Chances?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>unfortunately for me, i am a korean male wanting to go to college. therefore, i wonder if there's much chance for me to go...:( I go to a tough school in CA and took the most rigorous courses available to me except for foreign language.</p>

<p>junior->going to be a senior</p>

<p>GPA: UW 3.74 W 4.19
Probably top 10% of school</p>

<p>SAT: M 800 CR 760 W 790</p>

<p>SAT II:
MIIC 800
Chem 800
(planning to take physics or bio)</p>

<p>AP:
US History 4 (11th)
Stats 5 (8th)
Calc BC 5 (10th)
Chem 5 (11th)
Phys C Mech 5 (11th)
Phys C E+M 5 (11th)</p>

<p>Courses (and grades...):
9th
Honors Precalc B+
Biology B+
English B+
Spanish III A-
Euro I A
Japanese I A
Orchestra A
Intro to Programming A</p>

<p>10th
AP Calc BC A
Honors Chem A
English B+
Spanish IV A-
Euro II A-
Japanese II A
Orchestra A</p>

<p>11th
Honors Advanced Math A
AP Chem A
AP Phys C Mech A
AP Phys C E+M A
AP US History B+
Honors English B+
Orchestra A</p>

<p>12th (schedule)
Number Theory
AP Bio
AP English
AP Econ
AP Comp Sci AB
Research
Orchestra</p>

<p>ECs:
Piano since I was 5. State level. Played with a few orchestras.</p>

<p>Cello since I was 9. I win a few state level competitions. Played with a few orchestras. Principal cellist of school orchestra and community youth orchestra.</p>

<p>Research
2nd author of evolutionary computation research paper published in Genetics and Engineering Computation Conference Proceedings (10th).
Working on journal paper on same research.
helping in cardiology research lab at Stanford Medical center (11th).</p>

<p>Academic
9th: nothing...
10th:
National Spanish Honors Society
AMC 10 Honor Roll
Qualified for AIME
1st place Regional and National Korean Math Competition
11th:
Qualified for AIME (score of 8)
1st place Regional/2nd place National Korean Math Competition
USNCO (United States National Chemistry Olympiad) Local Exam School Winner/10th place in region (heh...)
USNCO High Honors (top 50 in nation)</p>

<p>Colleges I plan to apply to:
Harvard
MIT
Stanford
Princeton
Northwestern
Harvey Mudd
UCLA
UC Berkeley
USC</p>

<p>What are my chances? Also, should I add/subtract any colleges from this list?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>50/50 chance.</p>

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<p>You're insate for UCLA and Berkeley so basically you're in.</p>

<p>And while you've got 'typical' asian interests (piano, research), your research accomplishments are especially impressive. I think you'll get Northwestern prety easily and USC. Harvey Mudd and MIT are slightly harder to predict. But I think you'll get one of MIT/Princeton/Harvard/Stanford as long as your recs are good and your application conveys passion.</p>