Chance me and you'll get into the college of your dreams :P

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello.</p>

<p>I am a white caucasian living in New Hampshire. I attend a semi-private school. My class size is 700-800. It keeps shrinking...lol</p>

<p>Statistics:</p>

<p>PSAT: 235 (National Merit I'm pretty sure.) 80 M 80 V 75 G
SAT: 2330 770 M 760 V 800 G
SAT II: 800 Math IIC 760 US History 710 Physics 700 Chemistry
GPA: 103.5ish weighted, I think 98.x unweighted.
Class Rank: 1/750ish
Never received a grade below 90 with the most difficult course load available to me.
No AP Results received yet....</p>

<p>Course load:
Junior Year-AP Physics B, AP French 5, Honors Precalculus, AP American Literature, AP United States History, AP Micro/Macroeconomics, Health (Required class...lol)</p>

<p>Senior Year-AP Biology, Honors German 4, AP Calculus BC, AP British Literature, AP European History.</p>

<p>School Activities:</p>

<p>Amnesty International Club VP Freshman Year
Math Team Captain
Strategic Gaming Society
Honors Diploma Program
Rivier Challenge Program (University After-school Study)
School-sponsored Math Tutor
Science Club
Quiz Bowl Team</p>

<p>Honors/Awards:</p>

<p>Highest Academic Honors all 4 Years
Rochester University Xerox Award for Information Technology
Foreign Language Honor Society (French and German)
National Honor Society
Honors Diploma Program
Junior Achievement Titan Business Management State Winner Fall 2007
New Hampshire Granite State Challenge Team Quarterfinalist in 2006</p>

<p>Other Activities:</p>

<p>Self-taught Programmer (Multiple languages: C++, HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Visual Basic, MATLAB, and LabView.)
Freelance Web Designer that runs a web development/domain consulting firm.
Volunteer at the local hospital over the past 3 years (300ish hours amassed)
Campaign manager and website architect for a father's candidacy in the NH senate
3 month volunteer in local Obama for America headquarters preceding the New Hampshire primary
Summer of 2007: Internship at MIT working with a professor in a Quantum Computing group
Summer of 2008 (Currently): Internship at Harvard working in a biochemistry lab dealing with genome sequencing</p>

<p>Legacy: 1 generation at Harvard, Washington University in St. Louis</p>

<p>I'll probably be applying to Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, MIT, Johns Hopkins, University of Chicago, Olin College, Boston University,Columbia, UPenn, Brown, Dartmouth, Princeton, Tufts and several more...</p>

<p>My major will have to do with biochemistry/biomedical engineering or just engineering.</p>

<p>Strengths: Academic Stuff, Internship/Volunteer Work
Weaknesses: SAT II's, Few Leadership Positions, Few "Humanitarian" Activities, few sports.</p>

<p>So what do you think my chances are? What do I need improvement most in and what do you think my chances are for my target schools? I am planning on joining a bunch of random clubs in the fall to inflate my resume, but what else do you recommend? Should I retake my SAT II's?</p>

<p>I appreciate it.</p>

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<p>Your EC's are weak in my oppinion.
-Have you held any positions in clubs?
-Do you play any sports?
-other than the hospital...community service?</p>

<p>It appears like at the moment you application isn't very well rounded. I would work on that and with your great stats you should do just fine. </p>

<p>PS: With your legacy I would apply ED to harvard and be done with it</p>

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<p>Hey, thanks for the reply.</p>

<p>Unfortunately no real positions in clubs. Just captain of math team and quiz bowl team, as listed former vp of amnesty internation. Never really gave thought to club positions but I realize now it's important =/</p>

<p>No sports because of a medical condition :(</p>

<p>Yeah I'm planning on beefing up community service in the fall.</p>

<p>Didn't Harvard get rid of Early Decision? That makes me kinda sad.</p>

<p>Are you able to do early action and early decision simultaneously? I'm trying to reason this out in my mind.</p>

<p>Thanks again for the critique.</p>

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<p>yea Harvard did get rid of ED...now i feel stupid but i never really looked at Harvard so it really wasn't on my radar. </p>

<p>To answer your question: no you can't apply to both ED and EA. When you apply to ED you are only picking that school, while with EA alot of the time it is non-binding/non-exclusive but it really depends on each school.</p>

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<p>Alright, cool. So why don't people just EA to every single school that offers it to increase their chances?</p>