<p>I'm East Asian and come from a relatively crappy public high school in OR. I guess I'm looking at HYPSM, Upenn, and maybe some other non-ivies like UC-Berkley or Duke, etc. Please give me your honest opinion as to my chances at any of these places as well as advice on what I could do to improve them. </p>
<p>I'm currently a Junior in High School, and this year I'm on an exchange in Germany. Most of my standardized testing was taken here, so I might retake some of them, such as the SAT. I also didn't get a chance to do AP/IB. </p>
<h2>BASICS</h2>
<p>race/gender: asian male
gpa: 4.0
psat: 228 (79cr, 80m, 69w)
sat: 2260 (740, 740, 780) - VERY likely retaking this, hopefully for 2300+
sat2: 780math2c, 730chem, 800physics
AP: Calc BC 5, AP Physics C 3, AP German (taking this year, hopefully 4/5)
courseload: I haven't taken AP classes yet, unfortunately, though I plan to take 5-6 senior year, like Gov, Chem, History, Stats, etc.
recs: probably excellent
possible majors: applied sciences or business</p>
<h2>AWARDS</h2>
<p>(Probably) 1-3 Place German Federal Mathematics Competition round 1
AMC 10/12 school first place, AIME qualifier
Top 10 Precalculus award (state)
Finalist - Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange Scholarship (this was a scholarship competition for my exchange, which was fully funded by the government)
AP Scholar, blah blah
1st place - Wiscarson Young Musician's Competition (well known state music competition)
1st place - OMTA Concerto competition
2nd place - Jugend Musiziert Federal Music Competition
All-state Musician
All the other who's who, national honor roll, crap that everyone has</p>
<h2>SUMMER ACTIVITES</h2>
<p>ASE - Summer internship program (8 weeks) at OSU EECS for software engineering
PROBABLY one of the following programs this summer:
TASP/MITES/Caltech YESS
This summer I'm also planning to help my sister set up a computer training facility in Sudan, which she won one of Harvard's entrepreneur grants to set up</p>
<h2>LEADERSHIP/COMM SERVICE</h2>
<p>Debate (2 years)
Amnesty International club (2 years, president for second year)
President of German Club (2 years)
Varsity Tennis Team (2 years)
Member of Youth Symphony as lead trumpet (3 years)
Piano study with numerous regional and state competitions (11 + years)</p>
<p>Youth Volunteer Corps. (2 years)
Boys and Girls Club Volunteer (1 year)
Computer Technician for local non-prof organization (1 year)
Web Designer for current school in Germany</p>
<p>Thanks for the taking the time to read over all that... any thoughts?</p>