<p>SAT 2:
Math 2:800
I plan on taking the Bio(M) and World History at the end of the year.</p>
<p>ECs:
Model United Nations (member, 3 years)
Class of 2016 Treasurer and Financial Committee Representative (review/approve school budget w/ administration)
DECA (3 years, state champion in 2 different events, State Officer - Region IV Vice Present)
Center for Talented Youth - JHU Session 13.2, Law and Politics in US History
CTY OneCourse Scholarship - took a course in Intro to PoliSci online at UMBC, final grade of 97%
Interned for a summer for Doug Gansler, Maryland Attorney General at the time
Maryland Allstate Orchestra - 4 years, assistant cello section leader for 1
Anne-Arundel County All-County Orchestra - 2 years, section leader for 1
High School Orchestra - 2 years, section leader for 1
Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestra Side-by-Side (we rehearse and play a concert with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra) 2 years, section leader for 2
Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestra - 5 years, section leader for 2 (I've volunteered with the OrchKids, a program that has high school musicians play alongside/teach underprivileged, inner-city younger music students)
National Honor Society
National French Honor Society
National Social Studies Honor Society</p>
<p>AP Classes/Tests taken so far: AP Gov (5), AP Stat (5) - my school doesn't allow freshmen to take APs, and sophomores usually can only take 2</p>
<p>Junior Year Course Load:
Honors French IV
AP Micro/AP Macro
AP Lang
AP Calc BC
AP World
AP Bio
AP Physics 1</p>
<p>Know tat I'm a Chinese male, so I know affirmative action is going to work heavily against me.
My school usually sends 1 student to at least a few of the Ivies each year, but they're mostly recruited for athletics. I know that schools have a "quota" of students they'll take from each high school, so will those athletes negatively impact my chances? eg. there's a girl in my grade who got recruited by Columbia. Is Columbia going to stop shopping at my high school when it's my class' turn to apply?</p>
<p>Your academics look stellar; I don’t think you’ll have any issues there.
Your extracurriculars seem a bit simple, it looks basically like orchestra (I play cello too!). I don’t know that much about political science, but those activities look very good. The internship looks very nice too.
With your academics, I think you’ll be able to have a good chance at all of them. With the Ivies and Stanford though, I’ve heard that they can be a bit radical (admitting a student with a 1500 SAT and denying a 2300 SAT). Make sure you keep working on your ECs and leadership, a privilege us seniors don’t have at the moment…</p>
<p>rango141 I agree, my ECs are a little bit weak at the moment. I’m trying to do something that will really help me this coming summer (hopefully NIH, DoD, RSI, or Telluride). And yeah, a big chunk of my ECs are music, which is doubly bad for me because schools really don’t need any more Asians who play classical music. </p>
<p>You’ll have a great chance at all of them. After talking with a 2014 graduate who will be attending Stanford, I learned that the most important thing is depth in ECs and strong leadership. Affirmative action is going to be hard to overcome and your school graduate record is discouraging, but as an individual, you’re in great shape. I don’t know if it would help, but selecting your race is optional on the common app.</p>
<p>Thanks. I know that it’s optional, but I my last name (not fully listed in my username here) is so obviously Chinese that it won’t be much use not listing my race. Even if admissions officers ‘supposedly’ aren’t supposed to factor race in if the applicant doesn’t list their race, everybody knows the officers will anyways if race can be determined from surname. </p>
<p>You have a perfect test score, perfect stats, and perfect EC’s. There seriously nothing more you could have done, you have given yourself the absolute best shot at getting into all of these schools and now the choice is up to them. If for some reason they don’t want to take an extremely qualified individual like yourself after taking an athlete, then you’ll have to move on, but that’s highly unlikely. You have a really good shot at all of these schools, and you could probably attend most lower ranked but really strong schools for close to nothing (UNC, Tulane, UVA, etc). </p>
<p>I think you’re on the right track for all these schools, I’m a junior too and my stats are wayyy less impressive than yours XD. If you were to apply right now I’d say you’d have a really high chance of getting into Duke, UChic, Cornell, Penn, Dartmouth, maybe even Columbia. The rest of them would probably be mid reaches for you, but definitely attainable. I don’t think recruited athletes will affect your chances, it’s a different applicant pool so they’ll still look at you from a more ‘academic’ standpoint. At my school (in MD too, what are the odds!) there are a few recruited athletes a year, but regular applicants still get in those same schools without any added trouble. </p>
<p>Yeah, your stats look really good. But as you probably already know, perfect scores aren’t a shoo-in, so I would suggest you start thinking about your prospective major and doing things related to it (if you aren’t already), so you can create a more cohesive story. And I don’t think there are “quotas” for every school like you said. It should theoretically depend on an applicant’s qualifications and how they match with specific schools; don’t worry about others. Anyway, good luck! </p>