A Brief History in Chances... peruse at your own risk

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>After reading a little too much College Confidential, I've decided to jump on the Bandwagon and make my chance thread.
Here's my stats</p>

<p>Go to the largest High School in the state of ohio in terms of student body (some colleges display incredulous thoughts upon talking to applicants from our school lol)</p>

<p>GPA W 4.3 ish
GPA UW 4.0
Rank 7 ish out of 800 or so (will be tied for 1 at college app time and graduation)</p>

<p>Junior Year APs
Spanish hopefully 4
US History most definitely 5
Bio... perfect score (oh i did miss one on the MC on accident) my passion</p>

<p>Summer Online APs
Microeconomics
Psychology</p>

<p>Senior Year Aps of course tests irrelevant but probably all 5s
Chemistry
Physics
BC Calculus
English Lit
US Gov & Pol
World History</p>

<p>Most Rigorous Schedule possible for the most part
(with the new grading scale implemented this year, + .030 on final GPA for weighted classes (making prior 4.5 Junior music 5.0 equivalent) had made not being in music bring my GPA DOWN)</p>

<p>My Test Scores (not taking these again)
SAT: 2400 Essay:10 first try
ACT: 35 Essay:11 also first try
SAT II's took this june haven't received them back
Bio: most definitely 800
Math IIC: almost same certainty as bio 800
US History: screwed it up a bit 750-780 most likely with more chance being 770-780
I probably won't be taking any more SAT II's as well</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (my weakside :(, but the colleges don't have to know that :))
9th
Freshman Soccer Team
Boy Scouts-Quartermaster (a lot of service with projects and miscallaneous (ouch on sp.) stuff throughout high school)
Church Youth Group with president over 12-13 year old age group over that summer <a href="btw%20I%20go%20to%20the%20Church%20of%20Jesus%20Christ%20of%20Latter%20Day%20Saints">probably won't be included in app</a></p>

<p>Summer:
National Youth Leadership Training Camp
JSA Ohio Symposium on Leadership and Politics [nothing special :(]
Boy Scout Camp</p>

<p>10th
Chess Team-Varsity
Academic Team- Varsity (we won 3rd place in the state of Ohio- do you believe in Miracles?- against all those magnet and private schools yeehhaaa [first time we had ever been to regionals probably])
Boy Scouts (lots of service again with others' eagle scout projects)
Science Olympiads (went to state though that's nothing)
Church Youth Group- President of 14-15 year olds
Seminary Class President (I go to church every morning before school for over an hour in a scripture study class thing 9-12 grade... crazy huh? though these crazy liberals won't want to hear much of it so I'll keep my moderate secret out of the apps probably)
Venture Crew (extension of boy scouting)- Treasurer</p>

<p>Summer (a weak one though i can make it look better on paper- but really a lot of personal growth over the summer not to mention i started keeping a journal here so i'll get some stuff)
Pioneer Trek (self-deprivation experience to get in touch with our church's pioneer roots)
Boy Scout Camp
Self Teaching French to skip a year in school in the fall (didn't work out because of SPanish scheduling)
Self Teaching some Spanish to do the year aheads summer work because i was going to do SPanish 4 and 5 in fall
so really negative amazing or even good during this summer... but again i have a way with words</p>

<p>11th grade
Practically did a hiatus in terms of boy scouting with my school's insane AP bio class among other things
Academic Team- Varsity Junior Class Captain (Sophomore year too oops) and pragmatically co-captain but i can't claim that. Trying to keep the glory of our herculean previous year after losing two geniuses (one had the periodic table and Napoleon pretty much memorized) we won our conference and its tournament but got shafted at regionals by a bad call (really it was tragic. our mild-mannered coach almost lost his head)
Chess Team- Varsity Captain, runner-up for player of the year in conference (though after practice I beat the best scholastic player in Ohio [arguably] twice), we are going to be featured in CHess Life Magazine for our quirky and unorthodox promotion of chess at our school in July
Science Olympiads- 3rd place in an individual competition at regionals and 4th at a one at state (nothing to be proud of though :()
National Honor Society- lots of service but no leadership role...</p>

<p>Summer
2 online classes (which will take up too much time that could be doing real things...)
Eagle Scout work (ugh i really screwed myself with procrastination [lol not going to be shown in app] might get it done in time of apps idk. hopefully at least the 100+ hour project)
Hopefully some volunteering at our local hospital (which will help me more than most since i'm going in to medicine...)
Perhaps a job- almost definitely in the fall (ugh no paid work experience up to this point)
Boy Scout Camp
Habitat for Humanity project with Church (hoepfully the planning doesn't flop, the church has had some problems setting it up with date conflicts)
Having a social life HAH! (not sarcastic, i'm trying mock some subpar-super people)</p>

<p>12th grade too bad my school doesn't have a math team (i'm not that good at hard math but i could still lead it) [oops hmm i could form it... NOT!]
Academic Team- it will be my time this year
Chess Team- again my team
Science Olympiads- i will lead every particle of this as well
NHS service once more
perhaps service with interact
screw leadership here (well officers already chosen last year of course and i don't win popularity contests) i just want to help humanity (I am being sincere)
Student Government representative
Church Youth Group- probably leader of 17-18 year olds this year
Boy Scout Patrol Leader (it's about time)</p>

