<p>I guess the reverse psychology worked pretty well!</p>
<p>Alright, so I’m thinking about how I’ll do against these schools: Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis University, Brown, Northwestern, Northeastern, Columbia, Harvard, Cornell, NYU, Yale. Not so sure about Princeton or Stanford. Please chance me and tell me my weaknesses/strengths. Be truthful. I know my GPA isn’t the highest, and I have B’s and B- on my transcript for final grades. Latin class I never got the hang of and didn’t care for. For math for two years, I had a crazy female Chinese teacher who treated every math test as if it were a math contest.</p>
<p>Consider this also:
I attend a prestigious high school in Massachusetts. Each year it sends around 30 students to Ivy League schools. Around 25 of these go to Harvard College. I live in a certain part of my town in which there are land disputes with Harvard. Around 5 kids in my town are accepted each year by Harvard. It is much easier for kids from my town to get into Harvard than any kids supposedly.</p>
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<p>Top 20 National Public High School in Massachusetts</p>
<p>Race: Chinese (1st Generation)
Gender: Male
Socioeconomic Class: Middle</p>
<p>GPA: 4.08 Weighted</p>
<p>Rank: We don’t rank, but most likely within 60/350.</p>
<p>SAT: 2240</p>
<p>SAT Chemistry: 740
SAT US History: 770
SAT Chinese: 760
SAT Math 2: 750</p>
<p>AP Chemistry: 4
AP US History: 5
AP Computer Science: 4</p>
<p>Essay & Recommendations: Pretty Good</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
- President of Red Cross Club
- President of Invisible Children Club
- Secretary of Asian-American Club
- Co-Captain of Science Olympiad Team
- Co-Captain of Men’s Varsity Swim Team
- Co-Chair of American Red Cross Youth Advisory Board
- Copy-Editor Chief for School Newspaper
- Member of Project-Booknet
- Member of School Volunteering Club
- Piano
- National Honor Society
- Official Red Cross Volunteer</p>
<li>- EXPAND: Raised $1,300 for Measles Vaccines, Held Anti-Youth Violence Forums/Concerts, Raised $1,500 for Malaria Vaccines, Raised $1,200 for Disaster Relief Fund Deficit, Taught CPR and Choke Safe</li>
<li>- EXPAND: Raised $4,000 for Schools in northern Uganda.</li>
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<p>Volunteering:
- 45 Hours @ Cambridge Hospital
- 80 Hours Tutoring @ Library
- 70 Hours @ School Library
- 20 Hours @ School Main Office
- 25 Hours of Random Stuff
- 120 Hours of Red Cross Volunteering</p>
<p>Work:
- Harvard College Library’s Yenching Library as Summer Job
- Internship for Minority Program @ Harvard Medical School as Summer Job
- Working at Library (Get Paid & Get Hours)</p>
<p>Programs:
- 3 Programs at Harvard Medical School for Minorities
- Studied Arabic in the Summer (a Full Year’s Course)</p>
<p>Awards:
- Biography Essay Won Award & Published in The Nucleus Magazine
- 1st Place Herpetology for Science Olympiad
- 1st Place Herpetology for Science Olympiad 2nd Time
- 2nd Place in Health Sciences for Science Olympiad
- 1st Place in Health Sciences for Science Olympiad
- 3rd Place in Ecology for Science Olympiad
- 2nd Place in Chemistry Lab for Science Olympiad
- 1st Place @ MIT Science Trivia Contest (after 3 Attempts within 3 Years) - Prize was Lunch with a Nobel Prize Winner
- High-Level Novice Arabic Speaker Accreditation
- Red Cross Accredited in First Aid, Choke Safe, AED, CPR</p>
<p>Courses:
9th ~
Algebra 2 Honors: B
Biology: A-
English 9: A
Latin 3: B
Chinese 2: A-
World History 1: A</p>
<p>10th ~
Geometry Honors: B-
Chemistry: A
English 10: A-
Latin 4: B
Chinese 3: A
World History 2: A</p>
<p>11th ~
Pre-Calculus Honors: A-
Chemistry AP: A-
English 11 Honors: A
Computer Science AP: A-
Chinese 4 Honors: A
US History AP: A</p>
<p>12 ~ (So Far)
Calculus AB AP: A-
Biology AP: A
English: A
Physics: A
Chinese AP: A+
Economics: A</p>