<p>I'm an int'l students from Asia... Please chance me for Stanford, Dart, Duke(Pratt), Swarthmore, Pomona and Harvey Mudd.</p>
<p>Here are my stats</p>
<p>SAT(superscore):2290 (CR 740, M800, W750, essay 11)
SAT2: Math2 800, Physics 800, Chemistry 790
GPA: 97/100 UW
Ranking: 5/650
We don't have AP courses... Had six years of science and math education
Major Awards: several state Math Olympiad first prizes, AMC1%, AIME qualifier*2, Harvard-MUN Honor of Distinction</p>
<p>EC: had basically organized every event in my school for six years, in the student government, two varsity captains and three clubs leader, cultural ambassador at school and hosted all international communication events, several researching experiences with two researching papers published, once won full scholarship to attend a summer school at UM, very familiar with East Asia cultures
Volunteer: a state volunteer group founder and leader(we have more than 50 members), organizing all kinds of voluntary events annually</p>
<p>School Type: public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Hooks: woman in engineering perhaps?</p>
<p>Please chance me! I'm so nervous and I have no idea if I had made the right choices about applying to those highly competitive colleges... I think I need more criticism.</p>
<p>Stanford: Reach, 'tis for all of us
Swarthmore: High Match
HM: High Match
Dart: Low Reach
Duke: High Match</p>
<p>Which Pomona? Cal Poly, or Claremont? Poly offers a 4 year engg program, Pomona offers a 3+2 liberal arts and engineering program, where you spend three years there and then two either at CalTech or WUSTL. Cal Poly is a safety, if that’s the school you’re referring to.</p>
<p>@patjeff45 Chanced back already. Why do you think Duke is a reach to me? Just out of curiositybecause you said a different thing from the two posts above. :)</p>
<p>Strengths- focus/trend/dedication in your ECs. Grades and scores are where they need to be.</p>
<p>Weaknesses - ah, I don’t know. You’re pretty strong overall. I guess just make sure you can prove to be articulate and personable somewhat in your essays. You have the math/science background down (you mentioned you had several years of “math and science education”). Well lots of top schools value strong performance in the humanities in addition to one’s specialized area/interest (though it’s not a huge deal if you have a huge strength in math/sci). But it can definitely help to show that you excel there too.</p>
<p>@Nnormal I believe my humanity teacher rec has illustrated my performances in humanities. I did pretty well in literature. I even thought of pursuing a major in humanity or linguistics once for a while.</p>
<p>@Nnormal However my “pretty well” definitely can not be compared to many others Just comparing to those in my class(my class has a specialty in science), and my major intent was like four or five years ago. Please don’t take it wrong coz I don’t think I am that much well-rounded :)</p>
<p>That’s good if you have a rec from your humanities teacher then - especially if you think it’s a strong one. Yeah, don’t take the well-roundness too seriously. You obviously have your strengths so no need to attempt to balance them out. </p>
<p>Your class specifically is math/sci oriented? Or you school. Just wondering.</p>
<p>My school has a very good reputation in National Math Olympiad and all kinds of Science Olympiad. However, we still have an emphasis on humanities. My class is very selective and only recruit those who do well in math and science, but there are humanity-oriented classes as well.</p>
Just comparing to those in my class(my class has a specialty in science), and my major intent was like four or five years ago. Please don’t take it wrong coz I don’t think I am that much well-rounded :)</p>