E a r l y A c t i o n: Mit and caltech. Help a brother out

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>This is what my MIT and Caltech app look like.
Asian (chinese)--Californian Resident Class of 2010
GPA 9th-12th (unweighted): 3.97
GPA 9th- 12th (weighted): 4.76
RANKING
Grades 9 - 12: 5 out of 560,</p>

<p>SATII's:
Bio/m:780
Physics:790
Math II:800
SATI: CR: 750 Writing:720 Math: 790
SAT total: 2260
Super score: 2290</p>

<p>APs :
Biology: 5
World History: 5
AP Calcu BC: 5
AP Physics B: 5
AP Environmental sci: 5
AP Macro econ: 5
AP Micro Econ: 5
AP English Language: 5</p>

<p>Scholastic Awards/ Recognition/ EC (Level of award: school,state,regional,national, international) * = team competitions, four per team</p>

<p>-----Westmont College High School Math Competition 2008 and 2009<em>:: (regional) 1st overall in 2009, 1st in Written test 2008
-----Capital Markets Contest 2009</em>:: (regional) 1st
-----California State Economics Challenge Championship 2009<em>:: (State) 1st in California
-----Economics Challenge West Regional 2009</em>:: (Regional) 2nd out of 8 states
-----Kern County Regional Science Bowl 2009<em>:: (Regional) 1st
-----National Science Bowl 2009</em>:: (National) no award, just got to participate :)
-----National Merit Semi-Finalist 2009-2010:: (National) confirmed
-----National AP Scholar 2009-2010:: (National) confirmed with my Eight 5's
-----School of Modern Language Certificate of Excellence 2008:: (School) from local city college XD
----Member of the school FIRST Robotics Team* (seniors only)</p>

<p>Non-scholastic Awards/ Recognition/ EC
-----Music Teachers' Association of California:: Certificate of Merit for Piano 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010: (state) for levels 4,7,9, and Advanced
-----American College of Musicians: National Piano Playing Auditions 2008:: Intermediate C (State) state winner
----- Most Improved Player on HS Tennis Team 2007 and 2008:: (school)</p>

<p>Summer:
----- Intern in Electrical Engineering Department at UCSB this summer with a Ph.D student to apply Gallium Nitride (a semiconductor) into solar cells.</p>

<p>----- Interned with Economics Professor at UCSB.</p>

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<p>The only thing I could suggest doing is raising the M/CR scores of your SAT I. If you do that, you’ll have as good a chance as any Asian Male from CA realistically applying to these schools (not very good).</p>

<p>That’s not to say you won’t get in, though, but obviously don’t count on it.</p>

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<p>Male, asian, California, and typical activities. Not the best chances… but not saying it’s not possible.
Heck, I got in EA with stereotypical activities.
Work hard on your essays and pick wisely for LORs.
Good luck!</p>

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<p>Amazing resume in my opinion, but I guess stereotypically asian as bad as that sounds. Not sure about your chances as its a reach for everyone but your stats are strong IMO.</p>

<p>Would you mind taking a look at mine, I’m also applying EA to MIT.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/709285-am-i-track-ivy-stanford-etc.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/709285-am-i-track-ivy-stanford-etc.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;