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Gender: Male
Resident: Hawaii
Race: 1/2 White 1/2 Filipino
School: Bad public, about once every 4 years someone gets accepted to the top schools. 2 years ago a kid got accepted to Stanford, but then chose to go to the Naval Academy. About 70% of the school are military kids like myself.
Rank: 1/274
Courseload: Hardest Possible

GPA w/ Freshmen:
3.96 UW
4.375 W (highest I could go with the APs my schools offered)

GPA w/o Freshmen
3.97 UW
4.5 W

Junior Year Schedule: first semester / second semester so far
AP English Lang - A/A
AP World History - A/A
Advanced Band - A/A
AP Stats - A/A
Trig (no honors available)- A/A
AP Physics B - A/A
Self Study: AP Psychology
Self Study: AP Comparative Government

Senior Year Schedule (tenative):
Advanced Band
AP Chemistry (independent study)
AP Calc AB
Spanish 3 (no honors available/I'm going to try and test into Spanish 4 just so I don't have to spend a period with a bunch of sophmores/juniors lol)
AP English Literature
AP Biology
Online: AP US History

(I had massive schedule conflicts when signing up for this. Originally I wanted the 5 APs and band, but then APUSH, AP Chem, and Band conflicted with first period. Luckily I was able to convince my AP Chem teacher to let me independently study it during her prep period and I'll be taking AP US online.)

SAT:
2300 CR:760 M:800 WR:740

ACT:
34

SAT Subject Tests:
Math IIC: 800
World History: 800
Physics: 750

EC's
Band - Clarinet
- 7 years
- 4 years private lessons
- Clarinet Section Leader
- 2 time Hawaii High School Honor Band
- Hawaii All State Marching Band
- 2 time Tournament of Roses Parade participant
- For frosh and soph years, I attended a high school that was named "one of the top 3 high school band programs" in the nation.
- Solo in my band's field show for Junior and Senior years

Political Forum Club
- 2 year member
- Vice President select (moved before serving)

Philosophy Club
- 2 year member

Mu Alpha Theta
- 2 year member
- President

National Honors Society
- 2 year member
- Secretary
- 50 hours of service

Interact Club
- 2 year member
- 40 hours of service

Awards:
- Bausch and Lomb Honorary Science Award
- Probably an AP Scholar w/ Distinction by the end of this year

Hooks/Why I'm Unique:
- Valedictorian
- Great test scores
- 2 self study APs, 1 AP online, 1 AP independently studied during school hours
- Leadership positions even though I transferred schools between soph/junior yeras.
- Music longevity, honors, and experiences
- Marched in the Rose Parade twice
- I have received great grades through unusual circumstances? I've gone to over 10 schools from K-12 because both of my parents are/were US Navy officers.

Chances At (in order of preference):
Stanford
Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Duke
Pomona
U Chicago (EA)
UPenn
Washington University at STL
UC Berkeley
University of Washington - Seattle / Honors (Match)
UC San Diego (Match)
University of San Diego (EA, Safety)

Thanks for your chances.

AquaNerd

In at USD, UCSD, Berkeley, UWashington. In at some but not all of ivies and decent shot at Duke and Stanford. I have a hard time judging Pomona since it is such a small school and its admissions are really subjective.

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LondonIsCold

Stanford 5%
Harvard 5%---at least u have a chance
Princeton 5%
Yale 5%
Duke 5%
Pomona 60%
U Chicago (EA) 50%
UPenn 50%
Washington University at STL 60%
UC Berkeley 10%
University of Washington - Seattle / Honors (Match) 100%
UC San Diego (Match) 100%
University of San Diego (EA, Safety) 100%

skp

You have the hooks of coming from a state that's not overrepresented at top colleges and are a URM.


My guesses:
Stanford - reach
Harvard - high reach
Princeton - high reach
Yale - high reach
Duke - match
Pomona - match
U Chicago (EA) - match
UPenn - match/slight reach
Washington University at STL - match
UC Berkeley - match
University of Washington - Seattle / Honors (Match) - safety
UC San Diego (Match) - safety
University of San Diego (EA, Safety) - yeah, safety

AquaNerd

IMO 5% for Stanford is a little harsh. What's the reasoning behind that?

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aaron981

I would say you have a much better chance than most at all of the colleges you want to attend. Disregard what "LondonIsCold" said, as it is impossible for you to have less of a chance than the actual acceptance rate. You will probably get into at least one of the HYPS. I would say you are in at Duke as well, along with all of your other choices.

DagnyT

Being from Hawaii helps.

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skatj

Your stats are great, the only thing that might be bad is that your ECs (except for band) seem a little unfocused. You should get into at least half of the schools you listed.

And hopefully, being from Hawaii does help a lot

snooker1

Sure, Penn is less selective than HYPS, but I wouldn't say you have a 50% chance at a school with a 16% acceptance rate (close to 11% for RD). You're probably an above average applicant at Penn so I'd put you in the 16-35% range at best. Penn is a reach for you.
I think you have a better shot at Pomona than has otherwise been indicated.

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