Chances at HYPS and others

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi, please rate my chances. Thanks in advance. </p>

<p>COLLEGES (in order of preference)
Harvard (SCEA), Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Columbia, UC Berkeley, Brown, Cornell, UCLA, UCSD, UC Davis</p>

<p>GENERAL
Asian Male
Junior
Public High School (Highly ranked and recognized)
Living in Southern California</p>

<p>TESTS
SAT I: 2330 (780V/ 770M/ 780W)
SAT II: 780 Biology (estimate) 800 Math IC 760 US Hist
National Merit Finalist
5’s on 5 AP tests thus far (Euro, US, Bio, Lit, CompSci)</p>

<p>SCHOOL
GPA: 4.7 (W) 3.9 (UW)
Rank: Top 5% (my school doesn’t rank). Otherwise I’d be at least top 5 out of ~350.
Taking the hardest classes in entire class</p>

<p>Taking seven additional AP’s as a senior</p>

<p>SPORTS
Varsity Water Polo
- I may be recruited and may not be. Please consider me as a non-recruit. Top 5 team in nation. Team captain, all-area team, Academic All-American.</p>

<p>CLUBS
Key Club 9-12 (Council and President)
Science Club 9-12 (President, Board)
National Honor Society 10-12
California Scholarship Federation 9-12 (President, Treasurer)</p>

<p>RESEARCH AND SCIENCE
Cancer Research Institute 9-10
Cancer Research Internship 11-12</p>

<p>Participated in AACR (American Association of Cancer Research) National Meeting in Anaheim</p>

<p>Summer student at City of Hope National Research Center (8 hrs/day/3 months) for 2 years earnings:$3000</p>

<p>Baush& Lomb</p>

<p>OTHER
Bob Thompson Athlete Scholar Award</p>

<p>All-American Scholar Award (top ten water polo player in nation in terms of scholarship)</p>

<p>AP Scholar with Honors</p>

<p>Eagle Scout (with many other BSA awards)
- World Conservation Award
- SPL (prez), PL (board)</p>

<p>Piano for 12 years</p>

<p>Part time job tutoring dyslexic student in reading and math (Earnings : $1200)</p>

<p>Total volunteer hours: 400 (CHLA, BScouts, Key Club)</p>

<p>P.S. I’m sure I will have AMAZING recs and my essay should be pretty good as well (focusing on love of science and my inspiration). Thanks again everyone!</p>

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<p>you will probably make it into one of the HYPS .. (oh boy, now come the people who say "YOU CAN NEVER SAY YOU HAVE A GOOD SHOT AT HYP..") </p>

<p>but you are above the 60% mark for each. personally, i hope you get into harvard so you dont bump me down in the other schools.</p>

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<p>just as a sidenote... UCLA is only accepting the math iic score now.</p>

<p>i think you are in at the UC's, and have a wonderful shot at the lottery that is HYPS.</p>

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<p>Since you're "In-State", I think you're in at all of the UCs and a (very) good chance at the rest of the schools. Nice job!</p>

<p>:)</p>

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<p>note: there may be some problems regarding my schedule and it could hurt my chances.</p>

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<li><p>My spanish I was taken in 8th grade and III and IV were taken over the summer at an outside school. Might be seen badly? Took challanging classes in place.</p></li>
<li><p>In sophmore year, water polo practice (counts as required PE class) switched to "0" period (before school), leaving me with a free period for 6th. I took Spanish III the summer before. Might look bad. Any way to clear up this incident?</p></li>
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<p>Wait, how do any of those things look bad?</p>

<p>:)</p>

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<p>Bring
Up
My
Post</p>

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<p>You have a lottery ticket like so many of us with similar stats! Who knows, there are just so many of us it's really random from here.</p>