Chance an international HYPC

powerbomb
Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:56:17 +0000

Here I go:

Gender: M
School: Fairly competitive (Sends around 5 to schools like Cornell, UPenn, Columbia, and Dartmouth each year and rarely to HYPS)
Race: Asian. (please don’t stop reading)
Country: Canada…asian+intl can’t be good, right?
Aid: Most definitely

SAT: CR: 770, M: 660, W: 680. (1st sitting) will retake in Oct. w/ prep over summer.
GPA: 3.9UW ~ 4.3W (school only sends weighted GPA, though)
Class Rank: Valedictorian (we have like 30 vals each year. lmao, but they don’t have to know this)

Schedule

Freshman:
-Honors Algebra 2
-Honors Biology
-Honors English
-French 1
-Advanced Band
-Health
-Honors World History 1

Soph:
-Precalc
-AP World Hist.
-Honors Chem
-Honors English 10
-Adv. Band
-French 2
-Health 2

Junior:
-AP Calc BC
-AP Chem
-Lab (double block class with chem)
-AP US Hist.
-AP English Lang.
-Adv. Band
-French 3

Senior:
-Multivariable/matrix
-AP Physics C
-AP Psychology
-AP English Lit.
-AP US Govt.
-AP French
-Adv. Band

Don’t have my AP scores yet… but should be mixes of 4s and 5s.

Subjective

-Marching Band (4 years, section leader jr. year, Field Captain senior year, state honors, highest ratings, etc)
-Solo and Ensemble (Highest rating)
-Science Olympiad (2nd @ Regionals, 1st @ States)
-Model UN (Local conference awards, nothing big)
-Debate (Captain, 2nd at Districts, Regionals qualifier)
-Math Honor Society (Vice Pres.)
-I ran track for 2 years, and got some scholar-athlete awards
-West Point Leadership and Ethics Conference (2nd place for presentation)
-American Red Cross Youth Leadership Development Conference
-Volunteer at Nursing home and Library (2 years)
-French Honor Society
-NHS
-Small school awards and such
-All District Band
-_____ County Youth Leadership Program

Recs: Should be very good
Counselor: He knows me too well. Had both of my sisters, and even knows my mom…it’s kinda creepy.
Essays: Haven’t written em yet.

I realize that I have a slim chance at said schools given my race+international status. But, I would appreciate any honest evaluation.

I was thinking of applying SCEA to Yale, but I heard it’s actually harder than RD due to the large legacy/athlete pool.

EDIT: I live in the states but will be applying as International from Canada.

EDIT AGAIN: My SAT 2’s are soon to come. I’m expecting 760~800 on all 3 of them. I realize this assumption may be far from my actual score come the 25th, but please take my assumption and chance :)