Chance me please ):

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Basics:
Asian-American
Junior 2011
Very competitive public high school with high Asian population
Female
Interest in business, public relations, English, education, and mass media
No ranking at school, but most likely NOT in top 4% (ELC) much less top 50% </p>

<h2>***Not very intelligent academically (stats below) which is what I'm afraid of ): I did TERRIBLY junior year first semester. UGH! </h2>

<p>GPA:
Freshman Yr - S1: 4.0, S2: 4.0 (unweighted)
Sophomore Yr - S1: 3.741, S2: 3.741 (unweighted, 1 AP 1 Honors)</p>

<h2>Junior Yr - S1: 3.1667, S2: TBA (unweighted, 2 AP 2 Honors)</h2>

<p>SAT/AP Testing scores:
-SAT Reasoning: 2070/2400 (700 W 700 M 670 CR) - Nov. 2009
-SAT II Korean: 750/800 (sigh, and I'm Korean) - Nov. 2008
-PSAT: 223/240 - Oct. 2009
-AP Euro: 3/5 - May 2009</p>

<p>Pending/future SAT/AP test scores:
-SAT Reasoning: ????/2400 (??? W ??? M ??? CR) - March 2010 (wish me luck!)
-SAT II Math 2C: ???/800 - May 2010 (wish me luck! Scored 720 on last practice test)
-SAT II United States History: ???/800 - June 2010 (wish me luck!)
-AP United States History: ?/5 - May 2010</p>

<h2>-AP English Language: ?/5 - May 2010</h2>

<p>Potential Colleges I'm Applying To*:
-USC Marshall and Annenberg (first choice school, business and communications)
-Carnegie Mellon University (business)
-Northeastern (business)
-NYU (business! Sternnn)
-Barnard College (English)
-Pitzer College (English)
-Syracuse University (business or sports journalism)
-UC Berkeley (undecided)
-UC Los Angeles (undecided or English, not sure yet)
-UCSD (Business/communications or English)
-UC Irvine (Education or English)
-UC Davis (English)</p>

<h2>*keep in mind I'm narrowing this down! </h2>

<p>Extracurriculars:**</p>

<p>(**I whited out the names of certain publications/organizations I volunteer/work for to protect my own safety)</p>

<p>-Interact Club: Secretary (fresh/soph yrs), VP (junior year), President (guaranteed, senior year)
-National Honors Society: member (jr/sr year)
-UNICEF Club: Member (jr/sr year)
-Newspaper Club/Staff: Features Editor (soph yr), Editor-in-Chief (jr/sr yr)
-City Teen Council: Councilmember (jr yr, hopefully sr year)
-City Arts Committee: Student Liaison (jr yr)
-(_<strong><em>) Times: Teen Correspondent (soph yr)
-The (</em></strong>_) News: Editorial Board Member (soph, jr, sr yrs)
-School Tennis Team: Junior Varsity (fresh yr), Varsity (soph, jr, hopefully sr yrs)</p>

<h2>-School student council: Class rep (fresh yr)</h2>

<p>Volunteer experience (300+ hours):
-Local County Jail: I read and give out books to children of the inmates while they are waiting to visit. Every Saturday and Sunday, 2 hrs each. (fresh, soph, jr, sr yrs)
-(_________) Math Academy: I perform basic office duties as a volunteer. Every Thursday, 3 hrs. (soph, jr, sr yrs)</p>

<h2>-Elementary school book club Leader: I lead book clubs for elementary and middle school kids. Once a month, 3 hrs. (fresh, soph, jr, sr yrs)</h2>

<p>Awards/Recognitions/Other:
-Nominated as Funniest Freshman of 2011 (freshman superlatives). Did not win however ):
-(<strong><em>) University Alumni Club High School Essay Scholarship Contest - 1st place ($200)
-District-wide high school recognition project: Honorable Mention, Financial Planning/Investment
-Nominated for Kohl's Cares for Kids scholarship at school
-Honor Roll, Scholar athlete, Scholar musician (when I did band)
-Volunteer of the month @ (</em></strong>_) Math Academy: 5 times
-Participant of school's Poetry Out Loud competition (soph yr)
-Scholarship to local Rotary Club's prestigious high school summer leadership camp (summer 2010)
-Applied to Bank of America Student Leaders Internship (I HOPE I GET IN!)</p>

<h2>-Applied to Meg White for 2010 Internship (I HOPE I GET THIS!)</h2>

<p>Job Experience:</p>

<h2>-Worked as a private tutor during summer 2007 and 2008</h2>

<p>Recommendations:</p>

<h2>Will seek recommendations from my Interact Club advisor, trig teacher, Spanish teacher, APUSH teacher, future AP Econ teacher, my counselor, tennis coach, math academy CEO, and possibly vice principal and principal. </h2>

<p>Essays:
I am a bit worried about this, but I hope I can do myself justice! </p>

<p>Thanks for reading this ridiculously long thing! I will chance you back, leave a link (:</p>

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<p>thnx for the reply and cheer kkk I read your whole stat and I think they are really nice.
I guess no problem with Syracuse Northeastern UC Irvine and probably(possibly) other schools too! I’m telling you as an already experienced person, keep up the good work with gpas and SATs too! You got a nice arrangement of ECs!!
I’m sure you will do brilliantly considering the work that you had already done@! Colleges are getting tougher. I can feel it kk. Best wishes! One year to go~</p>

