Possible Matches and Reaches Suggestions

<p>Please suggest Match and Reach colleges for me!</p>

<p>Here are my current stats (I'm a junior right now).
I want to go into Investment Banking.</p>

<p>Please evaluate my stats and suggest some schools please. Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!</p>

<p>BASICS:
Chinese American male
Currently a junior
California resident
Middle - Upper Middle class (anywhere from $60k-120k income bracket)</p>

<p>Might have decent recs from teachers. I will try to play the role of a studious idiot who works extremely hard, but struggles in a class. Hopefully, it will convince my senior year teachers to write a decent rec for me. Junior year teachers have caught me sleeping in class too much. Shameful, I know.</p>

<p>My essays should not be too bad.</p>

<p>GPAs:
Freshman year: 4.0 UW
Sophomore year: 4.0 UW, 4.5 W
Junior year: 4.0 UW, 4.333 W
Cumulative (10-11): 4.0 UW, 4.42W
School only gives A,B,C,D,F. No pluses or minusess.
School doesn't rank, but I'm easily in the top 5% out of 450.
The school's somewhat competitive. We had 6 people get into Stanford this year; a dozen or so more got into MIT, Harvard, etc.; at least 30 in Ivy leagues and at least 60 in Berkeley.</p>

<p>Not the most rigorous curriculum available at competitive public school.
Our school has only Chemistry,Precalculus, Japanese, Spanish, and French as honors classes. Currently taking AP Biology and AP Calc BC. Not taking APUSH. I plan for 3 APs and 1 honors for senior year.</p>

<p>TEST SCORES:
SATI: 800 math, 800 critical reading, 790 writing (studied from the blue book)
PSAT: 213 as a junior, 220 as a sophomore
SAT Subject Tests:
MathIIC: 800
Chinese: 800
BIO: 800 (Took it May, expected score)</p>

<p>AP Comp Sci: 5
Took the AP Calculus BC and Biology tests in May.</p>

<p>Community College Classes at De Anza College:
Political Science 4 credits A
Introduction to Java 4 credits A
Elementary Statistics with Probability 5 credits A
Intermediate Problem Solving with C 5 credits A</p>

<p>Will take (Expecting As from all of them):</p>

<p>Summer of 2006
Calculus 1c
Principles of Macroeconomics
Principles of Microeconomics</p>

<p>Senior Year
Physics 4a, 4b, and probably 2-3 more</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULARS:</p>

<ul>
<li>Peer tutor at school - around 30 hours</li>
<li>President of the Go Club member (9-10)</li>
<li>Volunteered at library for 2 hours a week for the past year - around 60
hours</li>
<li>California Scholarship Federation Club - member (10,11), hopefully an
officer position next year.</li>
<li>Volunteered at community center sorting cans, bagging food, crush
boxes, taking out trash, sorting rotten food, cleaning for 1.5 hours a
week sophomore year. -around 60 hours</li>
<li>Cross Country as a senior</li>
</ul>

<p>WASTING TIME:</p>

<ul>
<li>Watched over 120 series of anime in the past two years (obviously not
an EC. I naturally will not tell colleges this)</li>
<li>Warcraft 3, various other games</li>
</ul>

<p>AWARDS:</p>

<ul>
<li>AP Scholar (grade 11, expecting it)</li>
<li>National Merit Commended ( Should have prepared so that I would get
Semifinalist, but I did not know it was important)</li>
</ul>

<p>I recently realized how important ECs are and I sincerely regret not doing more during my high school career.</p>

<p>What are my chances despite my mediocre ECs?
Would getting a job at Kumon this summer help?
Should I take Lit SAT if I can not guarantee 800, but 780+?</p>

<p>this seems way too mechanical:</p>

<p>"Should I take Lit SAT if I can not guarantee 800, but 780+?"</p>

<p>don't worry about being perfect. perfect is boring.</p>

<p>i am not trying to be harsh. just my observation.</p>

<p>You look kust like every other asian with sky high test scores from California. HYPSM will be a reach but your safely into a lot of good schools just a notch below.</p>

<p>bump bump bump</p>

<p>Are you looking for more in-state or out-of-state? Because Cali-wise I'd suggest the obvious Cal, Stanford, Cal-Tech, & UCLA. Just my thoughts</p>

<p>HYPSM would be reach because I don't see anything special and all I see is the typical asian resume. I'm guessing that you'll get into 2 if you applied all 5.</p>

<p>Don't just furiously add ECCs because colleges like to see consistency and they definitely don't want you to add a whole bunch summer of junior/senior. It would make things worse.</p>

<p>You'll be fine for a school like U Penn, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Duke, etc.</p>

<p>hikaru2005:</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Safe Match</p>

<p>You took classes at DeAnza? that means you live on the peninsula huh? what school do you go to?</p>

<p>Lynbrook High (the asian school)</p>

<p>Statistically speaking, you're about as close of a match that you can be for just about any school. If you want a shot at the big names, though, you're going to need to come across interesting (not just intellectual) in your essays, etc. Put some thought and effort into them and you will do well.</p>

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