<p>I'm Chinese but I had a year in US as an exchange student and got their honors graduation diploma(Clarksville high school). Applied for Math in HKUST and Math and Information System(4 year program) in CUHK.</p>
<p>Sat1 1980 (570+780+630)
Sat2 MathII 800, Chemistry 710, American History 520<br>
No APs
GPA 4.0/4.0
Toefl 107 (29+27+26+25)</p>
<p>I used to be a tutor @CHS and a TA@New Oriental School. National Forensic League's life-long member, Model UN member......</p>
<p>Never heard anything about interviews...</p>
<p>I was rejected by HKU(1st and 3rd choice) a week ago, and have not heard anything from CUHK and HKUST... I applied both of them before Jan. 2011... Does is mean that I have very little chances to get in?(since it's kinda late and I guess they've already made their decisions).</p>
<p>Hi! I’m in exactly the same position as you. I was rejected for HKU for all three choices. I’m still waiting on HKUST and CUHK (fingers are crossed) ><</p>
<p>I don’t know how hard they are to get into in GENERAL but for my school they’re significantly easier than, say, HKU. I got into HKU with a 3.57 UW/2260, 760 USH, 760 Math IC, although I do have 6 APs with 5s on all of them and promised 4 more APs and 1 IB in my senior year, and predicted the highest grade for all of them. Did not report TOEFL. I say overall you have a good chance although if you had things like AP USH, AP Calc etc. you’d be in the gates for sure. Just don’t report your SAT II History. Oh and for SAT, the 780 is your SAT Math, right?</p>
<p>Anyhow. I’m not sure if ECs count for that much because my activities definitely weren’t standout. Come to think of it, I didn’t even report my ECs. You should call/e-mail them. I buggered HKU for weeks before they’d release my results. And it depends on what program you applied to- popular ones take longer and I applied for Philosophy, a lot less competitive for sure.</p>
<p>Just curious, are you applying as a mainland student or an international student? I’m not sure how they evaluate in this case because even though I’m from Hong Kong I applied Non-JUPAS because I studied in an American curriculum. I think being in a different curriculum definitely helped me. With my middling grades, if I was a domestic applicant, I wouldn’t have gotten in.</p>
<p>What’s your reason for not taking APs? I don’t know what it’ll do at this point or if they even care, but if I were you I’d explain why to them.</p>
<p>@Impero: Thx a lot for writing so much, good thoughts and advice!! Um… I’ve report all the sat2 scores to them:( and yes 780 is my math score.</p>
<p>I applied as an international student cuz I hold a graduation diploma from a US high school. actually during 2009-2010 I was an exchange student there and I spend the first month in Michigan(in a temporary host family), when I found my permanent family, which is in Tennessee and went there in the early Oct., I was told that I can’t take any AP courses(or strongly not recommended) because I’ve already missed about 2 months’ class… so that’s my story about why not taking APs… u think I need to tell explain the reason to them?</p>
<p>Also, I’ve already E-mail hkust but nobody answered… maybe I gotta call them tmr and find out what’s going on…</p>
<p>BTW… your grades r not middling at all… u r defly one of the most awesome ones I’ve ever met~~~</p>