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<p>Schools applied to:
Early Decision/Action Schools: None **
*Regular Decision Schools:
UCLA
UC Berkeley (Social Work)
Amherst
Cornell (CAS)
Columbia (CC)
Northwestern (Weinberg)
Harvard
University of Chicago
UPenn (CAS)
Yale
Princeton
Duke (Trinity)
Dartmouth
Johns Hopkins University
Washington University at St. Louis
Williams
*
**Rolling Schools:
Michigan at Ann Arbor
Demographics:
[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): International
[<em>] School Type: Admissions-based prep school
[</em>] Ethnicity: Yellow
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Did you apply for financial aid? No
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None, really[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Academic Profile:</p>

<p>Standardized Tests
[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (Please List Breakdown) 2390
[</em>] ACT (Please List Breakdown)
[<em>] SAT II: 790 790
[</em>] AP Scores: 5544
[/ul]</p>

<p>Courseload and Transcript
[ul]
[<em>] Weighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.86/4.0+ (school only does W GPA)
[</em>] Briefly describe any upward/downward trends: None
[<em>] Freshman year courses (only list honors/AP) 11 courses (No APs allowed)
[</em>] Sophomore year courses (only list honors/AP) 12 courses (No APs allowed)
[<em>] Junior year courses (only list honors/AP) 5
[</em>] Senior year courses (only list honors/AP) 8
[li] Rank: Top 5% (School does not give exact rank. On Common App, as top 10%)[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Awards and honors
[ul]
[<em>] Major Awards: Won an international economics award
[</em>] School Awards: Various Leadership Awards
[li] Other Awards: Math Olympiad, National Honor Society Induction[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Calculate your academic index:
Academic</a> Index3 - College Confidential</p>

<p>Your Academic Index: 224
AI Rank * : 7 out of 9 </p>

<p>Subjective factors:
*Extracurricular Pursuits:<a href="also%20list:%20number%20of%20years/%20leadership%20positions/%20achievements">/i</a>
[ul]
[<em>]1. Student Body President 4yrs (National Government leader)
[</em>]2. School Ambassador 4yrs
[<em>]3. FBLA President 3yrs
[</em>]4. Student-teacher of an AP class 3yrs
[<em>]5. Founder of a humanitarian organization and president 3yrs
[</em>]6. School Model United Nations Director+ President of the General Assembly+ Secretary General+ Founder of a Conference 3yrs
[/ul]
*Job/Work Experience:<a href="also%20list:%20number%20of%20years%20and%20achievements">/i</a>
[ul]
[<em>]1. Tutoring
[</em>]2.
[li]3.[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>*Volunteer/Community service:<a href="also%20list:%20number%20of%20years%20and%20achievements">/i</a>
[ul]
[<em>]1. Regular volunteer at a welfare center 4yrs
[</em>]2. Founder of a humanitarian organization 3yrs
[li]3. Founder of a non-profit global volunteer movement 3yrs[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Essays:
[ul]
[<em>]1. Common Application Essay Topic: Wrote about social welfare and my interest in the major
[</em>]2. Supplementary Essay Topic 1: Liberal Arts education
[li]3. Supplementary Essay Topic 2: Humorous essay, an interview with myself[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Recommendation Letters:
[ul]
I did not see them, but they gave me brief descriptions.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendations: One teacher called me a genius and my other teacher explained my work ethic.
[</em>] Counselor Recommendation: Counselor mentioned the difficulty of our school and how I have the single most challenging course load of the entire school community.
[li] Additional Recommendations: My principal mentioned the various leadership awards and called me a 'once-in-a-career' applicant.[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Interviews
I had a bunch. They all went well.</p>

<p>So, here are the schools:
UCLA- I don't really want to go here. I just applied.
UC Berkeley (Social Work)- I would love to go here.
Amherst- Awesome liberal arts college, small community
Cornell (CAS)- Really strong faculty, love Ithaca
Columbia (CC)- I do not really want to go here, but awesome alumni connection
Northwestern (Weinberg)- Top choice?
Harvard- Top choice- alumni network, professors, region, extracurricular pursuits
University of Chicago- Awesome school.
UPenn (CAS)- Awesome, did not apply to Wharton because I have no interest in business whatsoever.
Yale- I am not sure.
Princeton- I think they recalculate UW GPA; I think I am screwed, because my transcript is laden with B's. (Counselor mentioned my top 1-2% rank and the difference in grading system)
Duke (Trinity)- Awesomeness.
Dartmouth- Crazy awesomeness.
Johns Hopkins University- Applied, but not top choice
Washington University at St. Louis- Awesome.
Williams- Pure awesome liberal arts college.</p>

