Chance me for UPenn, Cornell, NYU, UC Berkeley and others

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi guys I am a rising senior and I am interested in following schools:</p>

<p>UPenn, Brown, Cornell, NYU, UC Berkeley, Georgetown, USC, UCLA, UCI</p>

<p>GPA: unweighted: 3.84, weighted: 4.56
SAT: 2330 (reading - 730 math - 800 writing - 800
SAT II: Math II - 800, Chem - 760, US history - 770, Korean - 780
Class rank: I think I'm in top 15%
AP: 5 on AP Calc AB, waiting for results on AP Lang, AP Calc BC, AP Chem, and APUSH
Senior schedule: AP Lit, AP Stats, AP Econ, AP Psychology, AP Spanish, and photography</p>

<p>Extra Curricular Activities:
- President of California Scholarship Federation
- Vice President of Parkinsons Association
- Student Writer for Jstudent board (newspaper publications) for 2 years
- Practiced Taekwondo for 13 years: 4th degree black belt in Taekwondo
- Certified Taekwondo refree</p>

<p>Major Awards: Presidential Community Service Award (Gold)</p>

<p>Community/Volunteer:
- T.A. in Korean School every Saturday for 3 years
- Taekwondo Instructor
- Volunteered as a fashion model for Gettys Museum
- Volunteered for various school clubs</p>

<p>Job/Work experience: Worked as a math tutor</p>

<p>Summer Activities: I had to take 4 summer schools which I will explain below..
I will be attending USC Leventhal School of Accounting Program this<br>
summer and I am currently an intern at LG International America</p>

<p>Hook: low income <50k, came to America in 5th grade,went back to Korea in 8th grade, came back to America at the end of 9th grade so I had to make up all the classes to catch up to everyone in my school since my school didn't consider most of my classes in Korea as valid enough to give credits. </p>

<p>School: Highly competitive public high school in California
Gender: Male
Race: Korean</p>

<p>thankss guys</p>

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<p>bump</p>

<p>come on guys plz answer</p>

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<p>Great SAT scores!
Perhaps you might want to talk about how your taekwondo helped you etc. in your essay :slight_smile:
You should probably see which school has a taekwondo club; that would help you to continue your interests in universities!</p>

<p>And yeah, you can get into at least one of them.</p>

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<p>is one of them UCI? LOOOL</p>

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<p>UPenn, Brown, Cornell - Low reach
NYU - Low match
UC Berkeley - Match
Georgetown - Match
USC, UCLA - Match
UCI - Safety</p>

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<p>Correction: class rank is top 5% not 15% if that changes anything …</p>

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<p>UPenn: Low Reach/ Reach
Brown: Low Reach/ Reach
Cornell: Low Reach/ Reach
NYU: Match
UCB: Match/ High Match
Georgetown: Low Reach
USC: Match
UCLA: Match/ High Match
UCI: Low Match</p>

<p>The objective parts of your application are great. Awesome SAT, good UW GPA, and good subject tests. You have okay extracurriculars. Taekwondo isn’t something you’ll be recruited for, and doesn’t in any way relate to any sort of academic major. I’m assuming an average number of hours for volunteering, so that should be good. </p>

<p>Your interesting personal story does help you with admissions (it’s an essay topic), but the fact that you are Asian does actually hurt you a bit. </p>

<p>Try for all of them; you’ll probably get into at least one that I classified as a reach.</p>

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<p>thanks i am also hoping that i get into one of the reach schools.</p>

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<p>UPenn, Brown: Mid to High Reach (Rank)
Cornell - Low reach (Rank)
NYU: In
UC Berkeley: Almost safety
Georgetown: Low Reach
USC, UCLA: Almost Safety
UCI: Safety</p>

<p>Korean SAT II??? Why? It might make you look bad.</p>

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<p>well I don’t think adding it won’t HURT me. </p>

<p>any other suggestions??</p>

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<p>bump</p>

<p>bumpppppppp</p>