<p>Hi, I'm an Asian male living in Kansas. I came to the states when I was in 8th grade, but I am a citizen here. I don't know if the fact that I only lived here for four years would help me. </p>
<p>GPA: 3.97 WGPA: 4.13
(A's in AP classes are considered as 4.5 here.)
Rank: 41/417
I got a B+ in food class back in 9th grade and it brought my rank down a lot.
I go to a pretty competitive public school. </p>
<p>AP:Have taken 4 AP classes so far and planning on taking 4 more on my senior year.</p>
<p>SAT IIs: 800,800,780
ACT:30 ( I'm not sure if I should retake it or not)</p>
<p>ECs:
National Honor Society(11,12)
Science Olympiad(10-12)
Math team (treasurer, next year President)(9-12)
Student Council(Student body Treasurer)(10-12)
Scholars' Bowl (11-12)
JV Football(9,10) (stopped playing due to a concussion)
150+ volunteer hours at a local hospital(9-12)
100+ volunteer hours as an altar server at my church
Youth group leader
Doing some research at University of Kansas on Protein structures( planning on entering intel)
Tutoring an elementary school kid as a job</p>
<p>Honors/ Awards :
Columbia Book Award
University of Kansas Math Day 3rd place
Washburn University Math competition (3rd place twice)
Scholars' Bowl competition state 3rd place
President's Honor roll
GPML Math competition state 2nd place
Student of the year award</p>
<p>Summer programs: Duke TIP med-sci, KSHSAA student council camp.</p>
<p>And I'm planning on applying to
Stanford ( MY DREAM SCHOOL !)
u of Chicago (legacy)(EA)
Brown
Duke
Columbia
NYU
JHU
Rice
Washington University in St. Louis
University of Kansas
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>wow a 3.97 put you out of the top 10% of your class? craziness
definitely submit your SAT score. not your ACT.
Stanford-slight reach
u of Chicago-high match
Brown-reach
Duke-match
Columbia-reach
NYU-??
JHU-??
Rice-match
Washington University in St. Louis-match (in the typical washu way, they'll probably waitlist you though)
University of Kansas-safety
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor-safety
University of Wisconsin-Madison-safety</p>
<p>The only downfall I see is your rank because it leaves you out of the top ten percent of your class. I would say because of this Brown, Stanford, Duke, and Columbia might be low reaches. Nothing impossible though. Everything else looks really good, especially your SAT scores.</p>
<p>If I am seeing this correctly, it looks like your subject test scores are 800 800 780? If thats true, id recommend you retake your act.
I can kinda see your rank hurting you..intel would help, but nothing about your ECs really jumps out..develop and emphasize your passion(s).
Right now, I would say Stanford Columbia Duke and Brown are reaches, rice and WashU are high matches, mich jhu and chicago (with a good essay) are matches, and the rest i think youll get into.</p>
<p>whoa totally read that wrong. if you got 800/800/780 on SATII's, why not take the SAT? i think you could do really well. i got pretty close to the same score as you on ACT but i don't think my SATII's will be nearly as high as yours and i got a 2200.</p>
<p>I dont know but I'm not really good at cr or english at all so I'm kind of scared to take the SAT.
On my ACT i a 36 on math and 35 on science which kinda helped to bring my composite score up.</p>
<p>"a 3.97 put you out of the top 10% of your class?"
"The only downfall I see is your rank because it leaves you out of the top ten percent of your class."</p>
<p>Umm, maybe I'm mistaken, but isn't 41/417 in the top 10% of his class.</p>