<p>Male, Asian
go to a top private school in vancouver canada</p>
<p>Freshman: 73
Sophomore: 82
Junior: 88
Senior First Semester: 94</p>
<p>SAT: Havent taken yet, expecting 2100~2200
SAT II: Physics expecting 800, math II expecting 800, chemistry expecting 800
ACT: might take in december expecting 34</p>
<p>EC
Mostly Debate and Model UN and Youth Parliament stuff
lots of volunteer and leadership stuff
won some contests math and sciences
tkd black belt 2nd level
meh whole bunch of laundry list of crap
Bilingual</p>
<p>Schools applying to
CMU
Cornell
Chicago
Duke
Claremont McKenna
Washington U at StLouis
Colby
NYU
UIUC
UW madison</p>
<p>I think chances for idiots are always low; I don’t see what being Asian has to do with it.</p>
<p>Your freshman through junior GPA is 81, roughly a 2.7, though the slope is pleasantly positive. Dropping freshman year and assuming you keep your 94 through senior year gets you into the 3.0 - 3.2 range. Assume 2100 SATs.</p>
<p>That profile makes Cornell, Chicago, Duke and Wash U big reaches. I also think CMU and Claremont are going to be tough. The freshman expectations page at Wisconsin puts your chances around 50%. I don’t know about the other three. I suggest expanding your list for some more safeties.</p>
<p>would it change much if i were in top 25%? (i am…)
and err…well on the what stalled my academics section
im gonna right about change in my attitude and my perserverence
i noe im bright, and my teachers think too (110something on AMC 12…)
err my counsellor rec will be on how much i changed throughout my high
school years, how i have had a LOT of difficulties, and stuff like that…
so still no chance at all…?</p>
<p>oh yea, and also i have only been living in an english speaking country for about 5 years, but im pulling off a 95 in hionors english… >< idk if that means anything
and i have the hardest courseload possilbe in the school while taking 4 courses at university of british columbia, sorry to write so much crap donw</p>
<p>the ubc courses, im getting somewhere in the 80s…im taking english, chem, physics and honors calc… ><</p>
<p>hmom5// err my counsellor’s been in the business for 20+ years and she is known to send the students to top ivy league schools. I did a youth leadership program at a united world college one summer, i went on a mission trip for the first nations one summer and i did summer school one year. My school does not show rankings but just percentiles of 5% 10% 20% 25% 30% 40$ 50% etc etc. and about 4~5 guys go to US each year last year 1 went to princeton on a hockey scholarship, one went to cornell, one to usc and one to uiuc. 100% go to universities, and almost all go to ubc, mcgill or u of t all top schools in canada. ><</p>
<p>With a good counselor, you’ll get a MUCH better feel from her than you can get here. None of us know how your schools is viewed. Is it a peer of UCC or just another Canadian private school? Do you have VIP students competing against you? We don’t know all that.</p>
<p>I’d have to say Cornell/WashU/Duke level schools don’t look likely, but with great positioning the CMUs and such may be doable.</p>
<p>hmom5// thanks…just that my counsellor is busy with “higher ranked kids” with 95% throughout high school applying to hypms…:S she didnt have much time for me…which really sucks…and she doesnt give opinions on specific colleges…
err im not sure if its as good as upper canada college…but it was ranked 13th in canada last year…lol >< err and as far as i know, noe of the kids applying to states are appying anywhere same as i am… most just go for hypms and if not, just go to mcgill…> <</p>
<p>where are you getting all these extremely high SAT assumptions? What were your PSATs? Straight 800s thru-out. </p>
<p>O.k… Assuming 2150+ SATs, no to Cornell, no to Duke, no to Chicago. The positive curve is nice, but universities don’t have enough a record of solid grades for admissions. Maybe a transfer. NYU is so-so. Doubt it, because few C/B students score in the 99th percentile of the SAT. Are you NMSF?</p>
<p>techy// im from canada so nmsf
i got 218 on psat in my junior year
and the subject tests, i took practice ones from barrons book w/o studying
and scored 800 on all with like 3 tries on all of them so im assuming, hopefully
ill get 800 on all the subject tests</p>
