What are my Chances??? Ivies!??!?!

wowcoolwow
Wed, 01 Jul 2015 09:10:37 +0000

Wow hi guys, I can’t believe this is really happening. All my life, I’ve waited for the moment when I could post my very own chance thread :’)

Please give your honest opinions, don’t hold back

College List (in order of preference lmao):
Princeton!!!
Harvard!!! (SCEA)
UChicago
Columbia
Yale
Stanford
UCB
UCLA
Swarthmore
UCSD
NYU

Stats:
GPA: 4.0 uw (counting A-'s as 4.0s. If they were 3.7, it would be closer to like 3.87)
4.6 w (again would be different if A-'s were counted as 4.7 or w/e)
SAT I: 2370 single sitting
ACT: nah
SAT II: Math II, USH: 800 Chem: 790 Lit: 780
PSAT: 229
AP’s: World, Comp Sci A (both self studied, both 5’s), Euro, Calc BC: 5’s. Waiting on Lit, USH, Bio, Art History, and French

Senior Course load: AP: Econ, Gov, Lang, Chem, Env Sci, Reg: PE, Speech and Debate, Linear Algebra at Stanford OHS (took multivariable calc junior year)
Major Awards: Made late elims at states for Policy Debate, Qualified to AIME twice (7, 5), history paper published in Concord Review (will probably submit paper as a supplement at the schools which accept it), Le Grand Concours (national french contest) bronze in levels 3 and 4, honorable mention in 5, NMSQT probably, the award for lots of AP’s

School/Personal Info
State: CA
Type: Really big public school. Our school sent like 11 people to HYMS this year (princeton hates us rip), so there’s that? My year is definitely not as strong though, so it’s iffy
Graduating Class/rank: ~625. I’d like say I’m ranked in the top like 1% but idk since counselors refuse to rank
Gender/Race: Male Chinese American (immigrated when I was 5)
Income: 200k+
No hooks (o how i wish my parents were illiterate chinese farmers who never finished middle school…) (jk that’d be really bad for me I might’ve never come to the US)

EC’s:
Speech and Debate (9-12): Captain of Policy Debate next year
Intern at Congressman’s office (11)
Intern for State Assemblywoman’s reelection campaign (12)
Quiz Bowl (11-12): We went to nationals (pace)!! placed fairly low tho
French Club (9-12): President next year
Founder of a club that promotes political literacy and civic activism in students from middle school to high school. We’ve done a lot of stuff with the local government!! (11-12): VP, President next year
Random writing competitions (scholastic art and writing) that I did ok in
Intern for science museum (9-10)
Misc art, painting related stuff but I’m terrible so I’m definitely not submitting an arts supplement
Misc volunteering activities under city sponsored program that amount to like 100-150 more hours

Summer Activities:
9th: Debate camp at Cal, Awesomemath
10th: Stanford Humanities Institute Session 1, Debate camp at Dartmouth
11th: SHI again, but session 2

Misc:
Counselor Rec: they have a system where we fill out a form with all of our info and the counselors write a letter based on that, so it won’t be too bad. I barely talk to my counselor tho, im not expecting big things
Teacher Recs: AP Lit and French most likely. I know that it’s better to have one english/history and one science/math, but I just don’t feel like those teachers really would be good… I’ve had the same French teacher for 3 years now, and she loves me so
Essays: I’ve only just started working on them but I’m hoping they’ll turn out well

You know, now that I’ve listed all of my accomplishments out for everyone on the site to see, I feel slightly better! Anyway, hit me w/ ur best shot!!!