The Milllion Dollar Question

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<p>Will I get in? But I am posting my resume here just for your opinion having see many other’s profile. How would I compare (i.e ‘Make your self different’) Any advice? Long post but please read/skim through and provide any advice etc.</p>

<p>Freshman year I was in an IB school, but moved to a AP (nomral) school in sophmore year. Freshman year we had no A+'s. This is my profile, since my GPA is not calculated by my school until beginning of 12th grade, I just have my grades. </p>

<p>9th Grade:</p>

<p>H Math 2 (Equivalent to Geometry) – B+
H Literature – A
H World Studies – A
H Physics – B+
H Economics – A
H French – A-
H French Culture – A
H Orchestra – A
H Speech & Communications – A
H Biology – A</p>

<p>Freshman G.P.A: 3.71 </p>

<p>10th Grade</p>

<p>H English 2 – A
Chemistry – A-
AP Computer Science – A+
AP U.S History – A
Science Research – A
Algebra II – A
SAT Prep – A
GPA: N/A</p>

<p>County College Courses:</p>

<p>Pre-Calculus – A+
French 2 – A+</p>

<p>11th Grade</p>

<p>H English 3 – A+
AP U.S History 2 – A
AP Science Research – A
AP Physics – A+
AP Statistics – A+
AP Calculus AB – A
French 3 – A+
Health Ed. – A+
Health Ed 2 (Had to double up) – A+</p>

<p>12th Grade (School Year of 2008-2009 Classes)</p>

<p>AP Chemistry
AP Calculus BC
AP French
AP Biology
AP English
AP Science Research
AP European History </p>

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<p>SAT: 2400
SAT II: History 800 Math I: 800 Physics: 800
AP Exam Results: All 5’s except for Computer Science (I didn’t take that exam)</p>

<p>E.C’s</p>

<p>Sports:
10th Grade – J.V Tennis
*When In JV got 4th Place at Regional JV Tournament
11th Grade – Varsity Tennis (No.4 Singles)
12th Grade – Varsity Tennis (Hope to be No.1 Singles)
Karate/Traditional Indian Dance/Swimming/Golf/Piano/Cricket/Basketball(Non-competitive) </p>

<p>Clubs:
Vice- President of Model United Nations 10th & 11th Grade
Secretary - FBLA
Co-President – Chess Team
Vice-President National Honor Society
Math Team
Academic Knowledge Bowl Team</p>

<p>Community Service:
Volunteered at three different local hospital for total of over 150 hours
Volunteered at local library 30 hrs
Was a distinguished member of the Knockville Township Ambassadors</p>

<p>Awards/Achievements:</p>

<p>4th Place State Economics Challenge
1st Rating at Districts Violin
2nd Rating at States Violin
Honorable Mention International Model United Nations Conference
1st Place State - Rutgers Model United Nations Conference– 1st place winner (State)
1st Place State Brain Bee Competition
Have won numerous awards for my Science Research at State level (around 8-9 awards)
General Electric Distinguished Waksman Molecular Biology Scholar
1st Place district Chess competition awards
Selected for UMDNJ High School Student Mini Medical Program
Selected for Science Honors Program – Columbia University
1st Place – AAPT Physics Bowl (two years in a row)</p>

<p>Other:
Completed 4 week session at Harvard SSP
Took a few courses at my county college</p>

<p>–This is mostly my profile, I think I might be forgetting something but this is the core of it, please provide me with your opinion. I am a 16 yr old male/Indian!…if that makes a difference…</p>

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<p>You have good stats and decent ECs. I think that with a good essay and recs, you have a fair shot at H.
I have a question, though - why did you take Calc AB then Calc BC the next year? It’s basically the same information, only on different difficulty levels.</p>

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<p>Thats the way our school does it. Since I took AB junior year, what would I take senior year? I already took Stats so there aer no other math classes to take for me next year other than BC. We are required to take a math so everyone just takes BC, and we are not allowed to double up junior year on calc so yea.</p>

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<p>Ouch, so they make you take AB? That’s pretty stupid, no offense.</p>

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<p>lol yea it is, but there is a lot wrong w. this schol</p>

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<p>our school doesn’t even offer BC so i was stuck taking AB my sophomore year. Some schools are just stupid</p>

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<p>you didn’t take trig?</p>

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<p>people are asking the most random questions…</p>

<p>uhh i think you have great chances at harvard and honestly you’ll probably get in.</p>

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<p>AP Science Research, what?</p>

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<p>Impressive as your stats are the last part about being Asian Indian
implies you will be limited to a 3% admit rate from your state?</p>

<p>Class rank and whether you are nominated for presidential scholar by
your school will figure in heavily despite the 2400.</p>

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<p>Rarely does a 2400 not at least become nominated for Presidential Scholar.</p>

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<p>MIT 012: Harvard denies the use of racial quotas.</p>

<p>anyway, I think you have an excellent shot. Your scorces, courseload, EC’s, and awards are all pretty impressive.</p>

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<p>this is a fake chance thread…</p>

<p>good bye.</p>

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<p>yes this seems…fishy</p>

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<p>I think AP Science Research gave it away… How did only one person notice that? I just can’t believe that someone took the time to write all of that out…</p>

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<p>*AP Science Research
*
rofl</p>

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<p>There is another explanantion; quite a few schools designate subjects
as “AP” for GPA computation weight reasons (though CB has a problem
with the official monker AP):</p>

<pre><code>AP Experimental Research could simply mean
Independent Research weighed in at AP weight
rather than CP/Honors.
</code></pre>

<p>So ProjectHarvard do post which one of us was right, were you
■■■■■■■■ or was it a genuine request…seemed genuine to me</p>

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<p>If my various Google-ing efforts haven’t been misdirected, ProjectHarvard is both genuine and a ■■■■■ at the same time. :stuck_out_tongue: As far as I can tell, everything verifiable checks out, excepting that ProjectHarvard has already completed high school and is enrolling in Harvard this fall.</p>

<p>As a side note, yeah, I wasn’t insinuating ■■■■■-dom with my “AP Science Research” comment. I was just commenting on it for reasons MIT 012 stated - namely that even if a course is judged at the “AP” level, it shouldn’t carry the “AP” moniker all willy-nilly.</p>

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<p>wow who takes 10 courses in freshman year? french and french culture? ROFL</p>

<p>i didn’t even know classes liek science research and sat prep existed…wow.
and u skipped trig? lol</p>

<p>Either way, this doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a ■■■■■, but still, the profile is hilarious…</p>

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<p>You can skip trig at my school, most kids do. You take Pre-calc instead.</p>