Chances for a Chinese Floridian =D

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Colleges I'll most likely apply to:</p>

<p>Yale
Wash USTL
Amherst
Princeton
Dartmouth
Williams
Stanford
Duke
Emory
Vanderbilt
UMichigan
UFlorida (Free tuition)
Rice? maybe...</p>

<p>Scholarships would be VERY nice since my family's middle class, but has only been so for the last 2 years...</p>

<p>Current stats (Rising Senior):</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA: 4.0</p>

<p>Class Rank: 1 (Planning to stay here, drop to 2 at most)</p>

<p>All Gifted (Honors) and AP except for required courses</p>

<p>AP Courses:
-World History (5)
-Computer Science A (5)
-American History
-Computer Science AB
-English Language
-Chemistry
-Calculus BC -Planning to take 6 more senior year
(Bio,Literature,Euro, Physics, Gov+Economics, Psych)
Planning to score 5s on majority, 4s on a few</p>

<p>SAT: 2330
Reading: 800
Math: 800
Writing: 730, w/ 12 Essay</p>

<p>ACT: 33 (retaking next saturday)
English: 35
Math: 36
Reading: 34
Science 28</p>

<p>SAT IIs (the 3 i plan on submitting at least):
Math II - 800
US History - 790
Chemistry - 760</p>

<p>PSAT: 235</p>

<p>Perfect scores on state standardized tests (lol)</p>

<p>Volunteering:
Very skimpy...will only have prolly 80 hours
I have to babysit 2 siblings(6+7) every day, so not much free time</p>

<p>I tutor Math 1-3 hours a week, planning to tutor other areas next year as well</p>

<p>Sports:
Karate (This year and next)
JV Lacrosse (Starting Goalie)
Varsity Lacrosse next year</p>

<p>Summer:
Attending the Young Scholar's Program at FSU this summer for 6 weeks, Selective(only 40 people get in) Math, Science, Research, Computer Sci focus</p>

<p>ECs</p>

<p>Mu Alpha Theta (Math Honor Society) 9-11, numerous awards including 1st
places at regional and state levels, Historian this year, Secretary Next Year</p>

<p>JETS (Junior Engineering Technical Society, team of 8 selected by teachers) - JV this year, 1st in state, 9th in National
Varsity next year (hopefully)</p>

<p>National Honor Society (11)
French Honor Society (10-11)
French Club (10-11)
Asian Cultural Club (9-11) Treasurer this year
Essence Editor(School's Literary magazine staff) (11)
Computer Science Club (11) VP Next Year
Biology and Medicine Club (11) Treasurer this year</p>

<p>Published a Poem in 3 National/International Poetry Anthologies, and one CD Collection
Published a poem in 2006 version of Celebration Florida</p>

<p>Oh and I'm Chinese btw (grrr Affirmative Action)</p>

<p>Sooo chances? =]</p>

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<p>You have a chance at any. From my experience with lots of other Chinese Floridians, lol, and people in general, Yale/Princeton/Stanford are big reaches, because they just are for everyone, it's not that you aren't qualified.
You'll almost certainly get into at least one of the others, possibly several (not including UF, of course, which I would consider a safety).</p>

<p>Only a few of those schools are likely to give Merit Scholarships, though you would very likely get some at the ones who do. However, the top schools that don't are generally very generous with financial aid, and promise to meet all need. Of course, many a very very intelligent (4.0, national merit, just like you) student from my school decides to go to UF because it's free, and they all enjoy it greatly.</p>

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<p>Yale - reach
Amherst - reach
Princeton - reach
Dartmouth - reach
Williams - reach
Stanford - reach
Duke - reach
Emory - match
Vanderbilt - match
UMichigan - match
UFlorida - safety
Rice - semi reach
x]</p>

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<p>ok man seriously... 4.0, 2330
you'll get into a few and get rejected from a few you don't need to make a thread for that, only admissions can predict that.</p>

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<p>Yale - high reach
Amherst - high match
Princeton - reach
Dartmouth - slight reach
Williams - match
Stanford - high reach
Duke - slight reach
Emory - low match
Vanderbilt - low match
UMichigan - match
UFlorida - safety
Rice - low reach</p>

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<p>good chance at all...</p>

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<p>thanks! What does low match mean? Like closer to safety or closer to reach? (I'm guessing its the latter)</p>

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<p>amazin grades, write good essays and u'll definitely do well</p>

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<p>thnx =]</p>

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<p>What part of FL? BTW, nothing wrong with Bright Futures. You can do a lot worse for a lot more money. Not to mention i'd kill to go to UF even without Bright Futures.</p>

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<p>Low match for me=closer to safety. I might be using the wrong terms. For me, it goes low safety, safety, high safety, low match, match, high match, low reach, reach, high reach.</p>

<p>Lol.</p>

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<p>mm thnx for clarifying. that's what i thought at first, but i didn't think those schools would be "close to safeties"</p>

<p>and I live about 30 minutes from Orlando</p>

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<p>ook so Altamonte/Winter Springs area?</p>

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<p>Lake Mary. So yea, pretty much</p>

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<p>Your numbers are fine. Focus on your essay. Spend tons of time on them.</p>

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<p>Oh awesome. Someone from your school is going to college with me (assuming you go to LMHS)--Julianne B.</p>

<p>:)</p>

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<p>mmm I know her! I had French with her haha. Where are u going?</p>

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<p>You're going to YSP? Good work on that...they rejected some fine people this year. </p>

<p>Anyways, as a fellow Floridian, I would think that your scores are pretty good but you might want to work on extracurricular involvement. Also, want doesn't match up is you getting published for writing but have a 730 Writing score for the SAT.</p>