<p>rising senior
Chinese male
class size: ~850
New York, NY
low income family, like really really low (less than 15k)</p>
<p>Academics
GPA 4.0 unweighted (95.5/100)
SAT 2280: CR 740, Math 800, Writing 740
SAT Subject Tests: Biology M 750, Chemistry 780, Math 2 800, World History 800
AP exams: World History 5, waiting for Comp Sci AB, Psychology, and USH</p>
<p>Courses
Sophomore: AP World History, everything else regular</p>
<p>Junior: AP English Language, AP Comp Sci AB, AP Psychology, everything else regular</p>
<p>Senior (tentative): AP Calc BC, AP Physics C, AP Mandarin, AP US Gov, AP Macro&Micro, System Level Programming, Computer Graphics Cisco Networking, w.e. English class I get</p>
<p>NYU Precollege (this summer): Personal Essay, Writing Workshop</p>
<p>Extracurriculars
American Museum of Natural History After-school Program (took science classes during sophomore year)</p>
<p>American Museum of Natural History High School Science Research Program - an internship, did some research on mtDNA and maternal ancestry (not for Intel; junior yr)</p>
<p>Columbia Science Honors Program (junior yr & senior year)</p>
<p>American Red Cross - leadership position (junior year and probably senior year), CPR/AED/Standard First Aid Instructor, trained in disaster response, ~300 hours of volunteer work</p>
<p>Red Cross Club - going to be president next year</p>
<p>Key Club - 2 years of volunteer work (100ish hours)</p>
<p>Work
tutor’s assistant summer before high school (probably doesn’t count)</p>
<p>Human Resources Assistant at a hospital</p>
<p>Colleges
Questbridge
MIT
Yale (have a step-sister who graduated from Yale)
Princeton
Columbia
Stanford
Caltech
UPenn
UChicago</p>
<p>if rejected from Questbridge
EA
MIT
Caltech
Regular
Harvard
Yale (have a step-sister who graduated from Yale)
Princeton
Columbia
Stanford
UPenn
Brown
Cornell
SUNY Binghamton (safety)</p>
<p>What are my chances? I think I might have decent-ish recs cause I don’t really participate in class.</p>