Ivies Chance?

TheBoldedFranklin
Sun, 02 Dec 2018 00:14:45 +0000

Day 30213, my post looks like the gazillion other chance me posts…but oh well! I’d appreciate it if you guys would chance me for the Ivies regular decision (HYP) and Stanford all for RD. I have already applied RD to Cornell and Dartmouth (love the dang atmosphere and Cornell’s marine bio program). For those who have seen my UChicago ED1 Chance me, this is pretty similar to that.

Here are my stats and demographics:

Demographics: South Asian Male
Status: Undocumented DACA, Divorced Father is Green Card, Brother is a US Citizen in the US Army.
Income: 0k for the past two years, going on with around $24,000 from my brother abroad who provides money. Before my father became unemployed, he was earning around 40k and we were still low income.

Stats: GPA: UW ~3.75 Weighted 4.9/5.33
Lives in: Suburbs of Chicago

ACT: 35 SAT 2: Chemistry 760, Math II 800, Biology E 720 (oof and not sending)
Senior AP Courseload:
-AP Physics C E/M and Mechanics
-AP Economics Micro and Macro
-AP Calculus BC
-AP Spanish 6
-AP Literature and Composition
**My school does not offer AP until Junior Year, but I will have taken 11 AP courses and 12 AP tests by the end of the senior year with all my other classes that aren’t AP being High Honors courses.

EC:
-Symphonic Wind Ensemble
-Played at Carnegie Hall this Spring
-School Pep Band Leader (basically musical cheer team for 3 years)
-Korean Culture Club Leader
-200+ Hours at a University HealthSystem Hospital
-Aquarium Fanatic. I breed and sell aquarium fish and plants as a hobby
-Neurology research at Feinberg (Northwestern) for a whole summer and continuing
-Published medical research case on fistulas as the first author
-Worked at my aunt’s Cafe for around 24 hours a week during the past two summers
-Host the official community server and work with the game developers for a popular game (Rusted Warfare)
-Co-manage part of the Chicago aquatic plant society where I do my aquarium stuff
-Solo Drone photographer and an avid member of Sky Pixel.
-Fluency in three languages: Korean, English, and Spanish. Semi-fluent (able to hold a conversation, however) in Japanese

Awards:
-Youth Volunteer recognition for Northshore Community Hospital
-Premio de Bronce for the National Spanish Exam
-Honor Rolls all 4 years high school.

Hooks:
-DACA
-Low/No income (from parents)
-Divorced parents
-First generation student in the US and will be the first to complete college in the US in my family.

Common App is just good: around 8.5-9/10

LOR: STELLAR. English teacher and AP Chem teacher who I am the assistant teacher for her class this year. 10/10 and 10/10

I’m a really weird and quirky guy so my essays are really expressive of my personality and quirky themselves.

Again, thanks!