Somewhat Curious. =]

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>So basically....after reading posts on this website, I got really curious about what universities I'd most likely get in my senior year. </p>

<p>I'm interested in the following universities:
Yale
Georgetown
Princeton
Stanford
Harvard
Cornell</p>

<p>Do you think that I'm on the right track for these schools? It'd be AMAZING if you could give me some feedback or suggestions to improve my stats. Thanks guys!</p>

<p>Asian Canadian Female, grade 10/(sophomore, right?)
Attend The Bishop Strachan School (one of the most prestigious private girls school in Canada)
GPA: We don't do GPA or ranking, but my average is around 93 (and I'm taking the most challenging courses offered)
SATI: 2300
SATII: U.S. History:800, World History:750, Math I:800
AP: U.S. History 4, World History 5, English 5</p>

<p>ACADEMIC AWARDS
- Honour Roll, Headmaster's List (every single year)
- Geography Award (9)
- Cayley Math Contest (10)
- National Latin Contest Gold Award (10)
- Canada National Scholar (10)</p>

<p>LEADERSHIP
- Student Council (10)
- Head of Speakers’ Union - the debate team at my school(10, and next year)
-Organized the inter-house debates at school this year
-Hold weekly club meetings
- will beAmnesty International Club Head (11)</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULARS
Piano Performer’s ARCT (played since I was 3 years old)
-1st at Kiwanis Music Festival and Peel Region Music Festival (9)
-2nd at Peel Region Music Festival (10)</p>

<p>Senior Choir</p>

<p>Debating and Public Speaking (since grade 7)
- Placed 14th in OSDU Provincial Debating Tournament (9)
-2nd or 1st at Nora McCrae Public Speaking Tournament every year
-2nd overall at Winter Fulford Tournament, it's a huuge competition (10)
- Placed in top 30% of the International Independent Schools Public Speaking League Tournament (10) -- people from all over the world come
- Debate Camp</p>

<p>Art
- I go to a studio outside of school
- Silver and Gold award for The World Student’s Art Exhibition in China (9)
- Works displayed at YMCA exhibition (9)</p>

<p>Model U.N.
- SSUNS delegate representing Kenya in Montreal (9) </p>

<p>Forum for Young Canadians
- “The bilingual and strictly non-partisan program brings approximately 600 students (aged 15-19 years) from across Canada to Ottawa in four separate sessions each spring where they spend a week on Parliament Hill to experience first-hand how Canadian government works and the values its promotes.” =)</p>

<p>TSX Stock Market Challenge (10)</p>

<p>Will go to Georgetown University's Int'l Relations Program for High School Students this summer!</p>

<p>COMMUNITY SERVICE
S.E.A.S. Centre (9, 10)
- Non-profit organization that provides services to help new Asian immigrants integrate into society
- Help out at fundraising events usually twice every month</p>

<p>Horizons Tutoring Program (10)
- providing tutoring and mentoring for students in Toronto inner-city schools
- Meet tutee once a week for an hour</p>

<p>Red Cross Society of China, Zhuhai (Summer, 9)
- targets the neediest people for assistance- sets disaster preparedness as one of its priority tasks, practices community-based primary health care training and collects money to benefit floods-stricken areas in China
- summer volunteering while I was in China for the summer</p>

<p>TPR English, Zhuhai(Summer, 9)
- Teaching young schoolchildren in Zhuhai (small rural town) the English language through games and songs- part of non-profit organization activity</p>

<p>Will go to Dominican Republic next March to care for HIV-orphans and will also go to Ghana next summer to build houses with Habitat for Humanity.</p>

<ul>
<li>have total over 300 hours of service</li>
</ul>

<p>Will have good RECs too!</p>

<p>Thanks for reading all of this!</p>

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<p>Zhuhai is not that rural...
Hmm... from your ECs, colleges can probably tell you have plenty of money to throw around to help pad your resume. Your scores at not bad. 800 in Math IC will not count for any of those colleges on your list since most colleges require Math IIC. Your grades are fine as well it seems. </p>

<p>Yale - reach
Georgetown - safe match (Not a bad school, but not a good school)
Princeton - reach
Stanford - reach
Harvard - reach
Cornell - match</p>

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<p>yeah i'd say you have as good a chance as anyone... BSS has a good reputation i would assume and your numbers as well as your ECs are solid</p>

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<p>alright, i see.</p>

<p>considering you also live in canada, what school do you go to?</p>

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<p>check your private messages, sallie</p>

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<p>anyone else?</p>

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<p>All these are reaches. They are good dreams, but you need to get a deeper roster of schools.</p>

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<p>I would say you have a very good chance at Cornell and Georgetown and an average chance at the other ones; however, Harvard wont think as highly of traveling to all those countries and volunteering there because it involves money, and Harvard likes to be the equalizer for that.</p>

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<p>i'm surprised harvard, out of all schools, would want to be the equalizer considering their tuition...
heh heh heh. i just find it funny.</p>

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<p>not really. Harvard is nice to poor bright students and leeches the crap out of rich dumb kids who get in thanks to legacy or just smart rich kids. The rich kids get the shaft. Chinese get the shaft too. The worst combination possible for a non international applicant is rich chinese.</p>

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<p>wow okay i didn't know that at all!
i guess no chances at harvard for me, minus the fact that i'm canadian, and chinese. (does that make me international?) and i'm not super rich, i just go to school with super rich kids.</p>

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<p>dayam...you're only a sophomore?</p>

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<p>if sophomore is the "american-word" for grade ten, then yes, i am.</p>

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<p>You took your SAT's and SAT II's as a sophomore? Impressive scores.</p>

<p>Some of these summer programs (e.g. Georgetown's) aren't very prestigious, since they cost loads of money and are not very intensive. Georgetown's IR program is like.. a week long. Sure, it indicates some level of interest in the university, but it doesn't help much in the admissions process.</p>

<p>You are obviously an affluent applicant (as hikaru pointed out). You might want to tone that down a bit...</p>

<p>Your community service in China is impressive, if you're not Chinese. However, many colleges know that these "summer extracurricular projects" are actually obtained through parental connections and resources. Your work with Habitat for Humanity will be more impressive.</p>

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<p>Okay so basically my ECs aren't that great, eh?
How do I build it without being an "affluent" applicant?
I thought everyone else would be "affluent" as well.</p>