Chance me for MY DREAM SCHOOLS :-)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p><em>NOTE</em> Please give this a good read through...If you see me as coy or arrogant in posting this, I'm not. I simply want honest responses/criticism. Thanks a bunch!</p>

<p>Chinese/Filipino American-Male</p>

<p>GPA: 4.6 (weighted)/ 4.00 (unweighted)...unweighted calculations are my own
Rank: 1/165...total number of students = rough estimate/unknown</p>

<p>ACT: 31 (32/32/32/27...science)</p>

<p>SAT I
-2200-690/710/800 (cr/math/writing)...retake(?)</p>

<p>SAT II
-800 US His
-650 (retake!) Math 2
-690 (retake!) Math 1</p>

<p>AP
-Euro His. (5, indep. study)
-English Lang. (5)
-US His. (5)
-Macroecon (sr.)
-Gov (sr.)
-Calc BC (sr.)
-English Lit (sr.)
-Latin: Vergil (sr.)
-Psychology (sr.-indep. study)</p>

<p>**Excellence<a href="School%20Award%20IMPLIES%20HIGHEST%20grade%20in%20class">/b</a>
-Honors Algebra I, H. Geometry, H. Algebra II, H. PreCal
-Honors English II, AP English Lang
-Latin I and II
-Hon. IPC, H. Chem
-Excellence in World Regional Geo, H. World His, APUSH</p>

<p>Student Honor Board
-"Faculty appointed Board that investigates violation in the School Honor Code (i.e., cheating and lying)"
-Appointed Sophomore Year</p>

<p>Academic Team
-Member of the Number Sense Team, Latin language Team, and Spelling Team (Soph. Year)
-Member of the Current Events and Issues Team and History Team (Jr. Year)
-Won 3rd in TAPPS Academic Regionals for CE&I and honorable mention in History; 2nd in State for CE&I (Jr. Year)</p>

<p>Student Government
-Freshman Year- Class Representative
-Sophomore Year- Class President
-Junior Year- Junior Class President
-Senior Year- Executive Board Vice President </p>

<p>"Other" Clubs and Service
-Usher at my Church of 6 Years.
-100+ hours of community service by the time of graduation
-Cross Country Team (3 years)
-Latin (Classical) Club (3 by senior)
-Founder of the Rock n’ Roll Society (3 by senior)
-National Honor Society (3 by senior, VP, as well)</p>

<p>MISCELLANEA - Awards
-1st in my school's Battle of the Bands 2010 Competition
-3rd in the 2010 University of St. Thomas (TX) Catholic High School Essay Contest: "Peace and Hope in a World of Conflict"
-3rd highest in school score on the American Mathematics Competition 10 Test
-Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony Social Science Award (?)
-"Magna Cum Laude" status on National Latin Exam (2 years)</p>

<p>MISCELLANEA - Service
-Open House tour guide at my school (3 years as of now, 4 by senior)
-Participated in the Shadow Program Freshman Year (tour guide-esque job)
-100 hours (at least) at Nursing Home...but over 6-7 year period
-164 hours at Camp Spike N' Wave (Epilepsy Foundation)</p>

<p>CHANCE:
Johns Hopkins
UChicago
Wesleyan
Rice
HYP(too high?)
Columbia(too high?)</p>

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<p>Well all in all, great. Just get your SAT II’s and your SAT CR up, biggie there. Though being or not being ranked 1 makes a BIG difference bud! That seriously needs to be confirmed!</p>

<p>Johns Hopkins- low mid reach (not entirely just a low reach, but pretty much)
UChicago- Reach (scores and stuff in range, EC’s are in ‘level’)
Wesleyan- I’d like to say the same as JHU, though I’m not exactly sure about the LACs.
Rice- Reach (Same as Chicago)
HYP(too high?)- no, not really. If you confirm rank #1 and boost your SATs, they’re ok. Though you wouldn’t be one of their ‘stellar’ apps.
Columbia(too high?) - again, the same, though you’d be an average/slightly below average app here</p>

<p>I’d suggest Cornell, Georgetown, Northwestern, and CMU as well though, they’re all within the same reasonable reaches as JHU, UChicago, and Rice.</p>

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<p>Btw^ Don’t send ACTs unless you get em to like 33-34.</p>

<p>That up there was my 600th post btw! =DDD</p>

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<p>Do you have any safeties? The schools you want chanced are all reaches of some sort (so yes, I concur with Honorlions).</p>

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<p>SAFETIES
University of Texas at Austin
Texas A&M
Southwestern
McGill, possibly</p>

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<p>UT Austin’s a pretty respectable college from what I hear, I wouldn’t just label it as a safety. Nevertheless, I’d say it’s a low reach (pretty much in actually).</p>

<p>McGill’s also a top of the line school in Canada, but like the rest of the schools you mentioned as safeties, I don’t know enough about it to say much.</p>

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<p>^I think the OP lives in Texas, so its the 8% rule or something like that which means guaranteed admission. Correct me if I’m wrong. You should retake your SAT’s caz of you CR score. It’s not bad, but your chances increase a lot if you could get that > 730ish. And nice job on 800 on APUSH, I don’t see that score a lot. You don’t need to retake both math 1 and 2, you should just retake math 2. Colleges like to see that subject test more than math 1. Btw, valedictorian and student goverment = :slight_smile:
John Hopkins=match
Rice=low reach
UChicago=high-match/low reach
I feel you should apply to a couple Ivy’s but don’t overdo it. You don’t want to look back and say, “What could of been?” If you were to apply to ivies…
Cornell-low reach
Columbia-mid-reach but you never know
Brown-mid-reach
Good Luck :)</p>

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<p>bump 10 char</p>