My Last Chance Thread

<p>Hi, I've had a couple of these threads in the past, and I've asked about a bunch of schools. Now my grades/scores and ect. are pretty much set so I would like to get chanced one last time.</p>

<p>Asian Male
Very competitive high school in Georgia.
Class Rank - around 15th percentile</p>

<p>High School Math Courses:
(all honors and AP courses are put here with +7 points)</p>

<p>Algebra 1 Honors - 92, 90
Geometry Honors- 96, 102
Algebra II Honors - 95, 94
Pre-Cal Honors - 84, 85
AP Calculus AB -80, 92
Currently: AP Statistics</p>

<p>High School Lit Courses:</p>

<p>9th Grade Lit/Comp Honors - 99, 100
10th GRade Lit/Comp Honors - 99, 92
11th Grade American Lit/Comp Honors - 98, 100
Currently: Joint Enrollment College English</p>

<p>High School Science Courses:</p>

<p>Biology Honors - 97, 98
Chemistry Honors - 104, 102
AP Chemistry - 86, 92
Currently: AP Biology, AP Physics B</p>

<p>High School Social Studies/History Courses:</p>

<p>Political Science (1 semester) - 92
AP World History - 90, 92
AP US History - 91, 97
Currently: AP Micro/Macro Economics</p>

<p>High School Foreign Language Courses:</p>

<p>Spanish 1 - 96, 95
Spanish 2 Honors - 98, 92
SPanish 3 Honors - 94, 96
Spanish 4 Honors - 94, 97
Currently: none</p>

<p>Other High School Courses:</p>

<p>Health (1 semester) - 95
Personal Fitness (1 Semester) - 98
Chamber Orchestra - 100, 99, 98, 100, 100 ,100</p>

<p>My high school courses have all been honors or AP (except those classes like health, personal fitness, or political science.)</p>

<p>PSAT
Freshmen year - 180
Sophomore Year - 178
Junior Year - 220
National Merit Semifinalist </p>

<p>AP Exams:
World History - 4
AP Calc AB - 3
AP Chemistry - 4
AP US History - 5</p>

<p>SAT:
First time -
Critical Reading 640
Math 710
Writing 680
Total: 2030</p>

<p>Second Time
Critical Reading 600
Math 710
Writing 620
Total 1930</p>

<p>Third Time:
Critical Reading: 650
Math: 750
Writing: 680
Total: 2080</p>

<p>SAT II's:
Chinese - 780
Chemistry - 720
US History - 710</p>

<p>ACT:
33/36 Composite
31/36 English
34/36 Math
33/36 Reading
33/36 Science
10/12 Writing</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
- NACA (National Association for Chinese Americans), vice president, I was guest speaker at national mentor ship program, meetings with guest speakers from important fields, and lots of volunteer work like helping the elderly and volunteering at chinese events, outside of school
-Beta Club 10,11,12
-Habitat for Humanity 10,11,12 (builds and visits to habitat centers and ect)
-Red Cross 12 (hunger and aids walks)
-National Honor Society, Inducted in 11th, and in it for 12th
-Chamber Orchestra 9-12, operations officer for 12
-Chinese School, 12 grades, graduated
-Volunteering at chinese school as hall monitor, traffic duty, and ect every saturaday for 2-3hours (around 250-300 hours of this)
-Chinese school basketball team for 6 years now
-Fall baseball at school in 9th grade
-Rec League All star team 9,10
-Coach younger chinese school baseball and basketball team, kids are 6-9 years old and theres around 12 kids
-HSK (chinese test) Scholarship Summer Trip to Beijing and Nanjing, and various other cities in China, studied at Nanjing Normal University, things like culture, language,arts, music
-Chinese Root-seeking camp, visited Beijing, dalian, shenyang, visited various parks and met chinese high school students, around 5000 kids from around the world participated, learned culture and ect
- Library volunteering (around 50 hours)
- Summer Job at Tous Les Jours Bakery, between 11th and 12th grade
- Orchestra trip to Austria for Mozarts 250th bday, visited cities like vienna and prague and salzburg
- Orchestra in Midwest festival in Chicago
- Volunteered at Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto with Brain and Behavior Research Chair and team (around 50 hours), learned a lot of lab procedures and..how to kill mice =( and look at their brain cells and measure cell distances and ect
- Violin Recitals with private lessons teacher
- Super Honor Roll every semester
- Principles List every semester
- Legion of Honor, and Legion of Scholars
- AP Scholar with honor </p>

<p>Well, that was a lot of stuff so I'll sum up what I think about myself.</p>

<p>My grades/gpa is one of my weak points. I believe its around a 3.3 unweighted and a 3.9 weighted (with +7). My class rank is also not the greatest. My SAT scores just decent.</p>

<p>I think my ACT score is better than my SAT score. I believe one of my teachers did a great rec for me while the other a pretty good one (just guessing). I have had a wide variety of activities I do outside of school. My essays will be/ are decent.</p>

<p>I've already EA'd to University of Georgia and regular decisioned Georgia tech.</p>

<p>The other schools I'm applying to are:
University of Chicago
Emory
Vanderbilt
Cornell
Northwestern
Johns Hopkins
University of Toronto</p>

<p>I know some of these schools may be a big reach for me, but I'm still going to try. So, what do you think my chances are?</p>

<p>Thank you!</p>

<p>University of Toronto is a safety school for u about 80% chance cuz i am from Toronto
Emory 50%
others maybe 20-30% chances
University of Georgia maybe 70%</p>

<p>I was actually born in Toronto, and my dad went there so he wants me to apply and says its a great school. I visited before and I liked it =)</p>

<p>A lil bump. I would appreciate some more opinions =)
I won't mind if you tell me I'll get rejected from most of them because I sorta anticipate that happening. But, applying gives me a chance and I'll take any sorta chance for these schools xD</p>

<p>and oops, I put 15th percentile, I meant top 15 percent lol</p>

<p>Sidenote: Top colleges don't care about weighted/inflated grades. They want you to do well without an automatic bonus.</p>

<p>Not demeaning you or anything; you look good for where you apply.</p>

<p>I know, I just typed whatever I saw on my transcript and made a note that the honors and AP's have inflation.</p>

<p>I know my grades are below what these schools want. I'm just hoping my course rigor, EC's, ect. look good</p>

<p>hi.
your chances at emory are 87% at least
uga in state 100%
vandy 90%
u chicago 80%
northwestern 70%
cornell 70ish
johns hop i dunno
u of t ?? they like americans, and it's actually equal about to u of c, but mabe easier to get into.
just don't senioritus-out.
let me know where you get in.
best of luck</p>