Chance me, please!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Male Asian, living in Virginia, hoping to go into engineering.
Unweighted GPA: 3.99
Weighted GPA: 4.17 (only AP 1 pt. weight, not honors courses)</p>

<p>SAT I:
Math: 800, Critical Reading: 740, Writing: 710 (70/9)
SAT II:
Math Lv. 2: 800, Chemistry: 720, Korean: 800</p>

<p>Awards and Honors:
National Honor Society
AP Scholar with Honor
National Merit (maybe? PSAT 229)
National Forensic League Degree of Honor</p>

<p>EC:
Lincoln-Douglas/Public Forum Debate: (11-12, 12: Captain)
Hospital Volunteer: (11-12)
Retirement Village Volunteer: (Summer before 12)
Math Quiz Bowl: (11-12, 12: Captain)
FIRST Robotics: (11, Programmer)</p>

<p>AP Exams:
Calc AB: 5
English Language: 5
US History: 5
Statistics: 5</p>

<p>Planning to take AP Chem, Physics, Government, and Calc BC.</p>

<p>Schools:
Virginia Tech
UVA
MIT (EA)
UIUC (EA)
UC Berkeley
U of Michigan
Harvard
Princeton
Cornell
Stanford
Georgia Tech
Duke</p>

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<p>bump anybody?</p>

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<p>In at VTech and UVA!</p>

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<p>ECs are mediocre.</p>

<p>have a great chance at uiuc.</p>

<p>mit, harvard, princeton, cornell, stanford and duke are all reaches.</p>

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<p>good chance at ucb and ucla if you want to go there. cornell prob yes although mit, harvard, princeton are reaches</p>

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<p>thanks everyone - any more?</p>

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<p>let me get this straight, youre an asian who scored higher on math that cr. wow</p>

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<p>ECs are meh</p>

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<p>Those test scores are borderline average, and that mediocre GPA isn't going to get you anywhere. You should do at least 10 EC's next year, regardless of whether you care about/enjoy them.</p>

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<p>disregard Pwn, your test scores are great for any college, including ivy league. However, like others have said, your EC's are mediocre, and you don't have anything listed for 9th and 10th grade. Keep on volunteering and perhaps join something involving engineering to show your interest in that subject. What is your ranking? because that could factor into college adcoms' decisions. In my unprofessional opinion, I'd say that you have a fair chance of getting into any of those schools, just make sure your essays and recs are up to par, and that they make your profile stronger.</p>

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<p>GPA/SCORES : great
EC's: horrible</p>

<p>Virginia Tech match
UVA match
MIT (EA) slight reach
UIUC (EA) slight reach
UC Berkeley slight reach (OOS)
U of Michigan match
Harvard reach
Princeton reach
Cornell slight reach
Stanford reach
Georgia Tech match
Duke reach</p>

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"Those test scores are borderline average, and that mediocre GPA isn't going to get you anywhere. You should do at least 10 EC's next year, regardless of whether you care about/enjoy them."

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<p>That sort of messes up the point of EC's.. huh?</p>

<p>I guess it's true that the only thing that I did relating to engineering was robotics.. but I didn't like it too much so I quit.</p>

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<p>Your scores and GPA are great. Upenn admits around 40% of ED applicants if I'm not mistaken. I would really take a look there.</p>