Chance Me for Top Schools!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Thank you everyone!</p>

<p>My school list is, in order of preference:
-Princeton SCEA
-Georgetown SFS
-Yale
-Stanford
-Harvard
-Dartmouth
-Columbia
-MIT
-Duke
-U Chicago
-U Michigan
-UC’s (Berkeley, LA, Davis)
-U Washington (legacy)</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2380 (780CR, 800M, 800W, 12E)
[</em>] SAT II: 800 Math IIC; 790 US History; taking Physics in June; taking Chem, French, and Spanish in September
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 (most rigorous courseload)
[</em>] Rank: top 10% (school only does deciles)
[<em>] AP Scores: US History, Chem, BC Calc, Stats (expecting 5’s)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C, AP Lit, AP Span Lang, Economics, Honors US Foreign Policy, Math at Stanford University
[<em>] Major Awards: CA State Championships Top 10 in Policy Debate, CA State Tournament Qualifier in Policy Debate, USA Junior Mathematical Olympiad (USAJMO) Qualifier, 4th Place at So Cal Championship in Black Belt Sparring, 4th Place at Nor Cal Championship in Black Belt Kata, NMSF (probable – 240 PSAT), Silver President’s Award in Community Service
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (X/Y/Z indicates done in grades X, Y, and Z; 12 indicates planning on doing activity in 12th grade):
[<em>] Policy Debate (9/10/11/12, President of the Speech and Debate Team, Captain of the Policy Debate Team, CA State Championships Top 10 in Policy Debate, CA State Tournament Qualifier, finalist at District Tournament and first alternate to Nationals, Top Speaker at SCU Invitational, cleared to elimination rounds at multiple TOC-bid tournaments),
[</em>] Public/Foreign Affairs/Policy Interests (11/12, Summer intern for Stanford professor doing research on international relations project about political economy; World Affairs Council Member and 2011 Summer Institute Attendee; World Affairs Council Student Ambassador to promote awareness of IR Issues in my school; wrote article about Afghanistan policy in school’s online publication; Starting a website/blog analyzing foreign policy situations,
[<em>] Speech and Debate Camp Fundraiser (10/11/12, Co-Director, Organized and taught at summer speech and debate camp fundraiser for middle schoolers, raised $40,000 for the speech and debate team, taught speech fundamentals and debate and research skills),
[</em>] Math Club (9/10/11/12, USAJMO Qualifier – Score: 27, 3 x AIME Qualifier – highest score: 9, National Winning Team – 4x4 Competition, National 3rd Place Team – Mandelbrot Team Play Competition, 2nd Place Open Division in Santa Clara Valley Regional Competition, Mandelbrot Competition West/International Region Individual Leader-board),
[<em>] Karate (4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12, Black Belt, 4th Place in Black Belt Sparring at Southern California Grand Championship (Winter 2010), 4th Place in Black Belt Kata at Northern California Championship (Spring 2011)),
[</em>] Science Olympiad Club (11/12),
[<em>] Cross Country (9/10/12),
[</em>] Track (10/12),
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Silver President’s Award in Community Service for working at a monthly fundraiser booksale, phone banking for the 2008 Obama Campaign, teaching speech and debate to novices and to middle schoolers through the speech and debate camp fundraiser, teaching math to middle schoolers through the math camp fundraiser, and a lot of miscellaneous service activities; summer intern for Stanford professor doing research on international relations project about political economy,
[</em>] Summer Activities (‘k’ means after ‘kth’ grade): Dartmouth Debate Institute (9), Michigan 7 Week National Debate Institute (10), co-directed/worked/organized summer speech and debate camp fundraiser (10/11, raised $40,000), Summer intern for Stanford professor doing research on international relations project about political economy (11), World Affairs Council Summer Institute on International Affairs (11), Obama Campaign Work (11), learning Python on my own (11)
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA (Bay Area),
[</em>] School Type: very competitive Public,
[<em>] Ethnicity: Algerian-American,
[</em>] Prospective Majors: Public Policy/International Relations, Math, Physics, Chemical Engineering
[<em>] Gender: M
[/ul]*Will do in 12th grade: *[ul]
[</em>] Falling under Public/Foreign Affairs/Policy Interests: Co-Founder of the Foreign Affairs Club; Co-President of the Foreign Affairs Club; Club brings in speakers from Stanford, discusses current affairs, analyzes and debates issues raised by articles from publications such as Foreign Affairs magazine, watches CNN clips on Foreign Affairs, promotes awareness of IR issues at school,
[li] Chemical Engineering Club: Co-Founder of Chemical Engineering Club; Co-President of Chemical Engineering Club; club is basically dedicated to learning as much chemical engineering as possible through videos, problem sets, and collaborative discussions[/li][/ul]</p>

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<p>bump. 10char</p>

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<p>bump. 10char</p>

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<p>You could get into any college you want, but the highly selective ones are crapshoots (don’t be disappointed if you don’t get into some of your colleges). You should get into at least one of them, though.</p>

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<p>Your stats are impeccable. The only thing you need to worry about is your uniqueness among the other perfect applicants like yourself. Because the ivies and other tops always receive high applicants you really need to appeal to their yearning for a diverse student body. Focus on your passions and you should do great! :)</p>

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<p>Thanks! By diversity, do you mean emphasizing my Muslim and North African background and maybe tying that into my public policy passion?</p>

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<p>Goodness! You’re credentials are amazing- you have a great chance of getting into any of those schools</p>

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<p>Definitely get some safeties because you are only applying to high matches and reaches. And at that level, nothing is a definite!</p>

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<p>@simo14
absolutely! Anything that will make you stand out in the stacks of other smarties haha. I think a really solid essay that interrelates your ethnicity and your passion could definately set you apart. But then again you never know what they want since they usually have so much to choose from. :)</p>