Everyone gets a chance

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Stanford - Reach
Princeton - Reach
Yale - Reach
Cornell - High match
UPenn - reach
UMich - match
UChicago - match (i don’t question your ability to write stellar essays)
Carnegie Melon - match
NYU - safety
Berkeley - safety</p>

<p>The ivies and stanford are obviously reaches for anyone. And being Indian will not help you (really sorry, but it’s the Asian kid’s reality). As you are applying to the top tier schools, it’ll be really unpredictable.
But hey, you have a good chance at all of these schools because you have good (i mean fantastic)grades and decent ecs. Loved that u published a novel. Dont give up!</p>

<p>Objective:

[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): have not taken but estimated to get 2350. In practice I’m getting 2280 ave. But will practise really hard. I have 7 more months before taking it
[</em>] ACT: -
[<em>] SAT II: have not taken but will try for 800 for Math, Chem, Physics, Mandarin Chinese. And a 700 for literature.
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): not sure
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Unavailable. Estimated top 5%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): -
I took Singapore O levels last year if that counts. A1 in English, literature, E math, social studies +geography, bio, physics, chem. B3 for Mandarin Chinese, a C5 for Higher Chinese (a C looks bad but I’m not Chinese race + this paper is taken by pure Chinese or Chinese-crazy students so don’t judge me too harshly). A2 for A Math due to much carelessness
IB:
HL Math - 6~7, HL chem 7, HL Econs 7, SL physics 7, SL literature 6, Spanish abi - not sure because I havent taken an official test yet. Let’s say predicted 6 at the moment because I don’t want to be overconfident.
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: -
[</em>] Major Awards: Math Olympiad, AMC, a lot of maths and science competition awards (one of them is 1st place in a physics competition but the rest are nothing major), 3rd in level 2 years ago, 2nd in level last year, scholarship in current school covering all school fees</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:

[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Guitar 4 years (Service rep)
Interact Club (getting leadership position soon)
Aikido
Future Problem Solving Club
Newspaper
Folk songs group
Running Club
NYAA Gold
Outward Bound Singapore
Writing for school yearbook
[</em>] Job/Work Experience:

  • work as private tutor to make money. Tutor Chinese and Math and Sciences
    [<em>] Volunteer/Community service: 55 hours at the library
    120+ hours at flag days and other things
    Volunteering at a hospital now (will get about 100h from here)
    Going for a service trip to Burma at the end of the year. Going to organise loads of fundraising.
    [</em>] Summer Activities: -</p>

<p>[/ul]Other

[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): -
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): singapore
[<em>] School Type: international
[</em>] Ethnicity: singaporean
[<em>] Gender: f
[</em>] Income Bracket: 200k
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): brother legacy at stanford</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]List of schools that you’re applying to:
Stanford
Yale NUS
UChicago
Northwestern
Harvard (no harm trying :/)
London School of Econs
Cambridge
Princeton
NYU
Not going to bother listing my safeties.</p>

<p>Thanks so much! I’ll be taking IB in Nov 2014 and entering college in 2015.</p>

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<p>Does any one have input for my schools? I did Mia’s and was skipped for a second opinion.</p>

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<p>Oh my post was for nihilus!</p>

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<p>For organization’s sake it might be smart to save the chancing until the end and checking if there was a new post before actually posting…</p>

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<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown):X
[</em>] ACT: 32
[<em>] SAT II: X
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):3.35(Will be 3.4 by first tri of Senior year if EA otherwise it will be 3.35) this part kills me
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10% is 3.7 at my school so IDK what rank is. I AM NOT TOP 10%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 honors(lowest grade a C) and 3 Ap classes A/A-'s in all. Did not take Ap test only for rigor
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):X
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Ap GOV, AP Pysch, Honors Comp&writing, AP art studio, Honors Pre calc, French 5 and general physics.
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):X</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): I own my own business helping clients rank higher in search engines. Started a business selling virtual wow goods when I was
15.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience:
I worked at a fast food place for 4 months Junior year
I also work currently for a couple of people/companies who pay me to create websites, market them in Google and other search engines, and to optimize for conversions.
Ignite mentor at my school(helps lower students) with getting used to high school life.
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: 200 Hrs at Animal shelter
[</em>] Summer Activities: Volunteering. I will be visiting Togo for 6 weeks. Anything I can do while there to help my app?</p>

<p>[/ul]Other
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): MN
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Mediocre public
[</em>] Ethnicity: African born, raised in US since 7
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: <50k
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM. Mom has GED and dad went to Hamline University(idk if that makes me first GEN)</p>[/li]
<p>List of schools that you’re applying to:
USC Marshall
U of MN Carlson
NYU Stern
CMU Tepper</p>

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<p>Can you guys reccomend some other schools I could apply too? I can get 2 good letters from APUS history and Honors US lit teacher. I would really love a school with a warm climate
(east coast is OK)
and not in the south. I am a big fan of big schools as well.</p>