change an engineer for ivys/tech schools!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Asian, Female, VERY competitive Connecticut top high school</p>

<p>SAT: 2130 (first time, didn't study, confident will get 2250+ when I retake)
SAT IIs: 2 in the high 600s... will retake</p>

<p>GPA: around 3.89 UW 4.3 W
All As and A+s except 1 B+ in AP chem
No Class Rank</p>

<p>All honors, hardest course load possible.
AP scores: World History (3), Chem (3), US History (3), Eng Comp (4), and Comp Sci A (3) ahhh bad scores :-( should I list them on my app?</p>

<p>AWARDS/HONORS
-Intel ISEF 3rd Place Grand Award (with many special awards and scholarships)
-1st place state fair and special award
-Siemens Competition Semifinalist
-a few journal publications pending
-Scholastic art gold key
-many awards at local science fairs
-NHS
-Spanish Honor Society
-Italian Honor Society
-Music Honor Society</p>

<p>Job/internship/volunteer:
- local Youth Council (150 hrs)
- after school program volunteer (50 hrs)
- tutoring (40 hrs)
- NASA JPL Intern
- science research at university for chemical engineering (does this count as volunteering?)
- online blog writer for a new and upcoming website (unpaid intern)</p>

<p>Leadership
-Vice president of 2 clubs
-started local recycling campaign</p>

<p>Other ECs
- JV/Varsity swimming (3 yrs including senior)
- basketball (used to be on JV but quit b/c schedule got intense)
- photography
- piano (no awards)</p>

<p>Letters of Rec:
-1 teacher: good, but ordinary (math)
-1 teacher: great (italian)
-1 teacher: great (english)
~~ will use different teachers for diff schools... math for engineering schools and other 2 options for regular
-guidance counselor: pretty good
-EXTRAORDINARY rec from lab mentor</p>

<p>Essays
will be pretty unique and creative :-)</p>

<p>I know my stats aren't great because I'm really weak in standardized testing but I'm really involved in my ecs and research. How much will my AP scores/B+ in chem hurt me for an engineering major and what can I do to improve my application? </p>

<p>Chances at:
(most for engineering)
Harvard
MIT
Princeton
Cornell
Columbia
UPenn
Dartmouth
CMU
Duke</p>

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<p>bumppp btw I have safety schools</p>

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<p>You seem to be a very good applicant. As You noticed, not the perfect SAT score, but i am sure you can raise. The same with GPA and AP’s. But you are well rounded with your EC’s. If you should write good essays, you have good chances. Nevertheless, most of your schools are reaches:
Harvard- reach
MIT - reach
Princeton - reach
Cornell - low reach
Columbia - reach
UPenn - reach
Dartmouth - reach
Duke - low reach</p>

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