Chance an international HYPC

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Here I go:</p>

<p>Gender: M
School: Fairly competitive (Sends around 5 to schools like Cornell, UPenn, Columbia, and Dartmouth each year and rarely to HYPS)
Race: Asian. (please don't stop reading)
Country: Canada....asian+intl can't be good, right?
Aid: Most definitely</p>

<p>SAT: CR: 770, M: 660, W: 680. (1st sitting) will retake in Oct. w/ prep over summer.
GPA: 3.9UW ~ 4.3W (school only sends weighted GPA, though)
Class Rank: Valedictorian (we have like 30 vals each year. lmao, but they don't have to know this) </p>

<p>Schedule </p>

<p>Freshman:
-Honors Algebra 2
-Honors Biology
-Honors English
-French 1
-Advanced Band
-Health
-Honors World History 1</p>

<p>Soph:
-Precalc
-AP World Hist.
-Honors Chem
-Honors English 10
-Adv. Band
-French 2
-Health 2</p>

<p>Junior:
-AP Calc BC
-AP Chem
-Lab (double block class with chem)
-AP US Hist.
-AP English Lang.
-Adv. Band
-French 3</p>

<p>Senior:
-Multivariable/matrix
-AP Physics C
-AP Psychology
-AP English Lit.
-AP US Govt.
-AP French
-Adv. Band</p>

<p>Don't have my AP scores yet... but should be mixes of 4s and 5s.</p>

<p>Subjective</p>

<p>-Marching Band (4 years, section leader jr. year, Field Captain senior year, state honors, highest ratings, etc)
-Solo and Ensemble (Highest rating)
-Science Olympiad (2nd @ Regionals, 1st @ States)
-Model UN (Local conference awards, nothing big)
-Debate (Captain, 2nd at Districts, Regionals qualifier)
-Math Honor Society (Vice Pres.)
-I ran track for 2 years, and got some scholar-athlete awards
-West Point Leadership and Ethics Conference (2nd place for presentation)
-American Red Cross Youth Leadership Development Conference
-Volunteer at Nursing home and Library (2 years)
-French Honor Society
-NHS
-Small school awards and such
-All District Band
-_____ County Youth Leadership Program</p>

<p>Recs: Should be very good
Counselor: He knows me too well. Had both of my sisters, and even knows my mom....it's kinda creepy.
Essays: Haven't written em yet. </p>

<p>I realize that I have a slim chance at said schools given my race+international status. But, I would appreciate any honest evaluation. </p>

<p>I was thinking of applying SCEA to Yale, but I heard it's actually harder than RD due to the large legacy/athlete pool.</p>

<p>EDIT: I live in the states but will be applying as International from Canada.</p>

<p>EDIT AGAIN: My SAT 2's are soon to come. I'm expecting 760~800 on all 3 of them. I realize this assumption may be far from my actual score come the 25th, but please take my assumption and chance :)</p>

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<p>Well, it’s always difficult to say with ivys and tops, but you seem to have a pretty solid resume, though I would deffinitely work on those SATs. What will probably be the deciding factor here is the essay. You are a fairly average applicant for the ivy pool, and unless you can take something about yourself and truly embellish it to stand out, then there is a good chance that you will get lost in the applicant pool. Overall, I would say:</p>

<p>HYPMS: reach
Cornell, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, Penn- Fighting Chance
Northwestern, Wash U, etc: very good chance</p>

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<p>Wow Thanks for the quick response.</p>

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<p>Honestly, this is a good resume, but an HYPC resume needs something unbelievable to pop out. The SATs are very good, but not incredible. The ECs show you are involved in the community, but maybe not a major leader. I still think that you will be fining applying to the 2nd tier of schools, like Duke, Hopkins, Wash U, etc…but HYPC are going to be major reaches…</p>

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<p>How is the aid program at such schools? (Duke, Hopkins, etc…) for internationals.</p>

<p>And dang, this sucks I tried to show my leadership :(</p>

<p>How unlikely are we talking about here, when you say “major” reach?</p>

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<p>BringUpMyPost</p>

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<p>To be honest, for an international, you probably need higher SAT scores for HYPC.</p>

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<p>Yes, I will be taking it again this October.</p>