I burn, I pine, I perish, for your views!

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:
*Yale (EA)
*UC Berkeley
*UCLA
*Princeton
*Stanford
*UPenn (not sure about which major, anyone want to suggest a good one?)
*Harvey Mudd</p>

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<p>No one? <em>is sad</em></p>

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<p>I'm guessing no one read "Taming of the Shrew"? I'm as desperate as Lucentio if not more. Help PLEASE.</p>

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<p>I would say a match for any UCs and you have a decent shot at the Ivies on your list. As much as a shot as anyone really; if not slightly higher.</p>

<p>Your class rank could kill you though.</p>

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<p>I can't believe I actually found someone else on this site who likes Oceanography.
Anyway, crazy scores, good awards (how did you get to participate in the biology olympiad/ocean science bowl? I never got opportunities like that, did your school tell you about them?) You're pretty much in except for Yale, Princeton, and Stanford which are reaches for everyone.</p>

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<p>It's all online. Our school doesn't do anything. Just look it up. Maybe I can meet you at next year's competition.</p>

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<p>Perhaps... or maybe at Yale, lol</p>

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<p>Yeah, who knows, maybe we'll both get in. Then we can go join the secret societies. :D</p>

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<p>*Yale (EA) - high reach for everyone, unfortunately
*UC Berkeley- match
*UCLA- low match
*Princeton - high reach
*Stanford - reach
*UPenn - completely depends on which college you apply to...wharton is much more competitive than the other 3
*Harvey Mudd - high match</p>

<p>your credentials are definitely very impressive. your EC's seem to be a bit lacking, but your high gpa/SAT scores should make up for that. good luck! perhaps i will meet both you and ironmetal250 at yale one day :)</p>

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<p>*Yale (EA)-high high reach
*UC Berkeley-good shot, match
*UCLA-match
*Princeton-high reach
*Stanford-reach
*UPenn (not sure about which major, anyone want to suggest a good one?)-reach
*Harvey Mudd-match
I'd say you have a fairly good shot at all of them. With the ivys you never know.</p>

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<p>i'll be like kirk herbstreit on gameday when picking the primetime game here and give you tips: i say write a damn good essay and you'll get into all. the recs are a thing of its own, the grades are in the test is done the jello's in the frige, just wait now and write a damn good compelling essay. </p>

<p>chance me too <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/580544-new-gpa-scores-georgia-tech-i-ll-chance-you-back-i-swear.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/580544-new-gpa-scores-georgia-tech-i-ll-chance-you-back-i-swear.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>