Updated!! Chance me now!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Stats:[ul][<em>]SAT: 750 Math, 800 Writing, 740 Reading - 2290 (2320 Superscore)[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Physics[<em>]GPA: School does not give GPA, but 4.0UW, 4.9W[</em>]Rank: School does not rank, but 1-2/200[<em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 44/45 for IB Diploma - Full Candidate[/ul]Subjective[ul][</em>]Essays: Excellent[<em>]Recs: Excellent[</em>]Supplementary Material: Abstract - Economics Extended Essay[<em>]Summer Activities: taught ESL (Second Language English) to class of 10 students - 8 weeks/400 hours at prestigious Internship - Breakthrough Collaborative/Summerbridge[</em>]Hook: None[/ul]Personal[ul][<em>]Location: Hong Kong[</em>]High School Type: Private - International[<em>]Ethnicity: Indian[</em>]Gender:Male[/ul]Extracurriculars[ul][<em>]Founder/President of Revision Club (11,12) - Head of Class said that it was the first time she had seen initiative of this sort in all her years at the school, but I'm not getting a recommendation from her[</em>]Founder/President of Guitar Club (11,12) - The most popular student founded/led club at the school with over 30 students signing up within a day[<em>]Varsity Golf (11,12) - Represented school in golf tournaments after playing for only 3 months - been playing for 2 years now - ESSAY TOPIC[</em>]Started a proper business (11,12) - In charge of all Economic/Business decisions[<em>]Organizer/Leader of group project - building a small scale cloud chamber, writing research on muon decay and cosmic ray collisions[</em>]Organizer/Leader of group project - building a small scale particle accelerator[<em>]700 hours of community service over one year (11) - possibly continue till I get a 1000 hours (11,12)[</em>]Group leader of 6 - school trip to rural China to teach 10 year olds English for a week - they have never had contact with the language[<em>]Work with tutor class annually to earn about 1500 USD (annually) (6,7,8,9,10,11,12)[/ul]Awards:[ul][</em>]UKMT Gold Medal (8,9,10) - Teacher screwed up in 11 or I would have got gold again - International Award[<em>]UK Junior Olympiad (8) - Grade 8 too early to write on application? - International Award/Distinction[</em>]AMC12 (11,12) - 87 marks (particularly hard paper) - 89 was cut off for AIME - International Award/Distinction; 4th in school - School Distinction[<em>]Sunlife Maths Scholarship Competition (11,12) - 1 mark off distinction/top 25% - International Distinction[</em>]Euclid Scholarship Maths Scholarship Competition (11,12) - Distinction - 2 marks off International Honor Roll and mention on official website (top 2%) - International Award/Distinction[<em>]Elected Student Council Representative (9,10,12)[</em>]Economics Commendation (10) - School Award[<em>]Media Studies Commendation (10) - School Award[</em>]Merit Level Certificate of Achievement - International Citizenship (9,10) [SCHOOL][<em>]Spanish Award for Excellence (11) - School Award[</em>]Physics Award for Excellence (11) - School Award[<em>]Economics Award for Excellence (11) - School Award[/ul]Applying to:[ul][</em>]Wharton - ED[<em>]Columbia[</em>]Dartmouth[<em>]Cornell[</em>]Brown[<em>]MIT Sloan[</em>]Carnegie Mellon[<em>]NYU Stern[</em>]John Hopkins[<em>]University of Chicago[</em>]University of Michigan[/ul]</p>

<p>Just of note: I am taking part in a virtual stock exchange game with 100s of students around Hong Kong and am currently in the top 3. Even if I come in the top 20 I will win a award for representing my school, and if I come in the top 5 I will win an individual award. Furthermore, I will be doing a similar kind of competition, but in school only, and will most probably win that. If I do achieve well in these two competitions, how will my chances at business schools be affected, particularly Wharton?</p>

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<p>Anyone at all?</p>

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<p>lol i just glanced at it cuz i just posted something on this “chance me now” thread.
and seriously. you’re app looks amazing.</p>

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<p>All you care about is Wharton, and you will get in, trust me. I am willing to put money on it.</p>

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<p>Wow thanks. Just out of curiosity, to what extent would my chances drop if my SAT was a 2250, not a 2320, and my IB predicted was a 41, not a 44 - thats a drop in weighted GPA from 4.9 to about 4.5 (but my school does not give a rank or GPA)?</p>

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<p>Sorry for the seemingly arrogant title, didn’t mean it as somewhat of an order, I meant it as an opportunity to give me new chances as many people chanced me before with older stats.</p>

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<p>No offense, but all of the extracurriculars with “(11,12)” scream “I’m doing it for college applications” - and admissions officers will probably know that.</p>

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<p>Pretty good and you could get into those schools, but you need a more focused approach. Just do what you enjoy. From my point of view, you seem to be trying to do a little of everything</p>

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<p>those are quite impressive stats, but I would recommend applying to fewer schools. I knew a girl who graduated from my school last year with equally impressive accomplishments- president/officer in many clubs, 2380 SAT (2400 superscored), hundreds of hours of community service, several extracurriculars in which she had been participating for 4+ years, 13 AP tests with mostly 5’s, and she was Indian and spoke three languages. </p>

<p>Everyone thought she should have gotten into all the schools to which she applied, but she was waitlisted at several top universities like Harvard and Stanford simply because she applied to 17. Top notch universities like to think they have a good chance of you choosing to attend them, because the percentage of accepted students who enroll reflects on their statuses. I think it is likely you will get into all of those schools, but if there are a few you know you will simply not consider attending, I would narrow down the list to which you apply.</p>

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<p>And you know this because…?</p>

<p>From what I’ve heard, schools aren’t supposed to know what other schools you’re applying to.</p>