Neat post + Weird title = many many Chances for me?! Maybe!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey guys,</p>

<p>Schools I'm looking to apply to are:
Yale SCEA or Brown ED
Harvard
Princeton
Stanford
Upenn(Wharton?)
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
UC Berk
UC La
Duke</p>

<p>Biography
Korean
CA Resident
Income is <100000
Slight chance of applying as international (canadian Citizen), hopefully will obtain green card by then. So chance me as if I had one please!
Born in korea, moved to Canada, and then I moved to the U.S in Freshman Year.
English is first language, english spoken at home.</p>

<p>School Stuff
GPA: UW: 4.00
Rank: 2-4/600
ACT with Writing: 35/36
SAT Subjects:
[ul][<em>]Korean: 780
[</em>]Math iic: 770
[li]Literature: 670 [/li] <a href="retaking%20Lit%20and%20Math,%20also%20taking%20CHEM%20in%20October">*</a>[/ul]
SAT Reasoning: 2270 Superscore
AP: World: 3 US History: 3 Bio: 4 Chemistry: 4 Literature: 4</p>

<p>Senior Schedule
AP Economics
AP Physics B (No C)
AP Calc AB (no BC)
AP Language
AP Statistics
ASB</p>

<p>Total APs In Highschool: 10</p>

<p>Volunteer/Work Experience</p>

<p>Science Center (10th-12th)
Korean School Aide (9th-12th)
Sharp Hospital (9th-12th)
Total: ~400 Hours</p>

<p>Extracurricular</p>

<p>Senior Class <a href="Secretary">i</a><a href="12th">/i</a>
ASB Commissioner of Technology <a href="SBR">i</a><a href="12th">/i</a>
Boys Varsity Volleyball <a href="Co-Captain?">i</a><a href="9th-12th">/i</a>
Volleyball Club <a href="President">i</a><a href="11th-12th">/i</a>
Invisible Children Club <a href="President">i</a><a href="12th">/i</a>
Medical Careers Club <a href="Co-President">i</a><a href="10th-12th">/i</a><br>
CSF <a href="President?">i</a><a href="9th-12th">/i</a>
Varsity Academic League <a href="Co-Captain?">i</a><a href="10th-12th">/i</a>
Mathleetes (10th-12th)
Pen Pals Club (11th-12th)
ASB Mercury (10th-11th)
Link Crew Leader (11th-12th)
Academic Decathlon (12th)
Sweetwater District Symphonic Orchestra (10th) </p>

<p>Violin (2000-Present)
Other Musical Hobbies (2007-Present)</p>

<p>Awards</p>

<p>Various School Awards (9th (In Canada))
Calgary JEI Math Competition 1st Place Finish (9th (In Canada))
Science Olympics 1st Place Team Finish (9th (In Canada))
National School wide Stock Exchange Game(9th (In Canada))1st Place Team Finish out of 500 Teams
Honor roll w/Distinction (9th-12th)
Mathleetes 2nd Place City Wide Team Finish (11th)
College Board AP scholar with Distinction (12th)
National Merit Scholarship Commended (12th)
San Diego Union Tribune All Academic Team (11th)Maintaining 3.5 GPA while playing varsity sport
Coaches Award Boys Junior Varsity Volleyball (10th)
Most Improved Boys Varsity Volleyball Player (11th)</p>

<p>Thank you!</p>

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<p>Bump please.</p>

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<p>Come on guys, please!</p>

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<p>Korean from CA=very competitive pool at ivies. You will need a great app. UCs should be no problem.</p>

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<p>^Agreed. Unfortunately, you don’t stand out to me very much as an Ivy applicant. But you’re in at the UCs and probably even Duke! Best of luck!</p>

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<p>Hmm what would you say is a big problem on my app?</p>

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<p>Yale SCEA tends to have very rigorous admissions standards–for the unhooked or those with out exceptional accomplishments, an acceptance is unlikely. </p>

<p>For the best chance at a top school, apply ED. </p>

<p>And, just a tip, the activities section on your Common App will look less cluttered if you eliminate trivial club memberships–that is, those not accompanied by leadership positions or related awards.</p>

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<p>@Glassesarechic, yes I ranked them in order of importance on my Common app, so it neglects a few of my less time consuming clubs.</p>

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<p>I don’t see a big problem, but you are in a hyper competitive pool with no stand out EC. I agree that applying ED to a school below HYPS would be a good strategy here.</p>

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<p>I was just wondering, am I a bit too rounded? I’m pres of three clubs, captain of two teams, Senior class secratary. Would you say this is hurting me as in there are too many applicants like me, or that these are pretty good for me?</p>

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<p>For HYPS, ECs need to go beyond the school level. And yes, there will be many times the number of Korean applicants from CA with stats similar to yours than these schools can accept.</p>

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<p>You’re definitely strong enough for the UCs, but don’t forget an EC for one year with no official position means nothing to colleges. In your position, I’d go for Brown ED over Yale though.</p>

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<p>Hmm, I dont exactly have any 1 year no official position things. I’m so so so spread out though, it’s just cause I’m in the moment of figuring my self out, and exploring every single opportunity given to me.</p>

<p>Thanks for the input guys, the only reason I didn’t consider ED for brown, is because of financial aid/ international issues.</p>

<p>And this club I just founded this year invisible children is collaborated with a non profit organization, so does this go above the school level?</p>

<p>And I just think sometimes CC overestimates the range of college applicants. Sure, all of the 10000 or so admitted to HYPSM are freaking amazing, we can’t expect every single one of them to be SIEMENS USIMO etc etc, 10 years of an EC that changed the world or something.
I know I’m weak on EC’s but I’m sure the greater percentage of those applicants are just extremely well rounded students</p>

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<p>I love cookies</p>

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<p>what a bumper</p>

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<p>Just wanted to say good luck and nice title!!</p>

<p>I feel the others hit the nail in the head. Apart from HYP you are great canadite for your schools!</p>

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<p>Anyone got any more chances? The harsher the chance, the more I’ll appreciate it!</p>