<p>SAT: 2290
PSAT: 227
ACT: N/A
SAT II: taking this Saturday, most likely Math II: 800, Chemistry: 780-800, Physics: 750-800
AP: 5 5s so far, should have 6 more 4-5s</p>
<p>GPA:
UW: 4.00 with 11 APs taken so far
Rank: We dont rank but should be top 0.5%
W: Like 4.5+, perhaps #1 in my class (we dont rank)</p>
<p>ECs:
Science Olympiad-President, with multiple state awards (4 years)
Freshman Mentoring Club-Board Member, we help freshman adjust to high school (2 years, but not allowed the first 2 years)
Newspaper-Chief Programmer on the webteam for a nationally ranked newspaper (3 years, not allwed freshman year)
Orchestra-Symphony Orchestra-one of the best orchestras in the nation, Vice President of Orchestra Club (4 years)
Math Club-made AIME 2 years, nothing good on AIME (4 years)
Key Club-over 75 hours
NHS-hopefully over 25 hours</p>
<p>Research-this summer, will serve as Group Leader for Siemens</p>
<p>Awards:
ACS winner-would have qualified for the Chemsitry Olympiad if I was a US Citizen
AIME 2 years
National Merit Semifinalist
Should be National AP Scholar unless something goes wrong</p>
<p>Hopeful Siemens Award in Research (Consider no award and Reg. Finalist Award)</p>
<p>Self-Analysis:
I have big leadership positions in a pretty large school, and I have some varied science/math awards</p>
<p>Schools:
MIT (early)
HYPS (if I do not get accepted early)
Any safety school</p>
<p>Your scores appear good, your ECs are strong…I think you have an excellent chance at one of your top choices. But MIT’s EA can be absolutely brutal. Also, I could probably be a little bit more accurate with my chancing if you gave a breakdown of your scores on the SAT1.</p>
<p>You look pretty good for MIT EA, especially with your ECs and your Math II SAT score. I would say 50-60%, which is insanely high for anyone, I realize, but you seem to be a great match to MIT’s ideal applicant (strong math/science background with varied interests including music and journalism).
Plus, if you are a URM in any way or you are a girl your chances are even strong. Unfortunately, if you are an ORM they do go down.</p>
<p>As for HYPS, your stats are a better fit to MIT than the Ivies, but you have excellent chances all around. I would say 30-40% at the Ivies (lumping Stanford in there too).</p>
<p>Also consider UCBerk if money isn’t an object, Caltech (if you can betray MIT by applying to their arch nemesis lol), and Northwestern.</p>
<p>If you’re planning on going into chem, you really can’t beat Berk (I drool over their chemistry department, but sadly wouldn’t be able to afford UCB tuition haha)</p>
<p>Only thing that sticks out is the ECs. They’re all pretty mundane, except for the research you’re going to do this summer. Try to either get a supp. LOR from whomever you’re researching with, use it in your essay, or somehow play it up, because it’s really you’re only supplemental selling point.</p>
<p>Aside from that you’ve got as good a chance as anyone (anyone being the thousands of ultra smart math people applying to those schools).</p>
<p>^We dont even really offer anything else except math and chemsitry. Chemistry is messed up though; Like I said, I did not make it…but no one here is following the chemsitry olympiad rules…apparenlty we had 8 people from our school make it…we didnt follow the 2 person rule so that might hurt me? Can I still write down i made chem olympiad but was not US citizen? </p>
<p>As for math, there arent alot; theres one other person in my grade and hes really really good (he passed AIME multiple times now), but I am number 2 in my grade for sure. But then again, I am much worse, as I barely passed AMCs every year (but did do sorta well on AIME last year, just not passing), so I dont know what that really says.</p>
<p>We do have a ton of Siemens winners though, but I think that has more to do with the fact that we live in a richer community so we have more opprotunity to do research…</p>
<p>SAT: 2290 (no major skewness, all 700+, I actually forgot exact scores but I know they were all 700+, and I believe they were atleast 50% on MIT’s scale)
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
School Type: Magnet, one of the largest in the state
Teacher recs: Havent thought of any specific teachers but 1 math and 1 english/social studies…maybe my chemistyr teacher but MIT doenst allow that (2 science/math)</p>
<p>MIT looks like a really good choice for you! Yale is a great school too, but it doesn’t really fit your interests. i think you have a great shot at all of the schools on your list though!</p>
<p>Ya im not applying to anywhere if I get accepted to MIT. I might apply to Caltech early too. But most likely I wont get accepted early, so Ill try a whole bunch of other colleges.</p>
<p>Below average chance given your international student status. What’s the highest level of achievement for you in music and science/math ECs? All state recognition? Anything at Regional-level?</p>
<p>You are probably South Asian (hint: cricket) so that means you’ll have to fit in the top 25% accepted profile to have a legitimate shot at getting into MIT.</p>
<p>hmm I have a green card? Am I still international? Just not US citizen.</p>
<p>Music we have national (but its a group thing so I dont know how much that counts)
Well AIME is national but its not that great considering theres something else above it
Siemens is hopeful regionals (regional finalst)</p>
<p>The weird thing is that Siemens Semifinalist is national, but Regional Finalist is regional even though Regional Finalist is better.</p>
<p>If I could include USNCO that would be great.</p>
<p>I am NOT a US citizen but I am a US resident (green card)…I was not able to take USNCO because I was not a citizen, but when I apply to colleges, will I be counted as an international?</p>