<p>GPA: Weighted: 5.0, Unweighted: 4.0</p>
<p>SAT I: 730 (verbal) 800 (math) 750 (writing, 12 essay)</p>
<p>SAT II: 800 math ii, 710 bio E (planning to retake), 700 lit</p>
<p>School doesn't rank</p>
<p>ECs:</p>
<p>School Council Treasurer
School Council Community Service Head
Homeroom Representative
Service Club Treasurer
Architecture & Design President/Founder
Science Olympiad Event Leader (and winner at regional and state events)
Volleyball
Drama Club
Asian Cultures Club</p>
<p>200+ hours of volunteering (library, AIDS walk, Alex's Lemonade...)</p>
<p>Awards:</p>
<p>6th National French Contest
Science Olympiad: 1st and 2nd at events at regionals, 4th at events at states
Caltech Book Award
Honor Roll
National Honor Society
Working on a Sieman's Comp. project, hopefully will place (?)</p>
<p>2 summers at Upenn lab, cancer research</p>
<p>can't think of anything else at the moment</p>
<p>Colleges: (Biology/Premed)</p>
<p>Yale
Princeton
UPenn
Columbia
Cornell
Brown
Duke
Johns Hopkins
UChicago
UMichigan (Ann Arbor)
WashU
Penn State
Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Liberal Arts: Swarthmore, Haverford, Williams</p>
<p>chances at any (if not all) of the schools would be good.</p>
<p>oh AP scores:</p>
<p>Calc BC -- 5
English Language-- 5
Physics C(Mechanics)-- 5
Statistics--4</p>
<p>Good stats. The cancer lab work is definitely a big plus, it shows focus. If you're focusing on bio, like you already said, I'd recommend retaking the SAT II's.
If you have a good essay and a good interview, I'd say you have as good a shot at any for most of the colleges you've listed. You don't have any dead lock EC's, so most people posting (just a trend here) will probably say that you more in that area for a school like Yale.</p>
<p>Do you really love Penn state?</p>
<p>Most all those schools are real reaches. Colleges will know where you rank, and unless you go to a very competitive school, your rank is probably not very high.</p>
<p>Great to have 800 math, but lots of kids do and your CR is low for the unhooked at any ivy. 2 SATIIs are sub par. No special ECs. Siemens would sure help.</p>
<p>If you are an ORM (asian club) from an overrepresented state (?) you could easily not get into any ivy caliber school. Sorry.</p>
<p>Cross Chicago off your list. It doesn't fit in with any of the other schools you listed, and you have to do a rigorous core alongside pre-med.</p>
<p>What's unfortunate about your list is that you've just listed scattershot good schools, almost all of which are significant reaches for you. Try to write down a list of things you want in a school (a big city? a sports scene? pre-professional? academic? research opportunities? social life? personality of the school?) and then compose a list of reaches, matches, and safeties. For every elite school, in the country, there's another one that's just like it that will be a match for you.</p>