If this is what it takes to get in, I'm committed, but please critique!

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thank you so much for taking your time to post a through reply, I am looking at many colleges, and am interested in how my goals fit in with the colleges, I posted the same post on other forums, with MIT, Harvard Stanford Cal-Tech etc…

Great to hear!</p>

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I’ll take your advice on SAT Math 1, SAT 2’s History and Calculus AB. I am aiming for AP State Scholar, and this need as many AP’s as possible, also it will show colleges I am an eager beaver, as I intend to take over 20 by the end of my career, as well as get AP Seimen’s award by next year.

I heard about the AP Seimen’s one. Sounds pregistous because it’s Seimen.
I can’t speak for other IVYs and prestigious U except for Columbia since I applied and was admitted. I only had one AP score. Two SAT 2 and that was it. I thin the admission liked my essay. </p>

<p>I feel bad for you. 7-5 is … well…</p>

<p>So in Jewish school there is no AP classes? </p>

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I will work on Java and C language simultaneously, since they are brothers, and I have some background in both. My ultimate goal is to create an IOS 4 Device Application, and show colleges if only I had a college facility what else I could do. Note that stanford has free online app developer courses.

Sounds like Bill Gates to me, bugging his head in the lab every day when he was at Harvard.</p>

<p>To me you are trying to be impressive. I don’t know if you are a gifted student or not. But I am definitely not, and I probably wouldn’t be able to accomplish this. The reason is because I get frustrated easily. Stress destroyed my senior year. </p>

<p>When you grow up you will see that all these AP scores are so meaningless. When you are in college your subject switches to GPA, GRE, and graduate school. </p>

<p>A few AP and SAT2 self-studies are great. They reflect your eagerness in academic.
Create a IOS 4 application is really cool. You can do a lot of amazing stuff with programming language today. These should be included in your resumes when you apply to colleges.</p>

<p>That’s what MIT, Stanford want to see. Certainly MIT, Stanford, Caltech expect to see exceptional achievement in academic, but the applied part is what determine whether an individual should be admitted or not. </p>

<p>This is true with personal essays. </p>

<p>I just don’t know if you will have enough time to get everything done. Choose those you are really interested in. Remember you still have to work hard in school.</p>

<p>If you are a gifted student then I can be wrong. </p>

<p>I am not trying to abase you. I am stating the fact that there is only 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.</p>