How will I fare?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi, I am an Asian male living in Maryland and would love to attend Upenn. If not, colleges like cornell, brown, columbia, and georgetown are still wonderful.</p>

<p>Grades: 3.74 unweighted GPA (grades by semester) Overall improvement!</p>

<p>7th grade:
Algebra 1: B/A
Spanish 1: B/B</p>

<p>8th grade:
Honors Geometry: B/B
Spanish 2: B/B</p>

<p>9th grade:
Honors English 9: A/A
Honors Chemistry: B/A
Honors Algebra 2: B/A
Honors U.S history: A/B
Spanish 3: B/B
P.E: A/A
Orchestra: A/A</p>

<p>10th grade:
Honors English 10: A/A
AP NSL Government: A/A
Honors Physics: A/A
Honors Biology: A/A
Honors Symphony Orchestra: A/A
Honors Precalculus: A/B
Spanish 4: A/B</p>

<p>11th grade:
AP English Language & Composition: A/A
AP Biology (double period): A/A
AP BC Calculus: A/A
AP World History: A/A
Honors Spanish 5: A/A
Honors Symphony Orchestra: A/A</p>

<p>12th grade: Will get all A's easily.
AP Psychology
AP Literature
AP Spanish
AP Environmental Science
Honors Symphony Orcestra
Multivariable Calculus
Computer Maintenance (mandatory)</p>

<p>In school: Debate Team (2 years), Medical masterminds (2 years, officer for 1 year), Science National Honor Society (2 years fund raising committee chariman), National English Honor Society (2 years, 1 year as Vice President)</p>

<p>EC: Volunteered at the library, nursing home, summer camp, and teen court for 300+ hours, played violin for 9yrs and viola for 3 years and played these instruments in various outside groups for 3 years, active in a student produced and run Asian Community outreach magazine/organization for 2 years to address Asian problems and foster creativity and leadership in a community where it is severely lacking (public relations and co manager), wrote as a student reporter for a local korean newspaper (2 years)</p>

<p>PSAT: 80 maths, 76 CR, 80 writing
SAT I: 800 maths, 800 CR, 770 writing (12 essay)
SAT II: 780 maths IIc, 780 literature, 780 Biology</p>

<p>Awards: National Merit Scholarship Finalist, 1st place maryland state music teacher's association award for Viola, won a writing contest.</p>

<p>Very good recommendations: Spanish teacher addresses past shortcomings in Spanish (those B's) and English teacher expounds upon my stylistic maturity, growth, and intelligence.</p>

<p>Essay on: How my volunteering changed my life and prompted me to make better use of my opprtunity which led to becoming a better person and how obesity for the better part of my life did not allow me to participate in sports until I recently lost 50 lbs through sheer determination which indicates favorable qualities.</p>

<p>I have visited the colleges as well to express my interest and would like to study law.</p>

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<p>Browsed around on the forums and am now severely depressed...</p>

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<p>Don't trust these forums at all.</p>

<p>I have a friend who posted on here about Yale ED, she's a 3.6 and a 1960 SAT 1. She got a ''BIGTIME REACH''.</p>

<p>Guess what, she got into ED yale last week, GG.</p>

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<p>Well, colleges look for leadership above all else, so she proabably was a great leader who cured AIDS</p>

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<p>Urgh I hate trolls...</p>

<p>Look at your stats. 3.74 GPA, 2370 SAT, and awesome ECs. Match for all. Now stop complaining and go enjoy christmas eve.</p>

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<p>I don't celebrate Christmas...</p>

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<p>@Beejay: You are not telling us enough with that anecdote. With no further elaboration except the given grades and test scores, I am dubious of your claim.</p>

<p>Most of all, you are giving others false hope.</p>

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<p>i think its pretty funny that you're calling those other schools "still wonderful' when they are some of the top schools in the nation.</p>

<p>with your sat score, you know you'll at least get in to one of them!</p>

<p>also nothing before 9th grade counts.</p>

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<p>That's ********, because it's people like you who make it seem like getting into ivy league is impossible.</p>

<p>She had decent essays, she plays the piano, and her sister went to Yale 7 years ago. That's about it.</p>

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<p>Nothing I said was ********.</p>

<p>Every time, there is a reason that an applicant gets admitted; that person had something that the colleges want.</p>

<p>I have yet to see a person with low SAT and/ or GPA get into Yale without affirmative action, legacy, athlete, low income status, first generation to college status, unusual circumstances, elite private high school (accounts for low GPA), preferential candidate, geographical diversity, or some other obvious hook.</p>

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<p>your profile looks good. given that, it will depend on your letter of recs. your 3.74 gpa looks kind of low but it will come down to your actual class rank. best of luck.</p>

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<p>My school does not rank, but it is among the top 50 public high schools. Also, all of my B's were in 9th grade and below, so will my current 4.0 status carry any weight when they look at my low GPA?</p>

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<p>woof (anyone here like dogs?)</p>

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<p>
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I have yet to see a person with low SAT and/ or GPA get into Yale without affirmative action, legacy, athlete, low income status, first generation to college status, unusual circumstances, elite private high school (accounts for low GPA), preferential candidate, geographical diversity, or some other obvious hook.

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That's sort of pointless to say. You are not an admissions officer for Yale so what you are saying does not carry much weight as you have not reviewed all the profiles of past accepted students.</p>

<p>To the original poster: You have a very strong profile and you have done the all that you can to put yourself in a good position. All you need now is luck!</p>

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<p>Whuts up with this post/view discrepancy?</p>