Chances for EA?

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<p>I usually don't do this, but...</p>

<p>Race: Asian-Canadian (well, citizen of canada, born in China, permanent resident and greencard holder of the US)
School: Ranked 32 in state, public suburban
Rank: no rank, but I think definitely top 10/250</p>

<p>OLD SAT: 1530 (730 V, 800M)
New SAT: 223 (690V, 780W, 760M)
SATII MATH 2c: 800
SATII writing: 740
SATII chem: 770
**I'm retaking my new SATs in october, and I'm pretty sure I can get an 800M and at least 700V</p>

<p>PSAT: 240 (Does this mean I'm a semi-finalist for sure?)</p>

<p>GPA: 4.35/4.5 (unweighted)
Which means I have mostly A+s, and a few A's</p>

<p>AP:
Junior: Calc BC (5,5), English Lang (5), ap chem (5)
Senior: English lit, Statistics, French, Spanish, Bio</p>

<p>107.5 on AMC-12</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Freshman: Fencing, Academic team, science league, math league, spanish club, techXplore
Sophomore: Fencing, academic team, science league, math league, spanish club, literary magazine, computer club, techXplore
Junior: Swimming (yeah, change of sports), math league, spanish club, french club, lit mag, computer club, JETS, FBLA, JSA, techXplore
Senior: Everything from junior year plus science league and academic team minus swimming.</p>

<p>Leadership positions:
For sure I know I'm parlimentarian in FBLA, but school hasn't started yet, but I'm planning on running for at least a position in spanish club</p>

<p>Awards:
Governor's School in the Sciences 05
Columbia Science Honors Program
Collegeboard Young Epidemiology Scholars (YES) Competition regional finalist ($2000 scholarship; the only regional finalist in NJ)
Bausch and Lomb honorary science award
National Honor Society Inductee
French national honor society inductee
Spanish NHS
Mu Alpha Theta inductee
Nominated to Who’s Who Among American High School Students (2003-2004; 2004-2005)
Member of project homepage (techXplore); team won an award for “best application of the scientific process" (1200$ scholarship)</p>

<p>Volunteering:
Children’s Specialized Hospital volunteer (started March 2004)
American Cancer Society volunteer (2004)
Sunrise Brighton Gardens (assisted living facilities; started June 2005)</p>

<p>Lab experience: I spent 4 weeks at McGill University's labs doing stuff like cell culture, protein assays, western blots, etc.</p>

<p>Employment: Worked as English teacher in Beijing, China for 3 weeks during the summer of 2004
I'm looking for a job right now in addition to this</p>

<p>Other: I lived in Canada until I was 11, attending a french school, so my english is a little weak (as evidenced by SAT scores). However, I speak French pretty fluently (I'm losing it though, because I don't use it that much here). I took Spanish as my foreign language throughout high school. I speak mandarin fluently at home with my parents.</p>

<p>So I'm looking to apply EA to Harvard, Upenn, Stanford, or ED to princeton.
And then if that falls through, then I have a list of about 9 schools, all of which are ranked in the top 20. Is this too much of a reach? Do I need more safeties?</p>

<p>Thanks I appreciate your help :D</p>

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<p>why are people's ECs always the same?? NHS, Captain of some team, blah blah blah. You know clone, maybe theres a 10 percent chance left after all.</p>

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<p>Why are people's EC's often the same?
Because captains, presidents, etc are the easiest positions to find :)</p>

<p>I don't necessarily consider myself the typical clone. I'm pretty weak in the extracurricular area, but I've gotten some nifty awards (I think), and I've taught English in Beijing, China, which I'm sure is not something that everyone's done. </p>

<p>Besides, a lot of those "typical clones" do get in.</p>

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<p>You do not have to retake the SAT. Harvard will take the highest score of each section that is, 800M, 730V, 780 W Total 2310!</p>

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<p>Will it?
I asked the Princeton Admissions office, and they said they don't combine the highest scores from OLD and NEW, but I never asked Harvard.</p>

<p>(are you sure?)</p>

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<p>I think even Princeton does. On their app, it asks for your scores from SAT I/Reasoning.</p>

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<p>penn is ED, not SCEA.</p>

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<p>lol don't put who's who on your app</p>