<p>Ok let me start out by saying that I will provide you with what you need from these forums. After reading this post, log out and don’t return until December. You have apps that you can be working on right now.</p>
<p>That being said, below are comments on your potential application. Yes, I am critical, but I would rather be seen as a jerk than you get denied. Overall, you are a good applicant so remember that.</p>
<p>-Your Sat scores are fine. Don’t depend on scores to help you though; they never seem to. All they seem to do is get your foot in the door, which you have done. Congratulations.</p>
<p>-I honestly have no clue how your GPA works. If you convert it to a 4 scale, you have a 3.8, but I don’t know if that is what it is equivalent to. If it is a 3.8, that is OK, but not great. The most important thing at this point is to make sure you took the most rigorous classes and if you didn’t, have your college councilor explain why. </p>
<p>-I don’t know the situation with international students in US applying to colleges, but I am assuming that you are treated as a regular chinese student in America. If you are classified as international, your odds are slightly less.</p>
<p>-Your AP tests are impressive, but DO NOT SKIP SCIENCE CLASSES IN COLLEGE. The AP tests have a pathetic curve to them, especially in the science tests. If you skip the college classes and you are in a science major, you will regret it. You don’t get the depth in highschool. I know geniuses who go to Johns Hopkins (one of the top science schools), and suffer because they skipped science classes; don’t make that mistake! Of course this is a side note irrelevant to admissions, but important nonetheless. </p>
<p>-Football is important, but do not list it first on your commonapp list of activities. Find a focus throughout most of your activities and develop that focus for the reader of your activities list. Football is helpful because it can be put in at the end to show that it is something you do for fun. I’ll expand on the whole focus thing at the end.</p>
<p>-Other ECs: They are OK. I don’t see any uniting deep passion resonating throughout them all. I hope that you have been successful throughout your two leaderships.</p>
<p>-Essays: The very last thing you want to do is write about your internship or your service work and say that “I went in feeling ____ and my life completely changes because ___ happened.” Colleges don’t care, honestly. What they do care is what did you do wrong, what mistakes did you make. How did it change you as a person? And most important, what will you bring from your experiences into the college? Keep these questions constant throughout your application.</p>
<p>-Focus of ECs: I see zero focus and honestly, this is bad, but you can make it through. What you need to see right now is that you have no focus, but you need to make one. For example, I have been involved in accelerated mathematics, involved and successful in math team, have done math research, involved in an international engineering team, and tutor elementary engineering teams. Find something like this, and get rid of everything else. Build your application on that one focus. Once your application is built off that, then tack things like football on after that, showing that you are able to pursue your passion in highschool, while still being an awesome member in the community (Which I have no doubt you are ;)).</p>
<p>Now to some heart-to-heart. You should be nervous. Chances are if you won’t be accepted to each one, especially if you are classified as an international student. However what you can do is accept that your activities don’t have focus at the moment, that you are applying for competitive schools, and then take the advise I have given you and get off these forums and focus on these applications. I hate to disrespect this community or seem arrogant, but this is the best advise you are going to get. Take it, accept that things may not turn out well (but you are in a position where they might) and leave to focus on your application, not chances.</p>
<p>I also recommend that you talk more about yearbook editor-in-chief. How were you chosen? Based off what principles or qualities? Have you guys won awards?</p>
<p>Good luck pal.</p>