<p>Caveats:
I know i don't have any scientific research or wacko national EC's but i put sincere effort into my few (although time management is a little wacked in other places without my driver's licence and 3 siblings who have a ton of stuff) but hopefully my Academic triple threat (rank, rigour [to the "Britons"], scores) will make up for some of it [just a little plz].</p>

<p>It might help to give a prediction with and without my Eagle Scout (that might change things a lot)</p>

<p>oh Almost forgot awards, Recs, and essays</p>

<p>Awards:
NHS
National Societ of High School Scholars (might include)
Who's Who 2 years (probably won't mention)
National Honor Roll 2 years (probably won't mention)
USAA Leadership and Service Award (9th or 10th grade can't remember at the moment)
Member of the Order of the Arrow (BSA's honor society)
Bausch & Lomb Science Award winner [probably won't account to much]
Michelson-Morley award for math/science achievement
probably a few local i'm forgetting that i probably won't include
National Merit Semi-Finalist (nearly 100% sure 216-my score- will be the cut-off for this year in Ohio, a stupid mistake brought me down from 220 to that ugh)</p>

<p>Recs: (i think i might do a sample and choose from the best)
My 11th grade Lit teacher: views himself as my inferior (are you kidding me!?) w/e you may think what you want Mr. Simmins. I"m a demi-god in his eyes and he will no doubt immortalize me with his pen of superfluous fancy in words and character description.
my 10th grade history teacher and academic team coach: his character and personality description will be stunning, i've referenced him as bet teacher ever in numerous awards. we're best pals
My 11th grade AP Bio teacher: personality and drive will blow them away in this one (hopefully)</p>

<p>Essays: i might experiment with some stream of consciousness... it sufficeth to say, these should be publishable (i do fine hyperbole distasteful... nevertheless they will be nothing short of amazing) lol i never got a rubric put on my english essays this year, just "perfect in every way" (arrogance is assumed among readers of such supposed exagerration)
as a funny aside, my English teacher loved my writing so much that on a middle of the year passage response journal he wrote among 3 equally complimentary comments (in addition to saying i should have gotten a 7) "May I live long enough to read something half this brilliant." guess he was easily impressed; he's a character that one</p>

<p>Well if you've made it this far I hope you've enjoyed your little window view into my life during this one glimpse, if not a tad at the mind. (lol upon reviewing this material i don't look brilliant, but at least i'm human)</p>

<p>I'm basicly going to apply to all the Ivys:
Harvard
Brown
Yale
Princeton
Dartmouth
University of Pennsylvania
perhaps Cornell... maybe not
Stanford
not sure if MIT or Caltech yet (i can no sooner abandon humanity than cut off my devotion to science)
and these where i hopefully won't have to pay a penny:
OSU (they're new Biomedical major is looking kind of nice)
BYU
perhaps Miami UNiversity:OHio</p>

<p>as you can see i appear a shallow ivy/state school ignorant person, but small LACs are really not my thing and really life goes on.</p>

<p>among the ivys i would of course most like to go to harvard but because of the "Mormon" scene there (much greater than the others). I'll probably EA Yale though. Brown a close second, and then Stanford/ Yale start going at eachother. I wouldn't mind Dartmouth because our valedictorian this year, a good friend of mine, is attending</p>

<p>You must be a very considerate and kind person to wade through these past 1500+ words. I'm pretty sure I'll make it into at least one Ivy/super reach school but please give me, if you will, your predictions however inflammatory, ill-conceived, arrogant, dismissive, insightful, superlative, optimistic, or debasing they may be. oh BTW iw ill only be attending Freshman Year consecutively with a 2 year Church Mission between Freshman and Sophomore Year (you religious zealot you, but i would hope my priorities are straight :)); however, that will not affect admissions.</p>

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<p>You gotta be kidding me.</p>

<p>Perfect UW GPA, perfect SAT I, 35 on ACT, possibly perfect SAT IIs, taken 3 APs (8 more between now and next year), something like 10 extracurricular activities (Can't even count), regional and state-recognized honors, and impossibly good recommendations. </p>

<p>And, of course, the stream-o-consciousness essays that will probably cause the adcoms's heads to explode when they read it.</p>

<p>You even laced your online chances thread with poetic phrases and allusions.</p>

<p>Stepford.</p>

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<p>That's what I was going to say. HAHAHA.</p>

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<p>did anybody actually read all that? i didn't. but i'm just gonna throw it out there and say that 2400/35/4.0 is good enough.</p>

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<p>I feel bad for you.</p>

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<p>i tried to read all of it. i got most of it; the extracurriculars were literally impossible to read so i skipped to the essay section. this must've taken well over an hour to make...ridiculous. </p>

