<p>okayy PROJECTED stats by end of junior year:</p>
<p>race/gender: asian female
GPA: 4.7 w, 3.9 uw
rank: school doesn't rank, but probably top 5/500
PSAT: 235 (80cr, 80m, 75w)
SAT2: 800BioM, 800Chem, will take like 3 this year just for fun
APs: one 5 so far
Courseload: hardest possible + more at my school...
school: very conservative school in NJ...doesn't let anyone take APs unless they're sure you'll get a 5...everyone gets 5's...we won the siemens award..frosh year honors / ap classes don't get weighted
Junior APs: physics, bio, english, calc, us
recs: can probably get great ones</p>
<p>ECs (by end of junior year):
Captain of Varsity Girl's Tennis - 10 11 12 (30 hours a week for about 3 months)
President of origami club - 10 11 12 (like 1 hour a week rounded up for year minus tennis season)
president of cancer awareness club - 11 12 (like 2 hours a week for a year minus tennis season)
president of this volunteering club - 11 12 (like 1 hour a week for a year minus tennis season)
president of future doctors club - 9 10 11 12 (like 1 hour a week for a year minus tennis season)
VP of animal protection club - 9 10 11 12 (like 2 hours a week for a year minus tennis season)
captain of math team - 9 10 11 12 (10 hours a week if you count self studying)
captain of science olympiad - 10 11 12 (like 10 hours a week for about 1/2 year >_<)
Columbia science honors program (3 hours a week for a year)
etc.</p>
<p>awards
new jersey science league 2nd place biology 1 (1st place team)
"" 6th chem 1 (3rd team)
fbla intro to biz comm. 1st place at states
fbla into to biz comm. 2nd place at nationals
lots of regional math awards, such as individual first place in county for geometry algebra etc.
some science olympiad regional and hoepfully state awards
AMC10 school winner, AIME, want to make usamo this year
im also studying for chem physics and bio but i kno that means nothing rite now
i won a regional USTA tennis tournament (Level 3)
Piano awards-Associated royal board school of music or something level 7 piano
ARBSM level 5 music theory pass w/ merit
blahblahblah
etc.</p>
<p>summer:
i have about 100 hours at the local hospital
want to get another volunteering job over the summer
want to go to a summer program such as MIT WTP or SSP; going to apply</p>
<p>i kno half the things mean nothing but can you chance me please ^__^</p>
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Captain of Varsity Girl's Tennis - 10 11 12 (30 hours a week for about 3 months)
President of origami club - 10 11 12 (like 1 hour a week rounded up for year minus tennis season)
president of cancer awareness club - 11 12 (like 2 hours a week for a year minus tennis season)
president of this volunteering club - 11 12 (like 1 hour a week for a year minus tennis season)
president of future doctors club - 9 10 11 12 (like 1 hour a week for a year minus tennis season)
VP of animal protection club - 9 10 11 12 (like 2 hours a week for a year minus tennis season)
captain of math team - 9 10 11 12 (10 hours a week if you count self studying)
captain of science olympiad - 10 11 12 (like 10 hours a week for about 1/2 year >_<)
Columbia science honors program (3 hours a week for a year)
etc.
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<p>Ambitious, aren't you? =p</p>
<p>I'd say you'd have a good shot with that in mind, but you'd really, really need to find a passion/focus in your ECs. I see plenty of students with President of Everything Known to Mankind get rejected for a lack of passion.</p>
<p>I find it extremely hard to believe 30 hours a week for Tennis practice. You do understand thats more than 4 hours a day, and with school, which ends for most students at roughly 3:00, u come home at 7:00. And plus it's probably more than 5 everyday because Sunday is excluded im guessing (fyi practicing by yourself doesn't count -.-). Sorry, but with math team and science olympiad and columbia science honors program and ur school work during this tennis season, just sounds exaggerated. The sun does go down btw, and not everyone has the time to meet at 8:00 for math team, and 9:00 for science olympiad o_0. Sorry, but the dimension of TIME kinda objects your schedule</p>
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Sorry, but with math team and science olympiad and columbia science honors program and ur school work during this tennis season, just sounds exaggerated.
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but i don't do that stuff during tennis season, and usually we have matches which takes almost 2 hours to get to schools/wait for other schools to come to our school etc.</p>
<p>not enough passion/focus in ECs; great stats.. youre academically qualified. be sure to not show lack of focus, i know a girl w/ stats like yours who applied to HYPSM and got rejected from all (well deferred from most I think but then ultimately rejected) because of her lack of focus. similar stats, only difference was that she took 14-16 APs and was not involved w/ science olympiads or origami club but overall clubs were similar..
make sure you focus on something......?</p>
<p>I have a few questions about this whole "focus" thing. Do you mean focus within a general area, or focus on specific ECs? Not to hijack this thread, but I'm deeply involved with Speech and Debate, dance (ballet, modern, etc), and science (lab assitant, program classes, etc). Those are three different activities, but is it still considered "focus" if there's true committment to them? I understand about not wanting to have a laundry list of every single EC possible, but what if you are truly interested in a variety of different things? I can only see it as a benefit for a school to not take someone who's single minded.</p>
<p>Also, someone said this a few posts above mine. Why doesn't practicing on your own count? If you're say, part of a youth orchestra, and you practice on your own for an hour or two a night, four or five days a week, that's between 5 and 10 hours a week that you're working, which seems substantial enough to include, versus just time someone else has structured for you that's officially you're "extra curricular time".</p>
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Also, someone said this a few posts above mine. Why doesn't practicing on your own count? If you're say, part of a youth orchestra, and you practice on your own for an hour or two a night, four or five days a week, that's between 5 and 10 hours a week that you're working, which seems substantial enough to include, versus just time someone else has structured for you that's officially you're "extra curricular time".
<p>It definitely does count. As I've said many times before, ECs don't necessarily have to be organizations and such. They can be activities that you do on your own, as long as they're not just recreation (e.g. just playing basketball, or just playing video games).</p>
<p>It is absolutely fine to have more than one area of interest. The key is to be really good at whatever it is you are doing (and OP seems to be very good at what she does). It's true that just being the president of every club is not enough.</p>
<p>lol calm down! you are one of the most neurotic CCers i've ever seen.. you don't have to worry, and by posting 10 chances threads... egh. :P I'm sure you're fine!!!! :)</p>