Chances at Stanford, JHU, Berkeley,etc

Colleges & Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>Selected Colleges:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown University, Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University, University of California - Berkeley, Harvard University, Princeton University, Columbia University</p>

<p>Standardized Tests: SAT I: Verbal: 750 Math: 800 Writing: 750
SAT II: Math IIC 800 Chemistry 780 Biology M 780 US History 710
ACT: 33
Academic Strength: Unweighted GPA: 3.85 out of 4.00</p>

<p>Extracurricular Activities: Musical Activity
-Accappella club(11)[name - INTERLUDE] - founder, president
-Orchestra(10,11) - 2nd trumbone
-Accappella(10,11) - solo
-Music Club(10, 11) - vice president</p>

<p>Biological Activity
-Biology club(11) - vice president
-Writing research thesis on Molecular Virology - professional level
-Working in Korea University Molecular Biology Lab(2 yrs)
-2007 London International Youth Science Forum - Participant
-2007 Shanghai International Youth Science and Technology Expo - Participant
-Submitted patent for Canine surgery Material</p>

<p>Debate/MUN Activity & miscellaneous
-MUN Club(10,11) - Security Council
-Governmental Cultural Exchange Program with china - Student Captain of national delegates
-2006 MUNOS - participant
-2006 MUN Chairing Workshop - participant
-2006 UNA - USA - participant
-2007 BEIMUN participant (gonna participate - already registered)
-1st Korean High school Debate Championship - participant
-2nd Asian debate Workshop - participant
-Marine Camp - participant</p>

<p>Sports Activity
-School Lacrosse Team(10,11) - participant
-National Lacrosse Championship - 2nd in nation</p>

<p>Volunteer
-Volunteer - helping blind people, writing special texts - 200hrs.
-Volunteer - Singing for poor people - 30 hrs </p>

<p>Awards and Recognitions:
-Scholarship - $3,500 from Governmental Promotion
-Bronze Medal - Korean Biology Olympiad - National
-9th(silver award) - National English Fluency Test - National
-Bronze Award - International English Test - National
-Honorable Mention - Singing Competition - Local
-1st Place - Orchestra competition - Local
-3rd Prize - Inschool singing competition
-AP Scholar (2005)
-AP Scholar (2006)
-TOEFL CBT - 287</p>

<p>AP -
-Microecon 5
-Macroecon 5
-Chem 5
-Calcul BC 5(subscore 5)
-Bio 5
-U.S History 4
(Planning to take another 5 APs in Senior year)</p>

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<li>I hate being international. If you are not in science school,
the school would not be aware of science festivals and such.
Besides, US has so many competitions that I wished to
participate. But the truth is, Korea has only one exam for
Biologist - Olympiad!!! (Hellish - hard)
Other Information: Under-represented Minority? no
Location: Other
All AP course in senior year</li>
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<p>Biologist - worked as an researcher for 2 years</p>

<p>I go to one of the most competitive schools in Korea, and
almost all of the kids I know does better than I do.
I worked really hard for biology, and I got Bronze Prize in
national competition. </p>

<p>This GPA thingy is killing me. I got straight Bs in mathmatics!
I get several Bs all the time, and man, the ranking seems to be desperate..</p>

<p>Hey, do you think that I'm gonna knocked down by GPAs?</p>

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<p>Does your school rank? If not does it do percentiles?</p>

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<p>It doesn't rank, and it has no percentile ranking.</p>

<p>But, school has some kind of percentile system.</p>

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<p>lol, "biological activity".... ;D
You have a shot, just write good essays... etc. You know. But yes, your grades are in the range and your activities seem pretty impressive, considering that some of them are international. I know being an international and non-URM sort of sucks, but give it a shot! good luck!!!!</p>

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<p>do you have any "safety" schools?? cuz thats quite a list there...</p>

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<p>Nope, I don't have safeties yet.
Sort of reckless list, eh?
I didn't think of safeties yet, because I'm junior now.
Still, better start thinking about it. Any ideas?</p>

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<p>Try UMich, UVa OSU Honors, RPI, RIT as some match/safeties
UMich has excellent engineering and might give you $$...good chance for a near-full-ride at Ohio State</p>

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<p>민사고? 부산과학?
you did so much despite being in korea
i hope you get in</p>

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<p>Wow, I second alohasam89. Good luck!</p>

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<p>good grief, if you write good essays, i honestly don't think any of those schools will reject you. Your list is AWESOME.</p>

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<p>Ya you'll get into most of these schools, if not all. But it seems that you are very into biology, so you shouldn't really want to go to Brown or Princeton. If/When you get accepted look at Harvard (obviously), JHU (would be my 1st choice) especially if you apply/get accepted to med school undergrad, and definately Stanford.</p>

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<p>but how did you get 1 3.8 GPA if you get straight Bs in Math???</p>

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<p>homeless, maybe he/she got As in everything else</p>

<p>4=A
3=B</p>

<p>Say 7 Subjects ? 6 x 4 = 24 and 1 x 3 = 3, making the total 27. Divide it by 7 and Voila! 3.857</p>

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<p>If you write great essays and show a specific passion in them, I'd be surprised if you didn't get into all of those.</p>