<p>Applying to:
-Dartmouth
-Brown
-Cornell
-Harvard</p>
<p>Race: Asian, f (don't you start stereotyping)
Country: Canada </p>
<p>Note: applying for financial aid & my school doesn't offer an AP courses. </p>
<p>OBJECTIVE DATA
*SAT: 2200 superscore
*SAT IIs: Lit 630, Math II 640 (did not realize that calc malfunctioned until a few weeks after)-will be re-taking this in January and will get 750+ for sure, Biology E 720
*Rank: Top 2% in a graduating class of about 400 people
*Average: ~94% </p>
<p>AWARDS
*a few subject awards from school (e.g. highest avg. in English)
*certificate of distinction in a nation-wide math contest (within top 25% of all test-takers)</p>
<p>EC's
*volunteering at the hospital (200+ hrs here alone-250+ hr in total)
*medical research mentorship at a different & well-known hospital
*volunteer tutoring at school
*piano (selected to advance to provincials, various awards from music festivals, etc.)
*painting (displayed at a prof. art gallery, honourable mention in a nation-wide contest)
*vice-president of a new club at school (started it with a friend this year)
*part-time job at local community centre</p>
<p>Recs are excellent. Essays should be really good, too. </p>
<p>PLEASE chance me-you've already read my profile to this point. Fair, honest responses are appreciated. Thank you for your time!</p>
<p>Extra info:
-I will be applying to majors such as Biology & Social Sciences, but the schools I’m applying to all offer a liberal arts education so it’s awesome!
-I immigrated to Canada when I was 10, so that’s when I first started to learn English</p>
<p>Woww, you have a great shot at that! And by that, i mean Brown, Cornell and Dart. Well you know that all ivies are reaches for anybody, but it looks like you have a slightly less reach than everyone else? :P<br>
btw, was that mentorship at the hospital because of BioTech ? it kinda sounds familiar to what i was going to do this year</p>
<p>Low Chances but high enough that it is worth taking a shot.</p>
<p>Your SATs are rather low for an unhooked candidate and your SAT IIs indicate a weak school which lowers the impressiveness of your rank.</p>
<p>ECs are typical and nothing stands out. The only major award I saw was the single art piece and that is not going to cut it at the highest level of colleges.</p>
<p>Harvard: HIGH Reach
Dartmouth: High Reach
Brown: Reach
Cornell: Low Reach</p>
<p>thanks! I hope I’ll get into those schools (: and no. The mentorship program is government-funded. I work in the hospital’s research labs (not paid). It’s not my research project b/c what they’re doing is so high-tech and complicated, and everything that can be comprehensible to a high school student is already researched to death haha. I just help out around in the lab, use the equipment, participate in experiments, record & analyze data, etc. It’s still really awesome. I’m definitely aiming for a career in medicine, so it’s good experience, I think.</p>
<p>LOLL, you have to tell me how to get into that mentorship program!! It’s something that i’d really love to do. I’m trying to get as much experience for medicine as I can atm, it’s just just really interesting! </p>
<p>Btw, it you can get that math SAT II mark as high as a 750+ , then you’re gonna have a much better shot !</p>
<p>Don’t believe people when they say Ivys are completely unpredictable. They have set clear and readable standards and qualifications of the admitted applicant. Of the things that you have influence over, there are 2 that you should concern yourself with. The SAT score is good, but I’m nto sure if all those schools superscore, and it is always better to submit a good composite score. Also, you don’t have much leadership. Except for that, everythign else is great. Good luck.</p>
<p>@boondock46, all of those 4 schools except for Cornell practice Score Choice, so superscoring is a-okay. My second attempt was better than my first by 120 points, so I think the upward trend is better than a neutral/downward trend?</p>
<p>Oh, I forgot to mention! Aside from being VP of this club at school, I was also in this leadership group at our school, where you have to be nominated by teachers to get in. What we do is welcome freshmen to our high school and take them through orientation, help them have a smooth transition, etc. Yeah, it’s still not a lot of leadership, but it’s what I’ve got.</p>
<p>Thanks for chancing & I will chance you back right now.</p>
<p>MORE CHANCESSSSSSSSS PLEASEE it’ll be the best early Christmas present every hahaha</p>
<p>Nope. I’m an international applicant, so my focus is on schools in my country as that’s more realistic. I didn’t get serious about going to the US until this June because our family’s not rich (though not poor) and a good education in the states is quite expensive. I won’t be applying to other schools besides those 4.</p>
<p>It appears that Cornell and Brown are “low-reach” and “reach” according to a couple of you (: that’s great, because those are my top/favourite choices out of the 4 right now! </p>
<p>I will chance you back.</p>
<p>MORE CHANCES! Look at the discussion here! It’s wonderful! CHANCE ME I can chance back-promise.</p>
<p>How did your calculator misfunction?? The test is meant to not even require a calculator plus if you couldn’t do some of them without a calculator or even notice that the answer it may have given you is wrong how do you expect to get above a 750?</p>
<p>It’s complicated and there’s a whole different problem with the test proctor. CB is investigating it right now.</p>
<p>You can prob. do most of the test without a calculator, but I don’t know a single person who is crazy enough to not use one. I mean, how can you do standard deviation problems? What about matrixes? You just can’t solve those efficiently without a calculator. A calculator solves all your problems and makes things go much faster.</p>
<p>I expected to get above 750 b/c I was getting consistently above 700s on Barron’s practice tests (many people who get 640sh on Barron’s have gotten 800s on the real thing), so I was really expecting something good. Oh well, there’s no point in thinking back about it. I’m registered to re-take and that’s what I’m going to do and THIS time, I will make SURE the calculators are PERFECT (graphing & scientific)</p>
<p><strong><em>back to the original topic</em></strong>
CHANCE ME
CHANCE ME
CHANCE ME</p>
<p>ECs are normal, and not very impressive. If you are serious about going to college, you would be smart to apply to schools other than those four. Based of your stats and ECs, you don’t stand much of a chance of getting into any of them. Never call Brown and/or Cornell a “low reach”. That’s absolutely crazy to say. Save yourself now and apply to other college where you actually stand a chance of getting into.</p>
<p>If you hadn’t noticed, I’m international. I’m only going to go to the US for university if I get into a top school, such as the 4 I’m applying to. There’s no point in going to a different country for education unless I’m going to an amazing school. </p>
<p>I know being Asian will hurt me, but it’s not like I can help the fact that schools have quotas to fill. I know my pool is extra-competitive, but it’s worth a shot. The only way to have 0% chance of admission is if I <em>don’t</em> apply. I really love Brown & Cornell as schools, not b/c of their prestige or anything like that. I genuinely like these schools.</p>
<p>No one on CC can accurately predict anybody’s chances, but I just posted this so I can see everyone’s opinions. Thanks for chancing.</p>
<p>More people CHANCE ME, please! Merry Christmas Eve everyone (:</p>
it kinda sounds familiar to what i was going to do this year</p>