<p>Attended pretty good school in a wealthy county in maryland.
Half chinese, half white.
Incoming senior.
GPA UW: 3.7/4
GPA W: 4.45</p>
<p>SAT:710 Math, 690 Critical Reading</p>
<p>All classes were APs, GTs, and Honors (GT being higher than Honors)
One of the most rigorus schedules in my class</p>
<p>Senior schedule, All APs</p>
<p>EC's
Debate Team(4)(captain)
National Honors Socitey(2)
DECA(3)(Treasury)
AP Scholars(4)
Chinese Tutoring(2)</p>
<p>Summer from freshman to Sophmore year, i visited china by myself for about 2 months and studied the chinese language at a university.</p>
<p>Looking to Major in Finance or Political Science</p>
<p>Schools im looking at: I know, too many
Georgetown
UVA
Maryland
Berkeley
U Chicago
Northwestern
Rice
Hopkins
Cornell
Emory
Carnegie Mellon
UCLA
North Carolina
Michican</p>
<p>Umm you’re good at UNC, Mich, UCLA, Maryland with a rigorous course schedule and 1400 SATs. Not sure about the rest because you don’t have a ton of ECs, also poly sci is a pretty popular major so you’ll be competing with some tough candidates. With that said, The chinese thing is very impressive – schools are also looking for intellectual diversity if you know what I mean. Good luck!!!</p>
<p>You have kind of a long list and not much to go off of besides SAT and GPA. Why no SAT Writing section? Also, remember you will need 2 subject tests for most of those schools (3 for Georgetown). I’m anticipating people will say that your EC’s aren’t good but I have found is that they have to be either really good or nonexistent to have any more than a modest effect.</p>
<p>Georgetown - Reach
UVA - Reach (would be match but they seem to prefer in-state)
Maryland - Safety
Berkeley - Reach (they are more open to OOS now)
U Chicago - Reach
Northwestern - Reach
Rice - Reach
Hopkins - Reach
Cornell - Reach
Emory - Reach
Carnegie Mellon - Low Reach for Poli Sci, High Reach if Finance is at Tepper
UCLA - See Berkeley
North Carolina - Reach (Chapel Hill I’m assuming)
Michican - Match</p>
<p>Note when I say reach, I don’t mean I don’t think you’ll get in. In mean you have between a 1/5 and 1/3 chance. I wouldn’t say any of those are impossible, but I wouldn’t say they are likely. If you want to shrink the list I recommend removing schools that are geographically isolated from the others unless there is a specific reason to keep them (eg. Rice) just to make visiting easier and less of an expense.</p>
<p>For the EC’s I also run indoor track for 3 years and played lacrosse at one othe the top public lacrosse high schools in the state for 1 year. My HS Rank in the top 10% in a class of 300. I have Great reccemendations and spent a ton of time on the essay and got many people to revise/ help with the essay.</p>
<p>If you don’t mind me asking. What was your score on the writing portion of the SAT?</p>
<p>PS To go to Georgetown University you have to take 3 SAT II Subject tests, so technically your chances currently for Georgetown, UC Berkeley, and UCLA (maybe more) are at 0%</p>
<p>I got a 650 on the writing part. I also have taken the subject tests, and have gotten at least 700 on all of them.</p>