chance me please :)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey,
can anyone give me advice on the schools I could possibly get into?
I'm interested in places like Cornell, U Penn, Berkeley, UCLA, [dream: Stanford], but I don't know if I'm reaching too high.</p>

<p>I'm still in the second semester of my junior year, an American citizen but currently attending the Bilingual Department in a school in Taiwan.</p>

<p>GPA: 4.28 (weighted)
top 5% of my year (around 50 some students total)</p>

<p>10 honors courses from 9th grade to 11th...
9th: English (H), Math (H), Chinese 5, Biology, PE, Cooking, Badminton
10th: English (H), Math (H), AP Bio, Chinese 6, Chemistry, US History, PE
11th: English (H), Math (H), Chinese 7 (H), AP Chem, World History (H), Physics, PE,
12th (thinking of taking): AP English, AP Calc, Chinese 8 (H), AP Physics C, AP Econ micro/macro, AP US Govt</p>

<p>PSAT score: 220 (taking the SAT this saturday)
SAT II Bio: 750
SAT II Chem: 780
SAT II Chinese: 800
SAT II Math2C: 740</p>

<p>AP Bio: 5
AP Chem: not yet out yet.. most likely a 5?</p>

<p>Academic Honors/Awards:
•2nd place, 2005~2006 school year 1st semester grade
•2nd place, 2005~2006 school year 2nd semester grade
•Model Student, 2005~2006 school year
•Award for Perfect Attendance, for junior high school years
•Award for Academic Excellence, for junior high school years
•1st place, Math Bee for 9th grade Math Honors
•2nd place, 2006~2007 school year 1st semester grade
•3rd place, 2006~2007 school year 2nd semester grade
•3rd place, 2007~2008 school year 1st semester grade
•Citizenship Award, 2008 Jan. 18</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (up to this year):
1. Student Council, 3 years [headed 6 committees, in the Honor Council]
2. InterAct service club, 3 years [headed 7 committees]
3. Swim Team, 3 years [captain]
4. Debate Club, 3 years
5. Girls' Bball Team, 2 years</p>

<p>Others:
•2007 NEHS School Anniversary MC
•2007~08 Prom Fundraising Committee Co-head
•2007 Halloween UNICEF Fundraiser: Costume Contest MC
•2007 Taipei Cicero English Debate Tournament
•2007 Exploravision Contest
•2007 HSINMUN Conference (delegation: Austria)
•2008 TAIMUN Conference (delegation: Cuba) ; Most Outstanding Delegate Award
•9th grade: 1st semester Class President
•10th grade: 1st semester Class Vice President
•11th grade: 2nd semester Class Vice President
•2008: Taiwan HOBY program</p>

<p>Summer/Winter Break Activities:
•2005~06 winter: Short Courses on Biotechnology at the National Tsing-Hua University
•2006 summer: tutoring English composition and speech to a 12 yr. old local Chinese student
•Saturday Science Camp at the National Tsing-Hua University
•2007 summer: counselor at a 3-day English Summer Camp at Da-ping Elementary School; Community service at Zhen-Ai Institute for the Mentally Challenged
•2007~08 winter: tutored English to an elementary school student</p>

<p>any suggestions or comments greatly appreciated!!</p>

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<p>Your EC's are very solid, shouldn't be a problem.</p>

<p>Are there any regional prizes/awards you received? I think it would be much better to write those than something like "perfect attendance", which is nice, but not likely to affect adcom's decisions. try not to write any "class" or "school" awards unless they're significant (so take out "model student", "citizenship", "attendance" at the very least)</p>

<p>You should aim for 2200+ on the SAT to have a good chance at any of those schools. Your grades/SAT's are all pretty good anyhow.</p>

<p>I don't know if you would be considered international, you'll have to check with others about that. If you were an international student needing financial aid, all of the universities you are aiming for would be definite reaches. Berkeley and Stanford would be reaches regardless, and Cornell/UPenn would be pretty close. I don't know too many universities to recommend though, sorry.</p>