nyu,cmu,rice,emory, northwestern and possible ivy?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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updated [currently junior] what can i do to make it better? other than have a perfect ACT score?

SCHOOL STATS
GPA: 3.90
school in suburbia

BACKGROUND
1st gen. Asian in america
financial burdens including sister w/ disability
Self thought myself Japanese, Korean, and Chinese

SCORES
SAT score: n/a
ACT score: 32

AWARDS
Violin 14 years.
2 years of best orchestra related with Vanderbilt Universit. (sounds egotistical…)
1 year in a different orchestra equally as competitive as the first one, also associated with Vanderbilt University (concert master)
4 years in state’s orchestra competition and concert master
2nd place national chess champion in my division
25th place international chess champion in my division
8th place state champion in my division
1st place in Robotics in state
2nd place in Robotics in southern central America
1st place in Robotics in state (2nd time)
southern central robotics American qualifier
various math competitions awards top 10
JCL awards top 10
countless chess awards (state,national,international)
HOSA state qualifier
TedxTalk on the Fine Arts
outstanding achievement in mathemetics in middle school (minor awards) 2x
outstanding achievement in music in middle school (minor)
president of numerous clubs in middle school (minor)
Varsity Track

CLUBS AND WORK[the reason that many of my clubs are 1/2 years is because I didn’t have any transportation that would allow me to go back and forth. So, I am not trying to “buff” my resume.]
HOSA (2 year)
Robotics (3 years)
Working at a restaurant
Debate club (1 year)
chess club president (2 years)
Quizbowl (1 years)
Mock Trial (2 years)
photography club (2 years)
Varsity Track (2 years)
Vice president of math tutoring organization(2 years)
Vice president of math tutoring organization (2 years)
NHS (2 years)
Beta club (2 years)
dog walking business. (3 years)
teaching violin (1 year)
guided new volunteers at a company.
180+ volunteer hours
started a chess club at local elementary school. (7 years)
hospital volunteer

LETTERS
-letters i have a really good relationship with my chemistry and my calculus teacher and i believe that i should get a good recommendation letter
-college letter probably revolves around how violin/chess/racism/ and blind sister has changed who i am or something like that…

AP’s
our school only allows us 1 AP during our sophomore year and i couldn’t take it due to my time schedule because our school only has 4 periods each semester…im still a junior
1st semester:
no AP’s
2nd semester:
AP calc
AP physics
AP english
AP biology

SAT2
planning on taking this spring

SAT2
planning on taking this spring

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What’s your class rank? And i dont think that middle school awards will do you any good in the application process lol

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that’s why i put (minor)… anyways im in the top 5%

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bump

5

Raise your ACT score, get two good looking SAT2 scores, keep up your GPA, and pick a few EC to go deeper in. Now your EC is everywhere and I don’t really see a passion in any of them. In other words, nothing really impressive. Schools only interest in your EC and awards in high school, so you can skip all those from middle school and lower. Hopefully that would shorter your list as there are not enough space for them all anyway on CommonApp.

Also, you don’t need to repeat your VP in math tutoring twice while self taught languages would be better than just self thought about them. :wink:

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whats your rating ?

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NYU,Rice-Match
Northwestern, Carnegie Melon-Low-Mid Reach
Ivy- Mid-High reach depending on the school

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Strong ECs if you are not exaggerating with chess. If you are actually top 25 in the world in your division and get 5s on APs this year and next year bode well.