Chance for NYU, Tufts, Dartmouth, Middlebury, Carnegie Mellon etc.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Asian Male
Top 12%
Junior</p>

<p>Top 25 National Public High School</p>

<p>SAT: 2200
Going to take SAT Subject Tests (Chemistry, US History, Math II, Chinese, English)</p>

<p>Weighted GPA: 3.93
Unweighted GPA: 3.70</p>

<p>School Extracurriculars:
-American Red Cross Club (President) - 8,9,10,11
-Africa Fundraising Club (Co-Founder/President) - 10,11
-Science Olympiad Team (Co-Captain) - 10,11
-Asian Club (Secretary) - 7,8,9,10,11
-Varsity Swim Team (Co-Captain) - 7,8,9,10,11
-Book Donation Club (Member) - 10,11
-Library Volunteer - 11
-School Newspaper (Writer) - 10,11</p>

<p>Outside Extracurriculars
-American Red Cross Youth Board (Co-Chair) - 11
-Piano - 7,8,9,10,11
-China Fundraising Club - 10,11
-Mayor's Youth Council - [12]</p>

<p>Outside Programs/Classes
-Harvard Summer School - Psychology (Summer)
-MIT High School Studies Program - Writing, Computer Networking, Physics I, Leadership (2 Summers)
-3 Programs @ Harvard Medical School
-Arabic I @ Public High School (Summer)</p>

<p>Jobs/Volunteering
-Harvard Medical Internship (Summer)
-Volunteered @ Hospital (Summer)
-Tutoring @ Public Library - 10,11
-Worked @ Harvard College Library (Summer)</p>

<p>Awards/Distinctions
-Essay Won & Published in The Nucleus Magazine (not a very significant essay)
-American Red Certified AED/CPR/Choke Save/First Aid
-ACTFL-Certified Arabic Novice-High
-First Place for an Event @ State Science Olympiad
-State Award 2005 & 2006 from Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth
-American Red Cross 1st Place National Disaster Relief Fund Fundraising Competition</p>

<p>Current Courses:
-AP Chemistry
-AP Computer Science
-AP US History
-Honors Chinese
-Honors English
-Honors Pre-Calculus</p>

<p>Senior Courses (if scheduling works out):
-AP Chinese
-AP Environmental Science
-AP English Literature
-AP Calculus AB
-Facing History</p>

<p>So here's the deal, I don't exactly know where I'm competitive at. So I'm asking for your advice. Below is my list of colleges. My high school sends over 50 students, of its 380 per class, to Ivy League Schools and other top 30 schools.</p>

<p>UMass Amherst
BU
BC</p>

<p>NYU
Tufts
Brandeis
McGill
Carnegie Mellon
Bowdoin
Middlebury
Wesleyan</p>

<p>Harvard
Brown
Dartmouth
Cornell
Columbia
Swarthmore
Amherst
Georgetown
Johns Hopkins University</p>

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<p>I forgot ... 500 hours of volunteer service.</p>

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<p>wow, you have some awesome stats. i'm not sure about the rest, but you have very very good chances of getting into nyu. good luck :]</p>

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<p>50 of 380 to ivies does not make your school among the most highly competitive. </p>

<p>Seems like you live near Cambridge, so how many have an in at Harvard? You probably have lots of staff kids and legacies, so Harvard is probably unlikely unless you have one of these ins.</p>

<p>You also have to look at how many legacies and recruited athletes will be competing with you for the other ivies.</p>

<p>So overall, since you're from a competitive NE school and appear to be Asian, you need to get very strategic. Raise your SATI to 2300 plus. Have a very good look at your school's scattergrams and ask your counselor for info on legacies, URMs and athletes. You will need an excellent application and to differentiate yourself from the crowded Asian pool to land at an ivy other than Cornell. Strongly consider applying ED somewhere.</p>

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<p>get a high gpa, and you might able to</p>