Chance Me Please!!! Will chance back :)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Asian-Canadian living in Canada :)
High school is public.. not that highly ranked
(It's a ghetto school that the school district stuck the IB program in to make more people go there)
IB Diploma (predicted scores are not out yet, so I'll have to apply using normal transcript scores)</p>

<p>SAT I :2160 (CR:670 M:800 W: 690) --> will take again in Dec D:
GPA: 4.14/??? (school doesn't give out GPA, I calculated it myself over the internet) *this is for grade 11 year only, grades 9 and 10 have 4.00
SAT II: Japanese with Listening 800, Math IIC 760 (Nope, I'm not Japanese)
Class rank unavailable</p>

<p>Coarse load is pretty hard.. I'm taking Math HL and Physics HL for IB diploma which is apparently considered incredibly hard (Idk exactly but apparently they're the two hardest HL courses out of diploma... feel free to object)
Top Student in Mandarin 9, Japanese 10
Outstanding Student (Top 5 in entire course) in French 10, Math 9</p>

<p>EC: (brackets indicate grades)
Central Kendo Club (9,10)
Red Cross Swimming (9)
Church Youth Choir (8-11, Soprano section leader)
Best Buddies Canada (11-12)
World Vision (11-12)
Student Council (10-12, Treasurer)
School Concert Band (9-12, Flute section leader)
School Jazz Band (10-12, Rhythm section leader)
Port Moody Community Band (10-12)
Invisible Children Club (12, co-president)
First Steps Club (11-12, vice president)
District Honour Band (9,10,11)
Provincial Honour Band (11)
Social translator for Haeundae Paik Hospital (summer 2010)
Trainee for Inje University Neuroscience Research Department (summer 2010)</p>

<p>Awards/Distinctions:
Honour Roll (9-present)
Excellence in Work Habits (9-present)
School Service awards for Student Council, Best Buddies and World Vision
Top 25% in Canada for Canadian Math Contest (9,10,11)
Japanese Speech Contest Special Award (11)
Coquitlam District Music Festival Class winner (10)
The Korean Times Korean Essay Contest Class Winner (9)
British Columbia Conservatory of Music Gala Concert Winner (piano) (10)
British Columbia Conservatory of Music Music Festival Class Winner (piano) (10, 11)</p>

<p>Other things worth mentioning?
Royal Conservatory of Music (Piano level 10 with honours)
AFS (American Field Service) Summer Program to Japan Participant
JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) Level 2 (1-5, 1 being the highest)
HSK (Chinese Proficiency Test) Level 5 (1-6, 6 being the highest)
British Columbia Conservatory of Music Advanced Performer's Certificate (piano)
Encounters with Canada International Affairs Participant
Tutored English, French and Piano for elementary and middle school students</p>

<p>Rec: I have one that will be pretty decent, I don't know who to ask for second one :/
Essays: Wrote about why I worked with special needs kids in the school.. I like it :)</p>

<p>Chance me for:
UIUC (business)
UC Berkeley (Pre-business)
UCSD (International Studies-Econ)
Boston College (business)
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (linguistics)
Northwestern (linguistics)
Cornell (linguistics)
Dartmouth (linguistics)</p>

<p>My safety school will be Canadian ones :)</p>

<p>Thanks for reading all this, you will all be successful! :D</p>

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<p>I really can only comment on your chances for Dartmouth. I would say that you have a very good chance of being admitted, but admission at top tier schools is really a crapshoot nowadays. I would say go for it and see what happens.</p>

<p>By the way, if you are interested in other languages, check out Middlebury College in Vermont. It is VERY similar to Dartmouth in many respects, except it doesn’t have a Greek scene, which you may or may not prefer. If you applied there, you’d also have a very strong chance of gaining admission.</p>

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<p>I was really skeptical with Dartmouth, so thanks! I’ll definitely look into Middlebury too :)</p>

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<p>Wansobar - Your statistics indicate that you would be a good candidate at any college, regardless of their low admissions rates. Perhaps you could boost your SAT to the 2200+ range, but if you can don’t worry (you have a very good score). Honestly, I can’t imagine a college looking at you and saying, “Hmm, we would have accepted her if her SAT score were 50 points higher.” That notion just doesn’t make any sense to me. After all, why should someone’s future college, where he/she will spend the next four years doing great things, be determined by 50-60 points on the SAT? Nevertheless, Dartmouth will most likely be brutally tough this year, as will all top tier schools. But don’t sweat it, with your profile, you will undoubtedly end up at a great school.</p>

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<p>bump10chars</p>

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<p>Please be careful about believing everything you read. I think all of the kids here are very well meaning, but they may not know all the facts.</p>

<p>My DS is applying ED to Dartmouth and we’ve studied their stats. CR and W in the 600s makes it a big reach. Higher scores will help a lot. Good luck!</p>

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<p>impressive, but I don’t know exactly where you’re wanting to go. Ivy League? I would say 50-50 chance. </p>

<p>chance me:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1024887-chance-texan-applying-film-school.html#post1065825547[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1024887-chance-texan-applying-film-school.html#post1065825547&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>You’ve got a decent shot. International ORM might hurt though.</p>

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<p>dartmouth=great chance</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1022392-chance-me-stanford-ea-one-last-time.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1022392-chance-me-stanford-ea-one-last-time.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thanks everyone! :smiley:
and @wateringasphault, my first choice would be Dartmouth, but I didn’t apply ED :confused:
I didn’t have enough confidence as to how my SAT would have turned out, and my first one was pretty crappy… so :)</p>

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<p>bump! :)</p>

<p>Thanks everyone for replying, but it’d be really helpful if I could get a couple more…</p>

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<p>bump 10chars!!</p>