Junior Looking at Yale, Columbia, Brown, P-ton

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I am currently a high school junior. Just looking to see how I stand at Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Brown, Berkeley, UCLA, and USC. Any suggestions would be awesome. Everyone has a chance at these schools, i just want to know what I can do right now to improve.</p>

<p>Asian Male, CA, Competitive Public</p>

<p>ACADEMICS</p>

<p>SAT: 2310 (M:770 W:770 CR:770)
SAT II: Not taken. Expect 770ish+ for Bio, USHist, Math IIC</p>

<p>GPA: 3.95 UW. Toughest courseload esp with science. Media arts, cancer research, and computer programming electives</p>

<p>APs: So far just AP Euro (5). But I am taking US, Bio, English, Comp Sci A this yr</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULARS</p>

<p>Narrative and Documentary Filmmaking (Director, Editor, Screenwriter, Actor)
- Intense workload and time commitment
- Film screenings at some small venues and theaters in the community
- Just recently started doing local film fests with good sucess</p>

<p>The Film Club (Co-Founder, Co-President) 11-12
- Screenings, discussions, criticism
- Tried to do a broad encompassing of film history
- Kurosawa, Kubrick, Fellini, Welles, but the standard modern American Tarantino, Coens, Spielberg, etc</p>

<p>Biomedical Research Internships (2 summers)
- Worked with a major research center on DNA methylation, paid internship</p>

<p>Cancer Research Institute
- President, Presentation Speaker</p>

<p>Boy Scouts
- Eagle Scout
- Senior Patrol Leader, ASPL, PL
- World Conservation Award</p>

<p>Venture Crew
- President, Treasurer</p>

<p>Water Polo and Swimming
- Nationally ranked HS teams</p>

<p>EMPLOYMENT
- Self-employed as a filmmaker. I make videos of weddings, graduations, concerts, etc
- Also work as a tutor teaching biology and chemistry</p>

<p>Took two Community College classes on Film History and theory. Good stuff.</p>

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<p>You have a high GPA, SATs, and impressive ECs. I would say...</p>

<p>Yale: 70%
Columbia: 80%
Princeton: 70%
Brown: 85%
Berkeley: 99%
UCLA: 99%
USC: 99%</p>

<p>What you could do to improve? Not much. Make sure your essays are really good, get them read by several different people, and make sure your recs are really good (i.e. if you haven't been talking to teachers, start talking and building good relationships).</p>

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<p>If your essay is good, IMO, I think every school would accept you.</p>

<p>Edit: Oh, dude and to improve, really nothing. Your a crazy guy. Just make sure you get enough time to relax and half fun.</p>

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<p>Yeah, you're a very solid applicant.</p>

<p>Just keep in mind that these sorts of schools get apps from many AAs; if you're rejected it won't have much to do with you.</p>

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<p>Yeah... a lot of it is luck and a lot of various factors are put into it.</p>

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<p>whoa 70% at yale that is rediculous. Number is more around 30-40%, but still , you are a very solid applicant.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I think the most important thing to do is to really emphasize my filmmaking. I'm going to try and keep my grades up (one B so far in HS, junior year) and do well on my SAT IIs. Work on making a successful international festival-caliber film.</p>

<p>I also applied to TASP. I hope I can get in there.</p>

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<p>Wow, film isn't something that you see too often here. Fantastic academics. You've got a better shot than most at these schools.</p>

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<p>btw, does anyone know of any extra film extracurriculars or national/international/statewide (im CA) festivals I could take part in?</p>

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<p>
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whoa 70% at yale that is rediculous. Number is more around 30-40%, but still , you are a very solid applicant.

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yale's more like 60. as long as you have good gpa, rank, and test scores, you'll probably get in. princeton on the other hand.... defidently not a 70%. kid who got 4.0 unweighted, 2380 on sat's, 800 on 2c, 750 on bio and chem got deferred early action for princeton so i'd say more like... 40% for princeton.</p>

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<p>Hmm, I've heard Yale is the most selective of all schools. Especially now that it is the only one left with SCEA out of HYP.</p>

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<p>"i just want to know what I can do right now to improve."</p>

<p>I would say if your films are competitive enough, try making it to international film fests that they have. THAT will be impressive</p>

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<p>Any publications with your research?</p>

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<p>Your last name has to be Bush to have a 70% chance at Y and P.</p>

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<p>I'd love to see some of your films i'm thinking of potentially majoring in film as well are they posted online</p>

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<p>No publications of research, and no online hosting for films (I have dial-up lol)</p>

<p>btw snake, where did you apply?</p>

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<p>hmm.
its weird.
Toughest courseload esp with science. Media arts, cancer research, and computer programming electives
^ kinda all over the place.
science, film, cancer research?</p>

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<p>^^not really, science is related to cancer research, and maybe he is also an artistic kid. Its ok to have 2 passions, as long as both are pursued actively. It's not that wierd to like science and film....
And film tends to be a more technical/computer related art anyways, as opposed to painting or drawing </p>

<p>I think you have a very good shot. I also think film should be stresed more not only because its a relatively unique interest, but also because I doubt there are as many Asian males interested in film as there are Asian males interested in science. Might help you a little bit there, and you never know with what everyone is saying about the ethnicity issue.</p>

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<p>Well at my school we can take a few electives that don't take much time but show on ur transcript.</p>

<p>eg. My schedule right now is
AP Computer Science A
AP Biology
AP American
AP English
Honors PreCalc
Advanced Media Arts
Honors Physics
Aquatics
Cancer Institute</p>

<p>Aquatics is in the morning. Media Arts is an independent project. And cancer meets once a week. Still get a little credit and shows on transcript.</p>

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<p>you're a junior right?
I have a reccomendation for you
IDK how you feel about history, but National History Day is a highly recognized competition. You pick a topic that correlates to the year's theme and do either a paper, exhibit, performance, or documentary on it. It's extremely intense: lots of research, musuem visits, national archives, interviews (with witnesses to your topic, experts, college professors, authors on your topic, etc.).
You first participate in the regional comp, then if you get 1st or 2nd there you move on to your state comp, and 1st or 2nd there moves you to nationals in D.C. If you are interested in participating you have to get n touch with your regional and/or state coordinator(s).<br>
If you do a documentary and get to nationals, in addtion to competing to win a place, you're also competing to win $5,000 from the History Channel. There are a few scholarship prizes and stuff too.</p>

<p>It takes a lot of work though, so idk if you'll be willing to do it senior year with all the stuff going on. perhaps you can do most of your work during the summer?</p>

<p><a href="http://www.nhd.org%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.nhd.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>