<p>Well, sleepers never go to Penn.</p>
<p>Some reputed colleges you can look into -</p>
<p>[Slippery</a> Rock University Homepage](<a href=“http://www.sru.edu/index/pages/home.aspx]Slippery”>http://www.sru.edu/index/pages/home.aspx)</p>
<p>[Lizzadro</a> Museum of Lapidary Art](<a href=“http://www.lizzadromuseum.org/]Lizzadro”>http://www.lizzadromuseum.org/)</p>
<p>[Hamburger</a> University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger_University]Hamburger”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger_University)</p>
<p>[Butler</a> University](<a href=“http://www.butler.edu/]Butler”>http://www.butler.edu/)</p>
<p>[Philander</a> Smith College, Think Justice, Little Rock, Arkansas, UNCF, HBCU](<a href=“http://www.philander.edu/]Philander”>http://www.philander.edu/)</p>
<p>Some reputed colleges you can look into -</p>
<p>Slippery Rock University Homepage</p>
<p>Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art</p>
<p>Hamburger University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p>
<p>Butler University</p>
<p>Philander Smith College, Think Justice, Little Rock, Arkansas, UNCF, HBCU</p>
<p>^See, that kind of plagiarism does get you into Ivies.</p>
<p>@Hopefun : You really stand a good chance at Harvard Medical school because one of your EC really stands out - Excessive SATniyaAcademica Obsessia anaka Thromboangiitis obliterans and a bit of brag-o-prido-athaniya ! Do contact them quickly and dont forget to mention it in your application 
… All the best</p>
<p>Just being serious, you might have excellent scores but your ECs lack passion. You appear to collect numerous ECs that do not have a unifying theme. There is nothing remarkable in your stats that will make you stand out from any average Indian student. The application process is less random than it seems and test scores are not the major component that many international students think. That’s one of the reasons that spelling bees in the USA have a high percentage of Indian-Americans who learn the entire dictionary by heart but do not have any personality or social skills. This is the reason that many students with perfect scores do not get admitted to a top school in the USA while another student with considerably less impressive scores gets in.</p>
<p>Ana1, are you kidding? Community service stands out everywhere in the app. It is almost too focused on helping people and making the world a better place… but the National Olympiads show that s/he can do some math too.</p>
<p>She shouldn’t just flood up her app, i suggest she should mention the sustainable energy research and projects she has undertaken along with community service</p>
<p>Despite of all this be prepared for a rejection , u are not the chosen one</p>
<p>she’s the fallen one</p>
<p>@mechrockz - But she does stand a chance for Harvard Medical school for her Excessive SATniyaAcademica Obsessia anaka Thromboangiitis obliterans and a bit of brag-o-prido-athaniya as I stated earlier 
… Harvard people really love quirky diseases and syndromes :)</p>
<p>Where do you live hopefun???
I mean how did you get so many opportunities…</p>
<p>in a galaxy far away</p>
<p>Seriously!! I need to know in which city does she live…</p>
<p>“Community service stands out everywhere in the app. It is almost too focused on helping people and making the world a better place.”</p>
<p>Obviously you do not understand what lack of focused ECs are and presence of passion. The OP would have been a better applicant if he/she had community work in 1-2 of these 500 ECs that were listed. It is not the number of ECs or whether they are a top name organization but the quality of the work done there. That’s why there are numerou students that get in top schools with lower scores but with 2-4 ECs that demonstrate leadership qualities. The OPs ECs are all over the place and again lack focus. Schools give more credit to an applicant who is involved with the same 2-4 ECs for 4 years than an applicant who lists 500 ECs like trophies. When you are passionate about something you limit your time spend in other activities and concentrate on that, instead of spreading time left and right. helping people and making the world a better place are generalities. You can do that with 500 different ways but focused means you choose 1-2 ways to do it.</p>
<p>A random person’s ECs from the recent Harvard accepted class as an example of focused ECs. The person wants to go to medical school eventually. See how all the ECs have as a theme teach, tennis or medical and many of them interlap. </p>
<p>“Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Tennis (captain since junior year, first singles since freshman year, sportsmanship award), Viola (school orchestra first chair), Piano (sent a couple tracks)
Job/Work Experience: Tutor at a Chinese school, tennis camp counselor
Volunteer/Community service: Children’s museum volunteer, coaching a 6-year-old boy with cerebral palsy in tennis, pediatrics volunteer at a hospital
Summer Activities: Tennis camps, tennis trip abroad to Spain, Summer@Brown, medical volunteering trip to Asia
Essays: My commonapp was about an experience I had while volunteering in Asia. My supplement was about how I want to major in anthropology but go to medical school;”</p>
<p>I don’t usually do chance threads, but do you really need anonymous people over the internet to chance you?</p>
<p>PS. I am glad I had a chance to go over the conversations on the previous pages before this thread is potentially locked for it’s humorous and off-topic contents.</p>
<p>Enough of joking
I would say that you are one of the most qualified persons i have seen on CC. You have perfect scores, you have ECs and you have started thinking about your education on class 11. You are going perfect. I assume that your academic record at school would be amazing too (probably valedictorian?) juat make your essays good and then we’ll continue the conversation at Harvard :P</p>
<p>Hope fun, you do not have good safeties and you’ll crash and burn. Look at the stats of the Stanford admitted students and pay attention to their ECs where you are lacking. i just do not want you to be disappointed.</p>
<p>Read what a Stanford student said on how to get in:</p>
<p>You should be well rounded and intellectual in that you get good grades in most subjects and score decently well on the SATs/ACTs/SAT IIs. You should be specialized in that you are clearly passionate about something.</p>
<p>It is actually true that an application can only be evaluated as a whole, and in the end, “stats,” as CC people call them, tend to fade out. In particular, the importance of recommendations is completely undervalued by most applicants.</p>
<p>More oversaid cliche advice about essays: actually be yourself. Everybody thinks they are being themselves…very few actually are. The point of the essays are <em>not</em> to “sell yourself” to the committee (even in the intellectual vitality essay). You have the rest of the application for that. The essays are to make your reader <em>like</em> you. Make them want you on campus. Make them want to be your roommate. Also, weave multiple ideas into your essays to make them more you.</p>
<p>In short:
Grades - show well-roundedness, initiative
Course Selection - show either well-roundedness or a special interest, initiative
SATs/ACTs - show base-level smarts
ECs - show PASSION, DEDICATION, and LEADERSHIP, initiative
EC essay - again, passion, leadership, community involvement, initiative</p>
<p>You are more like this student:</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2360 (800 CR, 800 M, 760 W)
ACT: 35
SAT II: 800 Chem, 800 Math 2, 770 Biology M
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Unranked (probably top 5% of 770)
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Chem (5), AP Calc BC (5), AP English Lang (5), AP Biology (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: Multivariable Calculus with Linear Algebra, Spanish 4, AP Computer Science, Honors Essay Writing, Survey of Western Humanities, AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, AP Statistics, Advanced Chemistry. Everything was AP/Weighted.
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): US National Chemistry Olympiad Honors - Top 150 Nationally, USA Biology Olympiad Semifinalist - Top 500 Nationally, AIME Qualifier in Junior Year, Chemistry State Champion in a State Science competition, National Merit Semi-Finalist.
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Science Bowl (Captain), ICTM Math Team, NSML Math Team, WYSE Science Team, Local orchestra, JETS Engineering Team, Kung Fu student.</p>
<p>Ana1 the guy whose stats u mentioned got rejected from where?
Hopefun ure applying next year,right?</p>