my chances....

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>i'm a junior currently.</p>

<p>Asian male in CA
unweighted gpa 4.0 / weighted 4.688 (all A's including 1st sem of my junior yr)</p>

<p>SAT I = Math 800 / Reading 690 / Writing 690 / Total = 2180 (maybe retake...)</p>

<p>SAT IIs = Math IIC 800 / Phyiscs 800 / U.S hist. in May...</p>

<p>Class rank = 4 / 400 - 600 (not sure....of total # of stud in my school)</p>

<p>Classes
Soph - AP Euro. Hist (5) / AP Physics B (5) /AP World Hist. (4)
Junior - AP Latin Lit. / AP Comp. Sci A / AP Calc. BC / AP Micro and Macro Econs / AP U.S.History
Senior - AP Gov / AP Biology / AP English / IB Art / (Robotics - not AP)</p>

<p>ECs and awards
Academic team president
Math club officer
Trying to found Science Club...
varsity tennis
various local math awards
award from ARML
USA Math Talent Search (Bronze this yr.)
AMC 114... / AIME around 6
Robotics in my senior yr. (Robotics is open for seniors only in my school)
Research for this summer (i got accepted to Secondary School Training Program at Iowa Univ. for this summer and planning to submit my research into some national sci. fairs in later this year....)
Mu Alpha Theta founder in my school
some membership things such as NHS, NSHSS, etc...</p>

<p>Colleges that I'm looking for:
UCB / UCLA / Stanford / CIT / MIT / Johns Hopkins</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>any actual safetys</p>

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<p>Most of my knowledge is based off of the senior acceptance threads throughout the site. Schools like UCB, MIT, and Stanford are unpredictable with great grades, awards, and ECs. My diagnosis:
UCB - very slight reach
UCLA - match
Stanford - reach
CIT - don't know much about this school
MIT - reach
JHU - very slight reach</p>

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<p>UCB- match
UCLA- match
Johns Hopkins- low reach/match
CIT- reach
MIT- reach
Stanford- higher reach</p>

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<p>i;m knda new here.... what does "reach" mean? does it mean that it's hard for me to get into the college? if it does, how much would my improved SAT score help?</p>

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<p>Reach means thats it's a somehwat tossup like as in they are not sure if its a low reach thats better than a high reach. Your SAT might matter more to some schools than others, for instance at MIT it will matter more than at others. Hope that helps.</p>

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<p>Thanks, sdrawkcabdelleps, that was helpful.
Is there anything that i can do to increase my chances at those "reach" schools? or is it too late? (i know for sure that i'm retaking SAT in the fall)
BTW, i forgot to mention volunteer work at local library (110hrs.)....</p>

<p>thanks in advance</p>