Chance an Asian Idiot please =(

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>[ *] SAT I (breakdown): haven't taken. so far getting around 2050 in practice cr and writing 650 math 800
[ *] ACT: never taken
[ *] SAT II: havent taken will take Math II, Chem and Physics
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.5 =(
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): no rank
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): school doesnt offer any
School type: top tier private school
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis): school doesnt offer any
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: 4 honors (every honors offered at school) 5 courses at a local university (2nd year calc, 1st year chem english physics and history)
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): err nothing much just couple math comp like top 10 in school history etc
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
president of like 4 clubs at school
staffing for 3 mun conferrences
head delegate for all school mun
founder of model un club at school
youth parliament
mock trial
couple clubs outside of school etc etc whole bunch
[ *] Job/Work Experience: none
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: somehwere aroudn 300 taking care of little kids
[ *] Summer Activities: pearson seminar on youth leadership, sumemr school</p>

<p>major: Econ or IR
universities aiming for: UPenn, Duke (dad's connections with the admissions office), Northwestern University, Notre Dame, NYU, Case Western Reserve, Michigan Ann Arbor, UC berkeley, Dartmouth, BC</p>

<p>My dad has a PhD and yet i sitll have bad gpa. will that hurt a lot?</p>

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<p>“Asian idiot”? Isn’t that an oxymoron? 3.5 isn’t a bad gpa, especially if you’re taking honors classes. I couldn’t tell you if you’d get into those schools or not, but in a general sort of way…it looks like you’re doing pretty well :)</p>

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<p>I can’t speak about connections. There are indeed “idiots” (totally incompetent ppl) from my school who get into colleges like Dartmouth and Cornell who have parents with connections (they donate money, know admissions, etc.) So I think they DO make quite a difference if you have a legit connection to Duke.</p>

<p>You weren’t very specific about what you do. I wasn’t impressed by your academics. You need APs. You need SAT IIs. Even if you have connections, I can’t see you going to any top schools without the scores (And good ones, too…into 700s at least)</p>