The New Chances Thread (now with more ECs)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>If you've seen some of my other chance threads, you'll see I added a few things. It's not because I omitted them on purpose, but I just have so much going on right now that I'm just remembering them now after looking through my papers; most of the ECs and volunteering I listed from my other threads were right off the top of my head. </p>

<p>General:
Sex: Male
Race: Korean
Location: Southern California
High School: Fairly competitive but not cutthroat. The school sends a handful of students each year to UCLA and Berkeley but rarely ever to top Ivies.
Interests: Sports (listed below), guitar, mountain biking, traveling</p>

<p>Stats:
GPA: 3.9 UW; 4.45 W
Class Rank: 4/536
SAT: 2330 (770 M, 760 CR, 800 W); 2390 Superscore (800M, 790 CR, 800W)
SAT II: 800 U.S. History, 770 Math IIC, 750 Literature, 750 Biology
APs (took all available): World History (5), Biology (4), U.S. History (5), English Language & Composition (5), Chemistry (4)</p>

<p>Community College Courses:
Business Statistics - A
Accounting 1 - A
Accounting 2 - A
Introduction to Business - A</p>

<p>Senior Schedule:
AP Physics
AP Calculus BC
AP English Literature
AP Government
AP Economics
French 3</p>

<p>ECs:
* Varsity Baseball (3 years; 1 year JV)
* Varsity Swimming (4 years)
* Freshman Basketball (1 year)
* Key Club (4 years)
* Future Business Leaders of America (2 years)
* School Newspaper Editor (2 years)
* High School Assimilation Committee (assisting prospective middle school students get assimilated into the high school) (1 year)</p>

<p>Volunteering:
* 250 hours at a big hospital (filing paperwork, mopping the floor, do-everything-guy, etc.)
* 120 hours at local elementary school that I attended (helping out the preschool kids with their breakfast, reading books to them, etc.) [note: I never really did this for the purpose of putting it on my college application, because it was just something I loved to do and would help relieve stress.]
* 50 hours at local public library (shelving books, checking out books, reading to young children)
* 50 hours at blood bank (assisted in blood drives, distributed snacks and beverages, donated blood of my own)</p>

<p>Schools:
HYPS
MIT (Sloan)
UPenn (Wharton)
NYU (Stern)
Dartmouth
UChicago
Columbia
Brown
Carnegie Mellon
Williams
Harvey Mudd
Amherst
Swarthmore
UCI (safety)
University of Washington (safety)</p>

<p>Sorry if my list of schools is too long. Thanks in advance!</p>

<p>Btw, do the community college courses get added onto my high school GPA? I was never really sure about this, but regardless I took those classes because I was genuinely interested in them.</p>

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<p>You have very good stats. And I do not think the college courses count towards your GPA.</p>

<p>I think you have a good shot at the IVIES, but I think your EC's should be more related to your major..</p>

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<p>Thanks for the chance! Yeah, I didn't really do a lot of business-related ECs for one because I wasn't sure I'd want to major in business. I also wanted to take a variety of ECs that interested me instead of sticking to just one thing.</p>

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<p>Out of curiosity, why are you applying to just UC Irvine? Why not UCBerkeley or UCLA?</p>

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<p>Yeah, I decided to leave Berkeley and UCLA out because I already was chanced for them. I think my list of schools is too long as it is, lol.</p>

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<p>Good chances. The only thing that could be improved upon is extra-curriculars, which fail to showcase your mentioned interests.</p>

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<p>in state chinese/taiwanese female (california)</p>

<p>i want to do something in biology</p>

<p>4.15 W (should change because i'm getting one B changed to an A and possibly another B to an A cause i'm appealing)
3.8 UW</p>

<p>rank 23/550 ish</p>

<p>SAT: 2120
SAT Subject:
Chinese: 690
Math II: 710
Biology: 750
Spanish: 560 -_-</p>

<p>APs:</p>

<p>Spanish AP ...2 -_- ( i got A's in the class)
Calc AB: 4
Biology AP: 5</p>

<p>Senior schedule:
Econ/Gov AP
Calc BC AP
English Lit AP
Physics AP
Ceramics A/B </p>

<p>Sports:</p>

<p>1 year bball...will it affect my chances that i quit after freshman year?
3 years varsity track
Most inspirational
Zamperini Award (gives out 7 a year..180 athletes total)
Coach's Award</p>

<p>EC:
Girl Scout Gold Award (10th grade) Pres, VP, Secretary of troop, arranged cookie sales one year
Toastmasters Graduate, President, VP, Seargant At Arms, Secretary
Chinese School up to 10th grade
Vitas Hospice Volunteer (45 hours this summer so far)
Red Cross Intern (just started, but so far 7.5 hours)
Lettermans Club VP (11th grade)
SCCCS Chinese Cultural Camp Counselor (1 week in Big Bear)
NHS
CSF
Chinese Culture Club
UNICEF
art class (oil painting)
Basketball (club) until 10th grade</p>

<p>Schools:
UC's mainly (Irvine, Davis, LA, SD, SC, SB, Cal)
Cal poly pomona</p>

<p>any suggestions for other schools with pretty good bio programs?</p>

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<p>^why are you hijacking someone else's thread?</p>

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<p>Seriously...that's pretty rude</p>

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<p>how about you make your own thread, shrttiekid.</p>

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<p>Yes, CC courses are added to your HS GPA. Or at least, they are in my school, and I can't say why yours would be any different.</p>

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<p>That's interesting because someone told me differently on another thread. </p>

<p>Can someone please chance my list of schools? Thanks in advance.</p>

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<p>sorry, i thought that this was one of those where you could put your own..
cause it said new</p>

<p>no need for the hostility</p>

<p>and it looked really recent so i thought i was the second person to post...i didnt know it was an individual type thread =/</p>

<p>i wasn't trying to hijack, sorry.</p>

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<p>No need to, it's alright. I just thought of putting something other than 'Chance Me' so I could stand out a little bit.</p>

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<p>so we're cool?
where are you from in socal anyway?
i am too, LA county</p>

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<p>Yeah, definitely. Sorry for the possible confusion.</p>

<p>I'm in L.A. County, too. Small world, huh?</p>

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<p>okay, i really don't know enough about ivy leagues and other top notch universities...my main knowledge is about UC's so here goes:</p>

<p>i think HYPS might be a slight reach, because one of the seniors last year at my school had a pretty similar resume, except with acadec and debate stuff...he didnt get accepted to harvard, princeton, or stanford..i'm not sure about yale...he chose duke in the end</p>

<p>another friend got into UPenn's waiting list and got lower than you on SAT and similar GPA...so maybe match?</p>

<p>the others i really can't say anything cause i don't know anything except for random things that dont really pertain to admissions/chances</p>

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<p>Trust me, I'm not expecting anyone to tell me that HYPS is a match because it really isn't a match for anyone. I would definitely be happy if I got into any of those schools, though.</p>

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<p>haha if i got into an ivy, i think i'll throw myself a "i got into ____ !" party =P</p>

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<p>The hell? lol</p>