Chance a stressed student in HS =]

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm currently a rising junior, and it's been a really long year for me. A long fight...</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Rank: top 10% hopefully
GPA: 3.7 UW / 4.2 W ( assuming things do not go my way )
SAT I: Aiming 2100+
SAT II: 690 Bio M ; Chem pending ; taking Math II next year</p>

<p>Junior Year's course load:
AP Macro Econ
AP Micro Econ
Honors Eng. 3
Honors Pre Calc.
AP U.S. History
Honors Physics
Honors Spanish 4</p>

<p>Leadership and Clubs:
FBLA President (11-12)
Eco Club Secretary(10), Vice President (11)
NHS (11-12)
SHS (11-12)</p>

<p>Sports:
Varsity Golf (9-12) Made State Sectionals this year
Freshman Basketball
JV Basketball (10-11)
Maybe Varsity Basketball Senior year
Freshman XC
JV XC (10)</p>

<p>Awards:
2x FBLA Regional Competition Awards
7-year piano award
Finance Challenge award ( not exactly sure what it's called )
I may apply for the Congressional Award also</p>

<p>Volunteer:
40 hours @ nursing home
~15 hours taking calls for emergency fund
~30 hours volunteering w/ piano
and i'll get some more hours this summer for a total of 100 hours, hopefully</p>

<p>Misc:
Last Summer:
Brown Summer Camp for Alternative Energy Engineering
Georgetown Summer Camp for Leadership & Ethics</p>

<p>This Summer:
Cornell Golf Camp
Penn State Stock Market Madness Summer Camp</p>

<p>Next Summer:
CMU Precollege program</p>

<p>Chance me for these colleges please! ( For economics or finance )</p>

<p>non-ivies: CMU, BC, NYU, Georgetown, Duke</p>

<p>And ivies: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, UPenn, Princeton</p>

<p>P.S.
Does this app. look like a stereotypically asian? >.<</p>

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<p>Your grades and test scores are slightly low for the schools you’re looking at (actually, you don’t have much scores yet for us to judge), but most importantly, you don’t seem to have a focus in your extracurriculars. It’s as though you did what you did for college admissions, not because you have an interest in those activities. </p>

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<p>No. (What is the “stereotypical asian” anyway?)</p>

<p>Edit: Oh, I just realized that you’re a sophomore/ rising junior. In that case, you’re doing fine. I don’t know (I’m only a senior/soon-to-be college freshman so I’m probably not knowledgeable enough to give advice)… I really think you should try to develop some kind of focus in your extracurricular by devoting your time to something you love rather than completing a lot of disconnected activities. Do these summer camps teach you anything? Do you actually learn from the experience, or do you think they look good for application? I don’t know, just my thoughts.</p>

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<p>I’m mainly focusing on FBLA because I really like business/finance.
Eco club is just there for a kicker and my love for the environment :stuck_out_tongue:
And I play piano because i’m Asian</p>

<p>Being a stereotype Asian = varsity track/tennis/swimming. Loves math, plays piano/violin, ect.
I play basketball and golf, so hopefully that will look better.</p>

<p>As for the summer programs, I wanted to attend them to see how college life is like/how their campus is like/ meet new ppl / and of course to learn.</p>

<p>And for scores, what would you recommend for a better chance at the non-ivies ?</p>

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<p>Well, the most obvious ones are to work on improving your GPA and making sure you have great SAT scores.</p>

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<p>Yeah i’m going to study A LOT for these finals… it’s all or nothing on these finals.</p>

<p>What would you say is a decent SAT score to even be considered? 2200+ ?
And for GPA, do you have to have 4.3+ ? 4.4+?</p>

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<p>Aim for the 75 percentile of the schools you’re looking at, I guess. It’s okay if your SAT scores are less than that, but the 75% should be a good goal.</p>

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<p>No, you just have to be among the top of your class. Schools have different grading standards, sometimes rendering the arbiturary GPA scales meaningless.</p>

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<p>That’s very true…</p>

<p>Thanks for your help! I’ll do some research.</p>