chance me!!!

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<p>Hello, I am junior and I am new to cc and this is my first post soo... I don't know exactly how chancing stuff is working. So, I will just list everything I have done...</p>

<p>GPA: My school provides GPA in 100 point scale but if i convert it to 4.0 it is
3.9 = unweighted
4.4 = weighted
My School does not provide class rank but i am in top 10%</p>

<p>SAT = 2050 going to take it again and again until i reach 2300...
SAT2 = World History 800 Math2 800, and thinking of taking U.S history or chemistry (expecting 800 too)</p>

<p>AP = World History5 Euro5 (without taking AP classes. Independently studied both of them)
Junior year: Art History(independent study), Chemistry, Eng Lan, U.S History
Senior Year: Macro, Bio, U.S gov, Eng Lit, Cal BC, maybe French </p>

<p>EC </p>

<p>Tutoring at "Open Door Mission" = Founder/President, Grew it into biggest community service project in Houston Area, won national community service award, due to this program, many people (30~50) received GED and got their life back. Got school recognition. Invited as a guest speaker to houston community college.</p>

<p>Math Club = Founder/President. Number 1 in Texas (Math, number sense), several national award. Created Tutoring group to help disadvantaged kids in Houston.</p>

<p>Debate Club = Co-Captain (junior) hope to become Captain in senior year. 1st place in Texas (IPPF) 2nd place in LD throughout texas. </p>

<p>French Club = Secretary (junior) hope to become President of VP next year. Had many sales to raise money for poor kids. Gave gift to poor kids in every christmas, and raised nearly $1000 for Haiti and sent it through Red Cross.</p>

<p>Swimming = Varsity (earned 2 letter) regional champion, school record. Teach special swimming team every weekend. </p>

<p>Conducted History research on pearl Harbor at University of Houston. Got special recognition from professor, and trying to publish a paper. (One in concord review and one as just my history thesis)</p>

<p>NCTE School representative
4th in history contest in Texas</p>

<p>then, obviously NHS, and key club.</p>

<p>Oh plus... I am an international student from South Korea... that might hurt...</p>

<p>Yeah, and for my ec I am just going to put my major as pursuing education and becoming teacher, so that it will make my activity of tutoring somewhat relevant to my goal and so on. </p>

<p>I hope you guys can give me critics or some hope
Thank you!!!</p>

<p>P.S: I am truly glad that I realized about this useful website, College Confidential</p>

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<p>hey, your stuff looks good but for any of the Ivies, there are no guarantees, this isn’t really the right forum for Chancing but that’s a whole other issue, If you can get you SAT up within 3 tries go for it, otherwise, don’t go crazy taking it, your SAT II’s are strong, for essays, make sure you first of all, connect w/ the admin officer by showing them what you are as a person, they read tons of these, make sure they reemember them, also make sure they know why you want to go to Yale, highlight the independant study, that will help you, that aside, I got into Yale w/o being perfect on paper, my stats are on the admitted page, feel free to look through that to compare yourself to people who did and didn’t get in</p>

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<p>Extracurriculars, etc look very good - now it’s up to your recs and essays. I would have a ton of people read over your essay as well as asking teachers that you connected with to write you good recs (make sure they know that you founded the club in Houston, etc).</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>