Chances at MIT, Caltech, Princeton, and Cornell?(decent ECs..)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm legally living in MD, but not citizen or PR.
I'm attending public school(I heard top 3% in the nation..).
I came from South Korea in Jan, 2005.
I am a junior.</p>

<p>My gpa is around 3.8-3.9. I got some Bs from Korea, and straight As in US except 2Bs..(Both in English) I'm expecting to get 1 more B in English.
I took all regular but one ESOL in sophomore year.
I'm taking 1 AP, 3.5 Honors, and 2.5 regulars.
I gonna take 3 APs and 4 Honors(or 3 Honors and 1 regular) in senior year.</p>

<p>I'm going to take SAT in october and expecting cr: 650-700 math: 780-800 w: 680-730.
I took two SAT2s already(math2c: 790, japanese: 740).
I'm going to take physics in june(expecting 800)
I'm going to take 2 APs this year(stats and Physics B).
In senior year, I'm going to take Calculus BC, Physics C(both), WH, CS ab(not sure), and chemistry(not sure). </p>

<p>Here is the problem.
My EC is almost none..Math club and some prizes..that's it.
Oh, one more thing..anime club..
Also some community hours on local library and church.
Because I came here like a year ago and I am very introvert person.
Also I don't want to spend time on 'what I don't like' for pretending.
I want to do my 'job.'</p>

<p>Here is my job..I am studying college level Physics and Math...by myself. I am expecting to finish Halliday's Fundamentals of Physics 7th edition and AP Calculus by upcoming summer. And then, I'm going to study Multivariable Calculus and Analytical Mechanics. If I have more time, I'm going to study Linear Algebra, Differential Equation, and Electrodynamics.</p>

<p>I'll try to show these works in essay or other methods.</p>

<p>So..do I have chances at MIT, Caltech, Princeton, and Cornell? At least an 1%?
Major is Physics.</p>

<p>If it is not zero, that's fine to me.</p>

<p>Could you do me a favor?
If I really have no chance because of lack of EC, please say so..
I'm really fine..Just I want to know if I have a chance in my dream college.</p>

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<p>Hey!
another Korean!
I'm a Korean too
I came here 4 years ago... wow so you came to the U.S. last year?
very fluent in English I must say. I got out of ESOL in a year with highest possible score on the exit exam ^^. </p>

<p>now, back to topic.
Unfortunately, your stats don't shine out.</p>

<p>Bs in Korea? so... it's like a Woo?
Soo-A
Woo-B
Mi-C
Yang-D
Ga-F
right?</p>

<p>2 Bs in English in the U.S.?
must have tough time learning English, I know how you feel...</p>

<p>1 AP in Junior year and 3 in Senior year is not very impressive for adcoms. But they might take into consideration that you came here a year ago.</p>

<p>Since don't have definite SAT score, it's hard to tell but bear in mind that most of the students who even apply have like 2200 or higher SAT.</p>

<p>You're right in that your ECs don't look very strong... unless you have math award like in national level, it's not going to help a lot.</p>

<p>Studying all those by yourself?
that's very impressive. Be sure to put that somewhere in your application.</p>

<p>Put in your essay that although you had hard time with English because you just came here, you wanted to learn and self-taught those college level courses.</p>

<p>Since Koreans are not URMs. (under represented minorities) the fact that you're korean won't help because so many Korean students are so smart and successful.(kids at Min Jok Sa Kwan Hak Kyo? omg... lol)</p>

<p>Although chances at Ivies and all those top schools are almost impossible to tell, (according to statistics) your stats don't jump out at the adcoms.</p>

<p>Your AI is pretty high though, of course since I don't know your class size, (I said 300 in your junior class). But with the SAT scores you provided, I put in the medium scores...
Here's the link if you want to know how much chance your have ACADEMICALLY
<a href="http://www.hernandezcollegeconsulting.com/resources/calculator.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.hernandezcollegeconsulting.com/resources/calculator.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>I don't see how you had Bs and still have 3.8-3.9 GPA though... weighted?</p>

<p>Anyway, those top schools will definitely see your ECs...</p>

<p>Unless you do something about your EC, your chances are very slim.</p>

<p>BTW, I'm neither citizen nor PR... international student like you.</p>

<p>Which HS do you go to?</p>

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<p>Not weighted. I think I should say 3.7-3.8. Thank you.</p>

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<p>do it then come back and tell us</p>

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<p>*** with all Asian people? They come here like 1-2 years before college and hope to get into top universities of the world. But anyways
"cr: 650-700 math: 780-800 w: 680-730."
you have B in English (I assume Prep English) but you want to get 650 on critical reading and 60 on writing? Good luck with that.
Unless you'll study each day for 7-10 hours for the next 2 years, you don't have a lot of chances. Colleges don't care if you came 2 or 5 years ago and actually person who came here 5 years ago has better chances since he/she knows language and won't have any problems. I moved here 2 years ago, rank 39/488, GPA unweighted 3.8, did a lot of UC, over 150 community service hours, didn't even get into UCSD (and I took all AP science classes and AP Calc my junior year)</p>

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<p>^you're rank probably killed you</p>

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<p>how many HS are there?...
my school's 22nd in the nation.</p>

<p>public school i mean</p>