<p>UCLA
UC Berkeley (Social Work)
Amherst
Cornell (CAS)
Columbia (CC)
Northwestern (Weinberg)
Harvard
University of Chicago
UPenn (CAS)
Yale
Princeton
Duke (Trinity)
Dartmouth
Johns Hopkins University
Washington University at St. Louis
Williams</p>

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<p>My subjective factors are especially strong.
My teachers gave me some phrases that they used for the recommendation letters (I waived the right to view) and they were pretty strong.
-Once in a career
-Single most challenging course load
-Loss of our nation, but the university’s asset
-Passionately pursues the given opportunities</p>

<p>My ECs are top-notch, I hold leadership positions in all my activities, and I tried to focus my entire application for my major economics and sociology. (Interesting Common Application essay, too- English department chair called it the best application essay that he has ever read in his 30 years of teaching)</p>

<p>My grades are not so good. I do not have a 4.0 and I am not valedictorian. Also, I am not salutatorian.
However, I still manage to be in the top 10% of a very competitive school with the single most challenging course load.</p>

<p>My standardized testing is decent. (Although many HYP applicants have similar SAT scores, I assume.)</p>

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<p>1042394059681729 is my username, send me a PM to see my resume.</p>

<p>Thanks in advance folks.</p>

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<p>DANG! Your applying to alot of colleges…</p>

<p>Umm I say you have a good chance at all of them BUT</p>

<p>I think Harvard will be a big reach, Yale Princeton Duke UPenn are all going to be reaches…</p>

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<p>Thank you!
Could you elaborate on why they will be big reaches?
I think Columbia will have the lowest acceptance rate this year.</p>

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<p>Well you are international so that kinda sets you back. Since your school only does weighted GPA for Harvard and the others you would think it would be higher than that…
And Harvard is always a reach for everyone esp. if you are international.</p>

<p>I can’t really comment on your test scores because you didn’t say what tests you took you just said the scores…</p>

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<p>PS Next time you do a chance thread cut down on the info NO ONE wants to read this much. Esp all that reflection stuff! What good would it do us to know that this college is not your top choice?!</p>

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<p>Do HS students really want to be chanced by other HS students? Talk about the blind leading the blind! :)</p>

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<p>If your essays are great, you have a good shot att all those schools. Although your ECs aren’t mindblowing, they’ll do just fine. Great academic stats (nice SAT!!) and great essays should get you into </p>

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<p>If your essays are great, you have a good shot att all those schools. Although your ECs aren’t mindblowing, they’ll do just fine. Great academic stats (nice SAT!!) and great essays should get you into a few of those schools. Lack of focus (= not apparent passion) in ECs is the only thing that could hold you back, even though it probably won’t.</p>

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<p>Haha, great advice.
I specifically said that my ECs have an apparent focus- public affairs.
However, you are right because I did not fully reveal my stats including the resume.
Thank you for your chances.</p>

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<p>You never really can tell with most of these schools. The only problem seems to be your grades/GPA/rank but other parts of your app can certainly overcome a single shortcoming. Everything else looks good or great (SATs), but I wouldn’t put too much weight in your recs; these schools have heard it all (e.g. more than one “once in a career student” per year for some counselors). Not applying for aid will definitely help you as an international, especially at the UCs. I think you’re good for at least two ivies and more than half of your others.</p>

<p>In order of rough guesstimation:
Harvard: universal high reach
Yale: universal high reach
Princeton: universal high reach
Columbia (CC): mid reach
Dartmouth: mid reach
Duke (Trinity): mid reach
Williams: mid reach
University of Chicago: mid/low reach
UPenn (CAS): low reach
UC Berkeley (Social Work): low reach
Cornell (CAS): low reach
Amherst: low reach
Washington University at St. Louis: low reach
Northwestern (Weinberg): high match/low reach
Johns Hopkins University: high match
UCLA: low match</p>

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