Please, In Desperate Help!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>PLEASE CHANCE RISING ASIAN Senior!</p>

<p>Stats:
GPA: 2.34 (unweighted) at a really difficult public school (will be 3.78 by end of senior year. i am really working hard now instead of screwing around)</p>

<p>Course List: </p>

<p>Freshman: Honors Engrish: B- (teacher was racist)
Algebra II: A- (made silly mistakes on the final, because I overdosed on red bull the morning of)
Advanced Latin: A (see that. that's intelligence)
AP biology: B+ (toooo much memorization for me)</p>

<p>Sophomore: similar stats in either more advanced or same level courses</p>

<p>Junior: same</p>

<p>Senior: really working hard now
SATII's: MATHIIC: 740, Lit: 540 (forgot the cancellation procedure) bio: 800 (ap bio was a help)
SAT: 600 CR /650 M /750 W (was a hard test. i overdosed on red bull againnn :( )</p>

<p>Extracurriculurs:</p>

<p>2nd class scout: working towards my eagle scout
BEST AMC 10/12 scores: 150/150
AIME: 0 both years. i paniked during the test and felt like i was in cardiac arrest. bUT i hope colleges will overlook this fact. it just, i feel, goes to show my determination with doing well; even if it almost kills, literally. hardy har har. (10 silly mistakes! can you believe it?!?)
I play violin. I'm allstate iowa, second stand, second violins
i also fence. i not very good, but i enjoy it.
my mom tested me when i was younger, and i had an IQ of 158 at age 10. i feel like this particular fact will override many of my relatively worse stats
i think during the summer i will learn a PLETHORA of engrish. you may ask? i am going HAGWON in KOREA to learn. i will literally be a slave for the whole summer, paying 5000 for the BEST education in the world. </p>

<p>I fly airplanes in my free time and i have done reconnaissance work for south korea. and i plan to use this particular experience as my essay and interview topic (if it would be good). </p>

<p>recommandations should be great. i am asking my mom's boyfriend (who's also my current social studies' teacher to write my humanities rec) my math rec is by my algebra II teacher, we developed a great bond, while i cleaned his car every week. </p>

<p>Please, i really want to go to Harvard. it's my top choice, and i think i have a good chance relative to many other ppl in my state. so can you chance me? i know my gpa isnt that high, but it's going up, and my extracurriculars hopefully will outweigh that. </p>

<p>also chance me for:
stanford,
mit,
columbia,
yale,
princeton,
seoul national univ,
yonsei</p>

<p>thank you soo much. im just soo nervous.
please please plase if you can, give me a fast reply. im kinda new to the site, so i wanted to delve right into the action. thank you so much; i really respect you guys.</p>

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<p>(Assume you made a typo and your GPA is actually 3.34, coz I am not sure how you are gonna get an increase of 1.00+ in your GPA in one year) </p>

<p>Very good AMC results, but your SAT (both I and II) and GPA are far too low (unless there are mitigating factors where you are the valedictorian or the valedictorian only a 3.44 UW GPA). What is your class rank and how many people in your school go to HYPMS per year?</p>

<p>Your SAT score is near or below the 25th percentile at HYPMS, and those guys that are accepted with SAT scores below the 25th percentile usually have really great ACT scores, are legacies, have absolutely fantastic ECs (MIT RSI comes to mind, and even then, you must impress the RSI administrators), are athletic recruits, are URMs, or are developmental admits (or some combination of the above). So retake the SAT.</p>

<p>I suggest you not quote your IQ score, as that may give AOs the impression that you are smart but a slacker throughout your high school life, and HYPMS AO don't really want to see that.</p>

<p>Are you an international student? If so, it would be even tougher. I am sorry, but chances don't look very good for you for HYPMS unfortunately, unless you have a terrific hook into one or more of these schools.</p>

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<p>"AIME: 0 both years."</p>

<p>Okay, don't report those scores then.</p>

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<p>ok from wat i see..from every single test, you always have excuses for 'why' you didnt do well. Colleges want ppl who try their best, not who are smart but slack off. You need to stop saying "oh i got a bad score on SAT cos i overdoesd on red bull" or "AIME 0 cos i panicked and went like into cardiac arrest."</p>

<p>They don't care. All they will see is the grades on your application and your scores. To me it seems that you know you're smart, and everytime you mess up on a test, you're blaming it on an external factor and not because of the fact that maybe you were slacking off too much and didn't study enough? just a thought.</p>

<p>I think your reaches are far too high though. I've met people who had 4.0 gpas, and 2400 SATS and they STILL can't get into harvard.
Your ECs are good, but it doesnt really show like you have any passion for it. You're just like 'oh yeah i fly planes too.." wow, you have a lot of passion huh. </p>

<p>Stick to one EC you're passionate about, a 3.7 is still low, unless you have a big big big amount of APs that make your weighted gpa higher, your SAT is not really a match for any HYPMS and the fact that you're getting your mom's bf to write your rec is just showing me that you're just into the college process only now, and think you're smart enough for harvard. But your effort level is 0. And just because you got 158 when you were ten doesn't mean you're smart. Smart is if you use your intelligence to the fullest level which you are obviously not doing. </p>

<p>The fact that you're asian doesn't really give you a greater shot unless you have a lot of cash or a legacy or sth. </p>

<p>Btw, I was tested for my IQ too when i was 11, and I got 148. I still don't consider myself smart. But at least i'm trying.</p>

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<p>i second what lynn said.</p>

<p>yonsei and seoul national are reaches for you too, unless you've been out of korea for the past 12 years. otherwise they'll be pretty easy.</p>

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my mom tested me when i was younger, and i had an IQ of 158 at age 10. i feel like this particular fact will override many of my relatively worse stats

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Sorry, it won't. lots of kids in my 3rd grade class got 130+. If you've taken psych, you'll know that those aren't reliable either.</p>

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<p>Mom-administered IQ tests aren't taken too seriously by adcoms, from what I understand.</p>

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<p>Hooray for another joke thread!</p>

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<p>...This guy is being taken seriously??</p>