Chance me?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a rising junior this year, will most likely apply senior year, not this year... but never too early to start thinking ;)</p>

<p>GPA: 4.00 UW, 4.12 W</p>

<p>SAT: 230 PSAT in 10th, hopefully translates to 2250+ this year</p>

<p>SAT Subject: 800 on Math II so far, will take Physics, Chem, Chinese, and World History</p>

<p>AP's: Art History (5), next year taking World History, Chemistry, Physics B and C EM or mech, Calc BC, Chinese, maybe a few others</p>

<p>Essays: None yet, but I write decent essays, will likely be 7/10</p>

<p>Recommendations: None yet, but for this summer I've already gotten a few recommendations, 8/10 on the most part</p>

<p>Rank: School doesn't rank</p>

<p>Course load: The maximum number of honors/AP's it's possible to take, full schedule, etc. basically my next two years are going to suck</p>

<p>EC's:
Research internship at a UC (cs/chem) (11)
Science Olympiad (9, 10, 11)
Speech and Debate (9, 10, 11)
Math club (9, 10, 11)
Bunch of leaderships on various clubs (9, 10, 11)
Volunteer work coaching middle-schoolers in math (9, 10, 11)</p>

<p>Work Experience:
None that I get paid for :P not good enough for that</p>

<p>Honors/Awards:
Honor roll, all GPA or school-related awards, yadayada
Presidential Service Volunteer Award, Gold Level
American Math Competition AIME qualifier
Speech and Debate State Qualifier
Various Science Olympiad, Speech and Debate awards, invitational, regional, and state level
RCM Level 8 pianist, Honors+Distinction on adv. music theory lol</p>

<p>Others:
50 sec Rubik's cube time... not very impressive but it's something ^_^
Taken classes at local community college, they had decent coffee
Bilingual English/Chinese... (no surprise there)
XS rank on half of Trauma Center: Second Opinion, imo more difficult than anything else listed above
I have reached the 2048.</p>

<p>Ethnicity/gender: Asian female, which probably helps me out in some schools... less so for others</p>

<p>Potential majors: Probably going for cs/e related, maybe bioengineering... idk, most likely STEM</p>

<p>Schools Applying to: (not complete - suggestions?)
UCI
Stanford
MIT
Caltech
UPenn Wharton Fisher program (dual-degree Business & Engineering)
Harvard
UC Berkeley
UCLA</p>

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<p>Your GPA is impressive. Make sure that you get a high SAT score (2300+ preferably). It’s never too late to start working on your essays. Trust me, the more time you have to work with them, the less stress you will have come senior year. (Just make sure that you attempt the prompts which never change, such as “Why College X?”). Just start brainstorming and compile a list of essay ideas and attempt some of them. For these colleges, a 7/10 essay is not enough. Your essays need to be stellar, unique, and memorable. Go read some essays that worked for ivies online for inspiration/ideas, and there are many websites and threads online which are dedicated to free essay help.</p>

<p>The fact that you are an overrepresented minority does not work in your favor however. You need to stand out (test scores and GPA is not enough…many other students applying to the same colleges as you will have similar stats. The essay is a great way to stand out (as most colleges now don’t offer interviews). Your EC’s are average. Try to find something that you love and have a passion for and makes you unique and pursue that.)</p>

<p>Main point: Your GPA and SAT’s should be great but for admission into top tier schools like yours where admission is arbitrary and there are many students who are like you who apply, you need to stand out form the pack and be truly unique. Don’t worry, you still have 2 years left.</p>

<p>Keep trying your best and working hard. If you put your mind and 100% effort to it you can go anywhere. </p>

<p>Good luck my friend. </p>

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<p>Hello: I agree with @driftadriva. Your GPA and PSAT look great. AIME qualifier in Grade 10 is mighty impressive. </p>

<p>You need to find some other way to stand out from the rest of the Asians applying. What you’ve written above is not enough. Isn’t there something interesting about yourself that you can expand upon? A hobby, interest, sport or something else that is different?</p>

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<p>@sgopal2 mid-tier research internship this summer, pretty independent work… might submit to Intel/Siemens and the like, I think semifinalist is a long shot but worth a try. I don’t believe that another Asian who can play piano will impress, so I’m probably not going to play off the music card.
In the end I suspect I will only really have science-related ec’s to show off, my speedcubing is going nowhere XD</p>

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<p>@Pluvialis‌ : right, downplay the piano and speedcubing. Anything ‘typical asian’ try to keep out of your application. Up-play the research work, as this is good. Find something else interesting to write about yourself.</p>