Chances for an almost-international student.......

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Please evaluate mine! Thanks!
Asian Male
currently Junior <a href="I'm%20just%2016!">color=green</a>[/color]
moved here 7 months ago from Hong Kong.</p>

<p>IN HONG KONG
-Top 1st HS in Hong Kong (40/210) (7th-10th)
-Community service in Hong Kong - 50hrs+
-Talented in First Aid
-Scout leader (9th-10th)
-Red Cross member
-Official of several clubs in school (10th)</p>

<p>IN THE US:
-Public HS in Virginia (competitive high school)
-3.75 GPA for total of 5 yrs</p>

<p>in Hong Kong <a href="I%20will%20provide%20the%20official%20transcript%20directly%20from%20the%20original%20school,%20so%20if%20you%20want,%20you%20can%20ignore%20the%207-10th%20grade">color=red</a>[/color]
7th grade: 3
Algebra 1 B
Chinese 1 B</p>

<p>8th grade: 3.5
Geometry A
Chinese 2 B</p>

<p>9th grade: 3.917
World History 1 B+
Algebra 2 A
Biology A
Chinese 3 A
PE A
Chinese history A</p>

<p>**10th grade: 3.5 <a href="since%20it%20is%20traditional%20that%20the%20grades%20drop%20a%20lot%20after%209th%20grade%20in%20HK">/b</a>
Precal/Trig GT A
Chemistry A
Chinese 4 B
Accounting B
PE A
Religion B</p>

<p>in the US
11th grade (current grade) 3.92 weighted
Human Anatomy & Physiology A
ESOL B2 A
English 9 A
AP Cal AB B (B+ weighted.....only 0.5 point weight)
Physics A
Computer Graphics A
World History 2 A</p>

<p>**-PSAT: 177
-Projected SAT:
Math: >750
Verbal: 550-650
Writing: >650
-Projected SATII:
Math IIC: >750
Chinese: 800 definitely <a href="but%20I'm%20not%20sure%20if%20I%20should%20take%20this">/b</a>
(I didn't finished all the material covered in any other subjects; therefore I can't take any others)</p>

<p>-Varsity Boys' Volleyball (varsity letter, scholar-athlete award) (11th)
-Hospital Volunteer (4hrs per week)(20+hrs accumulated) (Planning to do as much as I can)
-Shadowing Doctor(3hrs per week)(Planning to do 30hrs)</p>

<p>-Classes signed up for next year(pending)
- AP Bio, AP Chem, AP Cal BC, AP Physics C, US Gov., US History, English 11</p>

<p>Other things:
- Fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese, Good at Chinese(Since I have immersed in a Chinese Environment for 15 yrs..... And I am a Hong Konger)
- play one chinese musical instrument (not very well though)
- My dad is from HK and My mom is Taiwanese
- Low-Middle income family
- 2nd Generation college student. (Father and mother are pharmacists, Elder brother is studying medicine in Taiwan).
- 1st Generation to come to America.</p>

<p>colleges in mind: (I know most of them are reaches, sigh~)</p>

<p>U Michigan
Michigan State
U Chicago
Georgetown
GWU
NYU
UNC Chapel hill
UVA
BU
Penn State
Virginia Tech
James Madison University
Drexel</p>

<p>If you can recommend any school to me, that will be great!!
Again, thanks everyone.</p>

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<p>And I am a permanent resident</p>

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<p>from the looks of it, you have the advantage of the foreign ground. those colleges you picked, definitely not reaches- i think you can get to them. </p>

<p>your chinese language skills are a definite advantage.
perhaps you could bolster your EC's a little, though. </p>

<p>varsity volleyball... nice! </p>

<p>work hard on the reading and writing, though... nonnative americans usually have problems with that, so its important you get those up to par (i know i have trouble with them!)</p>

<p>good luck,</p>

<p>chris</p>

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<p>thanks chris!
are you chinese?</p>

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<p>haha yea i am. my parents lived in taiwan and went to ntu, then moved on over to america.</p>

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<p>O... cool! so you aren't ABC?</p>

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<p>ah i am. i was born after they moved.</p>

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<p>Apply to University of Wisconsin-Madison too.</p>

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<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>Basically, I want some schools like University of Michigan, which is located near a large city. But the school is large, in both campus size and also student amount.</p>

<p>And I want to go to pre-med path..</p>

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<p>help~~~ My mom and dad don't know these colleges stuff... so nobody can really help me.....
please</p>