my chances at hyp, various lac's, etc? thanks! :D

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>pleeease tell me if i have a chance at any of the schools i'm applying to! THANKS :D:D</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA- 3.99 (all A's, minus one B for a semester in econ)
Weighted GPA- 4.35
Rank- 10 out of 1251 (large public school- only juniors and seniors)
SAT I- 800 M, 760 V
SAT II- 790 Writing, 800 Math IIC, 740 Spanish
AP- 5 English, 5 US History, 4 Spanish, 4 World History, taking 6 more exams this year
IB- 7 Economics SL, 5 Physics SL, taking Calc HL, English HL, Spanish HL, and Comp Sci SL this year</p>

<p>ECs- </p>

<p>Music:
Marching band (9-12), section leader in drumline (pit captain 10, 12)- Best Percussion at several marching & drumline contests
Band historian & Band Council(10)
Clarinet (9-12)- superior ratings at solo contest (9-12), All-Region (9-12), All-Area and TX All-State, 1st alternate (11)
Jazz Band- lead pianist (9-10)
Judge for online singing competitions (11)</p>

<p>School-related activities:
Speech & Debate team (9, 10, 12)- Special Distinctions standings in NFL (National Forensics League)
National Honor Society (9-12), Freshman Representative (9), President (10)
Whiz Quiz (9-10), qualified for nationals (10)
Spanish Club (9-12), Secretary (10)</p>

<p>Religious activities:
Church choir (9-12), youth group (9-12)
Sunday school teacher (11-12)</p>

<p>Volunteer / work:
mentoring at elementary school (11-12)
summer tutoring (9-12)- individual tutoring sessions with elementary/middle school students in writing, reading, and math
worked at AIDS help center (9)</p>

<p>Other Awards:
Pan-American Student Forum- Spanish awards for Reading and Grammar, state-level (9-10)
Texas Instruments- Korean American Math and English Contest- 1st place (10)
Dallas Korean-American Scholar Award (10)
Most Improved Award for Band (9)</p>

<p>possible majors: music, english, east asian studies, international studies.</p>

<p>applying to:
harvard EA
yale
princeton
stanford
duke
northwestern
amherst
williams
wash. u @ st. louis
UT Austin (Plan II Honors)</p>

<p>i know, i only have one safety (UT), but that's fine for me cuz i'm automatically in (10% rule in Texas) and i wouldn't mind going there. do i have a decent chance at the other colleges i'm applying to though? thanks!!</p>

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<p>anyone? thank you!</p>

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<p>please help me!! i beseech you! lol... :P</p>

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<p>except for HYP which are reaches for everyone, I'd say you're in at every other school. Stop worrying and try to relax. Senior year is meant to be fun.</p>

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<p>haha, thanks for the advice. i tend to freak out over everything, though, so relaxing completely probably won't happen.</p>

<p>hmmm ya really think i'm in at stanford and duke? my first choice is harvard, but my second is northwestern, so as long as i get accepted to northwestern, i guess the others don't matter. anyways, THANKS for your reply! you're the only person who replied, out of the many who came here, thought (omg, what a loser. NOT commenting.), and left. so thanks!! :D</p>

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<p>I think you're fine at Northwestern, and who knows, maybe the Harvard gods will be kind.</p>

<p>But what, pray tell, is an online signing competition?</p>

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<p>hahaha... okay well, i participate in an online singing forum, where amateur (and sometimes professional) artists post their music either just to share or for comments/critiques from other singers. we held a competition last year called "Soompi Idol", which was kind of like american idols. each competitor (we had 32 to start) would submit a clip for each round, and since i was the judge, i would write up critiques for each song, and i also helped pick themes for each round. i dunno if college adcoms would care about that, really, but i didn't include it in my application (except for a small line under "miscellaneous musical activities"). hope that answered your question!</p>

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<p>here's the rubric i used for other chances post and the rubric's explanation:</p>

<p>i read from somewhere that harvard uses a 1-5 scale (where 1 is the highest) to rate personal, academic, and extracurricular factors while princeton uses i think the 1-6 scale (or it may be 1-9), where 1 is also the highest. </p>

<p>an academic rating of one (which is rarely awarded) describes an applicant who achieved a 1500 or greater on the SAT, who is ranked #1 or 2 in the class, who has taken the most rigorous courseload, and who achieved scores of 800 on three SAT IIs, and scores of 5 on 5 or more AP exams (and/or, if applicable, the highest scores on at least 3 IB HL level exams). an extracurricular rating of one requires national recognition in something such as siemens, intel and the like. a personal rating of one is based on the student's contributions to the community and on the teacher recommendations (whether it says "best in teaching career" or best in so so years). if you care to average the academic, extracurricular and personal ratings, most admitted students will land a 2...in borderline cases even a 3. note that membership to many different clubs will get an applicant only a 4 but state or local recognition (depending on how prestigious it is), will get him/her a 2 or 3. being school president is a 3, which is the equivalent to being president of three clubs.</p>

<p>your ratings:
academic rating: 2
extracurricular rating: 2 or 3
personal rating: little or no basis for judgment</p>

<p>what ratings would you assign yourself, since you know yourself better than anyone else does?</p>

<p>fyi, i just copied the exact same post from what i posted on other threads and revised the ratings to asses your chances accordingly.</p>

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<p>thanks, angryschauzer!!!</p>

<p>btw, where did you read about the scales that various schools use? do you remember? if ya do, please share!</p>

<p>thanks again!</p>

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<p>hmm... angryschnauzer, if colleges count how many officer positions you have had, should i list ALL of my club activities? even if i've only been in it for one or two years?</p>

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<p>there's no set cutoff (3 is just the estimate...they say three because the typical applicant who is an officer in a given club doesn't do much anyway but being president of the student body is a different matter)...judging is really subjective so your rating might go up and down based on your depth of involvement in the clubs you have. "A is for admission" by michelle hernandez talks about the scale that dartmouth uses and "the truth about harvard" by dov fox talks about the scale harvard uses. as i've mentioned in other threads, my description of the scale might not entirely be accurate but it's reasonably accurate (based on the info in the books i talked about).</p>

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<p>ah, okay... thanks for the info, angryshnauzer!!! :D</p>

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<p>Don't count yourself out anywhere. I think you have a chance at all the schools..</p>

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<p>Thanks, Zuma! :)</p>

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<p>anyone else? please help! thanks :)</p>