<p>Hi, I understand this is real last minute so I would really REALLY appreciate if you guys could chance me and advise if I need to add more safeties.</p>
<p>P.S. I transferred to this high school after 9th grade from Asia. </p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I: 2350 Superscore 2 sittings 760R 790M 800W 11 Essay both sittings
[</em>] SAT II: 800 Chem, 800 Math II
[<em>] Unweighted GPA: 96.24
[</em>] Weighted Rank 9/505
[<em>] AP: European History, Eng Lang and Comp, Music Theory, Physics C Mech, Physics C E&M, Calc BC, Statistics, Chemistry. All 5 except 4 on E&M.
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Econ, AP Gov, AP Bio, AP Lit, couple of humanities electives
[li] Honors (on the commonapp): National AP Scholar, ABRSM Level 8 Distinction, AIME Qualifier, M3 Math Challenge Honorable Mention (top 49 of 1054 teams nationally), National Merit Semifinalist. I mentioned these in addtl info: AMC 10 School winner, ACS Chem exam national qualifier, voted Mr Style for annual school-wide male pageant. </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Activities (on commonapp): 1 summer program, Math Honor Soceity 3 years (co-president), Varsity Swim 2 years (Captain), Trade Stocks 3 years, Math Team 3 years (captain), School Newspaper 3 years (Treasurer and Editor), Piano 11 years volunteered and stuff. I also mentioned these in the addtl info section: Columbia University Science Honors Program 3 semesters, Science Olympiad, 4 years School Softball team in asia, Quartermaster, national 1st, 1st and 2nd.
[</em>] Volunteer Experience: Piano accompaniment for local concerts, held biweekly recitals at local nursing home. Otherwise spread through Interact Club, Math Honor Society, Library, Senior Homes, Town Center, Chinese Cultural Camp; sums to about 100+
[<em>] Summer activities: Global Entrepreneurship selective summer program, stock trading, recitals at nursing home.
[</em>] Essays: Commonapp 8.5/10. Rewrote after early round. Used the adulthood prompt, talked about when my dad didn't know to listen to the GPS or me and I saw that he was just as full of **** as I was. Friends all liked it. Dad kind of got emotional aka IT WERKED. Supplements 2 of them if I may say so myself 9/10. The others probably average about 7.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: 1 from Lit teacher, loves my presentations and essays (used mine as an example of a good paper) and my sense of style and humor (he's very hipster). 1 from super strict Math teacher, didn't teach me a class (maybe problem) but she was the math honor society advisor and math team coach and really loved me and the previous president.
[</em>] Additional rec: principal, because he was shocked that i got flat out rejected ED, and offered to write one; probz focused on my public speaking cuz he saw me give several speeches to big crowds for different clubs, and once i was chosen with 2 other seniors to give speeches about EC involvement at freshmen orientation.
[li] Counselor rec: Generic. Her first year doing this -___- Plus she probably spent a huge chunk explaining my transfer student stuff. My gpa and rank are lower than they should be because of a discrepancy while converting my grades from my old school (grade deflation and all that jazz in asia) and she spent some time covering that too. So I assume not much space left to make it personal. </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State: NY
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Chinese
[</em>] Gender: M
[<em>] Income Bracket(mention if FA candidate): 100K+
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): More like the opposite of a hook... (But really, reverse hook is a sick taekwondo move. Link to tutorial: Taekwondo</a> Reverse Hook Kick Tutorial 2 (taekwonwoo) - YouTube) </p>
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: I really can't say. I guess I'm just slightly above average at everything... Bits of good humor in the essays.
[</em>] Weaknesses: ^That I don't stand out. That I look too much like a typical asian male applicant with strong math... Hopefully my teacher recs and essays show otherwise. I tried to make a point in the essays. </p>
<p>[/ul]*General Comments: *
I think I got flat out rejected ED (from Wharton) really because I slacked off on the commonapp and got complacent. I looked back and was kinda shocked by how little effort I put into it the first time. Really re-did everthing this time, cleaned up the activities and rewrote the essays and all that.</p>
<p>Anyway, here's where I'm applying: (all business divisions if applicable)</p>
<p>Harvard
Stanford
Northwestern
Chicago
NYU Stern
Michigan Ann Arbor
Emory
USC
Wash U
Georgetown
And this new dual BA program between Columbia and Sciences Po (not expecting to get in, just tryin my luck for funsies because France)</p>
<p>Chance me please? :) And should I add more safety schools? Thanks beforehand guys.</p>