Chance me?

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<p>Could any of you chance me for regular admittance? I would really appreciate it =]</p>

<p>The only thing I’m really worried about is my lack of AP’s junior year, although all of my classes except for 2 were college level. I’m really riding on my numerous leadership positions, very tough curriculum, and international & state awards.</p>

<p>Objective:
• SAT I (breakdown): 2250 (780 R, 740 M, 730 W) superscored
• ACT: 32
• SAT II: 730 Math 2, 740 Literature
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.96
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): #5 out of 115
• AP (place score in parenthesis): None until this year, but close to all my classes were college level
• Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Chem, AP Bio, AP Psych, Organic Chem, and 2 required classes,
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
International award for Pediatric Ophthalmology research in India
National Cultural Ambassador Award for a minor charity organization (for writing a successful draft for an emergency fund and editing an newspaper for two years)
A couple other minor ones</p>

<p>Subjective:
•Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Peer Assistant (Leadership, like a prefect at a boarding school)
Indoor Soccer (Team Captain for 4 years)
Disney Club (Founder and President 1 year)
Soccer Club (President 1 year)
South Asian Muncie Association Youth (President 4 years)
Varsity Soccer and Track for 2 years
Indoor Soccer for 4 years
Nationally Ranked Choir for 2 years
Couple others</p>

<p>• Job/Work Experience: Does research count? I got paid =p
• Volunteer/Community service: 1000 + hours
• Summer Activities: Research on anti-tumor drug, successfully made derivative that had never been made before
• Essays: I’m a good writer, so they should be great
• Teacher Recommendation: Excellent
• Counselor Rec: Not sure, should be good
• Additional Rec: Best I could ask for, president of an organization wrote it for me, talks about two of my major EC’s</p>

<p>Other
• State (if domestic applicant): IN
• Country (if international applicant):
• School Type: Public/Charter
• Ethnicity: Asian
• Gender: M
• Income Bracket: 75k
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):</p>

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<p>Your extracurriculars look really good (leadership, demonstrates passion in the activitiest)…SAT could be better but it’s not that important.</p>

<p>As for your concern over the APs, it wouldn’t matter as long as you took the harderst courses possible. However, if APs were offered in your junior year and you chose not to take them, that will count against you. The most important part of the application (according to Princeton) is the rigor of your courseload and your academic transcript. Even so, you might make up for it by writing stellar essays and/or capitalizing on your ECs (too little information is given here for me to determine the extent of your achievements).</p>

<p>As they say, “the best way to be rejected is to not apply”…give it a shot! Though what actually goes on behind the doors of the admissions office of any Ivy League school is beyond us. ;)</p>

<p>Chance me back?</p>

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<p>You have a very impressive app. Your extracurriculars, though, should show some type of dedication to a certain aspect of your life, you have something, but not very clear, the research material… beautiful, you should help me on how you got there … like how you did that. Where did you get the resources from? How? And also, if you can, more SAT IIs would be better.</p>