My shot?

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<p>hi, I am a Chinese American student at John P. Stevens High School in Edison, NJ.
I basically have everything set for Havard EA, but still have the supplemental essay to do.
I have a 5.3/6.0 Weighted GPA
I have a 3.7/4.0 Unweighted GPA
Top 5% of my class. About 20-30 / 600, our school has around 2300 students. 60% of school is asian.
I have been in all possible honors and AP classes since 9th grade. There were other AP electives offered though.<br>
I took AP Calc AB and AP U.S. History 11th Grade.
I am currently taking AP. Calc BC, AP. Gov, AP Bio, AP Lit, Physics-honors,</p>

<p>Sat 1- Verbal 800 Math 760
Sat II writing 750
Sat II Math IIc 800
Sat II History 800
Sat II Chemistry 780</p>

<p>AP Studio art 5/5
AP calc BC 5/5
AP US history 5/5</p>

<p>School EC- </p>

<li>Knowledge Masters (Selects 20 students out of school) 9, 10, 11, 12<br></li>
<li>School Newspaper Staff Writer 11</li>
<li>Student Council Videographer 12<br></li>
<li>Math League (This is really selective club, only 10 students in the school are selected) 11, 12<br></li>
</ol>

<p>Leadership-

  1. Knowledge Masters Coordinator 10, 11
  2. Knowledge Masters Team Captain 12
  3. PCE Youth Leadership Club Founder and Executive Vice President (I drafted bylaws and mission statements) 12</p>

<p>Community Service
Roosevelt Care Center / Volunteer (200 hours) 9, 10, 11, 12<br>
PCE (Parent & Children Education) Club Teenager Speakers 11<br>
PCE Youth Leadership Club 12</p>

<p>Community Awards and Honors

  1. Scholarship awarded by Roosevelt Care Center for outstanding volunteer of year<br>
  2. Certificate awarded for public peeches by PCE (Parent & Children Education) 2nd Conference<br>
  3. Selected to appear, as Role Model Student, in various
    NJ State Chinese newspapers such as “Chinese News Weekly”, “Duowei Times”, “SinoAmerica Times” </p>

<p>Art Awards-<br>

  1. First Prize (Grand Award Winner) in Youth Art Contest 2004<br>
    Held by Rutgers University.<br>
  2. Second Place Award in the People-To-People International Charity Art Contest</p>

<p>Academic Awards and Honors

  1. Certificate by Central Jersey Math League<br>
  2. Gold certificate in National French Contest by Association of American French Professional
  3. Certificate awarded for outstanding work in 2004 Science Fair hosted by Academy of Science club at school<br>
  4. Selected for New Jersey Leadership Training Conference by Student Council
  5. Certificate granted by Department of Education Beijing, China for advanced profiency 282/300 in HSK Chinese Test for oversea students. </p>

<p>Work awards and honors<br>

  1. Selected for the internship in “YES Lenovo-CW, Inc.”* as software developer and tutor.<br>
  2. Won logo designing contest for YES Lenovo-CW company LOGO
  3. Selected to designed the business card of the CEO and chairman of YES Lenovo-cw<br>
    YES lenovo-cw is a branch under lenovo, a software company that bought shares of IBM years ago. </p>

<p>Work Experience

  1. 80 hours Lenovo-CW internship
  2. 150 Hours at a fast food restaurant in local mall</p>

<p>My personal statement is going to be about how my girlfriend, who recently immigrated from the best foreign language school in china, influenced me to be more mature, altruistic, and ambitious. My supplement essay is probably going to be about how I came from an extremely poor family in a rural city in China, and was suddenly thrusted into an affluent American family at the age of nine. </p>

<p>Also included in my supplement packet is my artwork porfolio with 15 oil paintings, my PCE Youth Leadership Bylaws and mission statements that I personally wrote, and the business card that I designed.</p>

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<p>mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn, your ECs are all over the place</p>

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<p>So I should make it more focused? I know I do a lot of random stuff, but I truly excel at art. Would it benefit me to apply with art as major?</p>

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<p>Random ECs…yes.</p>

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<p>but that sucks if you major something you don’t really want, all because you wanted to get into “harvard”</p>

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<p>^Well said.</p>

<p>You don’t necessarily have to change your major, but try grouping things in your application. </p>

<p>What’s that newspaper thing in grade11 for? It’s as if it’s there for a space filler.</p>

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<p>I think you have a pretty good shot. Nice scores, EC’s and awards.</p>

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<p>Thanks, I will take out newspaper, I only wrote 3-4 articles a year.</p>

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<p>An Asian From John P. Stevens High School! You Ain’t Got No Chance!!!</p>

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<p>I live near John Stevens, and my best guy was an asian from there. He had awesome stats and he didn’t get in anywhere!</p>

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<p>What year was he in? Would you list some of the stuff, cuz it might help me.</p>