LAST chance thread before I submit app! SEAS, chances?

WongTongTong
Sat, 25 Dec 2010 09:42:21 +0000

Applying to SEAS (FU )
Pretty competitive school, usually send 2-3 to HYPSM, 8-9 more to Ivies and 10 more to other top schools

So far for our grade, 2 kids have gotten into Brown, 1 Columbia, 1 Cornell, 1 Duke, 2 Chicago as far I know (probably more)

Race: Indian Male

**GPA/B: 4.504
Class rank: 20/538 = top 3.7%
Freshman: 4 As 3 Bs
Sophomore: 5 As 2Bs
Junior 6As 1 B
Senior 8 As
-Taking most rigorous curriculum in grade… will graduate with 11 ap exam scores and 9 AP courses
-Taking **Quantitative Analysis II/B at university- achieved highest grade in class, produced research paper (INDEPENDENT research)- 9 hours of class a week
Received highest grade in exams and laboratories in class, ended up with 4.0

-Will take MultiVar Calc second semester

-Vassar Book award, High Honors every quarter of high school, AP Scholar with Distinction, FLHS, NHS, SHS, NSHSS

**AP: **4 Bio, 4 Stat, 5 Calc AB, 5 Calc BC, 5 Chem, 5 Comp, 3 APUSH (lol)

ACT: **34 Comp: 36 M, 34S, 32 R, 33E 10 Essay/B
^**Might be 35 **need to wait for December results…(tomorrow)

**SAT 2: 800 Math 2, 780 Chem
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EC/B:
-250+ hours of research in 2 year time period, produced 3 research papers**, 1 of them will be submitted for publication (huge time commitment)
-1 of them is INDEPENDENT- yes, I designed and carried it out by myself
-1800-2000+ hours of table tennis training, practice. Ranked nationally (#32 for 16yr olds), #2 junior in state, won multistate tournaments, club champion, MIT kids team 4th place, pres + founder of club at school

President of TT at Columbia, Stephanie Shih, said I would be able to make A team.

-Sci bowl, B team captain 11th, A team captain 12th. Our team has placed top 10 in states each year and our A team has won states 2 times. HUGE time commitment
-**Math Team /B, 3rd highest scoring junior award in league, qualified for states (CSAML), qualified for new englands (NEAML), A team got 1st in league, 3rd in state, 10 in new englands
-VP + co captain of chess team, 10th grade and 11th town champion, our team got 1st place in both years, taught chess to kids over summer at library
-Proctored at state and chapter math counts for 4 years, tutored kids for 3 years
-**250+ hours of community service/B
-Selected as High School Campus Leader by Ivy I nsi ders

Some other minor things…

Recs:
Calc BC teacher- **pretty decent/B
AP Chem Teacher- Very strong
Guidance Rec: Very strong

Common App Essay:** I think it’s good**
Supplement for Columbia: Very strong, people who were accepted into Columbia ED said it was very good

Thanks for input