Chance me!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey, I'm a male senior in an international school in Hong Kong. I am Chinese-Indonesian with Australian and British citizenship. I have lived in Hong Kong for 13 years. </p>

<p>SAT 1
2000 (600 CR, 760 M, 640W)</p>

<p>SAT 2
Chemistry: 740
Maths 2: 790</p>

<p>Straight A and A* in GCSE. I am taking the IB Diploma right now and I am predicted a 40-42 out of 45.
HL Chemistry - 6
HL Maths - 6
HL Music - 7
SL English - 6/7
SL French - 6
SL Economics - 7
TOK - 2/3</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES</p>

<ul>
<li><p>Competitive swimming training for 10 years, member of the National Squad and the Junior Squad and high school captain, have represented Hong Kong at many international competitions and am nationally ranked. Received club's MVP 4 years in a row, ESF best male swimmer award, international honors and hold 10 inter-school and school records.
Finished 4th at Hong Kong Olympic Trials. </p></li>
<li><p>Piano for 8 years, achieved grade 8 with distinction and an Associate Diploma in piano performance from Trinity College, UK. Regularly take part in local concerts, festivals and competitions. Bronze in Composer of the Year 2010 competition. Once played in front of a crowd of 5000 people (plan to carry on in uni)</p></li>
<li><p>Violin for 7 years, achieved grade 8 with distinction. Played in the school orchestra for 6 years which has won three international awards. Played in the ESF orchestra for 3 years. Representative and opening act for my school in the International Conference on Climate Change Hong Kong 2007 (plan to carry on in uni)</p></li>
<li><p>Teaching English to mentally challenged and local non-English speaking students for 2 years, then completed a service project of teaching English to local and disadvantaged students in Beijing.</p></li>
<li><p>Runner Up of international business competition 'Media-Saturn International Retail Management Competition'</p></li>
<li><p>Play in a band, Kiwi Pilot, as a keyboardist. We play in many local charity concerts to raise money, like Winterfest and Charity Rock Concert in our school. </p></li>
<li><p>Teaching piano as a private piano tutor (1 year)</p></li>
<li><p>HKAYP Bronze Award for community service</p></li>
<li><p>Junior Reporter for the Young Post in South China Morning Post, biggest newspaper chain in Hong Kong. Once aided for a live interview for Adam Lambert, American Idol runner up. </p></li>
<li><p>Swimming coach. I have created my own swimming team in school and coached for two years. </p></li>
<li><p>Australian Mathematics Competition for 4 years.</p></li>
<li><p>UK Mathematics Competition 4 years.</p></li>
</ul>

<p>LEADERSHIP ROLES</p>

<ul>
<li>swimming coach, high school swim captain</li>
<li>piano tutor</li>
<li>Stride for a Cure Project Leader (organized hike to raise money for charity)</li>
<li>Scott House Head of Action</li>
<li>Year 7 student leader in the School Council</li>
<li>Year 7, 9 and 11 Scott House Action Representative</li>
</ul>

<p>SUMMERS STUFF</p>

<ul>
<li>Oxford Royale Academy, 2010 (Medicine Program)</li>
<li>Hong Kong Polytechnic University Summer Program, 2010 (Health Science)</li>
<li>Hong Kong University Summer Program, 2008 (Popular Music Composition)</li>
</ul>

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<p>Whoops. I forgot to include my school list!</p>

<p>MIT
Carnegie Mellon
Cornell
Harvard
Princeton
Duke
Northwestern
Johns Hopkins</p>

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<p>Reach- Harvard, Princeton, MIT Mid Reach- Cornell, Duke Match-Northwestern, Johns Hopkins Safe- Carnegie Mellon can you chance me</p>

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<p>I would consider adding some less competitive schools unless you have backups and just want to US reaches. Unfortunately all of these would be reaches with current stats. Among the schools CMU seems the most likely.</p>

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<p>2college2college, my backups are in Australia so yes, US are for my reaches! I also plan to retake the SATs this weekend, 2000 is low.</p>

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<p>2college2college, any suggestions for less competitive schools for my stats?</p>

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<p>Airplane, thanks for chancing me! Here’s what I promised.</p>

<p>Looking at your profile, I’d say you’re a competitive intl. candidate and you’re in HK, which means we probably live like… 30 miles away from each other :stuck_out_tongue: (I’m in SZ) Being an intl. applicant is tough, so I’ll chance you on a more rigorous scale.</p>

<p>I’m not sure what your GPA is like on a 4.0 scale, your 2000 is a bit low for your schools, but your ECs stand out, albeit not too focused. I’ll assume your straight A’s equate to 4.0 and your school doesn’t rank.</p>

<p>MIT - high reach
Carnegie Mellon - match/high match
Cornell - low reach
Harvard - high reach
Princeton - high reach
Duke - reach
Northwestern - reach
Johns Hopkins - high match/low reach (my ED school!)</p>

<p>Get your SAT up to 2150 and you’ll have a much better shot!</p>

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<p>hey, which school are you in?? im in shenzhen too!</p>

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<p>haha, your sat scores and gpa range are a lot like mine, but you’re an international student, so i’ll say
MIT - high reach
Carnegie Mellon - match
Cornell - high reach
Harvard - high reach
Princeton - high reach
Duke - high match
Northwestern - low reach
Johns Hopkins -high match</p>

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<p>Everything is good, but SAT :frowning: .
Increase at least 150-200 points.</p>

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<p>hi airplane…</p>

<p>In my opinion you should crack SAT again.
thankyou for chancing me.</p>

<p>sorry I dont know much about US universities.</p>

<p>Please could U tell me how all the people posted that you are in high reach of some universities than others.</p>

<p>sorry but thank you</p>

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<p>I can’t completely be sure about this since I can’t tell what your GPA is. You really need to raise your SATs as they are not competitive for an international at the moment. Your ECs however are top-notch.</p>

<p>MIT- high reach
Carnegie Mellon-high match
Cornell-mid reach
Harvard-high reach
Princeton-high reach
Duke-low reach
Northwestern-high match
Johns Hopkins-low reach (depends on major)</p>