<p>GPA: uw 4.0, 4.25 UC
AP classes: APUSH (5), AP lang (4), AP Calc AB(5) (school doesn't offer honors, and doesn't give much room in one's schedule to take many AP classes)
Leadership class 10-12
Senior schedule AP classes: AP lit, AP gov, AP calc BC, AP physics C, AP stats
Class rank: 1/990 (shared with 8ish)
SAT1: 2210 640CR, 790W, 780M (may retake to raise verbal)
SAT2: lit 750, math2 750, USH 790</p>
<p>ECs:
CSF 9,10, board (11), co-president (12)
Interact 9-12
Teensreach 10-12
Peer to Peer (Vice Pres)
Link Crew 10-12 (on committee)
Editor's Choice and Semfin. for a nat poetry contest </p>
<p>Female, Vietnamese, CA, low-income, first generation, immigrated to US in 8th grade, perm. resident </p>
<p>chances for UCLA, UCSD, UCB, Stanford (EA), MIT</p>
<p>Stanford EA: Reach. Is for most. But, being low income and a first generation immigrant will help. So will the club stuff, and being a semifinalist in the poetry contest...what contest was it, by the way? Shd would want to retake the SAT, to raise the CR score.</p>
<p>MIT is a definite reach because her EC's and classes seem to be more humanities (read: English + history) orientated, and anything less than 800 on SAT Subject Math 2 (arguably the easiest test to get 800 on, aside from some language tests) shows that she is weak in math. The SAT can be easily improved by doing a few CR sections from the practice book. I went from 690 to 780 in CR just by being more relaxed and not caring about the test and also knowing the type of answer that CollegeBoard wants. Writing is very high, and if the essay is where she can improve, know that throwing in a bunch of vocab words + writing as much as possible can usually bump you up a point assuming you use the words correctly.</p>
<p>Being female might help a bit when applying to MIT, but Vietnamese falls under the Asian category (right?) so that's not going to improve any chances. Low income (or so I've heard) might be a negative thing because schools would see that they'd have to offer a larger financial package. Of course, that depends on the school and I doubt that it would be that big of a matter.</p>
<p>EC's and course load in general looks good so like I said, a humanities-orientated school/major would be good. But then again, I'm no expert, so have her talk to her counselor.</p>