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<p>so since you said during your sophomore year you took 1 AP and 1 Honors, does that mean all of your other classes were so-called “regular?”</p>

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<p>@mediopollito: Yep! I took all other “regular” classes (at my school, they didn’t offer anything Honor that year except for chemistry). My high school offers very little honors classes, and freshmen can’t get anything above a 4.0</p>

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<p>First word noticed: Asian.</p>

<p>Typically, Asian screams super high test scores & GPA. You don’t exactly fit that. Especially given scoring a 750 in Korean language while being a Korean… that doesn’t help either.</p>

<p>ECs are just a typical grocery list. Absolutely Nothing stands out. I predict that you will be mercilessly rejected by everyone.</p>

<p>Just kidding. But ECs aren’t worth much unless you can turn the few “special” ECs into high-powered essay. There are a couple ECs you can use to portray yourself as not so typical Asian. </p>

<p>You don’t typically need that many recs. In fact, going overboard can often do you more damage than good.</p>

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<p>Your EC’s are excellent!
But you are applying to a lot of California state schools, you have a very good chance to all uc, ucla is probably going to be harder… and more comptetive.</p>

<p>NYU may be a reach for you and so will carniege mellon.
Syracus and northeastern are matches for you…</p>

<p>but us asian will always be disadvantage as there is more azn competition.</p>

<p>best of luck!</p>

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<p>@geekorathletic Lol well, I appreciate your candid honesty (:
And yeah, I know my scores suck. Hahahaaa
I wonder what ECs “stand out” on my application? Quite frankly I don’t think too much about what sort of ECs I do. If I strongly believe in a cause or anything of the sort, I’ll completely devote all my free time to it.</p>

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<p>Your stats are good - maybe NYU will be less of a reach than other posters said because you live out West instead of the tristate area - that’s what I’ve heard. Also make sure your grades this semester are stellar!</p>

<p>Good luck – would be fun to both go to NYU</p>

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<p>@Tomwolfe321 are you also looking into going to NYU? (:</p>

<p>Yeah, being an Asian sucks sometimes…especially when it comes to college!</p>

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<p>When scrolling through your list of extracurrics, I found “Nominated as Funniest Freshman of 2011” quite interesting.</p>

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<p>“I wonder what ECs “stand out” on my application?”
That is something you should be able to see. No, Funniest Freshman of 2011 kind of stuff do not count. There’s not a ton that stands out. </p>

<p>“Quite frankly I don’t think too much about what sort of ECs I do.”
That’s not the attitude that gets you into colleges.</p>

<p>Look & Think. What is something only so many students do (well)? What is unique about you?</p>

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<p>Geek: Standing out is subjective which is why I asked. To me, they are all very special and they stand out in their own way. I can’t really pick a favorite. Each of them have taught me different things and skills that I put to good use in my life. </p>

<p>As for the caring about what ECs I do, I mean that I honestly don’t have some sort of “strategic” plan for what ECs would make me look good, etc. I just do what I love and I hope that others will see that I’m really committed to all of it and truly enjoy what I do, not some other Asian drone that does everything she does because she’s so worried about “looking good” for the college people (Idk what else to call them). I hope I can prove that through my essays…or whatever else other than stats.</p>

<p>You give good, blunt, straight-to-the-point advice to everyone on this message board and me (: </p>

<p>And I will definitely take your ideas into consideration</p>

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<p>From what I know of Northeastern, you very well could get in. I’m not saying you will, but definitely look at that as a possibility.</p>

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<p>i don’t know a lot about most of the schools you’re applying to, but i’d say northeastern is probably a match, and NYU is a reach right now since your grades dropped in junior year, which is most important, but if you can bring them up for S2 and for S1 of senior year, you could definitely have a chance there…good luck :)</p>

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<p>That’s same thing as saying nothing stands out.</p>

<p>You’re too idealistic. You hope too much. You can’t prove everything. You can only do so much.</p>

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<p>^ Ouch Lol</p>

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<p>you have great ECs!
i would say just a bit of work in future semesters with your grades will help you out immensely
id say youre at worst a mid reach with all the colleges youve listed.
good luck!
work on those test scores!</p>

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<p>USC- if you’re talking about S.CA, that schools would be a big reach. You’d need even higher SAT scores than their averages to have a shot since you’re GPA needs to be like 4.2 to feel confident.
-Carnegie Mellon University- idk much about this one, but from what I’ve heard this would also be a reach
-Northeastern- no idea
-NYU Stern- very big reach, this would be even harder than USC. Especially stern, that’s gonna be really intense competition, and NYU in general is a really tough school to get into
-Barnard College- no idea
-Pitzer College- no idea
-Syracuse University- not too sure, low reach but depends on your SAT scores
-UC Berkeley- reach (average GPA 4.18 i believe, you’re again gonna need those kickass asian SAT scores lol)
-UC Los Angeles- probably most competitive/desired UC, same as UCB
-UCSD- also a very tough UC, gonna also be a reach with it’s 4.15 GPA average
-UC Irvine- based on GPA alone, low reach. but if you get like high 1900’s-low 2000’s, i’d say target. it’s not gonna help being asian (i suffer the same torture lol)
-UC Davis- same as UCI
Good luck try not to stress too much!</p>

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<p>Honestly, you’re competing with the Asian population applying to colleges. In all truth, the stereotypes apply and you need to up your game to compete with those people. Best of luck, though…</p>