Chance Me :P

Chance Me / Match Me!
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GPA and Background
3.93 UW, 4.74 W, 4.0 UC (Unweighted) 4.4 UC (Capped and Weighted)
Asian female from CA

CLASS RANK
<1%, 3rd of 522 students

SAT
1460 (1600 scale), 2240 (2400 scale), 720 CR, 740 Math, 780 Writing

SAT II’s
750 Chemistry, 750 US History, 800 Math Level II

AP CLASSES
AP World History (4), AP US History (4), AP Chem (5), AP Lang (5), Calc AB (5)

SENIOR YEAR AP CLASSES
AP Literature, AP Calc BC, AP Physics, AP Spanish, AP Psychology OR AP Stats, Choir OR Photography

EXTRACURRICULARS
Inside School: Academic Decathlon (9-11), Math Club (9-10), Tutorial Club (11-12), Red Cross (9), Key Club (9-12), CSF (9-12)
Outside of School: Piano (4-12), Sync or Swim (9-11), Toastmasters (11-12), Your Vote Matters (11-12), Homework Helper at local libraries (11-12), Theater Usher (11-12), TeenInk Advisory Board (10-12)
Summer Involvement: Counselor at Tech Trek—STEM camp (10), Empowerment Program—program that encouraged Asian-American political engagement (12), Doctor Shadower (12), JPL Researcher (12)

AWARDS
• AP Scholar with Distinction, 12th Grade
• Posse Scholar Nominee, 11th grade
• Academic Decathlon Language and Literature Silver Medal, 11th grade
• Academic Decathlon SuperQuiz Silver Medal, 11th grade
• Academic Decathlon Science Bronze Medal, 11th grade
• Academic Decathlon Speech Bronze Medal, 11th grade
• Academic Decathlon Interview Bronze Medal, 11th grade
• Academic Decathlon Economics Bronze Medal, 11th grade
• Published a personal narrative in TeenInk
• TeenInk Editor’s Choice Award, 10th grade
• CM Level 10 Piano, 9th grade

ESSAYS
They’re coming along okay-ish for now.

RECOMMENDATIONS
Physics teacher will give a solid recc, as the supplementary recommender. Not sure about my “humanities” teacher though.

COLLEGES I’M APPLYING TO (applying as a biology major for most, minus UPenn and CSUF)
Stanford
Columbia
University of Pennsylvania
Yale
UC San Diego
UC Berkeley
UCLA
USC
UC Irvine
UC Davis
UC Santa Barbara
Cal State Fullerton
UC Santa Cruz

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You have a great chance at UC’s and UCSC. Judging by your semi-weak extracurriculars and low sat score (for the schools), you’ll have an extremely hard chance to get into the top four on your list.

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LOL says the person who has a 3.5 GPA and finds “classes useless and boring!”

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Hey, there’s no need to be snide to other commenters : /. Anyways, I would just submit your old SAT score down rather than the new one if possible, as its higher according to the concordance tables. Your ECs are decent, but I’m inclined to agree with @FiddleMySticks in that it may not be strong enough to stand out to those top 4 schools, as they’re tough admits for everyone, even those with better EC’s and stats than yours (not trying to make a jab or anything, it’s just how it is with admissions at those schools). Your essays are going to have to be particularly strong for those top 4 schools just to further individualize yourself from the thousands of people applying with similar stats and ECs to yours. To sum it up, definitely don’t count yourself out of the running for those schools, but don’t beat yourself up if you’re not accepted into them either. Good luck (:

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As you probably already know the CommonApp only allows for 10 EC spots. I would really choose carefully because the activities seem a little scattered.

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We go to different schools and the difficulty level at each school is completely different. Your ignorant comments show that you don’t deserve to the top four on the list so don’t even bother applying.

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@FiddleMySticks I do apologize, and I do agree that my chances at those top 4 schools on the list will be affected negatively by my SAT scores and scattered activities. I’m sorry for not taking the school factor into account as well. I appreciate your honesty about my chances.