Chances for YET ANOTHER Asian Boy

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>SAT I : 2390 </p>

<p>SAT Math IIC: 800
SAT Biology M: 800
SAT Chinese: 800 </p>

<p>GPA: 4.42 sophomore and junior year</p>

<p>Attend somewhat competitive school in San Jose California
Middleclass </p>

<p>sophomore year </p>

<p>AP Comp Sci A
Precalculus Honors A
Chemistry Honors A
World Literature A
World History A
Japanese 2 A
PE Total Fitness A</p>

<p>junior year 1st semester
AP Biology A
AP Calculus BC A
US History A
American Literature A
Japanese 3 A
3D Design 1 A (<--- Art class)</p>

<p>Senior year Classes
AP Chemistry
AP Literature
AP US Government
Japanese 4 Honors
(Will try to add physics honors)</p>

<p>Community College Classes
Intro to Java A
Elementary Statistics A
Intermediate Problem Solving with C A
Political Science A</p>

<p>Planning on taking
Principles of Macroeconomics
Principles of Microeconomics
Calculus 1c, Calculus 1d
Possibly Physics 4a - 4c</p>

<p>ECs: Paltry and Mediocre ='(
President of Go Club (Go is the game with black and white stones)
Peer Tutor
"Homework Center Helper" at Library for 2 hours a week for almost 6 months
Volunteered for about 60 hours at a community center, bagging food and cleaning
Member of CSF</p>

<p>NO ATHLETICS (although I did enjoy Rocky and worked out for a couple days after watching, tried eating raw eggs before jogging too, not as tasty as Stallone makes it seem)</p>

<p>Interested in top undergraduate business programs with more focus on financial aspects. Prefer a clean and spacious campus with tasty food too! </p>

<p>UPenn Wharton
UC Berkeley
UCLA (Heard the food is delicious)
Columbia
Stanford</p>

<p>Are there any other schools I should be considering? Please save the Devry's Online College and University of Phoenix Arizona Online comments for some other fellow. Thanks!</p>

<p>I am addicted to CC...</p>

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<p>what school do you go to? I go to Piedmont Hills.</p>

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<p>Lynbrook in the cupertino/ san jose region</p>

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<p>Your stats are good. Which will be helpful. With that said, an 800 in Chinese w/ listening for an asian kid is anything but impressive... the average for that test is like a 790. Take another real, meaningful SAT II.</p>

<p>What is your class rank? If you're not in the top 10%, your chances decrease markedly.</p>

<p>I hate to say it, but you have basically dug your own grave by having little EC interest. See if you can get involved and do something you truly enjoy ASAP. I am serious like a heart attack.Your stats will get you considered, but unless you work on your ECs, the lack thereof will sink you.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>lol maybe. do I know you?</p>

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<p>Well Wharton and Columbia are certainly have the best business programs. Your scores/GPA are literally near-perfect, so you'll most likely get into Berkeley and UCLA. The only problem with your application is that your ECs don't show any interest in business. This could certainly stop you from getting into Penn, Columbia, and Stanford.</p>

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<p>aruubato:</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Safe Match</p>

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<p>I've been contemplating starting an sat tutoring thing with a friend. Would that count as an ec? And how do colleges even know that you do the ecs you claim you do? lol, want to milk my score for all its worth and earn some money while I'm at it.</p>

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<p>The people on this message board are (often) so cutthroat and petty that they would report you for sending in fake ECs. Be careful, they do have a lot of info on you from this post.</p>

<p>Plus, it's nigh on impossible to fake a meaningful EC. Adcoms are trained to spot liars, and if something doesn't add up, you can bet they will place you in the reject pile faster than you can blink. Interviews will also kill you should you get caught in an untruth.</p>

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<p>Berkeley and UCLA you're in, I'm sure you know that. And with those scores, I'd be absolutely shocked if you didn't make at least a few Ivies or top private schools.</p>

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<p>The Cals will let you in. Everywhere else? Honestly it will be hard. The private schools want people with SATs around 750 for everything (750-800 is not really a big difference there.) They want, more than anything, INTERESTING people with strong essays and proven leadership abilities.</p>

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<p>bumpity bump</p>

<p>Also 110 on the AMC 12
(not too good I know, I had a calc test to study for so I rushed through it)
I think I got a 3 on the AIME as well.</p>

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<p>bumpity bump</p>

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<p>ok, with paltry ECs you're going to have to write STELLAR essays for the Ivy schools. you'll be competing against other asians with awesome stats, so you have to differentiate yourself in the essays since you haven't on extracurriculars...</p>

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<p>once again, more raw numbers are not going to help you. You need EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES.</p>

<p>If you do not seriously improve your EC profile, you WILL be rejected by the ivies and top private schools. Guaranteed.</p>