Help me out guys? Thanks!

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>I currently attend Stuyvesant High School as a junior and want to be a biomedical engineer. I am Asian and neither of my parents attended college.
Academics:

  1. 96.3 Unweighted GPA
  2. 2310 SAT (710 R, Rest are 800)
  3. 760 Physics SAT II, 800 Math SAT I and II, Might take Biology SAT II
  4. AP World 4, AP Physics B 5
  5. Taking APUSH, APCS
  6. Senior Year: AP Chem, AP Gov, AP Calc BC, AP Physics C
  7. Continental Math League Contest winner
  8. Made AIME sophomore (130.5 AMC 10, 4 AIME) and junior (102 AMC 12, 3 AIME) years.
  9. NYSML and ARML Qualifier Junior Year
  10. Represents Stuyvesant Math Team for NYCIML contests Freshman - Junior Years</p>

<p>EC’s

  1. Attends church and has 280 volunteer hours from it.
  2. Volunteer hours from helping victims in Coney Island after Hurricane Sandy
  3. Cricket Team since sophomore year (Could be captain or at worst vice captain senior year)
  4. Homeroom Leader for my homeroom junior year, so I’m part of the Student Union
  5. Stuyvesant Math Team for all three years
  6. Co-president / Started the ping pong club with over 100 members
  7. Stuyvesant Physics Olympiad Club for junior year
  8. Treasurer of Historical Movie Watchers Club in Stuyvesant
  9. Avid rock climber at Brooklyn Boulders
  10. Harvard Summer Program course for tissue engineering (more so to show I am serious about my major)
  1. Stuyvesant Spectator Web Department (Will become Head of Video Editing Senior Year)</p>

<p>Activities that set me apart: I’ve started Rock Climbing since two years ago and I absolutely love it. I usually go once a week and three times per week over the summer. I played ping pong since I was a little kid and without doubt, my dad has turned me into a ping pong lover. Being a part of Stuyvesant’s Math Team and once again, I’ve loved math since I was a little kid.</p>

<p>Princeton Engineering (Single Choice Early Action)</p>

<p>Regular Decision:
Safeties: West Point (Will probably pass the physical LOL), John Hopkins, Williams, Swarthmore
Match: Cornell SEAS, Northwestern, U Chicago
Low Reach / Reach: Columbia SEAS, U Penn, Cal Tech
High Reach: Harvard, MIT</p>

<p>Assuming my essays are good, my teacher recommendations (My math teacher, the NYC Math Team coach said he’d be honored to write my rec :DD) are great, and my interview works out, how does my planning look?</p>

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<p>Princeton SCEA is reachable, yes, but still a reach, given that you’re an Asian student attending Stuyvesant.</p>

<p>Princeton SCEA: Reach
MIT: Reach
Harvard: Reach
Columbia Fu: Reach
UPenn: Reach
Caltech: Reach
U Chicago: High match (can you write stellar essays?)
NWU: High match
Cornell SEAS: High match
JHU: High match
Williams: High match
Swarthmore: High match
West Point: High match (academics are not the problem; are you sure a career in the army is for you?)</p>

<p>Your planning is too top-heavy. Try GA Tech or UIUC for a safety…</p>

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<p>Catria: Unless international, Asian has nothing to do with it? In fact Princeton takes a greater percentage of Asian Americans than that of the overall U.S. population so actually one can more logically argue preference over discrimination.</p>

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<p>Princeton will not ask the same from an Asian in North Dakota than from an Asian at Stuyvesant, all right, and Stuyvesant sends students to Princeton on a regular basis. Much is expected at Princeton from applicants attending Stuyvesant, regardless of race, though. Here, the school is more of a factor than race as far as my chancing verdict is concerned.</p>

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<p>Catria: As you just kind of admitted, it’s not a race thing. That’s good enough for me. Thanks.</p>