USC, UCSD OOS, and Northeastern

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Asian American
School Type: Public
State: NH

Major: Economics

Rank: 32/430 ( I got all A’s in my classes, so should go to about 25)
GPA: UW-3.86 [out of 4.2] | W- 4.83 [out of 5] UC GPA- 4.13333 {A average in my school UW and W)
SAT: 1390/2080 (650 CR 740 M 690 W)
ACT: 32 Superscore – 31 C (32 E, 32 M, 30 R, 28 S) and 31 C (30 E, 31 E, 35 R, 27 S)
SAT Subject: I think mid 600 for Physics, higher 600’s Math II, 700 Math I
AP Taken: Macro/Microeconomic, Calculus AB, English Language, Physics 1 & 2, Calculus BC
AP Taking Now: European History, Statistics, Literature

Extra Curricular
Classical Western Violin (7 Years) - played at recitals every year and at old age home
Indian Classical Vocal (10 Years) - sung at annual recitals and performances; also at local temples
Indian Classical Violin (2 Years) - started summer after freshmen year; started because I wanted to learn
Policy Debate (3 years and going to do it senior year) - I LOVE DEBATE and VP of Team; gone to about 13 tournaments
Ranked 9th in State for Policy Debate in NSDA
Leadership skills: student-based team and taught 15 novices on policy debate
Math Team (3 years and going to do it senior year) - I really enjoy math
DECA (2 years) - 1st Place at States for International Business Plan with two partners [10th Grade]

  • 3rd Place at States for Principles of Finance [10th Grade]
  • 3rd Place at States for Business Services Marketing [11th Grade]
  • didn’t place at States but did Advertising Campaign [11th Grade]
    School Newspaper (1 year) - started this year and wrote my first article!!!
    Technology Student Association (1 year) - started this year and going to states!!! (but all events that I am participating in are speech and writing based)
    -2nd Place at States in Extemp. Speech
    -3rd Place at states in Essays on Technology
    Work at KUMON (3 years)
    Volunteer at local elementary school (1 year)
    Volunteer at local Soup Kitchen (3 year) not that much though
    Volunteer for local youth organization where we raise money for charities (3 years)
    National Honor Society
    National French Honor Society
    National Debate Honor Society
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I think you have a decent shot at all of them!

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first of thanks for replying on my post…not familiar with the second school but for usc and northeastern u should be fine. Good Ecs

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Thank you for replying to my post.
I don’t know about the first two, but I know two people who got into Northeastern and I definitely think your application is stronger than their’s was.

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I think you can definitely get into all the schools. SAT score may be a bit low, but the rest of your application, especially the ECs look fantastic. Best of luck!

Chance back? http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1857898-chances-at-theses-schools.html#latest

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Northeastern would definitely be a good fit. USC I could see you getting in you’re very competitive same with UCSD but that’s hard OOS. Best of luck!

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Do these schools require you to send your SAT II’s? If so they are really low and might hurt your chances.

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@graceann I think I sent it in anyways, but I did get a 5 on AP Calc though.

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I don’t have much familiarity with UC schools, but from what I’ve seen you seem like you have a shot at both, though UCSD may be a tad more difficult because you’re OOS. The only two places I COULD see potential snags would be test scores and volunteering. Not sure how much volunteering is even a factor, but testing wise maybe a few points higher on your SAT and subject tests would have a benefit? I think you have a good shot at Northeastern as well! Good luck!

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thanks @Hopefulcynic7

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I think you have a good chance for all of them. USC will be a little harder because of the high selectivity/test scores, but I’d be surprised if you didn’t get in.

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Wow! You have a lot of extracurriculars! :slight_smile: I think the admissions officers will look at those and just say, “Wow. This guy’s in.” So I think you have really good prospects!

It’s really unusual for someone to have so many extracurriculars AND a great GPA. I think your SAT scores are pretty good as well. That’s the one thing I’d work on…if you can, just try to score a little bit higher on your SAT and/or SAT Math tests. If you can get those just a bit higher, you’re pretty much guaranteed to get in.

Good job and keep up the good work! Even if you can’t get the SAT scores up, I’m sure you still have a very high chance of getting into all of those schools! :smiley: