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Thanks for viewing, please evaluate my chances at the schools that I have listed and feel free to make any new suggestions, especially safety schools since I have none.

Profile: Asian female
prospective majors: chemistry engineer, biochemistry

GPA: 3.9 UW
Rank top 1% of 400 from a suburban public school in CT
SAT:1600
SATII: Math IIC-800 USH:790 Bio-800 Chem-800
Chinese-800 Writing-taking in the fall, probably around a 750

Have taken 3 APs junior year: all 5s and taking 4 APs senior year

ECs:
Math team-captain
Chemistry Olympiad
Student council
Art Club-co-founder
Latin Club-treasurer
Latin Honor Society
National Honor Society
School Newspaper
Drill team
Orchestra-violinist (not super good)

350+ volunteer hours at a local hospital
nursing home volunteer for 2 years

good recs and essays

my list so far:
MIT (1st choice, EA)
Cal-Berkeley
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
Yale
Columbia
Duke
Dartmouth
Cornell
Northwestern
Washington in St. Louis
Emory
NYU

please make suggestions, thank you very much

By Dmxdawg (Dmxdawg) on Wednesday, August 04, 2004 - 09:56 am: Edit

I'm sure you're set- your GPA and class rank are great, your standardized score tests are amazing, and you have decent ec's.

The thing is, MIT is looking for ambitious leaders. I'm not sure if just being the math team captain and the founder of the Art Club would do it. Applying EA is really smart if you do want to go there. You have as much of a chance as anyone else though- you are extremely strong academically.

By Collegehelper (Collegehelper) on Wednesday, August 04, 2004 - 12:51 pm: Edit

yeah its looking good Sunset

By Sunset_Yellow (Sunset_Yellow) on Wednesday, August 04, 2004 - 02:39 pm: Edit

Thank you for the input. Anymore suggestions? One more thing, I've only been in America for 5 years, but since I am Chinese, I don't know if that helps me at all.