A chance thread from a nervous Junior

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>General Info:
(Asian) Indian
Upper Middle Class
HS Junior</p>

<p>Academics:
4.33 Sophmore Year
5.0 Junior Year
4.0 Unweighted for both
SAT: 2340 (800 Math 790 Cr 750 Writing)
SAT 2s: World History: 780, Math 2: 800, Bio E: 800, Bio M: 800, USH: 800, French (listening) 760, Chemistry 780, Literature 770</p>

<p>Course Load:
(sophomore)
Chem Honors
Ap Euro (5 on Ap test)
Algebra 2
French 3
Weight Lifting
English 10</p>

<p>(Junior)
AP USH
AP Bio
AP Chem
Honors Pre-Calculus
Ap Lit
Honors Anatomy and Physiology
(Pretty confident for all 5s on AP test)</p>

<p>(Senior)
Ap Psychology
Ap Gov/Econ
Ap Stats
Calculus BC
Physics
1 Undecided class</p>

<p>EC:
Eagle Scout + Palm Bronze
Various leadership positions throughouhg my troop for the 6 years I have been with them
President of a club 3 years
Varsity Speech and debate (3 years)
DECA 2 years
NHS 2 years
CSF (Californian Scholarship Federation) 4 years
Tennis 3 years, Varisty for 2
Part of City Volunteer Organization 2.5 years
Volunteer with an Indian organization 2 years
Accolades from Barrack Obama, first lady, and US defense secretary for volunteer work and service
Official Award from the Mayor of my City for my volunteering work</p>

<p>Schools:
Harvard
Stanford
Yale
Princeton
Duke
Cornell
Columbia
UPenn
Berkely
LA</p>

<p>Backup: Davis and other mediocore UCs</p>

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<p>Bumpty bump</p>

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<p>hope this bump thing works</p>

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<p>Someone with these stats wouldn’t be posting here which is why no one has answered your question, because I’f you really had those stats then you wouldn’t really be nervous</p>

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<p>Whatarechances hit the nail on the head.</p>

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<p>sorry its just that, well people said those are average or below stats for such colleges and that got me really nervous which is why I posted</p>

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<p>eagle scout+2340+4.0 gpa = no one could have better chances w/o URM or Legacy</p>

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<p>I really do not see the point of this kind of thread.
There are two ways for you to put your stats in context:

  1. go on the website of each school and find their admitted freshman profile
  2. stop by your high school’s college counseling office and look at the Naviance scattergrams for students from your HS with similar stats.</p>
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<p>I can see your point siliconvalleymom, sorry i should not have made such a rash decision to post this. But the replys have put my nervous at ease, thank you!</p>

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<p>Do a proper research and if you can narrow down to one school and apply ED or EA. Those schools on your list reject thousands of students with stats like yours.</p>

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<p>you do good in everything. but where’s the passion? there’s no focus in anything you do</p>

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<p>I thought being with boy scouts for 6 years and attaining Eagle Palm Bronze would show that?</p>

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<p>Okay, I think I’m the kind of student who should be asking to be chanced. My SAT scores scare the heck out of me.</p>

<p>High school junior! (c/o '13, yeaaaaa!! :slight_smile: )</p>

<p>I’m from Maryland and our transcripts include a regular cumulative GPA out of 4.0 and a weighted GPA (called a QPA, or quantitative point average) out of 6.0, depending on whether you’ve taken standard, honors, gifted and talented (G/T), AP/IB courses (listed in order of least to greatest weight. G/T and AP/IB are weighted the same. It is NOT possible to get a perfect 6.0 unless you’ve taken like G/T Physical Education and courses alike, which aren’t offered.)</p>

<p>Ethnicity/Race and gender(this shouldn’t matter, but I heard it could be a deciding factor): African-American female</p>

<p>Lower to Regular Middle Class</p>

<p>GPA: 3.9/4.0
QPA: 5.4/6.0
AP courses: Calculus AB- 5
Biology- 5
English Lang- 4
Chemistry (Senior year)
Calculus BC (Senior year)
English Lit (Senior year)</p>

<p>Never ever gotten a C as a quarter or final grade, and I pride myself in that :)</p>

<p>Other notable courses:
Pre- IB Physics
College level Physics (at community college)
Pre-IB Chemistry
Anatomy and Physiolocy Honors
AP US HIstory (no AP score; don’t really like history so I didn’t want to take the exam)
4 levels of G/T and IB Spanish
G/T Pre-Calculus
Honors Trigonometry with Analytical Geometry
Honors Application to Robotics and Principles
and others (mostly arts, history, english, and courses needed for graduation from a Maryland public high school)</p>

<p>Class Rank:
1 out of 202</p>

<p>SAT I:
1930
M- 640 CR-600 W-690 Essay- 10</p>

<p>SAT II:
Just took it last week (June 2012). Scores come out in 2 weeks, so I’ll update this post when its out.
Biology M
Math II
Physics (in October, after my college physics course)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (not in any particular order):
Current Student Member of the Maryland State Board of Education
President of the National Honor Society
Leader of the Robotics Team
DECA
Debate Team
It’s Academic! Team
Leader of a Christian teenage group that participates in community outreach programs
Mentoring Program
Pittsburgh Project: Rebuilding houses for the needy in the city of Pittsburgh, PA
A community walk to raise money for water wells in Africa and other developing countries and regions
Girls Track and Field
Girls Varsity Soccer
Bible Club
Cheerleading
Captain of JV Track team (10th grade only)</p>

