<p>GPA-98.9 uw
SAT-2190(I f’d up)
act-35(sending this)
SAT
12 AP’s up to this year, 17 by the end of HS(10 5’s, 4, 2 on calc BC(I regret this))
Pres or co-pres of 9 clubs. captain of 1 sports team, play 2 others.
Cousin goes to Harvard. 2 rec’s from Harvard grads. </p>
<p>If I end up applying I’m looking at NYU CAS Eco(I heard Stern is too hard to get into?/friend got rejected with 1540 on SAT’s but still got into Columbia and other Ivies, but I wont end up going unless I attain Rubin or other Scholarship), Duke, Stanford, UCLA, Columbia, ND so far.</p>
<p>So my problem is that my parents wont let me attend an American school, because Im moving back to England or to South Africa after living in NYC since I was 1. I’m an only child. I really don’t want to move but its not my choice:(. They want me to go to college in the country I’m gonna be in. So its either Oxbridge/LSE/U Manchester/ St. Andrews or some school in South Africa and I have to start researching schools in cape town/johannesbrg. I’m still protesting though and trying to see whats gonna happen. </p>
<p>Chance me please for Harvard, LSE and other UK schools. </p>
<p>This is the first time that I am replying to a “chances” post, so don’t trust me completely.</p>
<p>Your scores are all very high, and I doubt that your 2 on the Calc BC exam will hurt you at all, since you’re not planning on majoring in math.</p>
<p>The thing that I have to say is that your app looks completely tailored to apply to top schools. I mean, speaking from personal experience, and this is from my experience only playing ONE sport, it is extremely hard to be involved in many clubs since sports take up so much time with required practices (and you play three sports, so I’d imagine that much more time is required of you than is of me). If I were looking at your app, I’d ponder how commited you really were to all of those clubs, since what you listed is seemingly not humanly possible (or your clubs meet only every couple of weeks). In this way, your app seems a little over the top: what you are saying is, “I am very devoted to A, B, C… X, Y, Z.” In other words, your interests seem to be so widely spread that I can’t get a grasp what really makes you stand out as an individual among the maelstrom of other qualified applicants. I’ve read another forum before where a poster stated that you want to say, “I did A (a, b, c), B (d, e, f), and C (j, i, k),” where you show the depth of your commitment in each affair you took part in, being able to expand of each. </p>
<p>Quite honestly, not that I’m one to speak, I don’t know how believable your app is going to be to most colleges. Maybe you can portray your interests very well in an essay, but don’t make a laundry list of an essay, as what you were truly devoted to will be prevalent to colleges from your app.</p>
<p>I agree with tknogk. Pres/co-pres of 9 clubs? That’s ridiculous. It’s very hard to show a passion, which is what colleges are looking for, through that. I’d say you have little to no chance unless you can focus your ECs and make it look like you were doing things because you enjoyed/were passionate abotu them, not because you wanted to go to Harvard.</p>
<p>pres/co-pres of 9 clubs is ridiculous. no one will take you seriously—with that many clubs, you likely devote little time to each so they are not significant at all.</p>
<p>Is that even possible? (handling 9 clubs)… You have 240 hours per day…
LSE is not that hard to get in unless you’re applying to study econ there…</p>
<p>Hey is this considered passion?
Pre-Med Society(9,10,11,12)
Chess/Go Club(10,12)
Key Club(11,12)won distinguished key clubber award.Projects Committee head.
American Cancer Society Club (12)
Dental Internship (9,10,11,12)
NeuroScience Research (11,Summer,12)
State Pre Enrichment Program at Columbia Medical School
Job at Hospital. Directly Interacted with patients. (Summer before 11)
Job at a Community Center (Summer before 12). Alos volunteered here in summer for 5 hours/week.
100+ Hours of volunteering at a hospital. (11, summer, 12)
Job at Barnes and Nobles (12)
College Now Program- will take college level macroeconomics (12)</p>