<p>Class Schedule
9th: Bio I
Orchestra
Latin I
Spanish 2
World Cultures H (social studies course)
Communications H (lit course)
Algebra 2 H
10th: Spanish 3
Orchestra
Chem H
MEH (regular not AP)
Probability H
Marine Biology
Lit and Lang H
Precalc H
11th: Spanish 4 AP
Orchestra
Chem AP
US History I (regular not AP)
Organic Chem (regular not H)
Expository Writing
American Lit AP
Calc AB AP
12th: Spanish 5 AP
Orchestra
Physics H
Biology AP
US History II AP
Lit AP
Multivariable</p>
<p>Overall Transcript
Spanish- A
Sciences- B+
History- A
Lit- A
Math- B+
Orchestra- A
Electives- A+</p>
<p>Extracurriculars
Science Bowl: 4 years
Academic Team: 2 years (2006-7 won regions)
Sound of Music for Chamber Ensembles: 3 years (President/ Founder in 2004-5)
Probability Club: 2 years (President/ Founder in 2005-6)
Orchestra Concert Master(1st chair): 4 years</p>
<p>Others
New Jersey Youth Symphony (largest youth orchestral group in the country)- 10 years
Violin- 12 years
Piano- 9 years
Chinese School- K-10th (graduated 1st in class)
ACS Award (1 student from each chinese school in state is chosen)
and National Award from Chinese Association (5 students chosen in state nj)
Community Service- 150 hrs</p>
<p>Over the Summer
Taught Chinese in Taiwan for 2 years (2 different programs)
Helped at Hospital in Taiwan</p>
<p>I never had a job! Is that bad?</p>
<p>Colleges I’m looking at
Stanford
UPenn
Cornell
Brown
Columbia
NYU
UCLA
UC Berkeley
Northwestern
Georgetown
Rutgers</p>
<p>What are my chances??
Anyone have better matches for me?</p>
<p>Thanks for commenting on such a long post. Much is appreciated!</p>
<p>sorry, but getting into Stanford, UPENN, Cornell, brown, columbia, and UC Berkeley are goign to tough for you. your gpa is ok, but your SATs are kind of poor for a top school and your ECs are kind of blah (typical asian things…) You also don’t seem to have any good hooks or anything that adcoms say “wow” or something that catches their attentions. But you have a good chance at the other school. I just don’t think you’re enough for Ivy leagues/other top top schools.</p>
<p>You have an excellent chance at each school listed in your original post. Teaching Chinese, Mandarin dialect I’m assuming, is quite significant. Your success or failure with each particular school will largely depend upon your application as your stats and ECs are fine. That being said, Stanford is a very difficult school to handicap. It would help if you stated your SAT scores by section as the writing score is not significant for a pre-med student, at least not as important as math, critical reasoning and relevant SAT IIs and APs.</p>
<p>No. I just have a good deal of experience with several of these schools. What is the basis of your objection to my experienced opinion? Bobby100, perhaps you are capable of a more intelligent commentary on my opinion-come on I have faith in you. Bobby100, I think that your difficulty may be that you spend too much time on the internet and have little real world experience.</p>
<p>Bobby100: I just read some of your past posts. You give very inconsistent advice, such as “you never know with Harvard”. You also make a lot of elementary grammar and spelling errors for a “pretend” Harvard student. To the OP: You may want to consider Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania as a safety. Great results for medical school applicants.</p>
<p>Gosh, caught me, please don’t tell my boss I really didn’t go to H. As an experienced person you think an Asian candidate with a 2010, an unspectacular GPA and steryotype ECs has an “excellent chance” at any ivy?</p>
<p>bobby100: Are you a racist? Your comments don’t do your claimed Harvard education justice. Ask for a refund of your tuition. Great comeback by the way- I can see that you’re Ivy League material.Also, I did not write “any Ivy”- that’s just your misinterpretation. Get that refund!</p>
<p>zagat: Thank you for your opinion. At least it was stated in a polite fashion. My experience, however, leads me to a different conclusion. And I do not like racist comments, nor do I think that bobby100’s “Asian” comments are reasonable, justified or valid.</p>
<p>Garrity, I don’t have a problem with direct posts but bobby100 was over the line. I do see his frustration though. I don’t think telling a prospect who may not know the system well that he has an excellent shot at these schools makes sense.</p>
<p>In fact, he has a very slim shot with well below average/mean SAT scores. He does not give rank but at many schools a 3.8 is not a great GPA. There is nothing that would even suggest an average (10%) chance.</p>
<p>zagat: I understand that that is your opinion. I respectfully disagee with your opinions. College admissions goes well beyond stats. The OP has a solid shot at all schools,excepting Stanford which is a very hard school to predict. I have spent a great amount of time with admissions officers, including some,not all, Ivy League schools. Don’t get caught up in numbers, they admit people and build classes. Most Ivy applicants have less than a 10% chance. Wait until you read of all the applicants with perfect SATs and GPAs and valedictorians that get rejected this year.</p>
<p>i personally think that bobby is more realistical is his statement since i think that what zagat just said is true. They arent bad credentials but they arent spectacular. I think that there is a hook in the teaching Mandarian but just bump up the SAT’s to over 2100 and they chances are much greater. </p>
<p>But in all reality, the admissions process is very hard to predict, so my advice to anie would be to get good rec’s and a great essay, and you would have a fighting chance (30+%) at all of those schools. </p>
<p>And look into Franklin and Marshall, from what ive heard its a good school</p>
<p>The common data sets that bobby100 refers to disprove that this applicant has an excellent chance at any ivy. A 2010 as an Asian (or any non URM) candidate will simply give no candidate an excellent shot.</p>
<p>Not a matter of racism, just well documented fact. A 2010 is very weak for any unhhoked ivy candidate.</p>
<p>Great ECs can be a real boost once you have appropriate stats. These are not great ECs anyway</p>
<p>. I think opinions on a forum such as this need to be backed up by fact. People post that they know “someone who got into Harvard with a 1900 and no ECs.” Great, they must be one of the 5 reflected in the CDS, and I thought they were all quarterbacks!</p>
<p>Violin and piano study for 12 years and 9 years is also significant whether one is Asian or not. Again, in one month you will read of many seemingly perfect Ivy League applicants being rejected. The op’s application will be important in the admissions decision. Geography as well. zagat: Please don’t put words into my writing that are not there. I said “solid”, not excellent. I know several recent non-minority Ivy League admits with lesser SAT scores and similiar GPA or lower. I still disagree with you based on real life experience. It is not an argument with a right or wrong answer- it is a difference of opinion based on different degrees of experience.</p>
<p>Let it go zagat, the people who want real answers go the the many sites that have a factual answer. This is where you go to get a sure you’ll get in from other kids with low stats and their parents. The lower the stats the stronger the belief that colleges use a holistic approach.</p>
It’s long but PLEASE COMMENT.</p>