<p>Ya I agree- your ACT and next year’s schedule look very competitive to me but the ECs would be the hang-up if there was one, unless you’re the chief editor in journalism?? Cuz that’s a killer job- i know :)</p>
<p>Good ACT. You need to work on your ECs now. But don’t just join a whole bunch of clubs, find a few that you really want to excel in. If I were you, I’d center my activities around law, since that seems like something you’re interested in. Don’t do like me, and have standard ECs and no outstanding qualities. Develop a passion, having some kind of passion to set you apart from the others will help.</p>
<p>Great ACT. Make sure your subject tests match.</p>
<p>I can’t really say you’ll get busted on your stats. If anything it’ll be your activities, so make them good. Work on your essays as well and make sure they’re unique. Not that a good essay can save you if you flunk statistically, but essays can help set you apart from the thousands of people who have great scores.</p>
<p>Above all, do not become a ‘cookie-cutter’ applicant. Focus on what you want to do and make sure everything you do fits into that equation. If your dreams school doesn’t like that, then maybe you weren’t well matched to begin with.</p>
<p>4 APs next year? I would laugh, but I can only cringe because I had two APs (chem and APUSHjunior year and four this year.</p>
<p>I’m an international Student currently living in Toronto, Canada.
I’m an “asian” student with an American Citizenship.</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT- 2260 ( & 9/12 on essay)
Math 2c-800
Physics -750
Korean with listening - 760</p>
<p>AP Calculus AB -5</p>
<p>IB Program:
English HL - 5
Biology HL - 6
Chemistry HL -6
French SL -5
Geography SL -7
Math SL -7
TOK & Extended Essay -2 (IB Diploma)</p>
<p>Top 5% of class</p>
<p>Extra Curricular:
Played school basketball team for 4 years
Played Houseleague basketball for 5 years
School badminton team -1 year
15 Math Contest Certificates and 1 Science contest certificate and 1 biology contest certificate.
Volunteer at Library 100+ (hours)
Volunteer at hospital as a translator for patients 100+
Raised money for Cancer Research, going about neighborhoods 50+
French award (highest mark in grade 10)
Math award (I don’t know if this counts b/c i got it in my gr. 8 grad)
Went to Tijuana, Mexico to help needies 150+
Went to native village to help needies 100+
School Orchestra for 4 years
School Chamber (Advanced) Orchestra for 2 years
““LEADER”” of Church Orchestra for 2 years
Track & Field for 2 years
Math Club for 1 year</p>
<p>I’m confused… I’m an Asian in a math club with a crap score in Math I SAT II (and generally low marks in math). Does that… help me? Or hurt me? Or both?</p>
<p>I’m kidding- but honestly I don’t know. I could do either of the following…</p>
<p><em>Pretend I know what I’m talking about</em>
Yes that hurts you a lot. An adcom member told me they really frown upon Asians with lower math scores.</p>
<p><em>Give a common and vague answer</em>
Harvard gives consideration to the applicant as a whole. While you’re objective scores are important, subjective facets are not overlooked.</p>
<p><em>Stereotype the circumstance</em>
You must be a quarter asian, theres no way asians get low math scores. Theres so many 800’s you cant even get 99 percentile with a perfect score in the SAT by race eval!</p>
<p><em>Give you my best guess (educated)</em>
Perhaps it could hurt. You’re in a tough applicant pool. But if you are a candidate for the school based on your leadership or EC’s don’t sweat it. If you have weak EC’s and are depending upon your grades- be glad you had a safety. (you did have one… right?)</p>