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Born in Taiwan. Moved to the US when I was little. ESL classes and all...

NY resident

SAT: 1330
SATIIs: 750, 680-writing, 670-math IC, 650, 650, 630

AP Scholar w/ Honor

AP Physics
AP US History
AP World History
AP Eng Lang & Comp
AP Calc
AP Environmental
AP US Politics and Gov
AP Eng Lit & Comp
Syracuse Spanish

Varsity Badminton (4 yrs)- All Conference player

Tri-M Music Honor Society: Co-President, recipient of leadership award, Historian

National Honor Society

LOTE Honor Society

Rank: 10 of 174
GPA (according to school's conversion chart) - 4.0 (unweighted). Weighted = 4.0+

Youth Orchestra - Concertmistress, Student President, Student Vice President, 2 Lincoln Center concerts, performed at nursing homes, US-Pacific (Hawaii and Taiwan) Summer Tour - performed at famous concert sites.

All County, Long Island String Festivals (violin) - 6 or 7 times all together since 4th grade.

Assoc Board of the Royal Schools of Music: Level 5 - passed w/ merit.

Camerata Youth Orchestra - National Festival of the States at DC. performed at historical sites, churches, etc.

Chamber Ensemble/String Ensemble

Pit Band

NYSSMA - 6 years


Chinese School - Salutatorian of class of 2002. 1st and 2nd place winner of annual dictionary contests. Honorary mention at Statewide dictionary contest. 2nd place for speech contest. Only student inducted into ACS Honor Society (Assoc of CHinese Schools)

Participated and raised money for AIDS walk, lupus walk


what are my chances for: UCLA, UCSD, NYU, UNC-Chapel Hill, UVA, USC, UWisc-Madison?

and how accurate are the results that you get from Princeton review's Counselor-O-Matic? I heard that the safeties are usually your safeties, good matches are 50/50, and reach is a slim chance...

By Folk_Hero (Folk_Hero) on Thursday, October 23, 2003 - 09:36 pm: Edit

Counselor-O-Matic sucks. Don't believe it. There's a whole thread of complaints about it on the Admissions board.

By Yli24 (Yli24) on Thursday, October 23, 2003 - 09:48 pm: Edit

great.

my outlook is pessimistic enough though. i'm actually kinda more interested in USC, UVA, Madison, and NYU

i know i'll have a tough time getting into UCLA and UCSD, b/c of the whole out-of-state thing they have in california.

By Folk_Hero (Folk_Hero) on Thursday, October 23, 2003 - 09:57 pm: Edit

UVA.... I don't think so.
NYU... possible
UNC... also a reach
UCs... I don't know

By Yli24 (Yli24) on Friday, October 24, 2003 - 04:53 pm: Edit

USC or Madison?

By Yli24 (Yli24) on Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 05:24 pm: Edit

OK. New ones: Carnegie Mellon, UMich, U of Illinois - Urbana Champaign...

but i repeate "USC or Madison?" lol i'm desperate.

thanks

By Yli24 (Yli24) on Sunday, October 26, 2003 - 07:29 pm: Edit

help!

By Tsdad (Tsdad) on Sunday, October 26, 2003 - 07:41 pm: Edit

You'll probably get into USC, but the 1330 was below this year's average of 1341. They average will probably be higher next year. Coming from NY is an advantage. Go to USC's recruiting events when they come to New York. Sign-in. Get the card from the regional admissions officer and cultivate that person.

Since you're out-of-state for UVA,UNC,UCB,and UCLA, admission with your credentials, which would probably get you in in-state, is highly doubtful. Sorry.

By Yli24 (Yli24) on Saturday, November 01, 2003 - 11:40 am: Edit

i hate the whole out-of-state business. but i guess i understand...to some degree.