Help please.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Gender: Male
Grade: Rising Senior
Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese)</p>

<p>High School:
Bay Area High School considered pretty good. Sends 70+ to UCB every year.</p>

<p>Financial Aid:
Yes</p>

<p>Stats:
GPA: 4.3 W/3.97 UW
SAT: 2300 (800 Math, 750 CR and Writing)
SAT ii's: Bio-M 790, Math II 800, Chem 800
APs: Biology (5), Stats (5), Chem (5)
Rank: 25/540</p>

<p>Significant Awards:
Biology Olympiad Semifinalist,
Placed one of the top places for National ocean Science Bowl, Silver Medalist in the regional Science Olympiad for Oceanography.
Got ~20th at the State chess competition for 3 years in a row.
Top 100 US Chess players on my age.</p>

<p>Significant ECs:
President/Founder of Chinese Chess Club.
President of the Chess Club (1 years), treasurer year before.
120 hours of volunteering at a chinese school, 60 hours of volunteering at a elementary schol for chess.
Chess Tournament Director, and has directed one tournament for elementary school children.
Yeah, my EC is pretty short.</p>

<p>Work Experience:
Was Chess teacher at 4 different places not including volunteering at the elementary school. (some for 3 years+)
Tutored elementary school students for ~2 year before I was promoted to a teacher at one place.</p>

<p>Programs:
Sophomore year summer, COSMOS at UCDavis.
Junior year summer, researching at USC, hopes to enter Siemens and get that semifinalist (it's only a hope/dream though.)</p>

<p>Misc:
I was never identified as an honors student to start off with so I had to work my way up.</p>

<h2>I am really passionate about helping little kids and chess (My ECs pretty much all do with them)</h2>

<p>Colleges (All RD):
*Yale
*UC Berkeley
*UCLA
*Princeton
*Stanford</p>

<p>Debating on:
JHU
UPenn
Caltech
Anyone got any suggestions, comments? I would love to hear them.</p>

<p>Thank you so much.</p>

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<p>wats ur rating?</p>

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<p>70+ to berkeley? WOW.</p>

<p>show your passion in your essays and your chances will be:</p>

<p>Yale - reach for anyone
UC Berkeley - most likely in.
UCLA - in
Princeton - reach
Stanford - reach
Hopkins would be a low reach for you. Maybe a high target.
UPenn - reach-y. what school are you applying to inside of Penn?
Caltech - i think you'd have to have a paper published in Nature or something, but I'm probably wrong. I'd call this a reach.</p>

<p>your SAT score is AMAZING, so you're in range for all the schools that I called "reaches", but they're reaches because they're....unpredictable. but I think you actually have a very good shot at them, especially with your ECs (which i think are good.)</p>

<p>Good luck!!</p>

<p>you can chance me too, if you'd like.
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/547444-so-here-goes-again-i-changed-my-mind-chance-me.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/547444-so-here-goes-again-i-changed-my-mind-chance-me.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Thanks a lot. :D</p>

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<p><em>bump</em>, anyone else plz?</p>

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<p>I only know about UC's and you're like 99.9% in to UCB and UCLA, just do as pineapple says and write a good essay. Yale's a chance, your stats are very good but there's always a random factor in all admissions, especially the super top tier schools because almost all the applicants are godlike!<br>
On the other hand I had a friend in my computer science class that spun around in his chair all day and was accepted into Yale, so you never know!
Thanks for chancing me btw!</p>

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<p>UC's - in</p>

<p>YPS are so unpredictable, so no one can really say. They're reaches but I think you have a decent chance. You have a lot of depth in your EC's though, other people might have more but i think you really showed your passions. Good luck and thanks for chancing me too, maybe if we're both lucky we'll see each other at Yale =)</p>

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<p>We have similar stats. I think you're in at UCLA and Berkeley but reaches for the other schools (like most competitive applicants).</p>

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<p>thanks guys</p>

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<p>Hm, does anyone else want to try to add to this thread?</p>