Hi. I'm applying for college.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I want to say thanks for reading in advance</p>

<p>Alrighty, haven't been here very long, but thought I'd give it a try anyway</p>

<p>I'm from New York, and I'm a junior, and I'm Asian.</p>

<p>SATS: 2300 - 700 CR 800 Math 800 Writing (11 essay, 80/80), will prob retake for better CR
PSATS: 218 last year, only 210 this year, unfortunately
SAT2's:
770 Bio
750 Chem
740 World History
740 Math 1C
(Shouldn't have taken those last three on one day :/)</p>

<p>Will Take: Math 2c, Physics (Good chance of 800 on both I think)</p>

<p>ACT: Will take it later</p>

<p>AP's:
5 on World History
5 on European History
Took AP Language, US History, and Physics B. I'll assume I have a good chance of 5 on each, with at least 4</p>

<p>Taking Micro, US gov, Psych, Lit, Spanish, Phys C, and Calc BC next year</p>

<p>GPA is 99.5/100. We don't have class rankings.. but we have around 600 people. All honor/AP classes. Our school's grading system has A+ as highest, then A, then B+. Gotten A+ all except for maybe 5 A's (we have 9 periods a day)</p>

<p>Extra Curricular Stuffs:</p>

<p>Science Olympiads for 2 years
Math Olympiads/ Mathletes 3 years, very possible officer position next year
- First in county as 9th grader, got some type of gold medal this year
Won a Silver medal at a county math fair
Worked several weeks for two summers at a pension company, doing accounting stuff
Volunteered at a hospital, doing some research stuff
National Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society, National Merit Commendation, etc. And if it matters, I did CTY for a year
Published some stuff in school's literary magazine, and am trying to write some stuff for the newspaper
Cross Country, Winter Track, and Spring track for 3 years (and swimming + track/XC in middle school)
Unfortunately I'm not too naturally athletic, but I have a shot of getting All county in Cross Country, as well as a captain position on the team. I might write about my experiences on the team for my college essays... I've improved greatly; my coach has called me his most improved runner ever in his 15 or so years of coaching.</p>

<p>I plan on volunteering at a camp this summer, and will try to do some research, hopefully to enter a big competition, along with training for Cross Country. My friends and I are arranging to make a tutoring club at our school.</p>

<p>Hobbies (If you care)
I founded a forum for gaming/social stuff. It's not that active as of now, but we've had it for around 4 years with 150,000+ posts and probably over 500 people have joined throughout the years.
I have played the cello for 8 years or so, unfortunately I'm not that great
I know a bit of guitar, and I've been doing that for fun</p>

<p>Hm, not sure what else to add, but I want to go to....
Yale
Duke
Dartmouth
UPenn</p>

<p>I'm sure there are tons of good schools for meout there, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, including safety schools</p>

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<p>I figured I'd bump this</p>

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<p>You've definitely got a good chance (as good as anyone does for the Ivys!).
Don't worry about your SAT2 scores--you're in the range where it definitely shows that you know what you're doing and 20 points either way shouldn't matter much. Those are great scores! Be proud. :) Your GPA is excellent as well.</p>

<p>Could you give us a better idea of what you're looking for in school (besides good academics, of course)? It's easier to suggest more target/safety schools that way. Here are some questions:
What do you want to major in? Which subjects do you plan to take the most classes in?
What activities would you like to participate in?
How about location-- Urban/suburban/rural? What area of the country are you looking at?
What size school are you looking for? Do you care about class size?</p>

<p>Things like that would help. You actually do have some good public schools in New York you could think about for safeties. I know about Binghampton and Geneseo and I'm sure there are a few others up there.
If you want a college guidebook that give great descriptions of schools, I suggest The Fiske's Guide.</p>

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<p>Hey thanks a lot for that</p>

<p>To be honest I'm not sure what my major should be. I'm thinking I want to do something business related one day, possibly politics, or writing, maybe even movie making. Whatever the case, I'm fairly sure I want to stay away from Biology/Chemistry and such sciences
As for activites, I'm not so sure what you mean, but I'm sure I'll find something nice to do in any school, I kind of jsut want to get it over with now. I plan on visitng a lot of colleges, and that urban/suburban, class size, etc probably won't play too much of a role in my decision, but I may want to stay on the east coast.</p>

<p>As for safeties, those are defeinetely some choices, but I would ideally try to go somewhere pretty well known. I guess going to the ivy league schools have just been something drilled in my mind for many years now.</p>

<p>And I'll check out that guide, thanks again.</p>

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<p>hope no one minds if I bump this again</p>

<p>Anyway from yesterday, I was relaly inspired to just go and save the wrold, really. If I can be a msuciain, a writer, a politician, a businessman, a professional athlete, whatever would be great if I could just get my ideas out there and be able to make a change in the world.</p>

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<p>Your SAT score is great and you have some great SAT II's. You really don't need to take the ACT. (Unless you are expecting a 36, which would be fun to get.) Have you had a PLAN or a practice ACT? If the ACT maps to a score similar to your SAT score, I think the ACT doesn't really add anything to your application.</p>

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<p>To be totally honest I'm just competitive so I want to get a decent ACT score for bragging rights haha, not sure what a PLAN is though</p>

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<p>The PLAN is to the ACT like the PSAT is to the SAT. You take it a year earlier and your GC could use it to predict your ACT score.</p>