Chance Me for Engineering/Arch [STEM & Leadership Oriented; 1520 SAT; Predicted 27]

wabisab
Thu, 27 Nov 2025 12:56:44 +0000

Stats & Demographics

SAT: 1520 (e:780, m:740), (Self-study)

Ethnicity: Chinese, Studying in Hong Kong with U.S. citizenship

Expected cost per year: <40k

Intended Major: Architecture (prefer BArch) / Mechanical engineering

Yr of graduation: 2027

GPA: No, HK schools do not give GPAs

Pretty much impossible to get anything above a C/D, I’d prob. have a 2.0

APs: 7 (calc(5), precalc(5), stats(5), phyC(5), phy1(5), human geo.(4), envir. science(4)) (school does not provide ap courses, all self-study)

HS coursework:

These are the subjects I’m taking and will take in HKDSE (HK’s college entry test):

My predicted score is ~27, which is ~top 5% in HK

Chinese

English

Maths

Advanced Maths

Physics

Geography

Visual Arts

ECs

Developed 4 projects tackling elder care, disability access & urban heat; Secured 5 champions & 20+ awards in STEM competitions w/avg. 600+ teams; Devoted over 10hrs per week on projects

Captain of school STEM Team (Currently 3rd largest school org. w/100+ active members); Mentored 30+ members in robotics; Co-lead joint-school team to 7 awards

VP of school’s 60th Students’ Association (Oldest & largest school org. w/900+ active members); Led 50 execs & directed multiple 700+ person school & joint-school events; Managed ~34k budget & earned ~3k; Delivered 50+ student welfare initiatives

Sole designer for 7 school events; Designed posts for 5 orgs, reaching 150k+ impressions across a combined of 2k+ follower accounts; Chief designer of school Design Committee

100+ service hrs, taught and prepared material for underprivileged kids in arts and english, help organized a bazaar which earned over 12k

Produced & directed a short film w/10k+ views on YT; Wrote scripts & performed & secured 2 champions in radio drama competition w/500+ competing teams

Exec position across 5 clubs; Supported 5 event logistics and operations for these academic clubs

VP of school Arts Club and Physics Club; Held multiple club & joint-club events with over 30+ participants

Awards & Honors

5x Champion Team of large scale Hong Kong STEM competition w/avg. 600+ teams

Secured 20+ awards in regional STEM competitions w/avg. 600+ teams

Third place out of 500,000+ teams in national STEM competition (China), solo with a project related to helping the disabled gain access to nature

2times Hong Kong representative for the BETT Show (world’s largest tech-ed fair) in London, showcasing my award-winning projects

Developed a Chrome extension that deals with digital illiteracy

Internationally-verified Taekwondo black belt, grade one; 10yr commitment

2x Champion Team of radio drama competition w/500+ competing teams

LORs: School principal (only writes 7/yr), STEM teacher x2

School list

Cornell (ED)
Carnegie Mellon
Princeton
John Hopkins
UPenn
Dartmouth
Stanford
UChicago
Columbia
Harvard
Northeastern
Brown
Duke
Rice
Yale
NYU
UMich
Georgia Tech

Aiming for top colleges only, will stay in HK if I get no acceptances.