Chance me? UNC, Northwestern, NYU, Virginia, Emory, CMU, etc?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Schools (I'm dreaming here): UNC, Northwestern, NYU, Virginia, Emory, CMU...let's start with those. I'm not confident in my selections. Please suggest more!
Male
Rising Senior
Race: Asian (Chinese)
GPA: unweighted - 3.75, weighted - 4.06
Class Rank: 28/603</p>

<p>ACT: 35
SAT: 2210
SAT 2: Math2 800, Bio E 700, Spanish/Lit coming
AP: World 4, Bio 4, Stat 5, Calc BC 5, Psych/Language/Spanish coming</p>

<p>Junior year: 3 AP, 3 regular
Senior year: 2 AP, 4 regular</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<p>Varsity Swim Team - 3 years so far, section qualifier
Year-round Swim Team (US Swimming Club) - 7 years, Junior Olympic qualifier, Far Western qualifier, Sectionals qualifier
Piano - 11 years
DECA **- Business/marketing competitive club, State Presidential candidate, VP for local chapter, organized summer fundraising campaign, District 1st place (2x), State 1st place (2x), International qualifier (2x), International Top 10 in exam
**Chamber Choir - 2 years, by audition, student-run acapella group</p>

<p>Volunteering: Little, 20 hours in freshman year, 20 hours grad requirement in senior year</p>

<p>Work Experience: Working in a restaurant for this coming summer</p>

<p>I want to study finance and economics.</p>

<p>Again, I'm really setting my hopes a bit high on these few schools that I'm looking at. I wouldn't be surprised if they're all reach for me. Please suggest a few match and safety? I'm from California.</p>

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<p>Nothing? I’m desperate D:</p>

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<p>Making me worried here…</p>

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<p>Wow nice scores!! I think NYU would be a great shot for you (my first choice school) and it would be beneficial to be in New York for a major in finance and economics, WallStreet anyone? I think DECA involvement is a strength too. I don’t know much about the other schools, but I do know NYU (Stern) would be great for you ; ) Also, look into UC Berkely (Haas)</p>

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<p>thanks for the response!</p>

<p>safety and matches? i have plenty of reaches in there i think</p>

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<p>Am I hard to chance or something? If so, please tell me how I can fix it.</p>

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<p>Nice ACT, too bad you are Asian (anti-affirmative action). Just kidding…
Seriously, you are in at all of those places.</p>

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<p>I am very sad that your extracurriculars seem to reflect the typical Asian stereotype.</p>

<p>Other than that, you are also from California…</p>

<p>But you have established a solid app.
Best of luck to you.</p>

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<p>I know…no clue why but my parents just decided to put me in the “piano/string instrument + tennis/swimming” kinda thing. Thanks for your input, though.</p>

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<p>I would just continue to work on getting your GPA higher. Also, more volunteering would look good, especially since a lot of high schools require 100 service hours to graduate (or at least from my experience). Having only 20 might stand out negatively. Great test scores!</p>

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<p>I’m gonna see what I can fit in regarding volunteer hours…</p>

<p>question: Asian stereotype + low volunteer hours = lower chances?</p>

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<p>one last bump…actually jk one of the last bumps</p>

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<p>I think you’re solid at all of those places, your SAT scores are really good. You’re definitely not “dreaming” you’ve got a really good shot!</p>

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<p>Do you think I could push a bit upward? Cornell, Columbia, Chicago?</p>

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<p>Random volunteering hours will not benefit your app in any way, at least not enough to be worth the time. It is precisely because everyone else has this or that many volunteering hours that you should stay far away from it. Spend your time on something else. If you truly want to volunteer (because you want to, not for college admission reasons), at least try connecting it to your existing interests… like teach kids how to swim for free, sing/play as a fundraiser, etc. Or find something else that interests you.</p>

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<p>I don’t see how his profile reflects “the typical Asian stereotype” at all, actually!</p>

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<p>Submit the ACT, not the SAT. Also, your DECA accomplishments sounds very impressive.</p>

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<p>Submit both, they are equally as good</p>

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<p>^In what way? A 35 on the ACT translates to roughly 2350 on the SAT. A 2210 is only around a 32 on the ACT.</p>

<p>[ACT-SAT</a> Concordance](<a href=“http://www.act.org/aap/concordance/]ACT-SAT”>The ACT Test for Students | ACT)</p>

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<p>Yeah my SAT and ACT don’t exactly translate to each other. If I send both will colleges see the lower SAT and be like “whoa this guy got lucky on the other one” or something?</p>

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<p>Swimming, piano, and chamber choir…</p>