<p>I've been accepted to:</p>
<p>University of Michigan (EA)
Fordham (EA)
Northeastern (EA)
NYU Scholarship Program (Extenuating Circumstances) </p>
<p>Deferred from:</p>
<p>Columbia (ED)
University of Chicago (EA)</p>
<p>Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese)
Sex: Male
Family Income Bracket: Highest
School Type: Boarding School (College Preparatory)</p>
<p>GPA (UW) 3.98
GPA (Weighted)/Class Rank: School doesn't provide any of this
SAT: 2360
SAT IIs: 800 (Math 2), 800 (US History), 800 (French)
APs: Biology (5), US History (5), Environmental Science (5), Macroeconomics (5), Microeconomics (5), Chinese (5), French (5)
Course Rigor: High end but I'm not spectacular at math (no asian comments please) so I'm taking fairly average math courses.</p>
<p>ECs:</p>
<p>Co-Founder and President of my school's FBLA chapter
President of Young Entrepreneurs Club
President of Digital Video Club
3 summers interning in New York City for an online media publication
1 summer interning in New York City for a smallish financial services firm
1 summer interning at Princeton University's communications office
YouTube Channel about technology with 5000+ Google+ followers, 1 million+ total video views, and ~2000 subscribers, proceeds from channel were donated to a charity
Made 77,000 USD in the stock market in 3 years.</p>
<p>Less notable ECs:
3 years of school's tennis program and 5 years of USTA
2 years of school orchestra (Cello)
Managing Digital Editor for School Newspaper</p>
<p>Essays: Good but (probably) not amazing
Teacher Recs: Amazing
Parents: Both of my parents went to a top college in China (Peking University) so I don't have a legacy to help me out.</p>
<p>I'm really nervous because I know there are a lot of male asians applying with really impressive applications. Do I have a shot at getting into Princeton?</p>
<p>Based on your stats, you definitely have a fighting chance. But because Ivy Leagues tend to have a quota on Asian applicants, predicting whether you will be accepted or not is a blind guess at this point. </p>
<p>I feel like you’d be a shoo in to Princeton if it weren’t for affirmative action. </p>
<p>I feel ya…same situation here.</p>
<p>How did you apply to so many EA programs if you applied to Columbia binding ED?</p>
<p>@picozippy EA isn’t binding. I can only apply ED to one spot (for November) and I chose Columbia. You can apply to unlimited unrestricted EAs as long as it’s not somewhere with restrictions like Georgetown. NYU was the only school on that list that didn’t offer EA but, as I stated, it’s an extenuating circumstance. </p>
<p>Oh, I see. So even though Columbia is ED, you’re allowed to apply to other schools early?</p>
<p>I was just confused because I applied to Pton SCEA and thought all ED schools were also single-choice like SCEA, except binding. </p>
<p>@picozippy Nope. I don’t know how SCEA works but for ED you can apply to other EA schools. So with SCEA you can’t apply anywhere else? I didn’t apply to Princeton early because I thought I had a more realistic shot at Columbia (not realistic enough apparently). </p>
<p>Yeah, SCEA is non-binding but you can’t apply to any other schools. </p>
<p>@picozippy Oh ok. Thanks for letting me know! Good luck with your college application process :)</p>
<p>I feel you. @Musktard I’m an Asian male and I felt the same dilemma as you do. I was accepted Princeton SCEA this year and I’m not nearly as qualified as some of the other applicants at my school… I don’t have a 4.0, have a 2300 SAT when white kids at my school had 2400s and 4.6 weighted GPAs, but I still got in. The important thing is that you have to show a passion in your application about something, and that’s especially important for Princeton, who looks out for that kind of thing. Just my 2 cents. You have a good shot though, stats wise.</p>
<p>I think Princeton is a reach for you.</p>