<p>Thank you for reading and hopefully leaving a reply for this post</p>
<p>Ethnicity: Asian (US citizenship)
High School: top 10 high school in Pennsylvania
GPA: 3.87
SAT: 2270
Math: 800
Reading: 740
Writing: 730
SAT II's
Math IIC: 800
Biology: 780
Chemistry: 790
Korean (lol): 800
AP's
Calculus AB/BC: 5
Biology: 5
Chemistry: 5
Psychology: 5
EC's
Model United Nations for 2 years
Key club for 2 years
Volunteered Habitat for Humanity
Found the Flag football club
Taekwondo 3rd degree black belt
Swimming 2 years varsity
Soccer 2 years varsity
200+ hours of volunteer (HFH, Hospital)
Played piano for 11 years and Clarinet for 7
AP honor student in school
Recs/ Essay
Got excellent recs from really close teachers and I tried my best to write a distinguishable? essay.
Applying
UPenn
Duke
Brown
Univ. Washington St. Louis
Northwestern
Cornell
JHU
U Michigan. Ann Arbor</p>
<p>PS. I'm planning for Biology or Pre-med as my major
THANK YOU!</p>
<p>good stuff… but nothing really sticking out…</p>
<p>You’re a really solid candidate, you should get into Wash U, Northwestern, UMich, and probably JHU, I would bet that you also get into one of the three ivies.</p>
<p>Rank is king. Remember</p>
<p>What’s your rank? </p>
<p>Having two year ECs may hurt you, as will your race. </p>
<p>Do you love any of these schools? ED could help distinguish you.</p>
<p>Rather typical resume for the “typical Ivy applicant,” nothing stands out…</p>
<p>Ignore geekorathletic, I have never seen him post a single positive thing on a chance me thread. Penn, Brown, Cornell and Duke are reaches of varying degree in decreasing order. The other three schools definitely seem to be matches to me though, assuming your rank is strong.</p>
<p>Welcome to harsh reality. Being positive and inserting false hopes into people never really help. Being realistic is what really helps.</p>
<p>positivity is not explicitly correlated with false hope. Sometimes people do have very good chances at the schools they are applying to, and that is the realistic answer.</p>
<p>Eh, I kind of agree with geekorathletic here. The OP is obviously a very qualified candidate and will probably hit the last round in the application-reading process for most schools, but will die there. He has the grades, the scores, the good ECs, but nothing AMAZING. I say this because you have no leadership, no presidencies, no nothing. That’s going to kill you. The black belt, playing piano, etc is great, but your Asian race almost negates its significance because it’s so clich</p>
<p>Notice how I’m not the only one saying what I’m saying here. If you think anyone has a “good chance” of getting into the some of OP’s schools, you have seriously flawed thoughts. Statistics alone are against everyone applying to these schools. You are being idealistic, not realistic.</p>
<p>The OP obviously has strong enough stats to be a legitimate contender (~50% chance) for Northwestern+Gtown+lower Ivies. Just because you got into Penn doesn’t mean you get to talk down to everyone.</p>
<p>Talking down? Did I talk down to OP? No, and another person said almost the exact same thing as I did. Responding to an attack on me? That’s not talking down, that’s responding to an attack. Learn to tell the difference between the two.</p>
<p>I think geekorathletic is being kind of blunt with what he’s saying…albeit it’s 100% on the money. Worded more sympathetically, the OP doesn’t have much that sets him apart…he IS the typical Ivy applicant, but not the typical Ivy student.
His schools want students who will bring life to the campus, who will contribute to something other than studies. Right now, he’s looking like a typical booknerd (I’m going through the same problem although I am the FARTHEST thing from one).
Anyways, I don’t think geekorathletic is talking down to the OP, but he’s being VERY blunt. Carefully worded responses won’t kill you :)</p>
<p>Thank you to everyone who kindly replied to this thread; I really grasped an idea of reality 
It seems that some schools are a bit over my achievements, and it would be very cool to see what i have to do more for improvement! (btw I’m a Junior) My rank isn’t like the top 5%, but it surely is in the top 10%. Thanks for all the interesting posts!</p>
<p>@Geekorathletic:
Could you chance me please? I want to know the harsh reality, or your piece of advice.
Please enable PM so I can contact you! Thanks buddy</p>
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I believe I already did.</p>