Chance Me

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Background</p>

<p>Status: Asian female (Canadian citizenship)
Country: Philippines
School Type: Small Private</p>

<p>Academics:</p>

<p>Scores:
SAT I: M770 CR720 W770 (will be doing SAT again)
SAT II: Physics and Maths II (probably 700+)
GPA: varies between 6.8 and 7 out of 7
Rank: 1 or 2 / 50</p>

<p>IB Diploma:
Maths HL
Business HL
Economics HL
Physics SL
English Lit SL
Mandarin SL</p>

<p>IGCSE:
11 A*s and 1 A</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
-Varsity basketball 5 years (will captain senior year)
-Varsity volleyball 2 years
-Varsity football/soccer 4 years (might captain)
-Prefect for 3 years
-Student council 4 years
-Debate club 2 years (school stopped running it)
-UNESCO member, head of a committee
-Vice chairperson of EBM (helped start up a charity that builds classrooms)
-Helped coach JV basketball team
-Stage manager for school plays</p>

<p>Achievements:
-Nominated and won head girl
-2nd place basketball (3 years)
-Basketball Champions (1 year)
-Football Champions (3 years)
-UKMT Senior Challenge Silver
-Highest IGCSE Performance in School
-Several School awards (Debate champ, Maths, Mandarin, Science)</p>

<p>Colleges of Interest:
-HYP
-Stanford
-MIT
-Columbia
-UPenn (wharton) - My sister just got in
-NYU
-UBC in Canada - both parents</p>

<p>-Any other colleges/safeties you would recommend?</p>

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<p>Safeties? You don’t even have matches.</p>

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<p>I would agree. All reaches. Dont get ahead of yourself, colleges see right through cockiness.</p>

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<p>While many of these are reaches for pretty much everyone, it seems like you have a fair shot at some, especially NYU. However, I would be careful not to do the whole “laundry list” of extra curricular activities–I have a similar problem and recently realized it is much more important to demonstrate passion and intense commitment to one or two activities than a whole bunch. That being said, do what you love, be yourself, and don’t freak out–you’ll get in somewhere.</p>

<p>Also being international may put you in a more competitive pool (for example HYP only accept about 10% international students each year) so that would be important to keep in mind; however, a bonus to being international is that you may have more interesting stories about identity, culture, etc to talk about in your essays. Good luck!</p>

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<p>That’s why I’m asking for help. I’m an international student so I don’t really know a lot of schools apart from the top ones. I know they’re reaches. </p>

<p>What schools would you say I’d be a match with?</p>