Chance ME PLEASE

Asian Male from a Big Competitive State (not CA, you can probably figure it out though)

Chances For
-Ivies (except Yale and Harvard)
-Williams, Swarthmore, Amherst
-JHU
-Vanderbilt
-CMU
-Emory
-Berkeley, UVA (OOS for both)

Have safeties and more matches but don’t need chances for those

SAT I (breakdown): 2260
New SAT: 1550
SAT II: Math 2: 800, Chem: 790
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/~220 (valedictorian; highest weighted GPA of the classes of 2015, 2016, 2017)
AP (place score in parenthesis): World 5, Calc BC 5, Lang 5, Chem 5, US 5, Micro 4
Senior Year Course Load: 5 AP’s
Awards
-Qualified to the State Math Tournament by being a top performer in my region of the state
-All-State Violinist by achieving a perfect score in my state level audition
-Harvard Book Award
-Science Fair 2nd place in Chemistry
-School Departmental Awards in Math, Science, History, Independent Research, Spanish, Arts/Music, Athletic Achievement

[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
-Math Team ( 9-12, Captain): A Team Starter, Advanced to the State Competition, Hold and Organize team practices. Am usually the top scorer for our team

-Local County Math Circle (9-12): Attend a local county math circle for motivated math students. held at a local university. 2 hour meetings each week

-Co-Founder of Science Club (10, 11). Weekly meetings with group or individual scientific challenges. Won some of the challenges

-Student government (9-12). Help organize spirit weeks, fund raisers, etc.

-Varisty Tennis Team Captain (8-12). Play singles for our varsity tennis team, starter since eighth grade, Winner of the scholar athlete award (9, 10, 11), rookie of the year award. All-League, All-Conference, and All-Section Honors

-School Orchestra concertmaster (9-12). Lead orchestra in tuning, bowings, fingerings, etc. We won first place at the Music in the Parks Competition 2015, and second place in the same competition in 2016

-School Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster (9-12)

-Local county youth orchestra (9-12). First violin. Play annual concert at Carnegie Hall

-Piano for many years. Earned top distinction at state music audition/competition

[ *] Job/Work Experience:
-Student Researcher at Ivy League University (10,11). Collected data and learned laboratory techniques: PCR, Western Blot, cell culturing, etc. Over 300 hours of research time in the lab
-Unique tennis job; very unique not saying for privacy (9, 10, 11) 180 hours total

[ *] Volunteer/Community service:
-Tutor (10, 11, 12). Help hispanic students in my school with math. Also lead end of year finals reviews for high school students. Go to the elementary schools weekly to help kids with homework (75 hours)
-Violin community service (10, 11) (80 hours)
-Volunteer tennis camp counselor (11). Helped run a camp designed for autistic children and other children with disabilities (30 hours)

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You’ve done everything any applicant could possibly be expected to do. Just make sure that you give the school an idea of who you are. Your problem will only be choosing which activities to focus on – you have impressive achievements in a variety of areas. Your chances are probably as good as or better than every other applicant who hasn’t won some national prize.

@zzzic Yea I was worried about my lack of national awards. And I was thinking about focusing on my research. Even though I have more awards in math, orchestra, and tennis I think research would be better because its more unique