<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 800 Math, 750 Writing, 680 Reading - Composite 2230 (1480/1600)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Physics, have not taken third but I might do Literature (get 700)
[<em>]ACT: not taking
[</em>]GPA: School does not give out GPA but mine is definitely 4.0 UW and about 4.8W
[<em>]Rank: School does not rank but probably 1st or 2nd out of 200
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Predicted 44/45 for IB[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Excellent
[</em>]Recs: Excellent
[<em>]Supplementary Material: I might send in my abstract for my Extended Essay on Economics
[</em>]Summer Activities: Shadowed multi-millionaire CEO for 3 weeks, single-handedly taught English as a second language to 10 young children for about 8 weeks [400 hours]
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Started a business? Built a cloud chamber and particle accelerator?[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Hong Kong
[<em>]High School Type: Private - International
[</em>]Ethnicity: Indian
[<em>]Gender:Male[/ul] Extracurriculars[ul]
[</em>]Founder/President of Revision Club - 2 years - [Head of Class said that it was the first time she had seen initiative of this sort in all her years at the school]
[<em>]Founder/President of Guitar Club - 2 years - [The most popular student founded/led club at the school with over 30 students signing up within a day]
[li]Represented school in golf tournaments after playing for only 3 months - been playing for 2 years now - [ESSAY TOPIC - talked about the effort I put in and how I ended up playing with kids who had 9 years of experience][/li][li]Started a proper business - 2 years - [Take glass and make furniture because there are no mainstream glass recyclers in Hong Kong - short answer topic][/li][li]Leader of group project - building a cloud chamber observing muon decay and cosmic ray collisions [Use of technical jargon to impress adcoms][/li][li]Leader of group project - building a particle accelerator[/li][</em>]600 hours of community service in the span of 1 year
[<em>]Travelled to rural China to teach young kids English for a week, was the group leader [these kids have never had contact with the language in the past]
[li]Worked with a group of 30 to earn USD1500 - 5 years - do it every year at least once[/li][</em>]Member of debating and Model United Nations[/ul] Awards:[ul]
[<em>]UKMT Gold Medal [INTERNATIONAL]
[li]AMC12, top 10% internationally [INTERNATIONAL] or 4th in school [SCHOOL][/li][li]Sunlife Mathematics Scholarship Competition [INTERNATIONAL] - top 30% internationally[/li][</em>]Euclid Scholarship Mathematics Competition Distinction [INTERNATIONAL] - top 15%
[<em>]Student council - 2 consecutive years [SCHOOL][/ul] Applying to:[ul]
[</em>]Wharton
[<em>]Columbia
[</em>]Dartmouth
[<em>]Cornell
[</em>]Brown
[<em>]MIT Sloan
[</em>]Carnegie Mellon
[<em>]NYU Stern
[</em>]John Hopkins
[<em>]University of Chicago
[</em>]University of Michigan[/ul]</p>
<p>Holy crap. You have the most impressive resume I have ever seen (other than your SAT reading score, but don’t worry about that). I honestly am ashamed of myself after reading that. I garuntee you you will get accepted into almost every ivy shool, no worries. Wow…you put my robot and other microcontroller creations to shame with that particle acclerator…</p>
<p>Nice. I’m an Indian Male from a Hong Kong private school too! Which school are you at?</p>
<p>Apart from my SAT 1, your stats dwarf mine. Wharton’s tough - are you trying the Huntsman program? Only that, Brown, MIT and Columbia are reaches. You should definitely get into the other ones.</p>
<p>Yeah the particle accelerator is extremely unusual and very cool. I agree with the other people here your SAT Is are holding you down a little bit, but you should def get into Wharton, Columbia, and Brown, and those could go either way.</p>
<p>honestly… people with stats like yours are the reason why the rest of us believe we have no chances at these schools. a particle accelerator? teaching english to 10 children? if they gave you the nobel peace prize you’d be all set</p>
<p>and on a serious note, if you don’t get in everywhere i’d be astounded</p>
<p>Holy crap, I would be surprised if you didn’t get into any of these. Wharton and MIT are always crapshoots, but I don’t think they have any reason to reject you. What part of your application made you feel bad? </p>
<p>Dude in no way am I being sarcastic. In fact u inspired me to go and contact my friends to do a large scale project on super conductors like we’ve been planning :D</p>
<p>You have excellent chances at all of these schools. The only ones that might be a little iffy are Brown and MIT - both have so many applicants, they’re not safe schools for anybody. You have an incredible application!</p>
<p>It was mainly my SATs… I have seen so many people on this website with 2300+ SATs talking about getting rejected. Oh URC… for the AMC thing, I dont know my exact percentage but I know I am definitely in the top 10% because the recent one was really hard. Top 5% got a 89 or above. I got 87 so 2 marks off AIME :S
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Also I am a member of Mensa International. Do you reckon I should put that on my application?</p>
<p>wow… I’m very impressed by just about everything on this resume. I see no problem for you to get into almost all of these schools. I wish you luck on applying and your future! Chance me please?</p>
<p>Your application looks pretty good overall, but don’t mention AMC unless you took the AIME for the ivies. The SAT needs some progress as well, but if you cover that then i would say you have fair chances for those ivies, assuming you don’t need financial aid (that screws you over as an international student).</p>
<p>Oh ok. I read somewhere on CC that MIT and the Ivies look at you in good light if you get a 90+ on the AMC12 when the 5% cutoff is 100, so would the fact that I got a 87 with an 89 cutoff go some way with the adcoms?</p>
<p>Also, what about putting Mensa International on my application?</p>
<p>That’s really cool that you are in Mensa (no wonder the particle accelerator)!</p>
<p>Your things beat mine any day…if you really want to solidify your chances (as everyone said before): the SAT I.
I think you’ll at LEAST get into one of those ivies.</p>