<p>3.86 UW GPA (Upward trend, 3.7, 3.9, then 4.0)
SAT: 800 Math, 750 Verbal, 750 Writing
SAT II: 800 Math, 790 Physics, 750 US History, 750 Writing
AP: 5 World History, 5 Calculus BC, Expecting 5 US History, Expecting 5 Physics B and C, Expecting 5 Macro and Micro Economics
Chess Club
Varsity Tennis
Violin
Piano
Concertmaster of School Orchestra
Academic Bowl (Team Captain)
Knowledge Master (Team Captain)
Principal's Cabinet Member (9th Grade)
Kansas ARML A Team
Captain of Fed Challenge Team (9th Grade)
100 Hours Community Service (Tutoring)
Canada/USA Mathcamp my sophomore year
PROMYS this summer</p>
<p>Academic Bowl High Scorer (At 4 different tournaments)
AMC/AIME/USAMO (10th Grade): 122/9/0
AMC/AIME/USAMO: 132.5/11/10
Fed Challenge Team 3rd Place Regional
Participated in National Guide of Piano for 10 years, received
Top Talent Recognition year 2000-2004.
National Federation of Music Club 45 point Gold Cup Winner (piano
solo) and 30 point Gold Cup Winner (piano concerto).</p>
<p>Asian Male from Kansas</p>
<p>I'm looking for Reaches/Matches/Safeties, I want to major in econ and go into business/finance</p>
<p>How should I use my early applications? My top 2 choices are MIT and Harvard. Harvard restricts me to only 1, but i think that it's EA percentage is higher than MIT's...Do you know which of the schools you named have EA/ED/SCEA? I was thinking maybe I could apply to MIT, Caltech, and some of my safeties/matches which were EA's, and then I could apply to the rest RD. Or I could just apply to Harvard early. What do you guys think about that?</p>
<p>even though you do the average asian thing (tennis, orcheastra, piano) good chance with kansas (geographic diversity=hook)... you should apply EA to several schools... MIT, Caltech, Georgetown, UChicago are good ones.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure the schools sweet like sugar mentioned have no such restrictions; MIT is a match with the USAMO score, you'll just need to be unique in your essays/recs/interview</p>
<p>A match? I've gotten mixed results on this board about how important the USAMO is...Anywayz, I'm relatively sure that MIT is just regular EA and that there are only a few schools that are SCEA (Single Choice EA). Question about the recs though. What do you usually look for in a teacher to see if he/she will write good recs? Do you look for serious ones? English teachers? Ones that know you best? Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Thanks for the info. So what are some other schools I should be looking at? So far i have
HYPSM
Caltech
U Chicago
NYU Stern
Duke
Amherst
All of the Ivies
Wash U
Berkeley
Georgetown</p>
<p>Also, what can I do to improve my chances specifically my chances at MIT or Harvard?</p>
<p>What you should be doing is narrowing your list down.
Figure out what you want from a college besides prestige. Please don't tell me you're applying to all of those schools because you love them--NYU and Dartmouth have little in common.</p>
<p>Meatlovers, the school you're looking for is probably MIT, their econ/business prorgrams are among the best there is. And caltech is pretty much a safety IMHO with above a 0 on the USAMO, but its not automatic of course; I really don't see you getting rejected by them unless something on the application stands out as BAD. CIT loves usamo... at worst its a match</p>
<p>Yea MIT is probably my first choice (or tied for first with Harvard). Are you guys sure caltech is a safety? It's a pretty good school to be a safety...</p>
<p>No, it's not a safety, because like all top schools they don't automatically admit for any reason, its case by case; however, I think you can count on getting in</p>