 Attorney (Prosecution + Defense), Lead Witness – Team Captain
2011-2012 Lead Attorney (Defense), Closing Orator (Defense) – Team Captain</p>

<p>Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Will do next year)
Team Captain/Founder </p>

<p>NYC Model UN (1 year) – Team Co-Captain</p>

<p>NYC We The People Law Competition (1 year) – Team Captain</p>

<p>Constitutional Debate Law Team (2 years) – Team Captain</p>

<p>Student Government/Council (2 years):
2010-2011 Sophomore Class Representative
2011-2012 School Publicist</p>

<p>National Honor Society Inductee</p>

<p>Angels Community Service Committee:
2010-2011 Vice President – Organized a school rally, organized a canned food drive, organized a toy drive, organized a coat drive, organized a blood drive, sang to the elderly at Nostrand Retirement Center, donated toys to toddlers at Coney Island Hospital (Santa Clause’s Reindeer)
2011-2012 Events Coordinator - Aided in the formation of school Green Team, organized a toy drive for kids with cancer, organized a toy drive for African-orphans, organized a blood drive, organized a coat drive, donated toys to toddlers at Coney Island Hospital (Santa Clause) </p>

<p>School Catholic Club (3 years)</p>

<p>School Christian Bible Club (1 year) – Founder</p>

<p>Lettura Library Book Club (2 years) – Founder/President
2010-2011 Winter + Spring Reading Challenge Participant
2011-2012 Winter + Spring Reading Challenge Participant</p>

<p>School Green Team
2011-2012 Co-Captain: Implemented a school law against littering, instituted the introduction of more recycling bins, led presentations pertaining to recycling.</p>

<p>LIFTT – Leadership Institute for Today and Tomorrow in Association with the U.S.S. Intrepid Museum in Manhattan
2011-2012 Planted trees during NYC Cares for Hands Day, conducted live-public experiments pertaining to water quality in the Hudson River during Fleet Week, organized an international book-drive spanning from USA, to Egypt, to Pakistan, to the Philippines, attended Power of Point presentations (Roscoe Brown, Beau Haydu)</p>

<p>Science Fair (2 years)
2009-2010 Effects of water quality on aquatic organisms (Finalist)
2011-2012 Effects of caffeine on growth and human development (Champion)</p>

<p>Law/Social Science Research Competition (2 years)
2010-2011 Research Proposal – How iPods detrimentally affect hearing
2011-2012 Research Proposal – Poor eyesight’s effect on school performance</p>

<p>Intel Psychological Research Competition
2011-2013 Psychology Research Proposal – Caffeine’s effects on mood/task performance</p>

<p>Music/Band
Violin (8 years) – Not in school
Piano (6 years) – Not in school
Guitar (6 years) – Not in school
Clarinet (3 years) – Lead Clarinet in school</p>

<p>Theatre/Productions
2010-2011 School Musical – Grease (Supporting role)
2010-2011 School 50th Anniversary Production – Stage Manager
2011-2012 School Interactive Murder Mystery Play – Stage Manager</p>

<p>Volleyball (3 years)
2009-2010 Libero – subbed in (Still developing skills at the time)
2010-2011 Setter
2011-2012 Captain</p>

<p>Summer Activity:
Mock Trial Camp (2 years)
Thurgood Marshall Internship at Freshfields Law Firm
Internship with Supreme Court Justice of Brooklyn
Lincoln-Douglas Debate </p>

<p>Volunteer Service:
Mill Basin Animal Shelter (6 years)
Flatlands Soup Kitchen (9 years)
Nostrand Retirement Home (2 years)
Saint Bernard’s Church Youth Service (5 years)
Coney Island Hospital - Receptionist (2 years)
Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center - Receptionist (1 year)</p>

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<p>Good chances, but you just never know! good luck! i’m applying too :)</p>

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<p>You’re in.</p>

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<p>wow! You have some really good chances!
All the best!</p>

<p>Sent from my U20i using CC</p>

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<p>You sound like a sound applicant. But take everything I or others say with a grain of salt (to this day, I’m not completely sure how I got in). My opinion is that a certain level of academics/ec’s get you in the door but after that it’s all a matter of being in the right place at the right time (ie they’re looking for somebody with strong political skills and your application comes up).
However, you may want to work on your math scores (SAT and study hard for the AP Calc) if you’re a science/math major since you really need a strong foundation in precalculus skills to do well in Princeton Calc. However, if you are a political science/pre-law as it seems likely that you will be, then you won’t be needing calc anyway but you still would have to take a quantitative reasoning class to fulfill distribution requirements. Bottom line: work on math.
Otherwise, you come across as strong in the political science area but you also sound interested in the natural sciences too. A little ambiguity there probably won’t hurt you though. But as I said, nothing is for certain when it comes to the Ivy League, which is why I think these chance threads are a little superfluous to begin with.</p>

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<p>“You sound like a sound applicant. But take everything I or others say with a grain of salt …” (from ptontiger16)</p>

<p>Good advice. These chance threads (especially for Ivy schools) have very little value, especially when you see who is giving the advice - a couple of your encouraging posters are 16 and 17 years old.</p>

<p>Among other things, no one can tell from the resume you post here how strong your extracurricular record is, and that is weighted 50% in the admissions process.</p>