<p>If the following evaluation seems harsh, I apologize, but it is my perception of the world of college applications and that world in relation to yours.</p>
<p>First of all, let me say that you have excellent test scores. 2390 on an SAT shows talent, and of course, rigorous practice. In reference to the latter, it might not be viewed too pleasantly if your scores reflected profound amounts of SAT prep, which is based solely on getting high scores on the SAT’s, and really defeats the whole “Reasoning” aspect of the test, if you consider it. That being said, I think it is best to have a score higher than 2300 but less than 2400, being that a 2400 denotes religious preparation, if not extraordinary talent, the latter being very uncommon. Therefore, your SAT scores are very good.</p>
<p>Your SAT II scores are also good, and the same reasoning as that of the previous paragraph may be applied. However, I do not like the appearance of your AP scores, not necessarily because of the actual perfect scores, but rather due to the innappropriate variety and that variety’s correlation with the perfect scores; a feat that should not be possible but for hours upon hours of obsessive studying, rather than appropriate dedication and talent in a select number of related fields.</p>
<p>This carries on to the next aspect of your application. How could an admissions officer help but wonder if you simply joined the extracurricular clubs to have the name on the application, rather than as a product of love for what they stand for? The facts simply don’t match. How is it that you get a 5 in that many AP tests, while still maintaining high level officer positions in so many clubs? Obviously, there is something wrong. Either you work every waking minute to make a college application look good, as I can most certainly guarantee that you will drop half of these EC’s after college admission, or you joined many clubs and was voted in to officer positions but did not actively participate in these clubs later due to studying for standardized tests, or you are, like I previously mentioned, a genius. Now, the last is very unlikely, no offence, because if you were a true intellectual beyond the degree of most, then you would very likely have achieved something great in life at the age of 17/18, rather than posting “chance me” threads on a website (not that an admissions officer would know, but refer to the former half of the sentence). Therefore, only the first two options are left, and neither will be beneficial to your case.</p>
<p>Whether you know this or not, college admissions officers from each region will meet after reviewing each application (or just some) and argue for their applicants’ cases, trying to get theirs in. Thus, you must provide your admissions officer with a strong case with which to argue for your admission. Your application, in my opinion at least, is too cluttered and diverse, an oversight that plagues many of those who spend their pre-college life simply preparing for college applications, and this oversight is the neglect of seeing the process from an admissions officer’s point of view. You give too much, they are overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information, rather than impressed, and they might simply toss yours out, like the many other applicants who fill their applications up to the brim with “impressive” statistics. There is a thin line between impressive and “fake”, and college admissions officers can see it very clearly.</p>
<p>Overall, though I daresay you have a good chance of getting into, say, MIT or Stanford, your chances of getting into HYBP are average at best.</p>