Advice on EC's and Undergraduate Admissions

For the class of '31.
Future aspirations: Financial Engineering (Quant Research / Trading)

Won't ask for aid unless the school is need-blind.

Feel free to give some advice, for this fellow '09!

Demographics: 

Up North, Male, Central / West Asian (not technically Asian), Big Canadian Public school.

Hooks: Immigrant from a low-income country.

Intended Major(s): Economics / Finance / Math / Engineering (some combination of these)

ACT/SAT/SAT II: 1550 SAT, give or take.

UW/W GPA and Rank: 95/100 UW. (Music tanked)
School doesn't rank, but expected 1,2, or 3/300.

Coursework:

Hardest rigor in my school. Took many G11 courses in G10, many G12 courses in G11. Able to graduate a year early, if I wanted.

Traveled 4 hours every May to take AP's, could talk in essays, (school offers none). 6 AP Exams (Including most of the AP STEM classes), 5s and 4s.

Awards:

I'onno yet, what should I aim to get?

Extracurriculars: 

  1. City councillor, advocating for +200K youth.
  2. Contributed to research in Economics and Quant Finance, co-authoring 2 papers. Did research under top university prof's.
  3. Mathematics research, took part in one of the most rigourus 2-year university-level math classes. Wrote expository papers, and published research with a PhD.
  4. Fundraising for local hospital, over $75K.
  5. Student Senator for School Board, voice for 60K students.
  6. Volunteer (leadership) at a local organization for the poor, 400+ hours.
  7. Founder and CEO of a Poker learning Website with a lot of users.
  8. School's Poker club, Quant Finance club, co-founder.
  9. On the National Directors team for a high-level youth organization (a tier below fbla, deca)
  10. Martial Arts Trainer.

Essays/LORs/Other: 

Essays: 9/10, pretty great essay writing skills.

LORs: 9/10, including some from Prof's from QS World T50's.

Schools: 

Top Choices #1:

UChicago (ED0 or ED1)
UC Berkeley (ED or RD)

Princeton (REA or RD)
Cooper Union (RD)

Top Choices #2:
Dartmouth (ED or RD)
Yale (RD)

Duke (RD)
Georgetown (RD)
UPenn (RD)

Less preferred, still very happy:

NYU (Tisch)
UVA
WashU

UW STL
Vanderbilt
Columbia
Duke

Stevens

UCSD 
 

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