Harvard? + a few others

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>sorry about the uncreative title...</p>

<p>Stats: Currently a Junior
SAT I: 1410/1600 (8th grade 800-M), 232 PSAT, (new SAT results in two weeks)
SAT IIs: 780 on Bio-M, 730 Math IC, 660 World History, (US History and Math IIC this year)
ACT: N/A
GPA: 4.9 W
Rank: 3/500
APs: 5 on World History AP, taking: US Hist, Eng Language, Calc BC, Psychology and Music Theory, </p>

<p>Senior year courseload: cont. Sci Research, Govt AP, German AP, Mult Calc (online course? don't know where yet), Economics Honors (looking for a possible online course for AP level instead), Physics AP, English Lit AP</p>

<p>ECs/Awards for each: (all long-term involvement)
Academic Team-student govt rep
DECA (1 year)-2nd pl regional/top10 state 2004
FBLA- Treasurer
German Club- VP, National Exam Medal
Marching/Symphonic Band & Orchestra
Science Research Internship
Job at National not-for profit Organization (10 hrs/wk)
Math Team- student govt rep, AMC 10 school award
Mock Trial
Music- Piano 12 years, Clarinet, attend a music school outside of regular school (approx. 12 hrs/wk) part of Honors Program there. not extraordinary at piano, but very, very involved/passionate=> some performance creditials, i.e. a world premeire performance, masterclasses, etc.
Pit Orchestra
Youth Organization of Chinese Americans + Chinese School: first graduating class, Outstanding Chinese American High School Student Grand Prize Award ($100), regional school awards
Youth and Govt (2 years)</p>

<p>Honors:
NYS Science Honor Society
German Honor Society
National Honor Society</p>

<p>Other Achievements:
Golden Apple Community Service Award
Publication in an university magazine
Part of JHU's Study for Exceptional Talent
Outbound Ambassador Scholarship, Experiment in International Living (2005)</p>

<p>Sports:
JV Tennis- Team Spirit and Sportmanship Awards</p>

<p>Location: upper middle class suburb, NY
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: F</p>

<p>Hopeful for these schools (in order):
Harvard, Yale, UPenn, JHU </p>

<p>What do you think my chances are? and any suggestions for other schools to look at? areas of resume to improve/emphasize? Thanks!</p>

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<p>JHU and UPenn are matches, Harvard and Yale are reaches (but they are for anybody). Your resume is very impressive, but there's nothing to distinguish you from the thousands of asians who are going to apply to the same schools. Believe me, I'm one of them :). From what I can gather from reading alot of the threads on this board, the essays are important in making you stand out. Hope this helps!</p>

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<p>Assuming you have no alumni relations at Harvard, apply early to Yale. Yale accepts a much higher percentage early, and you can still apply regular to Harvard if you get in (Harvard regular accepts almost the same percentage as EA, so it's not much of a disadvantage.)</p>

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<p>By UPenn, I meant specifically Wharton.
Does that change my chances?</p>

<p>thanks :-)</p>

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<p>try the Florida Virtual School course for AP Macro (i think they might even offer AP micro, but I may be mistaken...).</p>

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<p>There are 1000s of other Asians just like you</p>

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<p>i agree w/ irbis. being asian sucks when getting into college. you'll have to be wayy above most asians to get in =[ and most have the perfect GPA and sat scores and still don't get in.</p>

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<p>bump......</p>

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<p>Penn, especially Wharton, is not a match.</p>

<p>Good shot at JHU though. Good luck.</p>

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<p>good gpa! bad sat iis. You are basically the average applicant I guess.
I know I have no chance at those schools. although I will have 3 800s in sat iics and I think I will get get 2350+, my gpa is junk. only 4.42</p>

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<p>Your GPA is relative to your school. You can't talk about weighted GPAs out of context. Course loads and grades are a better indicator.</p>

<p>Essays are the key.</p>

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<p>An A+ in an AP course is a 5.3 at my school. Our Valedictorian has a 5.2, and I was 3rd in the class as of the beginning of this school year</p>