LAST chance thread before I submit app! SEAS, chances?

<p>Applying to SEAS (FU :) )
Pretty competitive school, usually send 2-3 to HYPSM, 8-9 more to Ivies and 10 more to other top schools</p>

<p>So far for our grade, 2 kids have gotten into Brown, 1 Columbia, 1 Cornell, 1 Duke, 2 Chicago as far I know (probably more)</p>

<p>Race: Indian Male</p>

<p>GPA<a href="Weighted,%20school%20doesn't%20calculate%20unweighted">/B</a>: **4.504
Class rank: 20/538 = top 3.7%
Freshman: 4 As 3 Bs
Sophomore: 5 As 2Bs
Junior 6As 1 B
Senior 8 As
-Taking most rigorous curriculum in grade... will graduate with 11 ap exam scores and 9 AP courses
-Taking Quantitative Analysis II<a href="advanced%20chem%20course%20for%20juniors%20and%20seniors">/B</a> at university- achieved highest grade in class, produced research paper (INDEPENDENT research)- **9 hours of class a week
Received highest grade in exams and laboratories in class, ended up with 4.0</p>

<p>-Will take MultiVar Calc second semester</p>

<p>-Vassar Book award, High Honors every quarter of high school, AP Scholar with Distinction, FLHS, NHS, SHS, NSHSS</p>

<p>**AP: **4 Bio, 4 Stat, 5 Calc AB, 5 Calc BC, 5 Chem, 5 Comp, 3 APUSH (lol)</p>

<p>ACT: 34 Comp: 36 M, 34S, 32 R, 33E 10 Essay<a href="got%20%5BB%5D12%20essay%5B/B%5D%20on%20a%20previous%20testing">/B</a>
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Might be 35 **need to wait for December results..(tomorrow)</p>

<p>*SAT 2: 800 Math 2, 780 Chem
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<p>EC<a href="Very%20brief,%20%5BB%5DI%20consider%20this%20by%20far%20the%20strongest%20part%20of%20my%20app%5B/B%5D">/B</a>:
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250+ hours of research in 2 year time period,** produced** 3 research papers*, 1 of them will be submitted for publication (huge time commitment)
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1 of them is INDEPENDENT*- yes, I designed and carried it out by myself
-1800-2000+ hours of table tennis training, practice. Ranked nationally (#32 for 16yr olds), #2 junior in state, won multistate tournaments, club champion, MIT kids team 4th place, pres + founder of club at school </p>

<p>President of TT at Columbia, Stephanie Shih, said I would be able to make A team.</p>

<p>-Sci bowl, B team captain 11th, A team captain 12th. Our team has placed top 10 in states each year and our A team has won states 2 times. HUGE time commitment
-Math Team <a href="A%20team%2011+12,%205%20people%20on%20A%20team,%2050%20on%20B%20team">/B</a>, **3rd highest scoring junior award in league, qualified for states (CSAML), qualified for new englands (NEAML), A team got 1st in league, 3rd in state, 10 in new englands
-VP + co captain of chess team, 10th grade and 11th town champion, our team got 1st place in both years, taught chess to kids over summer at library
-Proctored at state and chapter math counts for 4 years, tutored kids for 3 years
-250+ hours of community service<a href="tutored%20middle%20school%20student%20each%20week%20for%203%20years,%20taught%20chess%20to%20kids%20at%20local%20library%20during%20summer,%20helped%20kids%20conduct%20science%20experiments%20in%20summer%20at%20local%20library,%20helped%20at%20cultural%20events,%20volunteered%20at%20Special%20Ed%20camp">/B</a>
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Selected as High School Campus Leader by Ivy I nsi ders**</p>

<p>Some other minor things...</p>

<p>Recs:
Calc BC teacher- pretty decent<a href="It’s%20good%20stuff%20but%20might%20be%20too%20general">/B</a>
AP Chem Teacher- **Very strong

Guidance Rec: Very strong</p>

<p>Common App Essay:** I think it’s good**
Supplement for Columbia: Very strong, people who were accepted into Columbia ED said it was very good</p>

<p>Thanks for input</p>

<p>hey man,
I think you have a great shot at SEAS. Some of the things you listed, though, I think were pretty “fluffy” and could be left out (like NSHSS, which is a pointless honor that makes you pay lol no offense…and the ivy insiders thing [aren’t they a SAT tutoring class?])</p>

<p>your scores are decent, and I especially like the grade trend (its quite linear lol)</p>

<p>at this point, if your teacher recs are above average, or even average, I would say you have a good chance of getting in.</p>

<p>GL</p>

<p>Only the things under ECs are my extra cirricurlars. The rest I didn’t even put on the app because I am not passionate about them. Thanks for your feedback though. To be honest I think my grades are decent but I think my standardized test scores are pretty good. I mean a 34 is at the 75 percentile and a 780 and 800 are not ba either. Anyone else? Excuse my grammar I’m typing from my iPhone.</p>

<p>haha cool. anyways dudeeee its christmassss relax with the college stuff for the day haha</p>