<p>Asian Male at a Competitive Public School
IB Diploma Candidate</p>
<p>GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.7 W (Rank 1/650)</p>
<p>SAT 1: 2330 (Math - 790, Verbal - 800, Writing - 740)
SAT II:
Math IIC - 800
Biology M - 780
History - 730
Literature - 700</p>
<p>AP Scores
European History - 5
Calculus AB - 5
Biology - 5</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
MUN - Cabinet (3 years)
Tae Kwon Do Black Belt - 1st Degree
National Honor Society (2 years)
Math Club (3 years)
German Honor Society (3 years)
American Cancer Society Youth Club (2 years)
California Scholastic Federation (4 years)
Volunteer experience at TaeKwonDo dojo, VITAS Hospice, ACS Relay for Life</p>
<p>Awards:
Valedictorian
National Merit Semi-Finalist
Summa Cum Laude
AIME Qualifier
Silver Medal on National German Exam
Gold and Silver Medals in local Tae Kwon Do tournaments
AP Scholar</p>
<p>Recommendations - Very Good</p>
<p>Essays - No Basis for judgment</p>
<p>Schools:
UC Berkeley (in-state)
UCLA (in-state)
UCSD (in-state)
Johns Hopkins
Columbia
University of Pennsylvania
CalTech
Duke
MIT
Northwestern
Stanford</p>
<p>UC Berkeley (in-state) - Safety
UCLA (in-state) - Safety
UCSD (in-state) - Safety
Johns Hopkins - Low Match
Columbia - Low Reach
University of Pennsylvania - High Match/Low Reach
CalTech - High Match/Low Reach
Duke- High Match/Low Reach
MIT - Reach
Northwestern - Low Match
Stanford - Reach</p>
<p>I'll say pretty much the same thing for your friend as I said for you. I'm calling Penn, Duke, and CalTech High Match/Low Reaches, and Columbia, MIT, and Standford reaches only because their acceptance percentages are relatively low (less than 25%, and for MIT, Columbia and Stanford, less than 15%), and their acceptance processes are such a crap shoot. However, given your friends superlative stats, I expect he'll get into at least two or three of those schools, and would not be surprised if you get into all.</p>
<p>you are very smart and the adcoms will see that, however so are many other applicants. You have chances at all of them, it depends on A) Luck B) your essay & recs.</p>
<p>You're good for all of them except MIT, Stanford, Penn, columbia, and caltech. I won't call these "reaches" in the sense that you are not "good enough", but keep in mind these schools have erratic admissions standards so expect random results.</p>
<p>I would say that Amptron is on the right track but it can be dangerous to categorize them so specifically esp. w/ the random admissions.</p>