HYPSM Chances!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey, I've been here for a while, but haven't chanced myself yet, so....</p>

<p>Stats...
Asian | Female | Bay Area
GPA Unweighted: 4.0
GPA Weighted: 4.636
Class Rank: 1/306</p>

<p>Academic Scores
-SAT Score
-Writing: 790
-Math: 800
-Critical Reading: 800
Total: 2390</p>

<p>Subject Tests
Math II: 800
Physics: 800
Chemistry: 800</p>

<p>AP Tests
-Computer Science AB: 5
-Chemistry: 5
-Calc BC: 5
-Art History: 5
-English Language: 5
-Physics M: 5
-Physics E/M: 5</p>

<p>Academic Honors:
-National Science Bowl: 9th place Junior Year
-Regional Science Bowl: 1st place Junior Year
-Regional Science Bowl: 3rd place Soph Year
-Northern California Regional Otter Bowl: 2nd place Junior Year
-Northern California Regional Otter Bowl: 4th place Soph Year
-BASIC Wondercup Challenge: 1st place Junior Year
-National Science League Earth Science Contest: 6th place Freshman Year
-Qualified for AIME: 9,10,11
-California Scholarship Federation Member: 10,11,12
-National Merit Semifinalist (Finalist status pending)
-AP Scholar with Distinction
-Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition </p>

<p>ECs:
-Math Club 9-12/President 11-12
-Science Club 10-12/President 11-12
-Chemistry Club 10-12/President 12
-Science Bowl 10-12
-Otter Bowl 10-12
-East Bay Mathletes 9-12
-ERA Club 10-12
-Building with Books: 9
-Piano: 12 years
-Passed Grade 8 of Associated Board of the Royal School of Music Piano<br>
Exam with Merit
-Pass Grade 5 of Associated Board of the Royal School of Music Theory
Exam with Distinction
-Volunteering at hospital: 100 hrs</p>

<p>Work Experience:
-Private Tutor 9-12 | 5 hr/wk
-Teacher's Aide 11-12 | 4 hr/wk
-Summer Internship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 11 | 45 hr/wk</p>

<p>Schools I'm applying to:
-MIT (Early Action)
-Caltech (Early Action)
-Yale
-Harvard
-Princeton
-Stanford
-Johns Hopkins
-Penn
-Columbia
-UCs (Berkeley, LA, SD, SB, Davis)</p>

<p>Chance me please!!!!!</p>

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<p>Haha, I don't like to get people's hopes up...but seriously! I would be the MOST surprised if you didn't get accepted into:</p>

<ul>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>the UC's</li>
</ul>

<p>Can't say about the Ivy's. I think they play a dart game up there XD I have no idea...</p>

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<p>I would be surprised if you did not get into at least 1 Ivy. I'm sure you know this.</p>

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<p>I'm a rather conservative person when it comes to chancing </p>

<p>-MIT (Early Action): High Reach
-Caltech (Early Action): Really high reach
-Yale: Not rich enough... (live in East Bay?)
-Harvard: Not well rounded (don't see any .. real ECs)
-Princeton: You're not white.....
-Stanford: No chance
-Johns Hopkins: In
-Penn: Low Reach
-Columbia: Reach
-UCs (Berkeley, LA, SD, SB, Davis)
-Berkeley:Too many asians
-LA: Too many asians
-SD: Too many....
-SB: Huh?
-Davis: Not dumb enough</p>

<p>Have you ever considered UC Merced or UC Riverside?</p>

<p>Btw
The above is just a rough estimate...</p>

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<p>Why is Caltech higher than MIT?</p>

<p>I know that MIT is more tended towards girls, but...still, isn't Caltech easier?</p>

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<p>CalTech isn't easier, MIT is just less scores-based.</p>

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<p>hahahaha, i have never seen a more ridiculous post than the one by ihaztehgpa above. this poster has a 2390 SAT score, 2400 SATiis, solid EC's (kind of stereotypical, but still solid), 4.0 UW, AND valedictorian.<br>
I would bet that this app gets into at least 2 out of hypsm.</p>

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<p>bump (10 char)</p>

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<p>Obviously yours scores and class rank are good, so in for all the non-ivy's IMO.</p>

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<p>-MIT (Early Action) - Have you built a fully functional battle robot by the age of 7? High reach</p>

<p>-Caltech (Early Action) - This one's easy... oh wait, you're a girl... Uber reach</p>

<p>-Yale - Publish a poem and maybe. But for now high reach.</p>

<p>-Harvard - Publish a 17 line Haiku and you'll be Reach.</p>

<p>-Princeton - only if you apply for the major: I used your prep books and got 5/800/2400</p>

<p>-Stanford - Reach, but you don't want to go here. They use doric columns. Ewww right?</p>

<p>-Johns Hopkins - Where is this I don't even...</p>

<p>-Penn - If Wharton, high reach; if not wharton low reach.</p>

<p>-Columbia - No.</p>

<p>-UCs
Berkeley - Match, but if you go here, your rank will decrease by ½xt², where x is 9006 and t is time(sec)</p>

<p>LA - Same as Berkeley, but x is 9002.2342</p>

<p>SD - I think this is in Mexico. You have neither a 5 on AP spanish nor a 800 on the Spanish SAT II; high reach if you're lucky.</p>

<p>SB - Don't go here, I'm aiming for rank 1-2 here and don't want pro people like you to mess it up =(</p>

<p>Davis - Sorry, but your stats don't meet their requirements. You overshot your gpa by about 2 points and your SAT I by 500 points. Retake your SAT I reading section and try to get at most 300 points. If you don't do anything, then good luck...</p>

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<p>^^^^^agreed</p>

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<p>^ lol.</p>

<p>here's a haiku :D</p>

<p>haikus are so cool
but sometimes they make no sense
refrigerator</p>

<p>lol. You did Royal School of Music. You should try for the Grade 10 hahaha. O_o</p>

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<p>^^^I did the British Royal School of Music, not the Canadian one. The British one only has 8 grades.</p>

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<p>o rly?</p>

<p>ha. I just got the Islamey sheet music. watch me fail (lol).
for your grade 8, what general level of difficulty are you expected to play? Like Liszt Transcendental Etudes (minus no. 5 lol)?</p>

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<p>No, nothing like that lol. I took it 3 years ago, so I really can't remember...the playing part was pretty easy, but I just fail miserably at aural.</p>

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<p>In for most and please don't apply to Davis, San Diego, you're just going to hurt my chances, people like us need education to you know. I tried hard not to do well or to bad to get into San Diego, in fact I tailored myself to look like the typical San Diego student.</p>

<p>-~~ just worried me. Now I'm going to learn Spanish, eat tacos all day and get a really dark suntan. Oh and I can only dream of getting into UCLA, seriously I dream it everyday, when I wake up I punch myself for being so delusional.</p>

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<p>BTW where can I learn piano? (for beginners) and what electronic or acoustic piano should I invest in? (for beginners)</p>

<p>I don't mind playing classical as long it's... for beginners (obviously).</p>

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<p>bump ....:P</p>

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<p>wow....you are definitely in at 3-4/5 of HYPSM...great stats+aime+leadership in clubs= acceptance :D</p>

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<p>If you were Latino or Native American then I'd say you're in at all of them but besides that, your stats look pretty solid in terms of science so I have no doubt in my mind colleges will appreciate your dedication to one area. gl</p>