<p>Hi! I'll get right to it!</p>
<p>SAT: Taking in October, estimating around 2150~2250
SAT II: US History:800, World History:750
AP: US History:4, English Language:5, Environ Sci: 5, Microeco:4 (Taking AP Comp Sci, AP English Lit, AP Psych, AP Bio, and AP Stats for Senior year)
GPA: 91.7/100
Rank: Top 50% (of a small class of 81 students)
ECs: Community service-driven, work experience, speech, and some competitive sports with some leadership roles and awards
Recs: I guess they will turn out to be pretty good
Region: Asia
School Type: Private school, sends grads to top schools, extremely competitive (Bottom halves move on to Cornell)
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male</p>
<p>Oh, and by the way, I am a US citizen.. if this matters at all.</p>
<p>does this mean no chance at all? please help me out!</p>
<p>Well, if you say that the worst students from your school can get into Cornell, I think you won’t have a problem getting into WashU.</p>
<p>Scorewise, do I stack up? I know that Wash U is what my friends call a “score-whore” school (excuse my language), and I’m worried I might be eliminated in the admissions process in the preliminary rounds!</p>
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<p>If you get the SAT score you’re predicting you should be alright, and your APs and SAT2’s look good… tbh I went to a public high school so i’m not really familiar with how to interpret GPA’s out of 100, small class sizes, and somewhat vague ECs. </p>
<p>Take this with a grain of salt, but if I were an adcom looking at this info, the only real weakness I see would be the ECs. Which is probably just because you’re not being very specific with them, and it probably goes without saying that you’d write things up differently on your application, but having one EC that stands out (or that you really care about) will go much farther than having a long list of <em>some of this, some of that…</em> If you get my gist? </p>
<p>You seem to be on the right track though, I think people just aren’t responding because we’re not that sure either way - a lot may depend on your H.S… Best of luck!</p>
<p>@Don_Quixote: thanks a bunch! The reason why I’m not specifying my ECs is because I have friends who lurk in various CC forums, and I don’t want my peers to identify me lurking around CC as well :P! Anyways, I get your message, I guess I’ll have to package my ECs really well in my application. Anyways, thank you for helping me out. It’s really encouraging when people actually contribute their thoughts!</p>
<p>well I’m a little confused.
why do you call yourself an international if you are a US citizen?</p>
<p>@achiever: Regardless of citizenship, applicants who study abroad are considered “international applicants” (the same goes for Wash U applicants, who apply from, say Texas. They represent the applicant pool from Texas. Same goes for applicants who apply from other countries).</p>