Chances...

<p>Half Indian, Half Chinese,... weird, i know...CT resident, Male, upper middle class, very competitive high school</p>

<p>3.5 uw gpa, 4.2 weighted</p>

<p>SAT1-2130
SAT2-mathi-800, mathiic-750, us hist-800, might take world history or literature, which would both be 700+</p>

<p>every year i took the most rigorous courseload my school could offer</p>

<p>my school doesnt offer AP's before junior year, and in junior year i only had one non-honors/ap class (regular health was mandatory for a graduation req)... took 4 APs 3 honors junior year...</p>

<p>Love history and english, really good at it... weird im asian and better at humanities than math and science, but there you go.</p>

<p>ECs...
Sports
Wrestling varsity 4 years
Varsity Track 4 years, captain senior year
-medaled in two events at regional junior olympics
1/2 sport, Debate, 4 years varsity, captain senior year,
-5th place state finals sophomore
-3rd place state finals junior year</p>

<p>Clubs
Peer Mediation4 years, leader 1 year
FBLA 4 years, treasurer 2 years
Atlas Wrestling Club (coached by olympic coach)
USA Track and Field
Mock Trial 4 years, co-capt 2 years</p>

<p>Vol Work
-ASHA youth group- raise money to send to poor villages in india so that they can build schools
-200 hours various at library, hospital, senior center
-Helped with FBLA to raise 1200 dollars for my friend who started his own cancer foundtation (he had a case of cancer that only 9 other people in the world have... scary...almost died)</p>

<p>Jobs
-Academic Tutor(raised a kids grades from c's/d's to a's/b's)
-Little League Baseball Head Umpire</p>

<p>Highest possible scores on all my CAPT tests, state merit recognized</p>

<p>Tied with two other people for highest possible grade on Junior Writing portfolio(put best writing together and people assess your writing)</p>

<p>Ribbons on Natl+State latin exams</p>

<p>School doesnt rank...</p>

<p>AP's
-junior year
--psych - probably 4 on exam
--govt(american) - probably 4 on exam
--english - probably 4 on exam
--us hist - probably 5 on exam
-senior year
--stat
--comp gov
--english</p>

<p>Reqs - teacher in the school who is widely known to write best reqs(wrote them for the kids who got into the princteons, harvards, standfords, etc) loves me and will write a great req for me, got another dept head who really likes me to write a good req
-close with guidance counselor(hes the faculty in charage of peer mediation)</p>

<p>Essays - will be strong</p>

<p>Will spend summer between junior and senior years teaching poor village kids in thailand(where mom grew up) english</p>

<p>So... after that.... chances at (safe, match, reach)...</p>

<p>UC Berkley
UCLA
Duke
Wake Forest
University of Michigan
UT Austin
NYU
Wash U in St. Louis
U of Chicago</p>

<p>... thanks</p>

<p>Everything looks really impressive except for your GPA and SATI score, which are still good, but it might be a little harder to get into a reach school. Your ECs look really nice. </p>

<p>I think that, in order to make you really stand out, you should write your essay on your experiences teaching the kids in Thailand and how it affected you. (Maybe write something about how it changed your views towards education and its value?) Not too many kids will have done what you'll be getting to do there, so it will definitely make you unique!</p>

<p>crouton:</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Slight Reach (out of state)</p>

<p>thanks.</p>

<p>And, i forgot to say, ive got triple legacy at uc berkley and my parents were both grad professors in michigan when we used to live there... does that help at all?</p>

<p>bump... and are there any other colleges that i should be looking at/have a chance at?</p>

<p>Besides NYU, are you considering any other northeastern LACs?</p>

<p>I have never seen a half indian/chinese! :)</p>

<p>for LAC's, i was thinking applying to swarthmore and maybe amherst but prolly woudlnt get into either...</p>

<p>maybe bard? i dk... suggestions?</p>

<p>i have seen half indian-chinese ppl
I LOVE CONNECTIUCT AND I LIVE IN MICHIGAN!</p>

<p>would i have a chance at williams/amherst/swarthmore?</p>

<p>if im asian, would it be better to not report an ethnicity when applying to some of those colleges with heavy asian student composition?</p>