<p>Hello everyone, I am currently junior and would like to receive some evaluations on my chances.</p>
<p>I am Chinese Canadian and currently studying in a public school in New York State.</p>
<p>I speak fluently French (lived in Quebec), English, and Chinese.
I lived in Quebec and received French education for four years, with little training in English. Then I came to U.S. for high school, with only basic knowledge in English.</p>
<p>Academics:
GPA: 4.0 out of 4.0; No school ranking
PSAT: 205
SAT II: 800 French; 800 World History; plan to take Bio and Math IIC (expect + 760).
Expect to have a total of 13 AP's:
2 in Sophomore Year: French language and World History (didn't take class, but took the exam): both received 5.
5 in Junior Year, including independent study in French literature.
Expect to take 6 in Senior Year.</p>
<p>Extracurricular: </p>
<p>School Newspaper writer (soph), editor (junior), then editor-in-chief (senior).
Model UN, received many awards and chaired committees
Science Olympiad: 2 years
Math team: County All-star
FBLA member for 1 year, expect to run for a leadership position in senior year.
Track Team member for 1 year.
Won a national recognition in French (its not much considering my background)
Member of local Red Cross</p>
<p>Intend to study biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, or chemical engineering.</p>
<p>Questions: </p>
<p>Are most of these schools out of reach?
Which area should I improve?</p>
<p>Here are the schools I plan to apply to by order of preference:
Princeton
U Penn
Harvard
Yale
Columbia
Cornell
Brown
Dartmouth</p>
<p>comment: you will get in, 87.56534895675839657839% at all schools. and y you applying to ALL ivies? when i went to SSP at harvard, i heard the Undergrads say all ivies are in one system and usually, they look at which schools you applied to. so if you apply to All the ivies, obviously you aren't interested in the school, so they'll reject you even if you are Xcellent!!! so cut the list down, take yale, princeton and harvard and then take Upenn and Dartmouth for safety. gl, i am canadian too, but i am stupid :(</p>
<p>You don't have to go to an Ivy to get a good education. In fact, after reading articles and posts on here, you may be better off at a "better" school without the Ivy name where people actually care about academics. Why not look into the so-called Seven Sisters? You'd definitely have a better chance to get into those anyway.</p>
<p>Your PSAT doesn't broadcast that you will receive a very impressive SAT score in the light of the schools you are applying to. I think you should definitely focus on improving that, even though the admissions officers will take into account the fact that your native language isn't English.</p>
<p>My PSAT score is indeed not very good, but with the additional prep I had by now I think I can raise it up to 1450-1500 or even beyond.
My main question, though, is on my ECs.</p>
<p>Man... all 8 Ivies? That doesn't make any sense. They're all completely different. Columbia (urban) vs. Cornell (rural), Columbia (broad course requirements) vs. Brown (take whatever you want)... many, many other differences, not least the basic cultures of the schools. Even if you're just randomly shotgunning, it's senseless to include Cornell and not MIT, or UPenn and not Stanford.</p>