Chances at competitive schools

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi, can someone critique my chances?
Ethnicity: Aisan in Asia
I'm applying to:
Northwestern
Harvard
Yale
MIT
UPenn
Boston College
CMU
Cornell
Duke</p>

<p>GPA: 3.55 Unweighted
Ranking: N/A
SATI: M800 V700
SATII: MathIIC:800 Chemistry:760 Writing:720
TOEFL:273
School: Well known American private school</p>

<p>AP Scores:
English Language: 4
US History: 4
Comparative Government: 5
Chemistry: 5
BC Calculus: 3 (5 for AB Subscore)</p>

<p>Courses this year (grade 1st quarter):
AP Statistics (A)
AP English Literature (C+)
AP Biology (A)
AP Economics (A)
Chinese VII (A)</p>

<p>EC: 2nd dan in Kendo and Taekwondo
President of Amnesty International club
President of school tutoring center
National Honor Society
Varsity Soccer
Section editor of the school magazine
Clarinet - 9 years
Piano - 5 years
Over 100 hours of community service</p>

<p>AWARDS: hm... 2nd place for schoolwide AMC... that's about it apart from being on the school honor roll, ap scholar w/ distinction, etc etc etc</p>

<p>JOBS: worked as an assistant at a local community college for 2 summers
worked as a computer assistant at a local moving firm
worked as a community soccer coach
worked at customer relations for a small internet firm
worked as a teacher assistant for the school math department head</p>

<p>RECS: excellent one from college counselor, ok ones from the two teachers</p>

<p>ESSAYS: so so... not that great but not that bad either</p>

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<p>well your gpa is a little bit low, your ecs dont stand out, and the fact that you're asian wont help so here it goes:
Northwestern-Reach
Harvard-nearly impossible
Yale-nearly impossible
MIT- nearly impossible
UPenn-reach
Boston College- reach/match
CMU-match
Cornell-reach/match
Duke-reach/match</p>

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<p>hmm i should give up</p>

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<p>hm... i was hping for upenn... </p>

<p>is CMU really easier to get into than boston college? I always thought that boston college was the easier one....</p>

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<p>BC is the easiest school by far. The highest BC ever has been rated is 37-40 hardly in the same category. Can't figure out the appeal of BC when it was a commuter school for most of its history.</p>

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<p>Your SAT score is in par with UPenn and Cornell for sure, so reach for the sky man. AzN PR!@DE!!!</p>

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<p>hm.... I have one more day left. Should I actually bother paying the app fee and apply to harvard/yale?</p>

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<p>No...</p>

<p>My opinion...
Northwestern-- match
Harvard-- i'd be surprised if you got in
Yale-- 10%
MIT-- 20%
UPenn-- 40%
Cornell-- 40%
Duke-- 40%
Boston College and CMU-- I'd be surprised if you didn't get in.</p>

<p>hope this helps.</p>

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<p>Waste your money all you want, but not a possibly wonderful future.</p>

<p>Work on it, send it and then forget about it. If you get rejected, no biggie. If you are admitted, then whoopee!</p>

<p>My point: Just apply. You'll never know.</p>

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<p>wow! second dan in kendo & taekwondo! i'm first dan in kendo and personally i hate wearing the hogu.</p>

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<p>too bad the admissions officers don't know **** about how hard it is to get 2nd dan..
at least, it is in Korea...don't know about how it is in america</p>

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<p>Go for it. Harvard doesn't require anything unusual for their app so If you dont mind paying the fee, just apply for the heck of it (assuming you have the recs and school reports in). Paying 60 $ for even a little chance can be worth it.</p>

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<p>Hehe yay a fellow kendo master! Yea the hogu is kinda annoying... especially since I live 30 minutes away from the gym, so I have to carry it all the way there and back. It took me a whole year to figure out how to put it on properly by myself :D</p>

<p>Actually I sent out applications to all the schools... I hope it isn't money wasted. Fingers crossed that I get into UPenn or Harvard :D</p>

<p>hehe btw jwlee do u go to sfs?</p>

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<p>no i attend kmla..you probably never heard of it
it was made in 1996, so it's a pretty new school</p>

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<p>Kmla? 민족사관고인가요?
이런 데서 한국분 뵈니 반갑군요.</p>

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<p>민족사관고는 아닌것 같은데... 그학교는 유명하잖아요..... 그리고 오래되지 안았나? ㅋㅋ</p>

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<p>하하 정말 반갑네요^-^
85년생이라면 대학생이실 텐데..
그쪽은 어느 고등학교 나오셨죠?</p>

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<p>아 그리고 민족사관고 맞아요^^;
대원외고나 국제학교들이랑 비교했을 때는 새로운 학교죠..
세워진 지 8년 밖에 안 됐으니깐요</p>

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<p>:S:S:S</p>

<p>my cousin went to that school, and she quit after 1 year because she didn't like the trial system or whatever it is they have there... i heard students give corporal punishment to other students? scary.... :D</p>

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<p>o really? what was her name?
they scrapped corporal punishment last year but personally i like the c.p. better than the new discipline system</p>