Chance me (:

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Korean senior attending an international school in China</p>

<p>SAT: 800math 710writing 710reading T2220 </p>

<p>SATII: 800MathIIC 800Chinese 630Chem <a href="studying%20chem,%20aiming%20for%20750,%20also%20reasonable">SENT MATH AND CHINESE</a></p>

<p>GPA: 3.12 weighted (very low because i didnt do any studying until last year)</p>

<p>Courses:
(2 year courses)
IB English A2 HL
IB MANDARIN B HL
IB ECONOMICS HL
IB MATH HL
IB CHEM SL
IB PHYSICS SL</p>

<p>NOT A DIPLOMA CANDIDATE</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<p>Performing Arts (2 years): band member, first chair, first chair in "international band competition among asian international schools", jazz band first chair </p>

<p>Model UN (4 years): delegates in various conferences, some very hard, looking to be a chair next year</p>

<p>Habitat for Humanity, Campus chapter (4 years): 2 years as regular member, junior year as executive board member, senior year nothing</p>

<p>Prevent-AIDS-club (no name) (3 years): co-founder in sophomore year </p>

<p>Soccer Team (3 years): 2 years in JV, not sure about next year though</p>

<p>Intern (2+ years): Market research in China for a tiny Korean company</p>

<p>Intern2 (<1year): JUCCCE intern - worked with a lot of ivy grads</p>

<p>Major: Business/Management</p>

<p>OTHERS:</p>

<p>very fluent in Chinese, (had the HSK of level 7 when i was in seventh grade, going to take it again next year for level 10, 11 highest)</p>

<p>essay about my life as a foreigner in china getting over stereotypes</p>

<p>killer recs since i've been sucking up for a while now</p>

<p>SCHOOLS:
NYU - ED - SCPS Hotel Management
Cornell - Undecided
Emory - Undecided
UMich - Undecided
Carnegie Mellon - Tepper AND Undecided
Georgetown - McDonough AND Undecided
WUSTL - Olin AND Undecided
USC - Marshall AND Undecided
Wake Forest - business
Case Western - Weatherhead
Georgia Tech - management AND industrial engineering
UIUC - business
UWisconsinMadison - management
IndianaU - bloomington - Kelley
Penn State - Smeal
UWashington - Foster
Syracuse - Whitman</p>

<p>Asian Schools: HKUST, CUHK, NUS, SMU, KAIST</p>

<p>PS: Any suggestions on colleges that are appropriate to my profile?</p>

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<p>Pleasee :(</p>

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<p>BUMP okay i chanced like 20 people and i get no response back?</p>

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<p>You’re SAT scores are pretty good for the schools you listed. But you’re GPA is very weak, which you pointed out. Just apply and hope for the best. Use your essays to highlight some of your most important ECs because it seems like you’re involved in some very interesting things. Looks good that you have leadership positions in these things too.</p>

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<p>your SAT I scores are good, but your subject could use a little work since the chinese subject test has been inflated greatly (more than a third of the people taking it get 800)</p>

<p>so definitely get the chem up, your grades and GPA aren’t particularly good, but do you have any extenuating circumstances that you can use to explain why it was so low? if you don’t, you could try to shore up, take responsibility, and write an essay about how you’ve changed–just a possibility. </p>

<p>Also, normally I’d say that you’d have a decent chance at most, if not all of the school’s you’re applying to. But because you’re an international, i don’t know how that’s going to work out for you because you’re competing with an entirely different pool.</p>

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<p>Your GPA sucks so your not getting into any of the business schools or any of the schools on that list for that matter.</p>

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<p>Your GPA makes you a reach anywhere. Just apply and hope for the best.</p>

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<p>I don’t know what the specialized recs are for the the various scores.</p>

<p>I think that your chance at NYU is definitely higher since you applied ED, but I would say that Cornell, Emory, CMU, and WashU are reaches unless you can bump up your gpa quite a bit.</p>

<p>Also, since you are applying as an international student, I believe it matters what your financial situation is.</p>

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<p>I think that GPA is the main thing that’s gonna make you hard for most of the schools you listed… if you had a higher GPA I would say you have a good shot for all the schools…</p>

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<p>your stats are good except for the GPA as you mentioned.
I say just explain why you had such a poor grade…I hope that you have a good reason
for it though; otherwise, all those schools will be a reach to you.</p>

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<p>Your gpa is gana kill ya, but you may be able to pull it off with some good essays that explain why.</p>

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<p>thank you all (:</p>

<p>BUMP !!</p>

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<p>Compare USC V/s UIUC V/s UMICH V/s UC Berkely V/s CMU V/s Mcgill
Compare Undergraduate in USC V/s UIUC V/s UMICH V/s UC Berkely V/s CMU V/s Mcgill </p>

<p>Engineering</p>

<p>Economics/Maths</p>

<p>Public Policy & Development</p>

<p>Business</p>

<p>Overall academic</p>

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<p>Okay this is how it goes:
SAT scores: “Awesome” they higher one’s expectations (which is a good and a bad thing, i’ll explain why)
GPA: After the “awesome” SAT scores one would expect a leveling GPA, which isn’t a good thing in this case… Having said that, your GPA is decent so it will not hurt you much
Non-Diploma student: Doing IB is the best thing you could do to help you enter high-standard Universities like HKUST, however, to be completely honest, not doing Diploma is the only thing on your CV that might hurt your chances of getting in…
Ex-curricular: very good on the educational and experience genres but sports etc are a bit less, but that really depends on the Uni, like what they want from you…
I reckon admission for KAIST might be comparatively easier now that you are out of Korea! and KAIST, from what my Korean friends tell me, is amazing!
Let me know if you have any further queries ///
:)</p>