<p>my previous post pretty much sums it up.</p>

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<p>u have a great shot</p>

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<p>lol your posts are making me crack up <a href="but%20that%20was%20the%20whole%20point%20of%20all%20the%20shenanigans,%20not%20to%20say%20a%20single%20ounce%20of%20what%20i%20wrote%20was%20false">well just enderkin</a>. i find it hilarious that once someone gives practically the application instead of a little overview, heads explode and people give up on trying to find out how to say anything bad. Because really, my EC's put in a condensed list aren't that impressive though the triple threat can always shore up weakness. i hope a few people can at least stomach the novel to see enough to make a full blown opinion</p>

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<p>"stream-o-consciousness essays that will probably cause the adcoms's heads to explode when they read it." ah priceless</p>

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<p>actually i think heads will explode when they see my transcript... 100 in every class in high school except for my favorite, AP Bio (98), and one of my least favorites, AP Spanish (99), plus gym (98,99 lol). but how impressive that really is is of course up for debate</p>

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<p>I shored up some courage and stormed the beaches of Norman-your-Ecs. You have several key activities that you've shown consistency in, namely chess, boy scouts, your church youth group, and academic team. I don't know what an academic team does (no school that I live near has one). Your summer ECs are interesting, namely the self-teaching for no threatening reason. I hate NHS so I will give it only passing mention. You have no sports besides freshman soccer (A WEAKNESS OMFGBBQZ0RS?). And you have little leadership positions. However, your overall strengths in the 'stats' department are more than enough to cover any discrepancies in your extracurriculars. You really didn't need to post here. Is rank #7 actually because of the music rescaling? I somehow doubt that the top 6 kids all would take music.</p>

<p>Note: Mr. Simmins is the greatest name for a teacher ever (see Hey Arnold)
Note: Did you really have to be pretentious and call it 'caveats' instead of awards? Now you're just reaching.</p>

<p>Another question: How does your school give 100s for everything? Is it all test-based? My school's teachers all have around 3-5 points of leeway for everything when it comes to grading things (exceptions being tests, other concrete examinations, etc). A teacher in my school can give you an A if you do well in his class; that means around a 95, correct? How is it that one can attain 100s then?</p>

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<p>You have no future. Look into DeVry, ITT Tech, or maybe even a local CC. I;ve heard they take anyone, so you might have a chance at those places.</p>

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<p>caveat with relation to my bad EC's
and yes ironically that's how the music thing is at my school (shudders). so much screwing up with scheduling until this next year (finally they're fixing it) that i have to catch up with two online waited classes that are and will be taking precious time away. with the changed scaling they have 4 extra full-fledged weighted class among our seeming paucity of APs/honors, so i had to try with languages to seal the gap, which didn't work out according to plan (hence the online classes). study halls and electives also don't hurt under the new system so GPAs are in .03 increments for 4.0 UW people (massive identical ranks going on).
Concerning the 100s, i am not contested in intelligence at my school. for example my AP US history teacher couldn't curve to me because too many people would die so i was always above the curve despite subjective slashes in points. in math class this year i missed a half of a question the entire 18 week term (block schedule). lol i had 27 weeks of perfect spanish (second 9 weeks of spanish 4 and all of Spanish 5) in test grades- no points missed whatsoever. but the AP teacher slashed off enough points in other means. oops i forgot... i did get a 99 in English (98.4 first nine weeks and 101.3 second nine weeks) those are just some facts... sorry. hmm i might be smelling a little grade inflation</p>

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<p>so scratch the binary code transcript sorry</p>

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<p>what are you doing, tests only? How is it that you can get no points off for an entire semester? My teachers never give perfect scores for projects and such, even if the projects are indeed perfect in nature. I can only imagine perfect grades in a school where there is no creativity or room to do anything other than study for the next exam.</p>

<p>and yes, I made the mistake of defining 'caveats' incorrectly. I never took Latin (no excuse, of course)</p>

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<p>plenty of creativity [(i never took latin either :)) but i can know it recursively lol] but like i said grade inflation, my schools is a large public school with relatively low academic standards; subsequently, all classes before 11th grade were graded with severe ease and enough extra credit to balance out points off on projects. only this year did that not happen. not much extra credit to balance out points off on projects in Spanish even with perfect tests scores. BUt History had enough extra credit from being above the curve , and she was awful at math... bio was all tests (that were college level++ in difficulty- all take home group tests and we still missed a lot) but i could go toe to toe against anyone in the state of ohio on bio for it or even in the country. And English was a story of its own</p>

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<p>I must admit, that sounds funny. I am by no means perfect, but my school has a fair share running around, and it's impossible to get a 100 on everything. Is your school the best in basically everything in your area? State? Coz mine is and its quite hard.</p>

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<p>ah this thread is spiraling into oblivion (not that it already wasn't there). any newcomers on chances?</p>

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<p>tu160m mine is certainly not the best school even in my conference. we've had a good past 2 years as far as athletics and intelligence goes</p>

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<p>but we are the largest public school in ohio which translates to not particularly amazing academics. one other person in my class is going the ivy route with 2390 SAT and 7, 8 ish rank with extracurriculars maybe even worse than mine. no one else has scores above 2250.</p>