<p>Asian from Canada.. BUT im not putting any ethnicity.</p>
<p>SAT Subject Tests:
Math 2 C 800
Korean 790
Chemistry 750</p>
<p>GPA- 4.0 Unweighted,
Took ALL the honors & AP courses my school offered
Top 1% (Out of 330)</p>
<p>EC & Prizes:
- Hosted a TV Show for about a year and a half
- Wrote the scripts for the same TV Show
- founder & Editor-in-Chief for the Athletic Newspaper
- Public Relations for mallvibes.com -published articles about webiste in several newspapers
-Dental Assistant (3 summers)
-Volunteer at Med clinic & shadowed a doctor (3 summers)
-Researched at Vancouver Aquarium- "Intertidal Marine Animals"
-Piano 11 yrs (Various scholarsips , trophies and prizes)
-Trumpet 8 yrs (Scholarships, trophies and prizes)
-about 128 hours community service for music
-Lead trumpet player in Stage band (4 years)
-Lead trumpet for the Musical, "42nd street", "Guys & Dolls"
-Figure Skating 8 yrs (3rd in the Province in my level, twice, 4th once)
-Private Tutoring for French, English, Math, Chemistry
-Peer Tutoring (Teacher Assistant) for 2 years in Science
-Canadian Math Contest Winner- Gauss, Fermat SFU Scholarship (1st in school)
-Various prizes for each subject (Top student for Socials Honors, Math Honors (4 years), English, French, Band (4 years)
-Sunday School teacher, (Many other roles in church)</p>
<p>Going in as "Undecided" for:
-Dartmouth
-Brown
-Johns Hopkins
-Washing Univ. in St. Louis
-Duke
-U Penn
-Univ. Chicago (Early Action)
-HYPS (oh, what the heck haha)
-Columbia</p>
<p>-Dartmouth: Match
-Brown: Match
-Johns Hopkins: Strong match
-Washing Univ. in St. Louis: Match
-Duke: Weak match
-U Penn: Slight reach
-Univ. Chicago (Early Action): Strong Match (you're in)
-HYPS (oh, what the heck haha): Slight reaches
-Columbia: Weakest match</p>
<p>"- Hosted a TV Show for about a year and a half
- Wrote the scripts for the same TV Show"</p>
<p>What? You went to Korea to host that and wrote the scripts at KBS Studio?
Something smells fishy, unless you're a Korean celeb... WHO ARE YOU? lol</p>
<p>uh no the show airs & films in canada...
so no i dont go to korea every week to film it lol
ya im a local celeb... uhmm i do speak english for the tv shows i just put on korean music videos so i'm sending an episode in with my supplements</p>
<p>I think Flippy has your chances about right. None of them seems to be exactly a safety tho. Do you have some?</p>
<p>With the details of the TV show I don't know how impressive it is- make sure you provide evidence that someone actually watched the show or that it made some sort of impact on the community, or at least on yourself. Maybe you can talk about how you grew from it. Piano and trumpet with prizes etc are important too, esp if you are gifted enough to send CDs.</p>
<p>Problem with these chances threads is that essays and recommendations cannot be evaluated.</p>
<p>Actually I think Flippy is off (Columbia weak match, Penn slight reach??????)</p>
<p>My assessment:</p>
<p>-Dartmouth: High Match/ Slight Reach
-Brown: High Match/ Slight Reach
-Johns Hopkins: Match
-Washing Univ. in St. Louis: High Match
-Duke: High Match
-U Penn: High Match/ Slight Reach
-Univ. Chicago (Early Action): Match
-HYPS (oh, what the heck haha): Slight Reach/ Reach
-Columbia: High Match/ Slight Reach</p>
<p>Wow you guys cannot be serioous, columbia as a high match? HYPS as slight reaches? First off, your EC's are just fine. Not spectacular, nor are they weak. The problem lies in the fact that 1) you're international, 2) you're asian(not putting an ethnicity won't matter bc. your last name will most likely give away your race anyway, and 3) Grades/ Test Scores are good, but you copped out by taking Korean as your 3rd SAT II. This won't be very good for Harvard and Princeton. So, here is my opinion:</p>
<p>-Dartmouth- high match
-Brown- high match
-Johns Hopkins-high match
-Washing Univ. in St. Louis-high match
-Duke- slight reach
-U Penn- slight reach
-Univ. Chicago (Early Action)- match (Depends on your essays and Recs)
-HYPS (oh, what the heck haha)- Harvard and Princeton No. Yale and Stanford are both reaches.<br>
-Columbia- Reach</p>
<p>Joint Medical Program:
-HPME (Northwestern)- reach
-PLME (Brown)- reject
-Union/Albany- in
-RPI/Albany- in
-Boston Univ- match</p>
<p>Why not go to McGIll???????????????????? Tuition is so cheap for Canadians, and McGill is a top-rate medical university.</p>
<p>Oh and one more thing. Just submit your SAT.</p>
<p>AHH whats a strong match & a weak match?!
and any more chances?
and yeah, please take into consideration that i AM international (canadian) and im asian. thanks for all the honest opinions :)</p>
<p>Brown and Dartmouth more selective than Penn?</p>
<p>Brown and Dartmouth near COLUMBIA?</p>
<p>You realize Columbia College has the lowest acceptance rate in the country (7% RD - excluding Columbia's Fu Foundation for Engineers) AND THAT'S WITHOUT USING COMMONAPP?</p>
<p>And you think just because their acceptance rates are lower, Brown and Dartmouth are more selective? So I guess Duke is about as selective as UCLA right? And Brown and Dartmouth are BOTH more selective than Caltech?</p>
<p>First, you look like a very bright, talented candidate, but as the parent of two kids who recently went thru the process, I'm going to be a little less optimistic. Your numbers are great, and get the door open, but you'll need to get the adcom's attention (essay in particular) to be heard. Many posters, like myself, wish to be supportive, but being realistic can appear harsh.</p>
<p>HYP-big reach, but go for it if you really want it
Columbia, Dartmouth (mid Ivys)-reach
I can't judge the med programs.(even though I'm an MD)
All others are in the match range, which is no shoo-in at this level, but I think acceptance(s) in the group are likely if you present yourself well. Have you considered top 20 LACs which have high med school acceptance rates?</p>
<p>Where are you forming your opinions? You cite accept rate as a reason for Columbia's selectivity, yet you discount it when positioning B/D vs. Duke/Penn. Make up your mind.</p>
<p>Brown and Dartmouth (Dartmouth particularly) are much more self-selective than Penn and Columbia which draw tons of Tri-state area applications. If you live in NYC (and maybe SoCal which tends to have an interest in NYC too for some reason) then there is a difference, but overall around the nation there isn't one. Also, Columbia and Pen take a huge percentage of their classes ED, which helps with a lower RD rate. Dartmouth's RD is about 11%, but remember only about a third of its class is ED which the admissions office thinks is fair.</p>
<p>Columbia has lower SAT scores than Dartmouth (by a wide margin) and is about the same as Brown. How can you argue its much more selective? Ane PENN???? Penn loses to Dartmouth in almost every selectivity metric including accept rate and SAT scores. Only in perhaps SoCal and NYC are Columbia and Penn more selective than Dartmouth, in the rest of the country I would argue the opposite.</p>