Chance for Cornell ED AEM or Wharton, yeah thats all i want!!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi
I am an Asian Male
I go to private college prep school in IL
I have been in the states for three years (since freshman to junior right now, and I am becoming a senior!!!! yeah!!!!)</p>

<p>To briefly explain my specs,,</p>

<p>ACT: 32 (highest composite 33, but I don't think colleges look at the highest composite???)</p>

<p>PSAT: 210 (prob commended student),,,</p>

<p>SAT2: Math 2 c 800, taking bio and us this SAT (OMG)</p>

<p>IBT TOEFL: 114/120</p>

<p>GPA: Freshman: Unweighted 4.0/4.0 (1 honor class)
Sophomore: Unweighted 4.0/4.0 (1 AP 2 honors)
AND I TRANSFERRED AFTER MY SOPHOMORE YEAR TO PRIVATE SCHOOL
Junior: Unweigted 3.945/4.33 (my school has fuc** A+ policies), (three APS) (Basically I got All As, two A-s, and 1 A+)
Senior: Taking 4 APS and expecting 4.0 (please!!!!)</p>

<p>Summer: Sophomore summer: took an microecon class at a local community college and got A, went to Costa Rica for 1 week to do sea conservation project.</p>

<pre><code> Junior Summer: Going to Cornell University Summer College (Business World), Internship at Chicago Board of Trade (first high school student to be recruited!@!!!!! OMG!!!)
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<p>ECs: </p>

<p>Freshman</p>

<p>New Comer’s club: A club which all the new comers to the United States gather once a month and do some fun activities together.</p>

<p>Math Team</p>

<p>Chess Team</p>

<p>Gadget: A science club which students choose to do a certain project such as rocket building or a research on Mars. Throughout the year, I researched on Mars and presented the project at the end of the year.</p>

<p>Private English Lesson</p>

<p>Private Tennis Lesson</p>

<p>Summer Trip to Korea: Visit Family and take some SAT prep courses
Summer Trip to Western U.S: Grand Canyon, Yosemite National Park, Las Vegas, Niagara Falls.. etc…</p>

<p>Sophomore</p>

<p>New Comer’s Club: In this year, I was an activity organizer of the group.</p>

<p>Science Olympiad Team: Recently created team that consists of 15 students. We went to various regional and state science Olympiads. Practice was held once a week.</p>

<p>Amnesty International: I was the Club Coordinator of this group.</p>

<p>Math Team</p>

<p>Interact</p>

<p>Diversity Club: A board member. 8 board members created an awesome all school presentation on Diversity Day.
DECA: This team was competing in state and regional level about applied business. I was the competitor of accounting. I was qualified for states. </p>

<p>Soccer</p>

<p>Private English Lesson</p>

<p>Private Tennis Lession</p>

<p>Community Service 2~3 hrs/ week</p>

<p>Math Tutor in school: During the free periods, I was a math tutor to help students with math problems.</p>

<p>District Math team: It was the math team consists of Glenbrook North High school students and Glenbrook South High School students. We won 17th place national on math scramble 2007. </p>

<p>Model United Nation: Attended to the conference held at Northwestern University.</p>

<p>Tennis</p>

<p>Summer School at Oakton Community College: Studied Microeconomics (Grade: A)</p>

<p>Summer Tennis Camp at Five Season</p>

<p>Trip to Korea: Visit family, SAT prep</p>

<p>Trip to Eastern US: New York, Washington DC, etc..</p>

<p>Junior</p>

<p>Cultural Diversity Club (Secretary)</p>

<p>Music Service Club (Vocal)</p>

<p>Art Concentration: A group of twelve students perform two concerts throughout the year. The group prepares many musical theater group, solo, and duet pieces. Rehearsals are held on every Tuesday.</p>

<p>Math Team</p>

<p>Interact: Free the Children</p>

<p>Soccer</p>

<p>Tennis</p>

<p>MIC Children’s Choir: Every Wednesday, I go to Evanston to join the children’s choir. In spring, the group recently performed at Carnegie Hall.</p>

<p>Voice Lesson with Ms. Plambeck on every Tuesday.</p>

<p>Private Tennis Lesson</p>

<p>Community Service 2~3 hrs/ week</p>

<p>Model United Nation: Attended to the conference held at University of Chicago.</p>

