<p>Courtney Sachs
Convent of the Sacred Heart, Manhattan
GPA: 97
SAT: 2340 (800 reading, 770 math, 770 writing)
AP scores: English lit (5), French language (5), and U.S. history (5) </p>
<p>Academic honors: Bausch & Lomb Science Award, given to one junior per participating school. Ranked in the U.S. top 10 in the National French Contest. Wellesley Book Award for academic leadership, given to one junior per participating school. Ranked in the top 30 of the Catholic School Mathematics League. </p>
<p>Extracurricular activities: Stem-cell researcher at New York-Presbyterians Columbia University Medical Center, approximately twenty hours per week. Wrote a research paper on the in vivo and in vitro growth of osteoblasts derived from fat stem cells. Has begun research on the repair of rat cranial defects using osteocytes differentiated from fat-derived stem cells. Editor-in-chief of the yearbook. As a senior leader of Helping Hearts (the school philanthropic group), organized a fashion show to raise money to build a well in a village in India. Volunteers at Lenox Hill Hospital and Habitat for Humanity. Tutors disadvantaged students. Member, Model U.N.</p>
<p>Applying to: Princeton (early), Harvard, Yale, Brown, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Columbia, University of Chicago, Stanford, and Duke.</p>
<p>Her chances: The fact that she has been doing independent research since ninth grade shows commitment to a single cause or passion, which the most selective colleges like to see. She is academically qualified to attend any college, but it is also important that she is not simply locked away in a lab all year; she is involved in her high school as editor-in-chief of the yearbook. I believe she has a strong chance of getting into Princeton early. </p>
<p>Yeah. But still, applying -only- to ivies seems slightly arrogant.
And I love how the Pton ED applicant is applying to both Brown and Columbia, as well as 7 out of the 8 ivies. There's nothing wrong with wanting prestige!</p>
<p>You're such a "promiscuous girl" =P Haha, she does look rather snooty.
But, maybe I'm just displaying too much hubris, she's not uber-intimidating.</p>
<p>Their EC's are pretty impressive though I would say. I love how its the Asian girl who has the perfect SAT score out of that group of kids. Leave it up to the New York Times to stereotype...:rolleyes:</p>
Harmain Khan
Staten Island Technical High School
GPA: 98.41
SAT: 1920 (660 reading, 600 math, 660 writing)
AP scores: World history (4), English language (4)</p>
<p>Academic honors: His paper “Tracing Early Hominid Migration in India: ESR Dating at Hathnora and Devni-Khadri” won the First Place Grand Award at the Intel Student Research Contest, first place for the Geological Society of America, second place for the American Geological Institute, and third place for Sigma Xi (2006). New York City Science and Engineering Fair Grand Prize Winner (2006). NAACP Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics Gold Medalist for Drama and Chemistry; Bronze Medalist for Oratory (2006). </p>
<p>Extracurricular activities: Established a date range for India’s only known Homo erectus cranium and developed a method for dating crocodile teeth. Presented his paper “Developing ESR Dating for Crocodylian Teeth: Stability, Interference Signal Resolution and Applications to Geoarchaeology” at the conference of the Geological Society of America. Captain of the city’s top team in the Envirothon, a national environmental-science competition. </p>
<p>Sports: Has run for the past four years on his school’s cross-country team, currently in first place in the Public Schools Athletic League.</p>
<p>Applying to: Harvard (early), Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, and Williams.</p>
<p>His chances: “He developed a method for dating crocodile teeth. How many people can say that on an application? He also has participated in his school community by running all four years. If Harvard is looking for a scientist with his particular skills, it will probably admit him despite his scores.”
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<p>Ok does this guy count as a "BAD TEST-TAKER?" I guess some insanely smart people really can suck at taking standardized tests. I mean, a 1920?!?! and he does insane research and has a really good gpa</p>
<p>I don't know, because his AP scores are decent!
If he can get a 4 on his history and english APs, I don't see how he could have scored a 660 in reading and writing!!!</p>
<p>Uh, you'd have to be out of your mind to not do the chick. hawt/10</p>
<p>Anyone get the Wii? Zelda is frickin awesome - to the point where I would rather go beat another dungeon than open up the decision letter from Princeton :P</p>
<p>the SATs are clearly not a true measure of one's potential... they must be ignored if the applicant has great gpa/ap scores.. sadly, most of the college rankings have an 'average SAT score' score column to judge schools.</p>