Chance for Dartmouth, Stanford, UCs, etc.

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Asian Male</p>

<p>CommonApp essay wrote about how observing and spending time with this special education classmate of mine in my art class epitomized my attitude of helping others.
For additional info, I completely skipped Alg. 2 and went straight to Hon. Precal in sophomore year because people compared me with my brother who skipped Hon. Precal to AP CALC AB in 10th grade. That was like a 300 word essay about how risks accentuate the gravity of meaningful decisions.</p>

<p>Unweighted: 3.88 (2 B+'s freshman year, 1 B- in Hon. Precal Soph, 1 B- in Phys B Junior). Good thing is all those b’s are in the first semester, so every one of those have improved.
SAT Reading: 700, Math: 800, Writing: 700. Total: 2200
SAT II’s: Chem: 780, Math II: 800, Chinese: 800.</p>

<p>Sophomore: Hon. World Hist, Hon. Pre-Cal, AP Chem (4), Hon. Eng, PE, Chinese 4.
Junior: AP Physics B (5), AP English (4), AP Chinese (5), AP Calculus AB (5), Art 1, US Hist.
Senior: AP Bio, AP Stats, AP Lit, Weight training, Art 2, Gov/Econ.
^3 APs senior year.</p>

<p>Awards:
Wondercup Science Festival Semi-Finalist.
AP Scholar with Distinction.
PSAT Semi-finalist.</p>

<p>EC:
-Intern at Foxit Softwares for summer of Sophomore year.
-Intern at Spencer’s Trading Group for summer of Junior year.
-Piano for 8 years. Local and state awards.
-President of Resonance! Club (music club at my school). The club organized benefit concerts for Manhattan ($1539) and Thailand ($888).
-I individually organized a benefit concert for Japan (raised $935)
-Varsity Tennis all 4 years. 2 years Captain.
-Head coach of FCSN (Fremont Children with Special Needs) Tennis summer program. I arranged the events and taught kids with disabilities how to play tennis.
-Environmental volunteer.
-Math club member all 4 years. Participant of math contests and Stanford Math Tournament.
-Berkeley Academy Tutor (not UC Berkeley, it’s what the tutoring center is called). Worked 4 hrs a week during my junior year and still working as of now. </p>

<p>Please chance for Dartmouth, Stanford, Yale, JHU, Northwestern, UC Berkeley, Duke. Thank you.</p>

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<p>I think you are a serious applicant which puts you in the top ~60% , however, I can’t see any passions in your application, it seems like a very generic ‘college padding’ list of ECs. But who knows?! Your essays might be outstanding, so best of luck!</p>

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<p>You dont have that many ECs, and your race will hurt you at many private universities</p>

<p>Stanford, Yale - High reaches. Far too many asian males with better stats apply to these schools.
Dart, NW, JHU, Duke - Reaches. Same reason as above.
Cal - Match, because they don’t consider race. </p>

<p>I hope you applied to the other UCs as low matches/safeties.</p>