<p>Jobs:
Founder of Infinite Pride Tutoring (Pretty cool, huh? I actually wrote a business plan and everything.)
Babysitting</p>

<p>Achievements:
DECA Marketing Mathematics Regional Champion 2012
DECA Marketing Management Regional Champion 2012
DECA Marketing Management State Champion 2012
Front page article of community newspaper acknowledging nomination for the student member position of the Maryland State Board of Education
MPSSAA Student-athlete Certificate (Grades 9, 10 and 11)
Academic Honor Roll since the sixth grade
County Champion in the 300m hurdles, runner-up (2nd place) in the 100m hurdles, 2nd place in the 4x200m relay, and 1st in the 4x100m relay
Regional Competitor (5th) in the 300m hurdles in the 10th grade</p>

<p>Strengths:
Although it may not show through my SAT’s, I think I’m a really strong math and science student. I’ve discovered in the past year that I am actually a strong writer, and leader if I may add.</p>

<p>NOTE: NONE OF THIS IS MADE UP!!!</p>

<p>College List:
Johns Hopkins University
University of Pennsylvania
Duke University
Carnegie Mellon University
George Washington University
University of Maryland, College Park (the main campus everyone knows about)
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Meyerhoff Scholars Program)
Penn State University, University Park (main campus)
American University</p>

<p>Intended Majors:
Biomedical Engineering <3 (I’m afraid my SAT I math score may hinder me though, especially at Hopkins. Hopefully a good SAT II math score and my 5 on AP Calc, which I worked REALLY hard for, balance it out. What do you think?)
Biology (Back-up)
Chemical Engineering (Back-up)</p>

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<p>u should try and post this on a new thread</p>

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<p>I did, could you please check it out and chance me?</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1351130-what-my-chances-johns-hopkins-others-sats-scare-me.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1351130-what-my-chances-johns-hopkins-others-sats-scare-me.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>or you could just respond on here.</p>

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<p>well I’m no expert at all but I would say schools like carnegie melon, duke, john hopkins and upenn would be high reachs. but maybe u can make it up through you’re admission essay. try to show some conflicts that you have overcome and such.</p>

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<p>apunia are you sure that you got a 5 on AP Euro and not a 4? :wink:
and that 2340… nice :wink:
and those 2 years varsity tennis… gl with that</p>

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<p>okay…
@myraven11- Did you really just try to hijack the thread by posting your OWN INFORMATION IN SOMEONE ELSE’S POST? I don’t really have to read your specs to know that you’re not getting in to most of the schools that you’re going to apply to, and thats because you’re a college obsessed jerk whos never dedicated a day in his life to something worthwhile. I think you should learn some proper manners and maybe a little common sense before you even think of applying to any college.</p>

<p>@Apunia
What kind of ticks me off about your information is the fact that you listed “president of a club for 3 years”, as though that were significant. What club? You have a misconception that being “president of a club” of ANY club would be a good thing to fill up a line on your college resume. That kind of mentality will get you an auto-reject from every single competitive college that you apply to- hands down. Its not about being “president of a club for X amount of years”, its about dedicating time and effort to an activity that you are passionate about. Everything from Varsity speech and debate to tennis won’t help you much if you don’t have significant accolades, because those are competitive activities. Also, mostly anyone can join those activities, what makes you special? The fact that you’re varsity doesn’t make up for anything; tens of thousands of applicants are varsity in their sport/ activity, and there are national and state ranked Deca/debate/tennis players. So again, what makes you special? Your volunteering things are nice- except you never mentioned what you volunteered for. Thats a problem. Its the same mentality that let you put “president of a club” without mentioning what club. You mention all of these awards that you got for volunteering, without mentioning what you did to get those awards. In volunteering, its not the end that counts, its the journey. The fact that you posted just the awards for your volunteering efforts and no mention at all of what you volunteered for will show the adcoms that you don’t give a damn about anything you’re doing, and just want the hours. This is an auto-rejection. I don’t know you personally, and I know I’m being very judgmental, and I apologize for being so, but I sincerely think that based on the information that you put up on this post, that you need to reevaluate your stats and the methodology of how you go about doing things. Of all things, policy debate is the one thing that taught me to be true to myself and do the things that I care about doing. Do things because you care about it, not because you want to fill up a line on your college resume. </p>

<p>From my standpoint, without me being judgmental, you seem like a slightly below-average applicant. This is because everything thats on your list can be done without much effort except for your work in the scouts. Your scores are pretty good, but after a certain threshold, those don’t matter anymore. Very high reaches for all of the colleges in your list.</p>

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<p>Ahh crap i had a good responce all typed up, and then it all crashed. The club is Harvard Model Congress, and i really, really do like Policy. Made an original aff and 2 original DAs against HSR. CollegeLeggo is my partner. Most of my ECs are centered around political Science things as well as boy scouts. TBH those academic stats are not real (besides the GPA); they are just projected from what i got on ELITE tests. Can’t post more because the confidentiality of this thread is already ruined lol. I would delete it but i dont know how to. This thread is supper old and College Leggo just revived it.
wheni reflect on my profile as of now, academics is what i got to focus on, i can tell u what i did and how i did it if u care enough to PM me, but thanks for the responce
Hopefully, this thread wont come alive again.</p>

<p>PS: I swear to god collegeleggo FIX THAT 1NC STRAT, START DOING SOME WORK</p>

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<p>@collegeleggo, got a 2230 single highest score on a GC Elite test. Super score 2280.</p>