Chance My Junior Profile, Please.

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<p>Please chance me for Princeton, MIT, Caltech, Cornell, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon.
I know getting into these univrstities is hard, so these are my reach schools. I've kept some safeties, too.(UIUC, UT Austin, and a few more). Will narrow the list down later. I also need to choose an EA/ED school.</p>

<p>I'm still in my junior year, so any suggestions to improve my resume are welcome.
Also, my preferred major is Computer Science.</p>

<p>SAT scores are yet to come out(December SAT; expecting 2000-2100. Will get 760-800 in M for sure)
Haven't given subject tests yet.</p>

<p>Extra info: US Citizen in India</p>

<p>Grades are above average(I'd say top 10-15%), nothing stellar(due to the new system adopted by our school)
9.4 in 9th and 10th
77% average in 11th midterms(92.5% in Computer Science, I can easily get that to 95-96% in my finals)</p>

<p>Zonal Level 1st at science exhibition organized by the government(robotics in applied math using coordinate system)</p>

<p>State level science exhibition(Will be participating since I automatically qualified on winning the Zonals)</p>

<p>300 hours community service(a 14 day visit to Orissa, India, to teach children(4 hours a day) , and making audiobooks for the National Association For the Blind, and working with the kids)</p>

<p>Took part in my school's first MUN(just need this for the Range part of ECs)</p>

<p>Basketball Team- 4 Years, 2 years
State Level
One Zonal 1st, one 2nd.
Inter House Basketball Tournament Winner. </p>

<p>Awarded Delhi Student Of The Year by Times Of India(India's biggest newspaper). This was in 2006, though.</p>

<p>2 first prizes in Programming; 3 second prizes, 1 3rd prize, and a lot of Top 6s in quizzes(all were technology/computer quizzes; expecting atleast 4 more 1st prizes in programming next year)
One 3rd prize in Inter House Science Quiz</p>

<p>Vice House Captain of my house
Will be trying for Head Boy, House Captain next year(Chances for Head Boy are bleak, but can easily become House Captain)</p>

<p>Computer Club President</p>

<p>Organized Inter School Computer Fest(Prepared and hosted the quiz, too)</p>

<p>Guitar- 2 years</p>

<p>Drama Club- 2 years</p>

<p>Prizes in Brand Advertising</p>

<p>Interned at Web Designing, Mobile Application Developing company.</p>

<p>Recs- Computer Science teacher- This one will be very good, since I have been organizing everything for competitions.
English Teacher- This rec won't be stellar, but I'll try to cajole my English teacher next year into giving me one which is at least half decent</p>

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<p>Shameless self bump</p>

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<p>EC’s are nice ,they clearly state that you have a well rounded personality.
Try to improve you school percentage its good if you fall in the (>85%) category
Rest, u give it a shot u are a deserving candidate .</p>

<p>Chance me 2
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/india/1249857-chance-me-plz.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/india/1249857-chance-me-plz.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>i didn’t notice it on the first instant but we both have nearly same stats.</p>

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<p>It goes without saying that NO one has is a sure shot at any of those universities you’ve named (except possibly Olympians and Nobel Laureates). However, if you’re asking whether you stand a fairly decent chance, then yes.</p>

<p>(Unsolicited) advice from a senior:</p>

<p>*Remember that you can only talk about stuff that happened in high school (9th grade upwards) in most college applications. So, even if you did something amazing in Grade 8, for the most part, it won’t matter. Learnt this the hard way :/</p>

<p>*You certainly have breadth, but do you have depth? I found myself similarly having a long list of EC’s, but not too much to say about any of them. DO NOT take up any new activities this year forwards; work on your existing EC’s and take them to the next level.</p>

<p>*Keep your grades consistent - you really don’t want to lose focus now.</p>

<p>*Finish the SAT and the SAT 2 in grade 11 (or at least try to). I was so happy I did when 12th grade rolled around, and I didn’t have SAT to worry about on top of everything else.</p>

<p>*Essays are super important. If you’re a good writer, wonderful. If you’re not, this is a skill you need to start working on ASAP.</p>

<p>*Since you’ve mentioned you’re an American citizen, I will say this about chances: MIT’s rep revealed to me that the american acceptance rate is 10%, while the international acceptance rate is 1%. Just saying.</p>

<p>Hope that helps.</p>