recommend any schools?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>HI !
Im an azn female international student (korean) studying in Canada.
I dont have a particular school that i want to go to,
so if you guys could help me find some schools that would fit me.. :)
please identify reaches, matches and safties heheh tnx</p>

<p>School
-Havergal College: top canadian girls private school (very competitive)</p>

<p>GPA: 92
SAT: haven taken it yet.. but from PR practice tests
(M:750 V:600 W:660 (essay10) : 2010)
i will be taking it in october and if its not good, again in Dec.
SAT2: mathIIc 780
will be taking Japanese and Physics, possibly Chem in Nov.
should get good recs</p>

<p>ECs.
Music
-clarinet for 7years
-symphonic band 1st clarinet gr10-12
-Canadian independent school music festival 2nd clarinet gr 10-12
-torombone for 2years
-jazz band 2nd trombone gr10
-piano since 7years old </p>

<p>Dance
-dance show (in two dance sets) gr10
-musical 'Chorus Line' choreographer gr11
-break dance club founder
-break dance club president gr12
-various dances outside of school gr10-12</p>

<p>-house executive gr11
-community council representative gr11
-welcome committee gr11-12</p>

<p>-clubs (DECA, art club, dance club) gr10-11
-volunteers at various festivals in toronto
(toronto street festival, dance festival, fantasy film festival etc)</p>

<p>Workexperience
-gift shop 2003-2004
-Libarian 4h/week 2005-present</p>

<p>Extra
-i came to Canada in 2003
-i speak Korean and English(almost..haha) fluently, and Japanese (not bad) </p>

<p>oh and i'm looking to go in to business, and scholarship or financial aid would be a plus.
Thank you for your help:) !!!</p>

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<p>help help ...........</p>

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<p>aniyo! (pardon me if the spelling is way off)</p>

<p>hey b-galAJ, I just thought I'm in a very similar situation with you.
I'm an azn(Chinese) immigrant student currently studying in Richmond, BC, Canada. I went to this other school in Vancouver in which there were SO MANY koreans. </p>

<p>I have no clue about exact WHICH schools to apply to either...so whoever comes in help me too.:D</p>

<p>I'll be in my junior/11th year in September.
ACADEMICS</p>

<p>GPA: 88.4 (grade 10/sophomore)
Rank: school doesn’t rank
School: changed school at 9/10th year, the old was ranked 33th in the province, the new one is at 47th -- within top 2 in the city (Richmond, BC)
AP: taking Math AP in grade 11, a few more in grade 12
SAT I – not taken yet
SAT II – taking Chinese with listening in Nov</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULARS
volunteers:
YWCA – Thrift shop on weekends
Vancouver International Marathon 05
Kids Play palace (summer 04)
Canada Day celebration at the Salmon Festival
Horn:
Richmond Youth Concert Band
First horn in school band
Pit orchestra for “Crazy For You” – 9th grade
Pit orchestra for “Into the woods” – 10th grade
Chamber ensembles (both wind and brass)
Piano – played for 7 years, RCM grade 7 practical (taking grade 8 next year)
Trombone- jazz band in 10th grade
Steveston Karate club member
Swim team
Cayley National Maths Contest- top 25% in the nation:rolleyes:
Teacher’s recs: should be good, both teachers I have in mind like me :D
Counselor’s rec: I doubt it’s going to be good but my school is merging with another school next year, so maybe I’ll get a better counselor.
Working ex: none</p>

<p>Hooks: umm, an absolute horn freak? I have an absolute passion for it. My parents hate to see me play (they want me to study English all the time), so I get up at 6am and pratice.
Also hopefully I’ll get good SATs like 2200+ or something.
I came to Canada in 2004, am fluently in both mandarin and English (all hail the azn background)</p>

<p>I haven’t decided on my majors either :(, but I think I want to double-major in music and business if possible.
I don’t care about weather/campus setting/etc. since I get used to everything and get along with everyone (almost hahah)</p>

<p>taking into consideration that I still have a year to develop my stats(mainly on the grades and a few more ECs), I know it's not a long time, and probably won't change a thing. But just keep it in mind. :D</p>

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<p>b-galAJ, with a 92, your GPA is the equivalent of about 3.7 UW.
helenwho, with a 88.4, your GPA is around 3.35.</p>

<p>For b-galAJ, with 92 grade average and SAT 2010 (and a 750 math score).</p>

<p>Giant reach:
Penn (Wharton)
MIT (Sloan)</p>

<p>Reaches:
UC Berkeley (OOS)
Univ of North Carolina (OOS)
Univ of Texas (OOS)
Univ of Virginia (OOS)
Cornell</p>

<p>Slight reaches:
Carnegie-Mellon
Georgetown
Univ of Southern California
Emory</p>

<p>Match to Slight Reach:
NYU</p>

<p>Matches:
Penn State
Michigan
Maryland
Boston College
Boston University
Univ of Miami (Florida)</p>

<p>Safe Matches:
Wisconsin
Illinois
Indiana
Fordham
Purdue
Miami of Ohio</p>

<p>You can get scholarship money at Indiana, Fordham, and Miami of Ohio--and possibly at Pittsburgh, and (if you get in) at Carnegie-Mellon, Emory and USC.</p>

<p>For helenwho, schools to consider for business with stats of 88.4 and SATs of around 1800 to 1900 (2200 is unrealistic based upon your grade average, though I hope you prove me wrong):</p>

