<p>Hi, I’m hoping someone can tell me my chances for RD at these schools (well, I applied to Harvard EA <em>wince</em>):
Harvard
Yale
Dartmouth
Brown
Chicago
Washington in St. Louis
Rice
Oberlin
Wellesley
Rochester
Bard
Sarah Lawrence</p>
<p>Stats:
Asian female (Japanese/Korean descent)
Canadian/US dual citizenship - born in Canada and lived there 6 years
New Mexico, public high school (best in state, but that’s not saying much)</p>
<p>Test Scores
SAT I: 800v, 720m; 1520
SAT II: writing 720; literature 720; math IIC 620 (retested this year: 780)
AP Grammar/Comp 4</p>
<p>Rank: 15% (about 300 students)
GPA - 4.3 weighted (don’t know what it is unweighted, but I get about 1 B out of 7 As average)</p>
<p>Classes this year:
AP English
AP Physics B
AP Calculus
Guitar/Java Programming
Computer Art/Creative Writing
Latin 1
Forensics
(6 classes this semester, full load the next)</p>
<p>Last year English and Spanish were my only AP classes, but I took advanced Bio and Chem. I’ve taken 3 years of orchestra and five years (two in mid-school) of spanish previously.</p>
<p>Extra-Curricular/Other
Violin (8 years)
Piano (5 years)
Hapkido (martial arts) (3 years, purple belt)
Korean lessons (3 years - can read + understand very basic Korean, but can’t speak)
National Honor Society (3 years)
Global Youth Leadership Conference (summer of sophomore year)</p>
<p>I’ve also mentioned that I read extensively (over 100 books a year), and write on my own (I have a supplementary rec that supports this).</p>
<p>Teacher recs: hopefully, good - average, at least.
Essays: pretty good - I’ve got a solid common app one at least.</p>
<p>My ECs are pretty lame, but I’m hoping my essays will make up for it… But do I have a good chance at the lower half of my list at least? (Yeah, I know my list is top heavy, but 11 applications is making me crazy enough as it is.) I’m also younger than most of the applying class - 16 (and born in Sept), so I was wondering if that might have any bearing on any of this.</p>