Chances @ HYPSM

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>These things are fun, aren't they?</p>

<p>Public School in New York, sends kids to Ivys (mostly Cornell, but two or three to HYPSM each year)</p>

<p>Interested in Neurobiology/Psychology atm</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Asian Male (ugh)
GPA: 4.0 uw
Rank: Probably top 3 out of 260
SAT: 780CR/780M/770W
SATII: 800 Math I/800 Chem/770 Bio/750 US
Will be taking Math II and World History... hopefully 800s</p>

<p>APs:
-Calculus AB/BC 5
-Biology 5
-Chemistry 5
-US History 5
-European History 5
-English Language 5
-US Gov/Politics 5
-Macroeconomics 5
-Computer Science A 4
-Music Theory 3 (heh, I had no idea what I was doing freshman year... should I withhold this score?)</p>

<p>ECs
-National Honors Society (11-12); President 12
-Science Olympiads (9-12); Co-Captain 12
-Newspaper Club (9-12); Editor-in-Chief 12, Section Editor 11
-Yearbook Club (10-12); Co-Editor-in-Chief 12, Section Editor 11
-Local service organization (10-12); Advisory Board Member 12
-School Service Club (9-12); Advisory Board Member 10-12
-FBLA (11-12); Meh, Competitive Events Director
-Varsity Tennis (9-12); maybe captain 12
-Piano (ages 7-17); </p>

<p>Out of School
-Junior Statesmen of America @ Princeton: A- in AP Comparative Government and Honors Speech and Communication
-Harvard Secondary School: Hopefully an A in Neurobiology
-Math classes at local University for college credit: A's for the past five years</p>

<p>Awards
-National AP Scholar
-National Merit(at least commended)
-State Winner for the Discover Tribute awards
-Harvard Book Award From School
-National Award-winning Yearbook
-Regionals Prizes at Science Olympiads
-4th Place (Remote Sensing) at States for Science Olympiads
-4th Place (Economics) at States for FBLA
-Local Service Awards (for >30 hours, >75 hours, and >100 hours)
-AMC-12 School Winner (No AIME though)
-Local Piano competition awards</p>

<p>Recs: Hopefully Excellent
Essays: at least 7/8 out of 9</p>

<p>For these schools:
Princeton, Harvard, Yale (early action), Williams, Caltech, Stanford, MIT, Duke, Columbia, Chicago , Cornell</p>

<p>Thank You</p>

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<p>Senior Classes:
-AP Psychology
-AP French Language
-AP English Literature
-AP Physics B</p>

<p>No more APs that I am qualified to take at my school.</p>

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<p>Being from the Yankee home state is your only disadvantage. Discovery Tribute award is good; I'm assuming you had some sort of obstacle to overcome to get that? That will help.</p>

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<p>Yeah, but NY is probably still a little better than being in California (which was where I was before I moved lol). And yeah, I'll probably be using parts of the essay I submitted for the Discover Card Tribute for the application letters</p>

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<p>you don't need to take anymore subject test. in fact, that 800 in Math I is way more impressive than an 800 in math II.</p>

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<p>Really? Isn't Math I just like the SAT I Math Section?</p>

<p>But I need to take Math II regardless because Stanford and CalTech requires it.</p>

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<p>if stanford and caltech require it, then you should definitely take it. </p>

<p>why is 800 on Math I more impressive than 800 on math II?</p>

<p>800 on math I is 99 percentile.</p>

<p>800 on math II is only 90 percentile. meaning that 1/10 people score 800.</p>

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<p>Stanford now requires SAT II Math IIC? When I applied a year ago, they didn't require any SAT subject tests.</p>

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800 on math I is 99 percentile.</p>

<p>800 on math II is only 90 percentile. meaning that 1/10 people score 800.

[/quote]
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<p>That's because people taking Math IIC have stronger mathematical backgrounds. </p>

<p>I wouldn't say an 800 in Math I looks more impressive. If you're going into engineering/science, Math IIC definitely is more important.</p>

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<p>Also MathI is now built into the math section on the SATIs. It's about as useless as the SATII writing exam now.</p>

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<p>your scores/gpa are certainly great, but it ends there. The ECs resemble a laundry list with no passion. Although you are incredibly smart, you probably won't get into any of those schools.</p>

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<p>Stanford suggest that you take two subject tests and that if you're going to take one in Mathematics, take MathIIC.</p>

<p>They aren't required though.</p>

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<p>competitive at all though that doesn't mean much as it IS HYPSM</p>

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<p>@Seiken: Yeah, that's what I was afraid of :/
@1MX: Well, then that's not too big of a problem, since this <em>is</em> just a list for quick perusal.<br>
@frutiaspice: True, ugh.</p>

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<p>Bump for supreme justice</p>

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<p>1MX you are being way too pessimistic. With amazing essays, you could get into 1-2/5 of those with some luck.</p>

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<p>That requires amazing essays and luck. More likely than not, only one of those will happen.</p>

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<p>well it's not like both those factors are copmletely out of his control. If he start working hard now, I'm sure he'll be able to produce a quality essay. After that, luck plays a role, but then that's the point of applying to a lot of reaches.</p>

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<p>It's ok... 1MX says the same thing to everyone...</p>

<p>But anyway, I'd say you're guaranteed in at at least one Ivy.</p>

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<p>your scores/gpa are certainly great, but it ends there. The ECs resemble a laundry list with no passion. Although you are incredibly smart, you probably won't get into any of those schools.</p>

<p>He's editor in chief of yearbook and newspaper...that's pretty good.</p>

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<p>Consider some safety schoos.</p>

<p>Don't listen to all these negative comments about ECs. They're fine and you've been involved for most of high school with positions and leadership.</p>

<p>Williams, Chicago, and Cornell are within your reach, but the others are crapshoots for pretty much everybody. Maybe you'll get into one of them.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>