my chances?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Gender: Female
Race: Asian
School: Public, very competitive, within top 20 in nation, (9-12th grades)
Rank: School doesn’t rank
Course load: Still a sophomore, course load for junior year won’t be too too heavy: 2 AP’s
Possible Major: Journalism/Environmental research</p>

<p>Freshman Grades: 90.1/100
Sophomore grades: 90.4/100
Junior/Senior: Hoping to improve once treatment ends- (see below)</p>

<p>Going to take SAT Chem, SAT World History, SAT Math IC, AP World in Sophomore year. AP Environmental Science, AP Spanish in Junior year. AP Microeconomics, AP Macroeconomics, AP English Composition in Senior Year. (I know without the grades its almost impossible to tell, but I’d wager about a 4 average for all)</p>

<p>PSAT (sophomore year, didn’t count): M:68 CR:64 W: 73 (96th percentile overall)
SAT: Didn’t take yet. Guessing around 2200 (based on practice tests). M:740 CR:720 W:770</p>

<p>EC’s: </p>

<p>Junior High (does this even count?):</p>

<p>When School Newspaper stopped production, I started my own (founder/editor-in-chief), it became the official newspaper, still in production years after I left school. (2 yrs)</p>

<p>Member of National Junior Honor Society (2yrs)</p>

<p>Chess Club and Chess Team (3yrs)</p>

<p>Builder’s Club (community service club) Member for 2yrs. 7th grade President, then Vice President (1yr-8th grade)</p>

<p>High School:
Environmental Club:
10, 11,12 Founder and President, won City-wide Awards for Club’s accomplishments, collaborating with other schools to “greenify” city.</p>

<p>Website:
Diagnosed with illness before 9th grade. Still under treatment (drive 200 miles out of state to treatment center 3 days during the week after school and Saturdays, in freshman year I used to go 4 days a week and Saturdays). Created a website with open-forum to provide information and support for those who have it (now Google Top 10 for that illness).</p>

<p>School Newspaper:
9,10,11,12-Staff member in 9th, became an Editor in 10th. Have own environmental column.</p>

<p>Key Club:
9,10,11,12 Member of Key Club. 92 hours of community service in this club so far. </p>

<p>Service: </p>

<p>Volunteered at Summer Youth Enrichment Program 2 summers. 120 hours community service.</p>

<p>Jobs:
Summer Work at Doctor’s Office. (2yrs)
School-year (Sunday) Work at Advertisement Firm. (1yr)</p>

<p>Other Stuff:</p>

<p>Co-writer of three research publications (biology/chemistry).
Presented research at national ARS conference- Youngest presenter ever.
Included in Who’s Who among outstanding students book. (9th grade)
Won John Waring Memorial Award for Community Service in 8th grade.</p>

<p>Instruments/Vocals:</p>

<p>Vocal (in chorus) for 3 years
Vocal (solo) 1 year
Performed in concerts</p>

<p>Clarinet (2 yrs)</p>

<p>Played violin (8yrs so far)
Performed in various concerts</p>

<p>Piano (5yrs)
Gold Medal at Junior Pianist’s Competition</p>

<p>Viola (2 yrs)</p>

<p>Please tell me my chances at (and what I should do to improve):</p>

<p>Harvard (very interested in Harvard’s environmental programs, numerous journalism classes)
MIT
UC Berkeley (good environmental courses here too)
Cornell
Princeton
UPenn
Brown</p>

<p>Thank you.</p>

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<p>wow! ur having illness does counts, and it seems like you accomplished much despite your illness! just wondering, if that’s ok with you, what do u have?
Please chance me too?
You might have a good chances at each one of them, but heck, idk, the admissions are changing each year.</p>

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<p>You seem to be involved in a lot of great activities (especially while dealing with an illness) and your grades seem pretty good! Junior high/middle school generally doesn’t count on college applications–although you may be able to mention the newspaper bit at least–maybe in an essay or something.</p>

<p>It’s generally easier to chance you once you’ve taken SATs and are nearly done or done with junior year. Right now I would say that you’re definitely heading in the right direction and keep up the good work! If you keep doing as well as you are, I’d say your chances are pretty good.
(When you actually apply, you should make sure you’ve got a few safety schools in there–that’s a great list, but those schools are chancy because the competition is so high!)</p>

<p>You’re showing the key things colleges look for, as well.

  1. academics
  2. (hopefully) good test scores
  3. leadership and initiative
  4. service and community involvement
    The bonus being that you’ve done all this while dealing with and getting treatment for an illness. :)</p>
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<p>bump…</p>