My Chances?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi, I'm a rising senior. Chance me please and thank you :D</p>

<p>Colleges looking at: Brown, Cal Tech, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Northwestern, Stanford, Wesleyan, Harvey Mudd, NYU, Rice, WashU, UCB, UCSD, and UCD. (I need to narrow my list down, help?)</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese)
Gender: F
School: Competitive public school in CA. Sends many students to top schools
Rank: Top 4%
GPA (UW): 3.97
GPA (W): 4.24 (4.37 if I get all As for first semester Senior) </p>

<p>Courses
Freshman (school doesn't offer honors for frosh): Literature/Writing, Geometry Enriched, Biology, Spanish 1, Electronics, Drama, PE 9
Sophomore: World Lit, World History, Algebra II/Trig, Chemistry H., Spanish 2, Oral Composition, PE Dance.
Junior: American Lit/Writ H., US History, Pre-Calculus H., AP Biology, Physics H., Spanish 3, Lab Assistant
Senior: AP Lit, AP Econ, AP Gov, AP Calc BC, AP Chem, AP Physics, Spanish 4 H.
College courses taken: Psychology, Statistics, Music, maybe also a marine bio /physio class later </p>

<p>SAT: 2350 (770 CR, 800 M, 780 W) This is from two tests. Best single sitting:2290
SAT II: 800 Biology E, 800 Chinese, 800 Math IIC (Will Also take Chem and Physics)
APs: Bio, Chinese, Stats, Psych, English Language (Scores aren't out yet but projected for all to be at least 4s. Bio and Chinese will be 5s) I will also take Gov, Chem, Econ, Lit, Physics by end of senior year.</p>

<p>ECs
Biology Club-Co-president
MUN Club-Co-founder
Speech and Debate Team-Member
California Scholarship Federation-Life Member
Octagon Club-Member
Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra-Second Chair (May be section leader next year)
Pipa Player-6 years
Work at Veterans Hospital-Volunteer Research
International School of the Pennisula-Work</p>

<p>Awards/Recognitions
National Finalist-USA Biology Olympiad
Program Recognition-National Merit Scholarship (Probably be finalist/semifinalist)
Top 4%-UC Recognition-State
National Society for High School Scholars
Who's Who Among American High School Students </p>

<p>Volunteer: around 250-300 hours from Octagon, CSF, and Veteran's hospital </p>

<p>Recs: Projected to be pretty good. My bio teacher knows how much I adore bio and how much effort I put into it and my history teacher wrote in my year book that I'm a strong young woman and asked why couldn't all her students be like me.</p>

<p>Essays: Projected to be good. Thinking about writing my USABO experience, the first time I fell in love with bio (visit to an aquarium), or my first airplane trip alone when I was labled a security risk, lost my wallet, AND missed a plane but a nice lady helped me and gave me 10 dollars for lunch. (which one do you think I should write about?)</p>

<p>Other things: I plan to organize a fundraiser to raise money for either orphanages or research institutes and also start a tutoring program. I may also write for a science magazine newly formed at our school next year as well as find the Science Bowl team/club. Perhaps also enter the Intel/Siemen's competition.</p>

<p>Thanks so much! I know I wrote a lot of stuff >_>"</p>

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<p>you have a mediocre rank for the top schools you listed. good scores (toss that chinese sat ii though. 40% of test takers get 800). ok ECs... nothing stands out</p>

<p>being an asian, you need to find a way to distinguish yourself. reject by harvard, stanford, mit, caltech as of now. if you manage to write a great essay and get some siemens/intel stuff maybe in at those.</p>

<p>in at the rest.</p>

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<p>Will being a USA biology olympiad national finalist (top 21 in the nation) be a boost in my application to harvard, stanford, mit, and cal-tech?</p>

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<p>write the airplane essay...i want to read it already. they'll already know you like biology.</p>

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<p>Lol, yeah, I think it was a good experience for me because I think I grew a lot from it.</p>

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<p>The top 4% is NOT a mediocre rank.</p>

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<p>you ARE wrong</p>

<p>^^ see how useful and convincing a single sentence can be?</p>

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<p>Asian girl.</p>

<p>Easy at MIT.</p>

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<p>gaffe, do you mean that I'll have an easy chance at MIT because I'm an Asian girl? I know that girls get an advantage at MIT but I thought Asians were overrepresented.</p>

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<p>competitive at all.</p>

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<p>Yes. ......</p>

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<p>You are very competitive at all. Congratulations on all the stats.</p>

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<p>I don't see how you're mediocre at all! People on these boards must be insanely competitive, because you far outshone the kids at my school that have been accepted to the ivies.</p>

<p>Take these chance boards with a grain of salt; nobody knows for sure.</p>

<p>I'm not even going to ask about my chances because no one's gonna think I'll get in anywhere, haha.</p>

<p>You, on the other hand, have excellent scores and great rankings. I think you have as good a shot as any other top student. Good luck!</p>

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<p>You have a great shot at all those schools. ignore firefox. I wish you the best of luck</p>

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<p>thanks, you guys just gave me a confidence boost XD</p>

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<p>your classes reminds me of Monta Vista....</p>

<p>great stats!! I am also looking into a lot of colleges on your list!</p>

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<p>you would most definetely be competitive for all those schools</p>

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<p>Top 4% at a very competitive school, 2350 SAT, decent ECs... I'd say you have about a 25% chance at the top tier (Harvard, MIT, Stanford), decent shot (60%) at the other big-name schools (Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Wesleyan, Cornell), and are pretty safe at some of the smaller schools you mentioned.</p>

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<p>haha...I AM from Monta Vista</p>

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<p><a href="Will%20Also%20take%20Chem%20and%20Physics">i</a>*</p>

<p>Don't waste your money you have 3 800's. You don't need anymore.</p>

<p>I'd say you're in at everywhere maybe 1 random reject letter from either Stanford, MIT, or Harvard.</p>