Chance Me - A very average student

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Male
Graduation Year: '08 (currently Junior)
Ethnicity: Asian
Nationality: New Zealand
School: Shanghai American School (One of the top international schools in China? Not too sure of its ranking)
Class rank: Unranked, but i'd estimate atleast 30/200-250</p>

<p>Cumulative GPA (including freshman): 3.6 UW, Dunno my Weighted. My GPA has a upward trend. Freshman: 3.3/3.5, Sophomore: 3.6/3.7, Junior 3.7/3.8* ALL unweighted.</p>

<ul>
<li>estimated</li>
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<p>APs/IB:
Sophomore: AP Music (5)
Junior: AP Calc, AP Bio, AP Psych, AP Econ (Micro+Marco), estimated 5 on all...
Senior: IB FURTHER MATH SL, AP Comp Sci, AP Physics B (not sure), AP Chem</p>

<p>SAT Is (Horrible):
Estimated 1900-2000.
Been drilling since freshman. Constantly getting around 1950:
750ish on math, 600ish on crit reading, 600ish on writing</p>

<p>EC's + Awards:
Honors and Awards:
- Honor Roll (9,10)
- High Honor Roll (11)
- American Math Contest Distinction Award: (9,10)
- American Invitational Math Contest Participant (10)
- ABRSM Grade 8 Piano
- JV Table Tennis, Most Valuable Player (MVP)
- Taekwondo Blue-Red Belt </p>

<p>Sports:
- Tennis (10,11)
- Soccer League (10,11)
- Freshman Volleyball Team (9)
- JV Table Tennis Team (9), Varsity Table Tennis Team (10,11)
- Martial Arts (9,10,11)</p>

<p>Intended Major:
Biomedical Engineering
MAYBE Aerospace or material science</p>

<p>Chance me on the following schools ^^:
- Washington University of St. Louis
- Johns Hopkins University
- Carnegie Mellon
- USC
- UIUC
- U. Mich</p>

<p>Suggestions on suitable schools are appreciated (Private colleges are prefered ^^)
Thx for Reading!</p>

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<p>You are obviously surrounded by people who have sat's in the 2300's. your stats are very good man, its just that your environment has taught you to think otherwise...
I think you are a high match for carnegie mellon.</p>

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<p>Oh right your so average...... lol your stats are pretty good compared nationally</p>

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<p>WUSTL is a match. CM is a match. USC is a match. UIUC is a safety. UMich is a reach just cuz u would be OOS although if ur a New Zealander that might help cuz u bring in diversity.
id also reccommend:
- North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
- Virginia</p>

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<p>Average is not the word I would use in describing you. I think you have very good stats</p>

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<p>thank you all for your input. Anyone else care to help chance me? would be appreciated ^^</p>

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<p>SHOOt. i made a mistake. my class only has 180 people -.-; so im definitely not top 10% lol</p>

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<p>I definitely agree with acarta07's comments about being from New Zealand playing out in your favor... also, as several other people have mentioned in this thread; your stats are by no means "average"... I have friends who would KILL for a 3.6 UW GPA and ~1950 SAT scores. Chances on scale of: high reach, reach, semi-reach, good fit, likely, safety. </p>

<ul>
<li>Washington University of St. Louis... REACH.</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins University... SEMI-REACH.</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon University... SEMI-REACH.</li>
<li>USC... SEMI-REACH.</li>
<li>UIUC... LIKELY.</li>
<li>U. Mich... SEMI-REACH.</li>
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<p>Some other suggestions of schools which offer your majors of interest (biomedical engineering & materials science):
REACH: Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania
SEMI-REACH: Northwestern University, Tufts University
GOOD FIT: Boston University, Bucknell University, George Washington University, Lehigh University, Trinity College (CT), University of Rochester
LIKELY: Gettysburg College, Syracuse University</p>