Chances- Taught myself Japanese?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>It’s a bit long and unorthodox, but please help me out! I’ll chance back! </p>

<p>SAT I : 2110 (680 M 700 W 730 CR), retaking on Dec. 6, scoring 2230+ on official practice tests
** SAT II:** BioE 780, Japanese with Listening 670, MathII 690 (!)
I just graduated from my school in which I took my International A Levels and IGCSE’s. Note that even Bs in A Levels receive college credit similar to AP exams
IGCSE: 5 A<em>'s, 3 A’s.
** AS (11th):** 1 A, 2 B’s, 1 C, 1 D (!)
A Levels (12th): 1 A</em>, 1 A, 1 B and 1 C (Predicted)
Awards/ Achievements: Published in my national school newsletter, have over 12,000 views on my poetry and prose online, selected to give a speech to the 10th and 12th graduating classes, Member of a 2nd place team of three in a science quiz out of 80 participating teams from 40 different schools .
Sports : Interschool swimming awards, triathlon/marathons done, regular rock climber
Essays : Amazing essays, focusing on the impact, trauma, and changed perspectives from moving to a third world country, as well as my pseudo-philosophical and semi-psychological opinions on my life and learning Japanese.
LORs : Meh. Okayish. My teachers don’t really know how to write great recommendations.
** Income bracket: ** <$60,000, one sibling, need financial aid.</p>

<p>Yeah, I really messed up in my AS and A Levels to a lesser extent. My lowest grades have always been in Chemistry, something I don’t ever intend pursuing though.
I’m an American citizen living in India. Currently 16 years old (skipped first grade), I moved here from Cali in 2010. I speak English, Hindi, Marathi, French, and Japanese. I’m writing a book and teaching myself JavaScript and then Ruby or C++.</p>

<p>I began teaching myself Japanese without textbooks in December 2013, and took the Subject test 11 months later. 670 is not an accurate representation of my abilities; I spent too much time on one question and didn’t finish the paper. I expected 730+ and I’ll be addressing this in my essays. Do you think this is good enough to slightly counter my grades? </p>

<p>Applying undeclared/undecided RD to Stanford, USC, UCB, UCLA, UCSB, UCSD, UCSC, Wesleyan, UMiami and 2 more that I need to finalize. Please chance me if you can, I would be more than happy to chance back and help with anything.</p>

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Don’t. There is just no way you can discuss it without it being perceived as whining. Due to the large number of heritage speakers taking this test, a 730 would still be in the bottom half percentile-wise. Have personal satisfaction in teaching yourself Japanese, but use your essays to highlight other aspects of your application.</p>

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<p>@skieurope Alright, I’ll edit those parts out then. How do you think colleges would perceive a 670?</p>

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<p>@avix215‌ first of all, thank you for chancing me!
Ok to start off,

  1. You’re an American citizen living in India, you don’t come under the same pool as our friends applying do (We’re out of state, they’re international)
  2. Your 10th grades are amazing, however that D in 11th will hurt you A LOT. Infact, I don’t think you’ll even qualify for Berkeley ( I believe the don’t want below a C in anything).
  3. What major are you applying? Your SAT score will help you, however your subject scores may or may not hurt you.</p>
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<p>@kaustubh0328‌ no prob.</p>

<p>1) Yes, I’ll be treated as an American citizen.
2) Ouch. I was not aware of that. Thanks for the heads up, I’ll try my luck anyway.<br>
3) Undecided/Undeclared. For colleges that don’t have a concrete Undecided option, I’m putting Undeclared/Physical Sciences. I think I’ll take the risk of sending my scores, though.</p>

<p>Thanks for chancing me, too.</p>

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<p>For admission, you will be compared with students who took A levels but will be treated same as citizens for financial aid.</p>

<p>Stanford UCB, UCLA, UCSD, Wesleyan, USC: HIGH reaches because of your school grade </p>

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<p>Do you have any safety schools? Do you need financial aid?</p>

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<p>SC SB SD seem like somewhat matches due to your sats…but Stanford and Berkeley seem like reaches.</p>

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<p>@paul2752‌ and @MRUTAH‌ thank you for chancing!</p>

<p>@gearmom‌ I have UCSC as a safety, and I’ll be adding another.</p>

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<p>Your stats are average, but colleges love multilingual people and you have a rigorous curriculum. Plus you are an American who speaks Indian languages! That makes you unique. So colleges like UCSB and UCSC and UCSD will be good chances of acceptance. However, colleges like Stanford are very GPA AND extracurricular oriented colleges, so your chances there are very low. </p>

<p>For anyone else, chance me back: <a href=“Please Chance Me! WILL CHANCE BACK I PROMISE - Chance Me / Match Me! - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1712542-please-chance-me-will-chance-back-i-promise-p1.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>@nervusguy‌ thanks for chancing me! I’m Indian American however, speaking Indian languages isn’t rare by any means. (Born in India, dual citizenship and American passport)</p>

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<p>Stanford, Wesleyan, USC, UCB, UCLA – Reach
UCSB, UCSD, UCSC, UMiami – High Match</p>

<p>You need some safeties.</p>

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<p>@eastcoastplease2015‌ Thanks for chancing. I was considering UCSC as a safety though; they have a 50% acceptance rate… Does my application really leave that much to be desired??</p>

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<p>Find some safeties because the UC’s will be full fee for you.</p>

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<p>@“aunt bea”
My parents and I are willing to take out loans if necessary, but we would of course prefer financial aid and I will be applying for it. But with my 11th grades, I’m more concerned about actually being accepted to any of my schools. :(</p>

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<p>Yeah UCSC is a safety</p>

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<p>@eastcoastplease2015‌ alright.
By the way, I looked at several threads and comments (including one from a senior member), the Fulbright website and the CIE website, and by equating the UK grading system, my rough average weighted GPA seems to come out to anywhere from 3.7 to 3.95 out of 4.16. (It would have been 4.1 without my 11th grades). Might not be as terrible as I thought.</p>