<p>Yeah… The only score I feel okay to good about is the 4 on AB Calc AP test.</p>
<p>I completely forgot about Carleton.</p>
<p>Carleton: Reach</p>
<p>Hey thanks for chancing me!</p>
<p>I think your SAT 1 is a tad low for the top schools (since you are an Asian) and you definitely need to work on your subject tests.</p>
<p>You have decent extracurricular but I think the most important part of your application will be your essay. You need to phrase it in a way that:</p>
<ol>
<li>It doesn’t seem like you are finding excuse or blaming others</li>
<li>The problems you had faced are enough to drastically affect your grades</li>
<li>They have developed your character in a significant way</li>
<li>You have mostly overcome your problems and will perform much better</li>
</ol>
<p>With a convincing essay and improved SAT 2 scores, I believe you have a great chance at all schools except Brown and MIT for obvious reasons.</p>
<p>Chance me and I’ll chance back?</p>
<p>MIT: High Reach
Brown: High Reach
Carleton:High Match
Wellesley: Reach
BU: Match
Smith: Match
GA Tech: Match
Berkeley: Match
UPitt: Low match
UCSD: Low match
UCSC: Safety
UCR : Safety</p>
<p>Since you’re into science, I suggest you apply to Franklin Olin College of Engineering (top 5 school in major and accepted equals full scholarship)/ Webb Instituted (accepted equals full scholarship but is focused on naval engineering/ and Cooper Union.</p>
<p>Gender: Male
Race: Asian(Chinese)
Residency: California
Second Generation Student
Income: 250+ Prior to Taxes…brother attends UCD
School: EXTREMELY Competitive Public School (TOP 30 CA)
Class Rank: No Rank(Class Size = 996) should be around top 25 percent</p>
<p>UW GPA: 3.55
W GPA: 3.80
SAT: 2110 (Single Sitting) 740 WR / 740 MATH/ 630 CR T.T
SuperScore: 2280 740 WR/ 740 MATH/ CR 800
SAT II: Math IC 710/ USH: 770/ English Lit 750/ Chinese 800/ World History 780</p>
<p>AP’s
Freshman Year - AP Biology (self studied)
Junior Year - AP Calculus AB/ AP US History/ AP English Language/ AP Computer Science
/AP Psychology (Self studied)</p>
<p>Senior Year- AP Environmental Science/ AP Statistics/ AP English Literature/ AP US Government/ AP Spanish Literature / AP Miroecon (self study)</p>
<p>AP Scores: APENG (3), AP PSYCH (3), AP BIO (5), AP USH (4)</p>
<p>SENIOR YEAR COURSES
AP Spanish Literature
AP English Literature
AP Statistics
AP Environmental Science
AP U.S Government
Speech and Debate</p>
<p>Reason For Low GPA and AP scores: I got demolished Junior Year second semester involving a 15 day suspension/ lots of missed tests during this suspension including a final 0/200 T.T/ Constant meetings with deans during and getting withdrawn from class, one time I went to the office 7 times in one day…/ It wasn’t criminal activity, something else which I am not willing to talk about on CC </p>
<p>EC:
Model United Nations - 4 years/ Committee Director / (college invitational awards UCI, UCB, PCC, ETC…)</p>
<p>Speech and Debate - 2 years/ Capt/ (League Awards, Invitational Awards, district awards)</p>
<p>Business Co-Founder - 3 Years ( involving retailing and donating)</p>
<p>Toastmasters International - 4 Years ( West Division President)</p>
<p>Founder Toastmasters International -2 Years ( East Division)</p>
<p>Founder Gavel Club - Senior Year</p>
<p>Piano - 14 Years (California State Panelist (TOP 50 CA, TOP 25 SOCAL)</p>
<p>Football - 1 Year JV, got a concussion and tired of getting head and spinal injuries…decided to quit but was Capt LOL Amazing right</p>
<p>Special Olympics Sports Coach - 3 Years (coached some championship teams…happiest times of life)</p>
<p>Paid Tutor - 3 Years</p>
<p>Legal Intern - EB-5 Program, making sure million dollar Chinese Corporations cooperate with the US Government and the CLC in order to trade off their economic benefit for green card immigration…pretty interesting stuff</p>