<p>Attending Cornell Summer College business program</p>

<p>AMC: I got like 130 (so sorry i cant find my score sheet) or something and was qualified for USAMO (but I didnt go because it overlapped with my schedule)</p>

<p>got Academic Honors, performance list, .,,,, etc,,,, at school</p>

<p>and the good thing is that my internship boss is a Cornell graduate, so I will work my ass off this summer and get an awesome rec from him,,,!!!! (hopefully)</p>

<p>Thx so much for reading this long thread,, and please chance me for</p>

<p>Cornell (AEM) ED I wanna go here</p>

<p>or Wharton ED</p>

<p>Thx again1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>

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<p>no one!!??</p>

<p>sorry for some overlapped ECs, i apologize,,,</p>

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<p>cmon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>

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<p>I don't think that I'm really qualified to "chance" you because I'm kind of unsure about the whole admission process myself, but I am, however, fairly certain that most universities note your highest and not lowest composite ACT (wouldn't really make sense to retake it then, would it?). One of the benefits of the ACT exam is that you don't have to submit all of your scores; you only have to submit your highest one, unlike the SAT.</p>

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<p>anyone????</p>

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<p>Why should we chance you? You seem to believe you can walk on water--and that the fact that your school should dare to give you an A- makes them worthy of your profanity.</p>

<p>Based upon that, it doesn't strike me that you would be too willing to listen to any constructive criticism anyone may provide.</p>

<p>Good luck with your application.</p>

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<p>Okay, I was a bit out-of-line with that last post, so let me give you some positive advice--which you may or may not agree with--but keep in mind I'm doing this to try and help you out--and notice that no one else is posting here so far, which means they probably are getting the same opinion as me up to this point:</p>

<p>(1) Griping about getting one poor grade from your high school and then blaming it on the school is very, very, very stupid. I say this as someone who went 3.96 in high school (all As, except one B in senior Physics Honors--and I graduated HS in 3 years).</p>

<p>(2) Advertising all of your activities that fall into the categories of Private is a mistake. You went to private prep school, you took private lessons in this (tennis), private lessons in that (math), private lessons in music, etc. just shows that you had a lot more chances than the average person. A top school will see this and just say--"wow, this person doesn't need anymore chances than he's gotten already--so let's reject him. He'll find some okay school to go to with his family's money and connections."</p>

<p>(3) Taking trips to Korea, the eastern US, the western US and to conferences at Northwestern and Univ of Chicago are only good things from the college's viewpoint if you are actually learning something from these trips about the people in those locations and about interacting with people. So talk about this, and not just about recreational, fun trips you've taken. (Otherwise it falls into the stuff in category 2 above--stuff that's given you more chances than the average person).</p>

<p>(4) Saying that you qualified for USAMO but didn't go sounds like a big stupid excuse for being unwilling to challenge yourself. The schools are going to say--"oh, so for once in his/her life you have a real challenge, and he/she turns it down. Not what we are looking for."</p>

<p>(5) You have lots of participation--and in good things (I appreciate someone who is in Interact because I was President of the Interact club at my school when in high school and my uncle was even the Rotary Club's International Treasurer)--but none of your ECs show hardly any leadership. Without this you'll just seem like someone that shows up for the activity to put in on your college application, and not like someone that really cares about the activity.</p>

<p>There's more but that's the main stuff. Look on this and figure out how to modify some of it and then you'll have some real chances at top schools based upon the GPA and test scores--which are excellent, obviously.</p>

<p>Best of success.</p>

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<p>You need to change the format of your ECs...there are so many overlaps. If you are trying to lengthen your profile, trust me its not helping. Most people will realise that you have just listed Math Team 5 times, i think, and Tennis and Diversity club a few times too. Instead, just list your activity and your tenure in that group. Make sense?
You don't need to state going to Korea as an accomplishment nor an EC especially if you paid for it - i see no significance of swiping your credit card. I, personally, don't like the idea of going to Korea for SAT prep, especially since SATs arent beyond schools' syllabus.
As for your chances, i think u are a Low Reach for Cornell and a Reach to High Reach for Wharton (lack of any business related awards or ECs)
PS: I suggest you create a whole new thread and trim the large amount of unnecessaries you have up there. (calcruzer raises a lot of good points as well)</p>

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<p>Wait, I'm not buying that you qualified for USAMO, without a AIME score :D
I think you mean AIME, and if you really do mean USAMO, not going for it was probably one of the worst decisions of your high school career...</p>