What are my chances?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey!
I am an international student living in Bangkok, Thailand. Here are my statistics.</p>

<p>Nationality: Thai</p>

<p>Weighted GPA so far:
4.1545/4.8 (not including 9th grade)
4.0435/4.8 (including 9th grade)</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA so far
3.907/4.3 (not including 9th grade)
3.878/4.3 (including 9th grade)</p>

<p>Class rank: will be determined very soon (I think it's about 5-10th place out of 180)</p>

<p>SATI: 1940 (Math: 790, CR: 520, WR: 630) <<< I will probably take SAT I again
SATII: Math IIc: 800, Chemistry: 730 << going to take physics and chem again in October</p>

<p>Honor courses in junior year:
taking 8 classes out of 8 slots
IB English A1 SL
IB Economics HL
IB Theory of Knowledge
IB Math HL
IB CHemistry HL
IB PHysics HL
IB Thai A2 HL
IB Computer Science HL</p>

<p>Honor courses in senior year:
same as junior year, but finished with Com Sci</p>

<p>Extracurricular Activities: (Brief)</p>

<p>Math Club (Grade 9-12)
-won some first-place awards in competition with other international schools in Thailand
- AIME qualifier
- currently in varsity math team</p>

<p>Thai Club (grade 9 - 12)
- IT Director of the club in grade 10</p>

<p>Student Council (Grade 10 - 11)
- Sophomore class secretary
- Junior class treasurer </p>

<p>Baan Rachawadee club (Handicapped homes)
-basically we played witht he handicapped children and make them have fun
- around 100 hours of com service so far in school record</p>

<p>Golf, badminton
- practice every week (no awards yet -_-')</p>

<p>Science club (grade 11)
- one of the founders of the club</p>

<p>ROTC (Reserved Officers Training Corps)
- Thai millitary training every weekend for six months. (4 hours each week)</p>

<p>Internship/jobs
- going to find a job or internship to do this summer</p>

<p>Websites managing
- create and manage commercial websites for my dad's businesses</p>

<p>I am going to major in computer science/ engineering
Colleges that I am considering are...
Reach:
- Harvard, Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley
Possible: (but still very hard)
- Carnegie Mellon, UCLA, U mich, U Illinois</p>

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<p>Hmm. It's a good idea to take the SAT again. Your scores now are low (though not horrible) for all of these schools except Illinois and maybe Mich. You really want to get the CR score up. Also, take a 3rd SATII; a lot of colleges require it. I'd recommend taking something that's not math or science to show intellectual breadth. </p>

<p>CMU is a decent bet if you DON'T apply to study CS, but as their CS program is in top five in the nation you have little chance in that field.</p>

<p>Harvard, Stanford, MIT- far reach (going to reach if you can get a ~2200 SAT and write a good essay)
CMU in CS - reach
Berkeley, UCLA - match-reach
CMU non-CS, Michigan - match
Illinois - safety </p>

<p>Have you considered RPI (safety-match, no pun intended) or Georgia Tech? Both are very good tech schools that you have a decent chance in.</p>

<p>Also, a lot of colleges best known for liberal arts have fine engineering schools - to give a semi-random example, Rice. Check into them - there are things between Ivies and pure tech schools.</p>

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<p>veerawudth:</p>

<p>UCLA: Reach (out of state)
UCB: Reach (out of state)
Stanford: Reach</p>