Do I have a Chance? Brown, Dartmouth, USC..

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Although the decisions are coming out next week, I wanted to see what other people thought of my chances of getting into </p>

<p>Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, UPenn, USC, Princeton, Stanford, and Johns Hopkins. </p>

<p>So...</p>

<p>Our school doesn't have a rank, but I am in top 2-3%.
My GPA: 4.3 (weighted)
3.7 (unweighted)
Have taken
6 honors classes, 6 AP classes, and one community college class for extra science course (physics). </p>

<p>I took 3 of the AP classes last year (junior year) and I got
AP Biology: 5
AP Calculus AB: 4
AP US History: 3 (yeah... I know this one is bad.. )</p>

<p>My school doesn't offer AP classes until junior year, and the maximum number of honors classes you can take in Freshman and Sophomore years are total 2 classes. So I don't really have many APs if excluding senior year. </p>

<p>SAT: Critical Reading- 580 (i'm an international student... this score is really sad.. I'm worried..)
Math-690
Writing-770
Total-2030</p>

<p>SAT IIs: Korean-800
math-720
Bio-680 </p>

<p>School Activities (EC):
California Scholarship Federation-4 years/President now
Speech and Debate-3 years/ captain for 2 years
korean club-president at another school, but I moved..
National Honors Society-4 years/ secretary now
Doctors Club-1 year/vice president now
Sudanese Genocide Campaign-I started it in sophomore year and it gradually became a class project, and later school project. It has been going on for 3 years now and I'm
project leader. / I wrote essays about this alot..
Choir- 4 years</p>

<p>Volunteering Activities:
-Teen Program : Worked with students with mental/physical disabilities 5 days a week for a year before I moved to current school
-Have Volunteered at a Stanford Children Hospital for 3 years (ever since I moved..)
( i want to be pediatrician later on..)
-volunteer at Loaves & Fishes every summer </p>

<p>Awards:
-Principal Honor Roll
-National Honor Roll
-San Jose Chorale Silver Award
-Le Grand Concours
-AP Scholar Award </p>

<p>I sent 2 teacher recs (one bio teacher, another english teacher since my major is bio) and one extra from my advisor at Stanford Children Hospital. </p>

<p>so that's it.. since my SAT score is so low, I hope that colleges will see my volunteer stuffs and ecs more... But what do you think?</p>

<p>Today, I already got declined by northwestern, U chicago, and duke.
I'm really really really worried!!!! so please be honest!!</p>

<p>THANK YOU!!</p>

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<p>I know it's hard to be patient -- especially so close to the decision date. One thing that I would have advised you NOT to do was to take the SAT II Korean b/c I'm assuming that you're a native speaker. </p>

<p>Regardless, all has been out of your hands for quite a while. Best of luck to you.</p>

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<p>T26E4, question, you said you advised that she had not taken the SAT II Korean bc she is a native speaker, why is a bad idea ?
I'm planning on taking one in French since I am fluent :/</p>

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<p>I'm going to assume its because the admissions people will just take it as a filler SAT II grade. That is, that basically, you just decided to take an easy SAT II that you know you'd get an 800 on instead of actually taking an SAT II that would require to put in effort to get an 800.</p>

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<p>Yeah, sounds pretty logical. I'm just freaaaking out because I'm not really sure which subject test i would do great on besides this one.</p>

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<p>Please, why is taking an SATII in your language not advisable????? Because these tests are easy for anyone who took a language for more than a few years!</p>

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<p>Dartmouth -Reach
Brown -Reach
Cornell -Reach
UPenn -Reach
USC -Match
Princeton -Reject
Stanford -Reject
Johns Hopkins -Reach</p>

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<p>anyone else?? Thank you all!!</p>

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<p>I second nicorobin90.</p>