Chance a smart asian!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey. Please chance me for the schools listed at the bottom. </p>

<p>STATS:
Asian male (duh)
Born in China, came here age 8
Very competitive Highly gifted magnet program in Socal
Class Rank: 1/773
UW GPA: 4.0
W GPA: 4.5 (based on adding +0.025 for each semester of AP)
Taken 10 APs by end of Junior year, 15 APs by end of senior year (5s and 4s on all)
Most rigorous couseload.
Senior schedule:
-AP Stat
-AP Bio
-AP Environmental Science
-AP Lit
-AP Economics/AP Government
-Academic Decathlon (joined senior year)
PSAT: 225
SAT (one sitting only): 2320 (CR 740; M 790; W 790 with 12 essay)
SAT II Chinese: 800
SAT II Math IIC: 790
SAT II US History: 770</p>

<p>EXTRA CURRICULARS:
President of Chinese American Citizens Alliance Youth Council (member 10-12)
-Community service/leadership group. Projects include raising $7,000 for World Vision, $10,000 for the Chinese earthquake, concerts for the elderly, helping out homeless at rescue missions, playing with kids at pediatric wards, etc.</p>

<p>President of Call for Youth Leadership (member 9-12)
-A leadership/speaking organization based on Toastmasters International. Numerous Best Speaker awards. Also have done community service projects including raising money for cancer research, writing Christmas cards to Iraqi troops.</p>

<p>President of Chess Club (member 9-12)
-Play both international and Chinese chess. Best player at school</p>

<p>Webmaster for Speech and Debate Club (member 9-11)
-Debated in Congress and Public Forum events, winning trophies at some. </p>

<p>Varsity Tennis (member 9-12)
-Play both singles and doubles positions</p>

<p>Advanced Level Piano (played since 6)
-Play mostly for fun, but took CM to Advanced Level. Several Honors Recitals</p>

<p>Academic Decathlon (member 12)
-Joined 12th grade. Our school does well each year, making it to at least state. Lots of time commitment. </p>

<p>Other activities include helping out at the library, doing community service with my church, playing basketball with my church every week. Lots of community service hours throughout high school.</p>

<p>AWARDS:
National AP Scholar
CSF Sealbearer (end of this year of course)
National Merit Semifinalist (probably finalist)
Speech and Debate trophies (#4 Congress at Fullerton, Undefeated Public Forum at Oaks Christian, etc)</p>

<p>WORK EXPERIENCE:
All my job experiences over summer of junior year</p>

<p>McDonald's cashier
-25 hours a week. Did basically every job though</p>

<p>Teacher's Assistant for a college professor at CSUN
-Essentially wrote his lesson plans for his college level courses</p>

<p>Computer programmer/webmaster for a travel agency
-Created interfaces, programs, and helped with website.</p>

<p>Overall made over $2500 in August alone. </p>

<p>RECOMMENDATIONS:
Great teacher recs from a history and math teacher. Counselor rec will also be good; she knows me well. Working on essays; they should be pretty good and tell them about who I am.</p>

<p>SCHOOLS:
Okay if you've read this far, then thank you. Here is a list (not final) of schools I would like to apply to. Please chance me:</p>

<p>University of Pennsylvania Wharton (ED)
Harvard
Columbia
Yale
Stanford
UCs (Berkeley, LA, SD)
USC
University of Texas at Austin</p>

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<p>Dude, you know you're already in most places, especially the UCs.
I'd say everywhere but Harvard, Yale, and Stanford are matches. Your one flaw, though, is that you don't seem to have a single passion.<br>
I hope all of the other Columbia applicants don't have kickass stats like yours, ;_;</p>

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<p>Stick with your mcdonalds job</p>

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<p>What school do you go to? I'm in the Valley and I'm very curious.</p>

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<p>bump. any other opinions?</p>

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<p>Good chance at Stanford.</p>

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<p>Good chance at Upenn and Stanford down. Harvard, Columbia and Yale are all crapshoot just because of their Ivy status, but if anyone deserves to get into all of those, it'd be you. :) How the heck do you even manage all the extracurriculars with 10 APs?????</p>

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<p>Good chances at the UC's, USC, and UT Austin. Stanford, Yale, Columbia, Harvard, and Penn are reaches just because they are what they are.
I don't know if you'll have the time to sign up and take it, but I think you might want to consider taking another SAT II if Harvard is one of your top schools, because they require 3 SAT 2's but one of your three is in Chinese which I'm assuming is your native language so they might not look at that score too highly...</p>

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<p>wow.. good chances everywhere.</p>

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<p>amazing chances anywhere but harvard i think.</p>

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<p>I think you have an excellent chance at all these schools. My D got into H with stats very similar to yours. A couple of points; try to focus your EC's on two or three that you really have a passion for and take another SATII - getting 800 in Chinese for a Chinese does not really count! Good luck to you and congratulations.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the chances everyone.</p>

<p>I actually took another SAT II (World History) freshman year, but didn't do too hot (720). I thought SAT IIs should be weighted equally? Not fault I'm Chinese lol.</p>

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<p>just <em>ONCE</em> I'd like to chance an average intelligence Asian that didn't play tennis or a musical instrument :)</p>

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<p>why bother making this thread, haha. The only thing that hurts you is your math2 score</p>

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<p>you know that you'll get into most of your schools :)</p>

<p>extremely impressive. extremely.</p>

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<p>Thanks. How good of a chance do I have to getting in Wharton if I apply ED? I know it's really hard to get in, but I want to do something business-oriented in the future</p>

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<p>holy crap dude you pretty much have the max chances possible
in at all the schools, except hyps where imo you will get into at least one.
good luck!</p>

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<p>thanks i hope so. bump</p>

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<p>That's very very impressive. You'll get into most of them.</p>

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<p>DunninLA, I don't play an instrument anymore nor do I play Tennis.</p>

<p>okay so what I am wondering is HOW???? do you get the time to do all of your activities? and do them WELL. 25 hours an week at McDonald's plus 40 hours of school plus and say 20 hours of homework per week(5-7 classes 45 minutes or so each day). that's already 95 hours a week. that leaves like 10 hours for other extracurriculars, if you wake up at 7 and sleep at 10...........</p>

<p>what do you do when your sport season comes?</p>

<p>10 AP's by junior year? wanna post some scores? 10 AP's, if you got 4 or 5, would require huge amounts of work no matter how smart you are. and you username makes you sound arrogant. T.T are you a troll?</p>