Chance Here // Chance Back. :)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Just wondering what everybody out there thinks! I will /definitely/ chance you back, but there may be a slight time gap of 2-4 days since I'm currently on vacation (visiting colleges!). I don't mean like, two WEEKS or whatever, but I'm not going to be sitting in front of a computer and refreshing the page every five seconds.</p>

<p>Gender: Female
Country: China
Fin. Aid? No.
School: an international school, very competitive
GPA: 3.88 [unweighted]
No class ranks.</p>

<p>SATs: WILL ALL RETAKE.
I: 2180 [superscore]
CR 700
M 690
W 790
II: Horrible.
Literature: 670
French: 650</p>

<p>Classes:
In the IB Diploma program. I get mostly A's, except for a B+ in Bio Sem.2 junior year and B's in TOK all the way. :(
IB HL Biology
IB HL English
IB HL Economics
IB SL Math
IB SL Chinese
IB SL Psychology
Theory of Knowledge/TOK (brought my grade down!)</p>

<p>ECs:
- Junior Varsity Badminton Gr. 10+11
(club member in Gr. 9)
- Table Tennis team Gr. 11
- Habitat for Humanity member Gr. 9, 10
- Member of ESEE (other comm. service group, newly founded) Gr. 11
- Chinese journalism thing (selective) Gr. 10, I think?
- Tutoring after school Gr. 11
- MUN member Gr. 11 (but I LOVE it; went to THIMUN the Hague, most prestigious conference, my first year; main submitted for all conferences, for those of you who know MUN. Thinking of going for an officer position next year)
- Participated in school play in Gr. 9
- Worked at local orphanage one summer
- Went to People to People summer camp one summer (does this even count?!)
- Interned at Ericsson this summer
- 2nd place in national/city-wide competition for the magazine TimeOut Beijing, for a prose I wrote
- Contribute to school creative lit. magazine every issue
- Very passionate about writing</p>

<p>Recommendations:
Econ teacher who loves me and I got A+ and A in his class
English teacher, should be pretty good; I'm one of his best students
Counselor = average.</p>

<p>Essays: Unwritten, but will either write about writing (sounds weird, I know!) or about MUN.</p>

<p>My Colleges (hopefully!):</p>

<p>UPenn Wharton (dreeeam college)
Notre Dame
Georgetown
Northwestern
Carnegie Mellon
Emory
NYU Stern
USC (U of Southern California)
U of Rochester
U of Michigan</p>

<p>Some of these might be taken out; the list isn't finalized yet.</p>

<p>If anyone has any other suggestions for good matches, that'd be great. I'm still looking and visiting as of now. And possibly post some comments on weaknesses in my transcript/resume so that I can show myself in the best light possible?</p>

<p>THANK YOU.</p>

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<p>lol go badminton! its so fun, isnt it? what schools are you looking at? I just got back from a tour at UC Davis today. as for your application, retake the SATs, especially the SAT2, and you will have a good shot a lot of those. Your SAT1 is less of a priority to retake because it is acceptable. Your GPA looks good, as do your ECs. show your passion for writing in your essays, and give specific examples of what it is that you do in each of your ECs on your app. I would say the bottom four are matches, the top ones are reaches, but could easily be matches with an updated SAT. chance me back?(when you’re done looking at colleges, of course)<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/736144-chance-upcoming-senior-my-school-picks.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/736144-chance-upcoming-senior-my-school-picks.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>You have a good chance at all of them once you raise your SAT. IB grades are great, most of the people in my score barely pass half of their classes, let alone gert A’s.</p>

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<p>Bump! Please help!</p>

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<p>I say you have a very low chance at Wharton due to the amount of competitive students entering. I mean loads are going with 4.0 GPA and 2400 SAT. Don’t get me wrong, I still think you have a chance, just not a “good” chance. The rest are fairly good. You have a 60-95% to get into the rest of the colleges.</p>

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<p>Hey, Snowbeamer9. I’m sorry if this post might be dead, but I noticed that we’re basically applying to the same schools, except I’m applying to Harvard University instead of the University of Rochester, as well as applying to University of Chicago and Columbia University.</p>

<p>My stats are as follow:
Gender: Male
Country: Taiwan
Fin. Aid? No.
School: an international school, very competitive
GPA: 4.00 [unweighted]
Class Rank: 1/374</p>

<p>SATs:
One Time:
I: 2390
CR 800
M 800
W 790
II:
Literature: 800
French: 800
Physics: 800</p>

<p>Classes:
IB Diploma. A+ all the way! Except for one A in first semester of Math:D
IB HL Physics
IB A1 HL English
IB HL Economics
IB HL Business
IB A2 SL Chinese
IB SL Math
Theory of Knowledge/TOK
All predicted grade is 7.
Also, AP Calc b/c</p>

<p>ECs:

  • Varsity Baseball Gr. 9-12 (Captain, Most Valuable Player)
  • Varsity Basketball Gr. 9-12 (Most Valuable Player)
  • Varsity Swimming Gr. 9-12 (Captain)
  • Varsity Fencing Gr. 10-12 (Captain)
  • President of Student Council
  • President of Habitat for Humanity
  • President of Roots and Shoots
  • Chairman of Charity Organization Committee
  • Secretary General of Model United Nations
  • International Honor Choir
  • Symphony Orchestra (Concertmaster)
  • Amateur Pianist (Hosted several concerts in country)
  • String Quartet (Plays at formal events, such as wedding. Paid)
  • School Jazz Combo (Drummer) (Performs weekly at Jazz Clubs)
  • Editor in Chief of Bilingual School Newspaper (Affiliated with Lian He Bao (National Newspaper))
  • Director of School Play and Musical
  • Thespian Society
  • School Dance Team (Captain)</p>

<p>Paid Internships:

  • Penguin Publishing House
  • HSBC
  • Morgan-Stanley
  • Standard-Chartered
  • Lehmann Brothers (before the crisis)
  • Taiwanese Government (part of advisory board in dealing with Economic Crisis)
  • Scholarship to Julliard over the summer</p>

<p>Awards:

  • School Award
  • AMC School-wide Champion
  • AIME School-wide Champion
  • Winner of Writing Competition for local journal
  • School Valedictorian
  • National Merit Semi-Finalist (probably finalist)
  • Harvard Book Award
  • Athletics Award
  • Performing Arts Award
  • Community Service Award
  • Government Recognition for Contribution to Community</p>

<p>Recommendations:
Business/Economics Teacher: Says I’m the best student he’s ever taught
Math Teacher: Says most potential and brightest kid in his teaching career</p>

<p>Essays: Unwritten, but will probably write about typhoon relief experience and battle with cancer (when I was 8).</p>

<p>Skipped grades 1 and 6.</p>

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<p>Yeah, right.</p>

<p>Hi, Jack.</p>