Chances for a Junior

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>(If no one minds, I'll be borrowing the admissions forum's standard outline)</p>

<p>Stats (so far):</p>

<pre><code>* SAT I: (2320): CR: 800, Math: 760, Writing: 760 (one sitting, just got these scores an hour ago)
* SAT IIs: Bio-M: 710, World History: 800, (will take Literature and Math II)
* APs: World History: 5, Art History: 5, (will take Junior Year: Calculus AB, Language-Comp, US History, US Gov't; will take senior year (yes, my school has forced us to select next year's classes, though whether or not there will be scheduling "difficulties" remains to me seen): Calculus BC, Stats, Literature-Comp, French, Comparative Gov't, Psychology, possibly Microeconomics (our school dropped the course, so I have to take the usual honors version))
* GPA: My school's GPA system is odd. Mine is 5.33/5.4 (Does anyone know how to convert that? I believe this is the highest possible GPA in my school b/c everyone was required to take a few non-weighted courses back in ninth grade)
* Rank: NA, but probably tied up with two or three other people at one.
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<p>Subjective:</p>

<pre><code>* ECs (so far): School Newspaper: News Editor (11, puts me in line to be Editor-in-Chief for 12, and this is very likely in an unofficial sense, so says the current E-I-C), Staff Writer (10)
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<p>Academic Team: Captain
Science Bowl: Treasurer (11), I'm automatically captain for next year.
District Wellness Committee Student Representative
French Club/French Honor Society (10, 11)
Quill and Scroll Journalism Honor Society (11, essentially run through the newspaper, so not a big deal)
NHS (will probably be inducted at the end of my junior year; maybe I'll run for a position)
*Honors/Awards: Regional Science Bowl winning team (will play nationals)
Otherwise I submitted a lot of work to various writing contests, such as Scholastic (all results in Spring). I will submit several chapters of a potential novel to the Scholastic Novel Contest (due mid-March). If I don't receive any mention there I will try to propose it elsewhere.
* Other Things to Note: Like I said, creative writing stuff. Also, I have a 16-20 slide fine art portfolio that I'll submit. I play the violin but I have nothing remarkable to say about that.
* Volunteer Work: Church Soup Kitchen (8, 9, 10, 11); Vacation Bible School Assistant (summer between 10 and 11)
* Job/Work Experience: None
* Research: Intel STS Ongoing Research Project in Meteorology (to be completed late summer)
* Essays: NA
* Teacher Recs: NA
* Counselor Rec: NA
* Interview (feel and general location): NA
* Hook (if any): Perhaps for the slight chance that my novel proposal gets published. For the slightly less competitive schools, perhaps my high stats. </p>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<pre><code>* State or Country: NY
* School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public, Grades 10-12, very competitive (extremely competitive at the upper ranks (yes, I'm from Ward Melville on Long Island if anyone recalls the last year's senior class)
* Ethnicity: Asian-American
* Gender: M
* Strengths/Weaknesses: See above (oh dear...)
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<p>Chances Please At (likely won't apply to all of these):
Yale (EA)
Harvard
Princeton
Stanford
UPenn
Dartmouth
Columbia
Cornell
Brown
UChicago
Rice
Bowdoin
NYU</p>

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<p>It's <em>very</em> difficult to be admitted for asians, specifically because there are so many amazing ones. I'd reccomend looking at...well, I have no clue what you want in a school, except prestige. You didn't miss a single ivy in your list, did you...</p>

<p>...but if you want math/science, look at CM or Tufts.</p>

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<p>To be honest, you're correct on the prestige part. As for major choices, I have interest in Pre-Law and Economics. Less likely as a major choice, but something I'm perhaps more passionate about is history, particularly pre-1900 American studies. Funny thing is, I don't want to dig very deep into math/sci after high school.</p>

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<p>Given the amount of "super" Asians out there, Asians are given the bottom end of AA at the Ivies, Cal Tech, MIT, as well as the quasi-ivies like Stanford, Duke and Chicago. Your stats look nice, and you have good EC's, but go on some college tours and see which schools you like the best and apply there. Since you're from NY and applying at schools pretty much all from the North except for Rice. </p>

<p>You should have a safety in mind too, like apply to Binghamton or Stony Brook for the hell of it if worse came to worse. They may give you some huge aid/class priorities, etc.</p>

<p>My stats aren't at your level, but I put my own out there for kicks at:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=312446%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=312446&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>How do you study for your SAT World Hist?? --;;</p>