Another Black Man looking for admission

Colleges and Universities A-Z Duke University
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<p>is duke even realistically an option for me?</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Black</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.35
Weighted GPA: 3.62
Class Rank: My school doesn't rank</p>

<p>SAT I Math Score: 800
SAT I CriticalReading Score: 700
SAT I Writing Score: 700</p>

<p>2200 in total</p>

<p>Activities
Football 1 years
Track 1 years (i'm really involved in sports)
Junior Engineering and Technology Society member 2 years
Student Council 1 years
Asian Club 1 years
Loose Change to Loosen Chains president 1 year
Math Club 2 years
Chess Club 2 years</p>

<p>AP classes:
Junior year
AP English Lang. and Comp.
AP Calculus AB
AP Chemistry
AP Physics
AP U.S. History
Senior year
AP Biology
AP English
AP Stat
AP Calc BC</p>

<p>As the other guy also thinking about being a doctor. Minor might be something in Engineering.</p>

<p>I apologize for the copied format.</p>

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<p>just wondering, but is African considered a URM?</p>

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<p>URM? please elaborate...</p>

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<p>under represented minorities..blacks, hispanics, native americans..etc and to loslobos71 i'm not sure if African is URM but I mean I guess b/c they are still black..their ethnicity is just African..</p>

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<p>are you serious dude? not cool</p>

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<p>Just a quick note to mention that Duke does not have minors in engineering, nor does it have a "pre-med degree;" rather, you can pursue whatever major you want while simultaneously working with the Health Professions Advising Center to make sure you also satisfy the requirements and recommended coursework for applying to medical school.</p>

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<p>pwnz--my family friend's son is the only white (read: none asian) in the asian club. what a joke...</p>

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<p>As Dr. G was saying you can't minor in Engineering so I would make sure that you want to be an engineer before doing the Engineering premed route. I am an Engineering premed myself and while I still wouldn't go back and change it since I really like being an engineer, I know my life would be a lot easier as a Trinity premed. So by all means come to Pratt and be an engineer (as we are all the cool people on campus, everyone secretly wishes they were engineers) just know that with premed added you are going to have some tough times. (but seriously, Engineers are the best and if you were looking for an easy time you wouldn't be trying to be a doctor!)</p>

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<p>please guys, I dont wanna get off track here. If you can give me an idea of where my chances stand.</p>

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<p>I think you have a pretty good chance because your SAT score is great for a URM. But college admissions are so unpredictable these days; you never know what could happen come April!. Have you taken SAT II yet and received your AP grades for the 2007 school year? Are you Nigerian? Am am Nigerian and your last name looks familiar.</p>

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<p>I got AP's Back.</p>

<p>AP Calculus AB - 5
AP Chemistry - 4
AP Physics - 4
AP English Lang. and Comp. - 4
AP US History - 3</p>

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<p>I think you have a great chance, but as koolmaria pointed out, you need to take SAT IIs if you havent done so.</p>

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<p>your SAT score is great for a URM."</p>

<p>Yeah, and for maybe 99 percent of the test takers.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/highered/ra/sat/SATPercentileRanksCompositeCR_M_W.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/highered/ra/sat/SATPercentileRanksCompositeCR_M_W.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>