<p>Hey guys! This is my first time doing this. Just wondering what my chances are. Soooooooo I go to a national top 20 public high school in Massachusetts.</p>
<p>My reach is Harvard. Usually 25 kids from my school are accepted to Harvard each year. I live in a certain part of Boston that Harvard chooses many kids from because of certain issues regarding land ownership. So even though I may not be as good as other possible candidates, they'll probably "lower?" the standards for me a bit, hopefully. But there are other kids in my neighborhood who are just as competitive. Even if I don't get in, I'll be okay, seeing I know it's competitive and hard to get into. (BTW I am not a Harvard freak though that this entire paragraph I just noticed, seems like I might do, I think .... )</p>
<p>I really like UChicago, BC, NYU. If BC gives me a reallly good scholarship I will definitely go there.</p>
<p>So I'm applying to the following:
Boston College
Boston University
Brandeis University
NYU
University of Chicago
Northwestern
Harvard
Princeton
Columbia
Cornell
Yale
Brown</p>
<p>Chinese-American Male, Senior, Middle income class</p>
<p>GPA - 4.1 Weighted
Rank - We don't rank. But I think I'm in the top 60/350.
SAT - 2240
SAT II - MathII 770, Chemistry 760, Chinese 780, American History 770
AP Chem - 5
AP Computer Science - 4
AP US History - 5</p>
<p>Courses from 9th to 11th grade (my school doesn't allow APs until 11th grade and restricts it to 3 ap's a students because they feel more than 3 is too much, seeing we have a high suicide rate?, though if you get a waiver you're excused)</p>
<p>9th
English - A
Algebra 2 Honors - B
World History - A
Biology - A-
Chinese - A-
Latin - B</p>
<p>10th
English - A-
Geometry Honors - B-
World History - A
Chemistry - A
Chinese - A
Latin - B</p>
<p>11th
AP Chemistry - A-
AP Computer Science - A-
AP US History - A
Honors Pre-Calc - A-
Honors Chinese - A+
Honors English - A+</p>
<p>12th THUS FAR
AP Calc AB - A-
AP Biology - A
AP Chinese - A
Physics - A
English - A
Facing History (a class about humanity, human rights, and history (holocaust, armenian genocide, etc.) - A</p>
<p>I know my grades aren't the best. As in, average/poor math grades in 9th and 10th grade and Latin grades. Latin, first of all, is something I despise and didn't try in. I started studying it in 7th grade and never got the hang of it. Math was just difficult because of bad teaching, and because one teacher (this CRAZY Chinese woman teacher who was also the head of the Math Team) made every test as if it were a math contest. </p>
<p>Recommendations pretty good
Essay is pretty good</p>
<p>ECs
-National Honor Society
-Red Cross Club, member 04-10, VP 08-09, President 09-10
- Raised 1,300 for measles, raised 3,000 for sichuan earthquake, raised 1,100 for disaster relief fund, raised 1,200 for malaria, taught choke safe and heimlich maneuver
-Hope for Africa Club, Co-President 08-'10
- raised 5,000 dollars for africa's ugandan region
-Asia club- member 04-'10, 08-09 Secretary, 09-10 Members Liaison
-Swim Team, member 04-10, Co-Captain 09-10
-American Red Cross Youth Advisory Board, external liaison 08-09, co-chair 09-10
- held anti-youth violence forums and concerts, and raised money for disaster relief fund
-Science olympiad, member 08-10, co-captain 09-10
-Piano 03-08
-School newspaper- 07-10, 09-10 copyediting head - wrote a few articles
-Project Book net club - 08 to 10
-Wolfpack Volunteers - 04 to 10</p>
<p>Awards
-Science olympiad - herpetology 1st place for 2 years, health science 1st place, ecology -1st place, chem lab 3rd place, cell bio lab 3rd place
-MIT science trivia contest - 1st place after 3 years, had lunch with nobel prize winner as prize
-Won essay contest and my biography of a scientist was published in a well known science magazine in the northeast, The Nucleus
-Participating in a well known contest hosted by a group of wealthy indian entrepreneurs, i think I may win runner up if i finish through with this competition</p>
<p>Work
-Volunteered at a hospital in Cambridge for 2 years, total of 70 hours
-Volunteered at library and tutored kids for 2.5 years, total 80 hours
-Volunteered at school library for 1.5 years, around 65 hours
-Volunteered at school main office .5 years, 20 hours
-Summer of 08 I worked at Harvard College Library for a month and worked mainly with the Chinese Yenching Library</p>
<p>Programs
-Summer of 06 I studied in this program at Harvard Medical School for a month
- I came back for two more semesters of the program in winter 06 to 07 and winter 07-08, it was a mentorship with two chinese chemists
-Summer 08-09 I went back in the summer and worked under an internship with other well known harvard medical school chemists (these programs were all under the harvard medical school diversity department which had strong connections with harvard medical school's dean of admissions)
-Studied arabic in the summer of 07 for a course, had an interview with an accredited association in arabic for 30 minutes, was scored high-level novice (seeing i did only study for one year, i was a novice, so this was the full score), but i got a C+ for the course, though i was able to speak fluently, i was unable to write that well, dont need to show college this C+ though, i think
-In the winter of 04 to 05, I was chosen by John Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth to participate in their recognized programs, so I took the SAT when i was 12 and got a 1400
-I did this again in 05-06 and got a 1600</p>