<p>REC Writers :
Club Director and Employer
Penn Alumnus and ex-Claremont Professor
APUSH Teacher ( I’m kind of nervous about this one)
Counselors (They have to write recs for 1000 kids…doubt I’m going to get anything special from them)</p>
<p>NMST - Commended Scholar
Business - Mercy Corps recognized Partner</p>
<p>Schools (Mostly Liberal Arts)…want to go to law school (No EA or ED)
MAJOR : Applying as Philosophy (non impacted)
UC Irvine
UC San Diego
UC Merced
UC Riverside
UC Berkeley
Davidson College (My #1 Pick)
Rice University
Deep Springs College
University of North Carolina
Carleton College
University of Michigan Ann-Arbor
Williams College
Amherst College
Bowdoin College
University of Texas
University of Pittsburgh
Johns Hopkins University
Reed College
Washington and Lee College
Georgetown University
University of Virginia
Bates College
Babson College
Colby College
Colgate University
Gettysburg College
Grinnell College
Rutgers College
Hamilton College
Indiana University
Oberlin College
Occidental College
University of Texas
Vassar College
Wabash College
Wesleyan University</p>
<p>^ Start your own thread.</p>
<p>@OP:
It seems the strength of your credential is in your SAT1 only. Your GPA, AP and SAT2 scores are all rather low when compare to your SAT1 score. That usually raise a red flag in the admission office. Many kids start preparing for ACT/SAT1 early on and score very high. Those are usually Asians either here in the US or international students. That is one of the reason Asian candidates always get a discounted score in the admission process. Your profile do fit that kind of prototype and may have a negative impact on your chance.</p>
<p>^ I mean stereotype not prototype.</p>
<p>Hey, thanks. I didn’t find this thread again until today. 
@philosophomaj: That’s a TON of schools. Maybe narrow it down a little and then people would be more willing to do chances for you? Sorry. But as billcsho said, please make your own thread. </p>
<p>@billcsho: Thanks for the input! I’m planning on not reporting AP scores, or at least not reporting the Physics test scores. At least during the admissions process. As for SAT2s, I’ll retake… I know exactly what I was doing wrong, at least I think I do, which probably isn’t that credible. GPA, can’t really do much about it at this point except do my best senior year. Hopefully with more help from staff, I’ll be able to do better. Thanks again.</p>
<p>You should apply to UCLA.</p>
<p>Um, okay.
Why?</p>
<p>Okay, so bringing this back from the dead. I have a few more things. Also, my mom made me add a TON of schools. Here’s my final list: </p>
<p>University of Puget Sound
Franklin and Marshall College
DePauw University
Indiana University @ Bloomington
Clark University
Agnes Scott College
Baylor University
Case Western Reserve University
Boston University
University of Pittsburgh
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
University of Colorado @ Boulder
Oxford College at Emory
University of Southern California
University of Minnesota @ Twin Cities
Carleton College
Stanford
Wellesley
Smith College
Rice University
Swarthmore College
Georgia Tech
University of Rochester
+
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UCSD
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UC Santa Cruz
UC Riverside
possibly UC Merced</p>
<p>The few amendments to my original post:
- new honor/award: NMSQT Commended Scholar
- Slight GPA change: 3.45 UW, same W, unsure about UC (not calculated by guidance)
- Got into UC Riverside through the GAP Program</p>
<p>Final Senior Year Schedule
AP Economics
AP Chemistry
Biotechnology
English Honors
Math 1B (turns out the local community college had a very stingy credit system that wasn’t detailed so well on the webpage)</p>