<p>Colleges: MIT
UPenn
Princeton
Columbia
Caltech
Harvard
NYU
Dartmouth?
Carnegie Mellon
Lehigh?</p>
<p>Need some more colleges with good engineering or business programs. (Not sure what I wanna major in yet.)</p>
<p>Public High School Information:
-Location: Long Island, New York</p>
<p>-Competitive and sends students to ivies every year</p>
<p>-class rank/size: No rank, probably around top 10%/ ~350 students </p>
<p>All number with * mean projected scores</p>
<p>-Unweighted GPA: Freshman - ~3.62</p>
<p>Sophomore - Senior*3.80</p>
<p>-Weighted GPA (4-Scale): Freshman - 3.91
Sophomore - Senior: aiming for 4.0 :D</p>
<p>-# of AP/IB/honors courses: *~14</p>
<p>-SAT scores - Probably around 2200. Expecting Math: 800 CR: 700 Writing: 700</p>
<p>-SAT II scores: *Biology 720(Taking next week) *Math II 800 *Chemistry 750 *Physics 750</p>
<p>Still not sure about which SAT II scores to send in with the new collegeboard policy.</p>
<p>-Planned AP Exams:
AP Calc BC - *5
AP Physics C - *5
AP Chem. - *5
AP Macroeconomics - *5
AP Microeconomics - *5
AP World - *4
AP U.S. History - *5
AP English Language and Composition - *5
AP Lit - *5</p>
<p>-ECs:
Student Government Position - Officer *(9-12)
Asian Club - Treasurer for one year *(10-12)
Mathletes (9-12)
Tri-M (9-12)
National Honor Society (9-12)
Chinese Cultural Club (10-12)
Wind Ensamble (10-12)
Pit Orchestra (9,10, maybe 12)</p>
<p>Sports: JV Tennis (9)
V Tennis (10-12)</p>
<p>-employment -- probably none</p>
<p>Honors and Awards:</p>
<p>-Lexus Environmental Challenge National 1st prize winner w/ group (9th grade, hopefully 10th grade too) This competition isnt very well knew since it is rather recent.</p>
<p>-Moved on to AIME from AMC (going to try to get into AIME this year)</p>
<p>-National Merit Commended Scholar (semifinalist would be nice, but I don't think its possible for me)</p>
<p>-All-State Band 2 years</p>
<p>-Will try for Val or Salutatorian but 90% chance it wont be me</p>
<p>Essays and Recs would be pretty good, not stellar though.</p>
<p>Additional Information</p>
<p>-Family is Taiwanese not Chinese. </p>
<p>-Does not need financial aid</p>
<p>So basically what I'm asking in this thread is what are my chances now and how would I improve them. </p>
<p>One big question I have is whether or not researching with a mentor over the summer at an university would influence the college's decision majorly.</p>
<p>The research would probably take place during my rising junior summer and rising senior summer. </p>
<p>This would lead to me participating in Intel, ISEF, and Siemans.
I'm fine with the researching, but the thought of being in those competitions makes me non-motivated.</p>
<p>My second question is what is the best combination for the 2 summers from the following choices if I do not do research:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Around 200 hour community service in Flushing, New York helping with local councilman election</p></li>
<li><p>Going to overseas program in India or Africa to fight hunger / Go to Taiwan and teach children English</p></li>
</ul>
<p>-Get into SSR or another competitive science/math summer program.</p>