Chance me at Harvard, MIT with a 2.8 and multiple international awards? D:

Chance Me / Match Me
1

<p>I’m currently a junior, trying to figure out what direction I’m heading in.</p>

<p>2390 SAT
2.8 UW GPA
Class Rank - 308/651 in a Competitive Public
No FA needed
Probably good teacher recs and solid essay</p>

<p>Classes - straight honors and AP’s
AP Biology - 5
AP Chemistry - 5
AP World History - 5
AP US History - 5
AP Economics - 5 (Macro)
AP Computer Science - 5
AP Statistics - 5
AP Calculus BC - 5
AP Physics C - 5
AP English Literature - 5
AP French Literature - 5
AP Japanese Language and Culture - 5
AP Spanish Language - 5
AP German - 5
AP Music Theory - 4
AP Art History - 4</p>

<p>If you are wondering how I took so many, I took some of the sciences before high school. Parents = Japanese, lived in a french-speaking country, currently live in a spanish populated area so J,Fr,Sp AP exams were ah. Honest-to-goodness studied for German AP.</p>

<p>EC’s
Class VP- 2 years
Class Treasurer - 1 year
Designer for a very popular photoshop design site - 5 years
Have coded multiple popular iPhone applications - 2 years
Wrote a security program for a particular company in 2008
Design websites for the local businesses around here, pro-bono - 4 years
Yearbook Editor-in-Chief of Design - 2 years (regular staffie for 1 year)
Piano since I was 8
Varsity Debate - 3 years
National Ocean Science Bowl Varsity - 3 years</p>

<p>Awards (for privacy reasons, won’t explicitly list awards):
US National Chemistry Olympiad - 10
International Biology Olympiad - 9, 10
International Olympiad in Informatics - 9, 10, 11
AMC 10 Qualifier - 9
AMC 12 Qualifier - 10 (I’ll be taking it again soon)
State Science Olympiad - 1st in Forensics - 10
NOSB National Placements in top 5 - 9, 10, and probably 11
Tournament of Champions Qualifier - 10, 11
Tournament of Champions - Placed in Top 10 - 10
On the list of top 10 debaters in the country
State Debate Champion - 9, 10, and probably 11
Placed in the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF)
1st Place Journalism Award from Columbia, in the Class I division for Yearbook - 9, 10</p>

<p>Summers:
NASA Research Program (SHARP)
U of Michigan Debate - 7 weeks </p>

<p>Schools: Harvard, MIT, Caltech, UChicago, Columbia, Northwestern</p>

<p>Honest to god, I don’t know how the heck I would fare. I’m guessing I have a slightly better shot at MIT, Caltech and UChicago? Opinions are welcomed. </p>

<p>And, yes, I have safeties that I would be profoundly happy going to :).</p>

2

<p>May I ask what your weighted GPA is?</p>

3

<p>Why do you have such a low GPA?</p>

4

<p>you must have a solid reason for your gpa…to show that you’re not lazy
cuz all your standardized test and AP scores are stellar.</p>

5

<p>I don’t know if you can get into the US schools that you mentioned, but you have a great shot for Oxford or Cambridge who will just care about your APs and your intellect.</p>

6

<p>There is no overlap of USA teammembers from the result pages of IBO 2007, IBO 2008, IBO 2009, IOI 2007, IOI 2008 and IOI 2009. Anyone tried USNCO?</p>

<p>verdict: fail ■■■■■ is fail?</p>

7

<p>wow… -<em>- you have such high scores but a really low class rank/ GPA… I would say US colleges focuses on how stable your performances are. They want to see if you can manage to become the top at anything. but if ur GPA is really low while everything is high, that would probably mean laziness to the admissions officers… so I don’t knw man… but pretty darn good scores there haha chance me! <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/858123-please-chance-me-11-its-my-frickin-future-t”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/858123-please-chance-me-11-its-my-frickin-future-t&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;____t.html&lt;/p&gt;

8

<p>Northwestern/UChicago-Match
The rest-Reach</p>

<p>Good Luck!</p>

9

<p>Although your class rank and gpa are low, everything else is stellar! You made IBO and informatics olympiad, so you have a really good chance at MIT. MIT loves math/sci olympiad success. Also, you made ISEF which also shows your competence at research. </p>

<p>I’d say you could make all schools, except Harvard due to your gpa and class rank.
good luck</p>

10

<p>I believe the OP is fabricating at least one of his/her international awards. I have checked the USNCO, IOI, and IBO pages respectively and have not found a single overlap in the USA team members. The OP may have participated in one of these, but certainly not all three of them. This is backed up by the fact that another poster, who actually participated in IBO and got to meet the USA team members, claims that none of them were involved in IOI.</p>

<p>Also, how can you “qualify” for the AMC 10/12? No one needs to “qualify” to take those; the only things that can really be “qualified for” are the AIME, USAMO, MOP, and IMO. </p>

<p>Finally - has anyone else seen the OP’s thread regarding “eccentric” courses? There’s a very high chance this is a ■■■■■.</p>

<p>But assuming otherwise, the GPA is going to significantly hurt at schools like Harvard and MIT, putting them out of the question. Either way, however, you couldn’t have participated in so many international olympiads. End of story.</p>

11

<p>^ Fail ■■■■■ is fail. Try community college OP</p>

12

<p>OP please clarify.
CC is here to help; u shouldn’t fake it.</p>

<p>Please be honest with us. Again, we’re here to help :)</p>

13

<p>your AP list is longer than Steve Jobs biography ><</p>