<p>Slight Reaches to Reaches:
Penn State
Michigan
NYU
Maryland</p>

<p>Slight reaches:
Boston College
Boston University
Miami of Florida</p>

<p>Matches:
Wisconsin
Illinois
Indiana
Fordham
Pittsburgh
Colorado
Oregon
Bentley College
Purdue
Miami of Ohio</p>

<p>You can probably even get scholarship money at some of these schools, like Indiana and Miami of Ohio.</p>

<p>Also, both of you should check out this link:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/pdfs/2006/0619_top50b.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.businessweek.com/pdfs/2006/0619_top50b.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Good luck to both of you.</p>

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<p>Thank you so much Calcruzer :)</p>

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<p>You're welcome. Best of success to you with your college applications.</p>

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<p>thanks a lot.
now i can re-evaluate my schedule and plan.</p>

<p>yeah i got very low grades(75) for English last year :(,
guess that brought down the average even with a high maths grade(95)</p>

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<p>calcruzer- BU and BC are not equally difficult to get into, and penn state is not harder than either of them</p>

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<p>Yes, Boston College is tougher than Boston University, but not by much (Princeton Review says two points on a selectivity scale of 100).</p>

<p>Penn State, although it has a normally lower selectivity ranking than either school, relies more on GPA than SAT scores (they rank GPA as at least 2/3rds of their admittance factor, which is much higher than for most schools)--and which in this case means it will be tougher for helenwho to get into Penn State than BU since her GPA is quite a bit lower than Penn State's average (although I agree with you probably not tougher than for BC--so BC should be moved to the "slight reach to reach category"). </p>

<p>Notice I ranked these three schools all as matches for b-galAJ, but not for helenwho--because the lack of a competitive GPA doesn't come into play for her.</p>

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<p>I definitely have to work on my GPAs next year. But I guess the TOTAL GPA throughout all the high school years will still be a disadvantage for me even if I made good progress in the last two years. </p>

<p>btw, How come Amercian students are available to so many AP courses? Here we have to complete high schools credits before you take any AP courses. Do US students get to skip those, or are they just a lot smarter?:rolleyes:</p>

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<p>i wouldnt put much stock in those PR rankings, they also rank the overall academics at BC equal to those at Princeton</p>

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<p>hey can someone teach me to calculate GPAs, weighted+unweighted. It would be SO nice. I tried this website and got a GPA of 3.62. <a href="http://www.back2college.com/gpa.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.back2college.com/gpa.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>I'm confused.</p>

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<p>unweighted</p>

<p>93-100 = A = 4.0
90-92 = A- = 3.67
87-89 = B+ = 3.33
83-86 = B = 3.0
continue like that, discard non academic classes (only use math,science,social studies, english and language)</p>

<p>for weighted, add 1 grade point (from 3.0 to 4.0 for example), to the individual grade for each honors or AP class</p>

<p>example
AP Calc 91
AP Spanish 87
English 12- 98
AP Physics- 82
AP Euro History- 90</p>

<p>UW = 3.468
W = 4.286</p>

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<p>International needing financial aid, look to schools where your stats are above the 75th percentile. Look at LACs in the South and MW that want Asians for diversity. Look past any big name school.</p>

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<p>thanks a lot, ckmets13!</p>

<p>bobby100, what you sound is pretty sad yet true.</p>

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<p>b-galAJ:</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Reach (out of state)</p>

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<p>hmm any of you think a 2200 SAT and 4.09 W GPA allows UVA to be a match? what about Duke? thanks so much!</p>

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<p>ckmets13, I never use the PR academic ratings or their financial aid ratings. I agree with you that those are useless. </p>

<p>However, to equate these to the validity of their selectivity ratings is completely unreasonable. The selectivity rankings are quite valid and reliable for ranking admittance chances. But, as I noted, these need to be adjusted for specific formulas used by certain schools.</p>

<p>P.S. In selectivity rankings, Princeton is ranked 99, Boston College 96, and Boston University, 94. And while Penn State is only a 90 (it probably should be a 91 or 92), I will stand by my comment that their admission formula probably makes admittance for students similar to helenwho (who has a lower GPA and wants to go into their highly-rated business school) more difficult at Penn State than at Boston University (though not by much).</p>

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<p>People have been giving you some very strange advice on this thread.</p>

<p>This is the proper way to categorize your list of school:</p>

<p>Super Reach:</p>

<p>Wharton (Upenn)
Sloan (MIT)</p>

<p>Reach:</p>

<p>UC Berkeley, UVA, UNC because you are out of state
Cornell</p>

<p>Slight Reach:</p>

<p>Carnegie Mellon
Emory
USC
Georgetown</p>

<p>Match/ Slight Reach:</p>

<p>NYU
Boston College</p>

<p>Matches:</p>

<p>University of Miami (Florida)
Boston University
University of Maryland
University of Wisconsin
University of Michigan</p>

<p>Safeties:</p>

<p>Penn State
Indiana
Miami University of Ohio
Fordham
Purdue
Bentley College
University of Pittsburgh</p>

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<p>hOW do you guys define SUPER REACH/REACH/SLIGHT REACH/ETC?
Like does it mean you have to work excessively harder and do all those things from now on; or does it just mean you'll only get in if you're superlucky?</p>