<p>Sup guys. After visiting Dartmouth, I absolutely loved it, especially the sense of community in the campus and how nice and welcoming everyone was. I also made quite a few friends =D</p>
<p>So, I was wondering if you could chance me real quick. I understand and appreciate the fact that some of you believe that chancing for Ivies is counterproductive, but if you can, I'd really like an accurate assessment of how much choosing to go with ED will improve my chances.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!!</p>
<p>Race: Asian (first generation immigrant)
Junior going into senior year
Sex: Male
Need financial aid. Although I live in northern new jersey, not all people there are uber rich.
Polysci/Economics Major
ACT: 34</p>
<p>ECs, including the ones I plan to participate in next year:
Student Council President (Won. Will take office next year)
Student Council Vice President (2009-Present)
Student Council Recording Secretary (2008-2009)
Transition Project (Leadership and community service)
Freshman Orientation
Model UN (4 years)
President and Founder of Chinese Club (3 years)
Latin Club Corresponding Secretary (3 years)
Spanish Club (3 years)
Multicultural Task force (4 years)
National Honor Society (2 years, you're only allowed in Junior and Senior years)
Concert Choir <a href="3%20years">Numerous Awards</a>
Wind Ensemble <a href="Clarinet,%20Guitar,%20Piano">Numerous Awards</a> (3 years)
Guitar Club (4 years), our band (The Francs) plays at a cafe to raise money for the Center for Food Action once every 2 months
Marching Band <a href="4%20years">Numerous awards</a>
Improv Club (4 years)</p>
<p>Awards:
Perfect Attendance (so far)
High Honor Roll (Frosh -> Soph)
Honor Roll (Junior year)
National Latin Exam (numerous awards)
(Senior year pending, I will try out for the US Senate youth program)</p>
<p>Community Service:
225 hours (and counting) as a Chinese School teaching assistant
Numerous hours with children at the YMCA
Numerous hours with SC raising money for the Tomorrow's Children's Fund (buying Christmas presents for children with cancer)
Numerous hours helping homeless people in NYC (was really an eye opening experience, I may write my college essays about this)
Numerous hours giving tours around the school, helping freshmen, etc</p>
<p>Recommendations:
English Teacher (this one's gonna focus on me as a student)
AP Gov Teacher (this is focusing on me as a leader). He writes really funny recommendations, probably gonna focus on how I enjoyed one of his personal favorites, the movie "Blazing Saddles."</p>
<p>Work:
sushi place over the summer
Tutoring other kids, lots of money ;)
Playing with my band at cafes and birthday parties to raise money, ppl hire us xD</p>
<p>SATIIs:
Bio-740
Chinese-790 (DAMN, messed up one freaking thing, bringing me all the way down to the 44th percentile, I might not submit this)
US History (750 on practice test, will take next month)
Spanish (will take, but Dart. only requires 2 SATIIs. If it's too much work, then I won't take it)</p>
<p>APs:
Calculus AB- 5
US History- 5
US Gov + Politics- 5
Bio- 3 (crappy; will not submit, SATII makes up for it)
Chem- 3 (will not submit)
(Senior year scores pending, expecting 5, 5, 4/5, 4/5, 5)</p>
<p>GPA Weighted: 4.24
GPA Unweighted: 3.8</p>
<p>Junior year courseload:</p>
<p>AP US History
Honors Spanish IV
Honors Humanities
Honors Latin III
AP Gov and Politics
AP Chemistry
AP Calculus AB</p>
<p>Next year's courseload:</p>
<p>AP Economics
AP Environmental Science
AP English Language
AP Spanish Language
AP Statistics
Honors Model UN
Concert Choir/Wind Ensemble</p>
<p>Well what can I say? I gave it my all and put in every single ounce of energy that I could possibly muster. It's a solid resume, but not uber special haha. Unless I bring up the fact that I'm an Asian student council president in a conservative suburban neighborhood in Bergen County, New Jersey. But would that be too pretentious/platitudinous in an essay? You decide haha.</p>
<p>Anyways, thanks, hoping for some replies, and I will chance you guys back ASAP.</p>