Please Chance Me for Few Ivies, Private, and UCs

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hey CC! I applied Johns Hopkins ED got rejected… So I applied Regular to the following: UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UC Davis, UCSC, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, USC, Georgia Tech, Carnegie Mellon, and Brandeis. Please chance me for these schools.

Basic Profile:

  • California (Came to US 6 years ago)
  • Public High School
  • Chinese, Male
  • GPA: UW 4.00; W 4.56 (9th: 4.17, 10th: 4.67, 11th: 4.83, 12th: 5.00 1st Semester)
  • Rank: 1st out of 500; Valedictorian
  • Major: Biomedical Engineering or Bioengineering (depends on the school)

Test Scores:

  • ACT: 31 (30 E, 34 M, 26 R, 33 S, Essay 9) ~ I know my score is not the greatest. Struggled reading. Came to US 6 years ago. Tried my best already
  • SAT Subject Tests: Math 1 770, Math 2 770, Chemistry 700
  • Total of 14 AP Classes

Senior Classes:

  • AP Calculus BC
  • AP Biology
  • AP English Lit
  • AP Psychology
  • AP American Government
  • AP Macroeconomic
  • AP Statistics

Extracurricular Activities/Volunteer: grade level in parentheses

  • Cross Country: Varsity (9-12th)
  • Track & Field: Varsity, school record holder (9-12th)
  • National Honors Society (10-12th)
  • California Scholarship Federation (9-12th)
  • Key Club (9-12th)
  • Recycling Club (9-12th)
  • Earth Rescue Club: Officer (11-12th)
  • Coding Club: Secretary (12th)
  • Taiwan Adventist Hospital: helped underprivileged families in summer (10th)
  • Hacienda Heights Area Chinese School: teach children Chinese (8-12th)
  • Association of Congenital and Metabolic Diseases: helped and took care of rare disease patients (11th)
  • Taipei Veterans General Hospital: Doctor’s assistant for leading doctor and researcher in rare disease field (11th)

Work Experience:

  • Genetic Consultant Center and Rare Disease Medical Research Center: research intern
  • University of La Verne - Chemistry Department: research intern

Awards:

  • AP Scholar
  • Athletic All-League for Cross Country
  • Academic All-League x3
  • MVP Runner (10th)
  • Most Improved Runner (11th)

Interview:

  • So far, I’ve had interview with Duke only. It went great.

Essay/Rec Letters:

  • Essays are great
  • Great rec letters from my favorite teachers (AP Physics and AP English) and great rec from my counselor who knows me well.
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I understand that your ACT score maybe depressed because you are not a native speaker. But I am surprised by the chem. Did you send that? I say surprised because you are valedictorian of a very large school so I’d expect you to have nailed the SAT2’s for whatever you took.

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Um, what? 700 is a perfectly fine, if not exceptional, score on an SAT II. Congrats on your achievements. You seem like you’ll have a good shot academics-wise. The ACT score may be a bit of a barrier, but if English isn’t your first language, universities are usually very understanding in that respect. Good luck!

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I hope adcoms take into account the reason for your only weakness and hopefully you had described that in your essays (that being a recent immigrant). You definitly deserve to be admitted to all, and I hope they see that!

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700 chemistry is 56th percentile

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@lostaccount I did send my SAT Chemistry. And thank you for helping me out. @cornellaspirant @uclaparent9 Thank you for commenting and helping me out.

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Oh, is it? I beg your pardon then. I was simply considering the standard scores for SAT IIs on average.