Chance this typical yet unique asian! (Will chance back!!! thx)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>lol first of all I appologize if this looks messy to you... but I promise that I will chance back!</p>

<p>Basic Info -----------------------------------------------------------------------------</p>

<p>Asian Male (Hong Kong)
Attend a competitive public school in NJ(many got into the top 20 colleges)
Live in NJ, but also a NY resident (Parents pay tax in NY)
Moved to the US when I was in 8th grade, so English is my second language
Dad attended a college in Hong Kong </p>

<p>standardized test ----------------------------------------------------------------------</p>

<p>SAT: Don't mention it.... I'm definitely not using it.
SAT2: Math II - 800, Chinese - 800 (Chinese is my third language), Physics: Taking it after the summer
ACT: 32 (Reading - 29, English - 30, Science - 32, Math - 36, Essay - 8)
TOEFL (In case I need it): 111
AP: Comp sci A - 5, Comp sci B - 5, Chinese - 5</p>

<p>School grades -------------------------------------------------------------------------</p>

<p>UWGPA: 3.82 WGPA: 4.38
Freshman year: Got straight As (included an ESL class)
Sophomore year: (maybe getting out of ESL was a burden) Got all As except in Pre-calc honors (B), Chemistry honors (B) and AP comp sci A (B)
Junior year: (Even the LA class I took was an honors course) Straight As except physics honors (B)
Senior year: Taking all honors courses with Advance topics physics, AP Calc AB, AP stat and Advance topics comp sci </p>

<p>EC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p>

<p>(During my freshman year, I didn't do a lot, due to my situation as an ESL student. Am I doing all these stuffs (that I actually enjoy doing) too late?) </p>

<p>Techonology and Business:
FBLA club member (11), club investment champion (11)
FBLA regional competition No. 4 for cyber security
Actively compete in topcoder.com (Algorithm rating is kinda low - six hundred something, will try my best to bring it up)
Found the school's first American Computer Science League (ACSL), competing next year
Technology manager of my church's youth group (11) </p>

<p>Culture and Language:
Teacher assistant of the ESL Bilingual Chinese class (10)
Teacher assistant of Chinese level 4 (11)
My Chinese teacher also published a few popular Chinese textbooks, I helped edit one so my name is on that version (as an Editor? I'm not sure)
Active participant of China night (9, 10, 11), manager of it (11)
Chinese club member (9, 10), event officer (11) </p>

<p>Volunteer work:
80+ hours volunteering in the library
Recycle papers for school (hours uncertain)
Participant of Relay for life (11), Publicity chairman next year
Found the community's volunteering club (11) (lol if this club fail, I'm not going to write this in my resume) </p>

<p>Music:
Played piano for 10 years (level 8)
Church's praise team leader (10, 11), play piano for church
Golden Key competition second degree honor, played in Carnegie Hall (11) </p>

<p>Sports:
Fencing Junior varsity (10), Varsity (11)</p>

<p>Other awards and honors:
Induced into NHS (11), will be required to do volunteer work next year
Member of the NSHSS (not sure whether NSHSS is a legit thing) </p>

<p>Religious commitment:
Church's student leader (11)
School's Christian club member (11), Secretary/Tresurer next year</p>

<p>Essays and recs -----------------------------------------------------------------------</p>

<p>I will make sure I get tons of help for my essays, since I was an ESL. Basically I will talk about how moving into this diverse country changed me and how I like to work with different kinds of people now. </p>

<p>For my recs, I will ask my comp sci teacher who knows me for 2 years, my Chinese teacher (I was her assistant and I helped edit one of her book) who knows me for 3 years, and my Junior year's US studies teacher who thinks I'm a very creative and hardworking student.</p>

<p>The list of my colleges -----------------------------------------------------------------</p>

<p>MAJOR: COMPUTER SCIENCE (Maybe accounting as a minor) </p>

<p>ED Cornell
Princeton
CMU
Duke
Brown
Rice
Northwestern
UMich
UIllinois
Georgia tech
UT austin
Rutgers
SUNY Stony Brook</p>

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<p>Thank you very much! I Promise to chance back!!!</p>

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<p>sorry I realized that I posted in the wrong section.
Really sorry lol…</p>

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<p>Princeton, Duke, Brown, Rice, all OOS schools- reaches
In- stony brook, rutgers
CMU- match</p>

<p>I would NOT recommend applying to Stony Brook though, I’ve heard awful things about it. Apply to SUNY Binghampton instead.</p>

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<p>Cornell - 35% chance ED
Princeton - 2% chance
CMU - 47% chance
Duke - 18% chance
Brown - 20% chance
Rice U - 24% chance
Northwestern - 29% chance</p>

<p>Don’t know that much about the admissions policies of the less selective schools…</p>

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<p>thx for the input! But Pose, shouldn’t UMich and UIllinois be easier to get in than CMU. I mean, CMU is extremely good in terms of CS right?
lol davida I like how you chance me for Princeton, I’m applying there simply because I live like 5 minutes away from it lol .
anyone else?</p>

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<p>oh i forgot to add one more thing to my resume:
attended the idTech camp in Rider university to learn C++ (11)</p>

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<p>Well for Cornell ED I think you have a pretty good chance, especially if you write good essays. Around 50%.</p>

<p>Princeton is probably not going to happen but you never know :)</p>

<p>CMU I would say 50%</p>

<p>Duke I would say like 25%</p>

<p>Brown I would say like 25%</p>

<p>Rice I would say like 30%</p>

<p>Northwestern I would say 1/3 chance</p>

<p>UT Austin OOS like 50%</p>

<p>Others in</p>