Chance me, be brutal.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Asian Chinese
School: Small Public School (1,300 kids, first class of a "gifted" program where IB diploma is taken sophomore and junior year)
Background: Canadian citizen, US permanent resident, Chinese first language. First to attend American college.
Financial Status: 180k a year, dad will be unemployed in september (100k/year), will be applying for FA</p>

<p>GPA: 3.86
Rank: Top 10%
SAT: No!
SAT II: Physics 800, Math II 800, Chinese 750, US History 710
ACT: English 35, Maths 35, Reading 32, Science 34, Essay 8; Composite 34 </p>

<p>Senior Classes:
Short Story Writing (1 semester @ Local College)
Neurobiology (1 semester @ Local College)
Business Law (1 semester @ Local College)
Essay Writing (1 semester @ Local College)
IB Further Math SL (The class after Calc BC)
AP Visual Arts
AP Biology
Internship/Career Prep Class (2 periods, most likely with business law firm)</p>

<p>APs and IBs
AP World History- 5
AP US History - 4
AP Government - ?
AP Chinese - ?
AP English Lang - 4
AP English Lit - ?
AP Calc AB - 5
AP Calc BC - ?
AP Physics B - 5
AP Physics C - ?
IB ITGS HL - 6
IB Physics SL - 7
IB Math SL - 7
IB English HL - 6
IB Americas HL - 5
IB Spanish SL - 5</p>

<p>EXTRAS</p>

<p>In School:
IB Diploma (37 points)
National AP Scholar
V Cross Country: 4 years, 1st league/district team, state participant, expected top 50 @ junior olympics, will be submitting athletic supplement
V Wrestling: 3 years, team captain, ranked top 16 in state
School Newspaper: 10, 11, 12, tech/layout director
Student Government: 10 Class Vice President, 11 Studant Senator
Teens Against Tobacco Use: 11, 12</p>

<p>Outside of School:
Boy Scouts: Eagle Scout, Senior Patrol Leader, 8+ years
Chinese School: salutatorian, 1st in multiple speech contests, essay published in chinese newspaper
Music: 6 years piano, 3 years guitar, 2 years vocal, street busker, recorded own CD, will be submitting supplement
Visual Arts: 5 years experience, freelance web designer (sold some layouts for money), took traditional chinese painting over summer 2009, will be adding supplement</p>

<p>Work Experience:
City of Bellevue Lifeguard (08/2007-04/2008, less than 3hrs a week)
Expected part-time at Jamba Juice (10hr/week)</p>

<p>Community Service:
Eagle Project (Built fence on local jogging trail, 100+ hours)
City of Sammamish Intern (Managed building permits, 40 hours)</p>

<p>Summer Activities:
Internship @ Siemens in Wuxi, China (5 weeks, 40hrs a week, great rec)
Internship @ Microsoft Research Asia (1.5 weeks, 40 hr/week)
CTY Essay Writing 2007
Drivers Ed/City of Sammamish Intern 2008
Siemens Intern in Wuxi, China 2009 (40hr/week, 5 week, great rec)
Microsoft Research Asia in China 2009 (40hr/week, 1.5 week)</p>

<p>Sophomore year I was suspended due to drug issues. Strictly a school issue, clean legal record. It was around the same time where a close family friend committed suicide, as well as the increased stress from starting the IB diploma. Principal sympathized with me, can help write a letter explaining. Joined teens against tobacco use to help keep others from falling into the same pitfall.</p>

<p>I'll be sending applications to:
Harvard
Yale (EA)
Princeton
Stanford
UPenn
John Hopkins
Amherst
Williams
UC Berkeley
U of Chicago
University of Washington</p>

<p>I know the suspension will be a BIG problem with my application, but what are the possibilities of acceptance given my entire picture? I'd rather you be too harsh than get my hopes up. Thank you!</p>

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<p>Brutal? OK. HYPS are highly, highly unlikely. Even without the suspension, unless you are top 2 in your class and write an unusual application, they would have been very tough.</p>

<p>After that it’s hard to say, you would be a fair candidate for Penn and the top LACs, but how you handle the suspension will make or break those applications.</p>

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<p>Your ECs absolutely blow mine out of the water (but mine are kind of abysmal), but the suspension is going to hurt. The top tier schools may not be within reach, but I think you could still easily end up at a reasonably good college. This is a complete conjecture though.
Good luck!</p>

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<p>HYPS- reach
Others- good shot</p>

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<p>use lower ivies as your reaches and schools under that as targets :). Great EC’s, eagle scout never hurts lol.</p>

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<p>By lower ivies I’m assuming Cornell and Dartmouth?</p>

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<p>cornell + brown.</p>

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<p>in at UW :)</p>

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<p>Based on the above advice, you will not get useful help here. This is a situation to discuss with your college counselor, who is hopefully very good. Top colleges will not treat this lightly and I’m telling you this as someone who worked in admissions at one. One hint, the last thing you want to suggest to a college is that this was caused by academic stress.</p>

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<p>Another long time poster, MomofWildChild, would probably have some sage advice. She has knowledge of students who have had similar suspensions and ended up at top schools. Like hmom5 has already pointed out, this situation needs to be handled properly.</p>

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<p>Thank you for pointing me in the right direction, I’ll be sure to send her a PM.</p>

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<p>bumpppppppppppppppp!</p>

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<p>bumppppppppppppppp</p>

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<p>wow what happened to winning stuff? And when I say winning stuff, I mean big stuff.</p>

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<p>wait by drugs do you mean tobacco? how did you get suspended for that?</p>

<p>edit-
collegeklepto, i hope you have fun in banned camp</p>