Another Chances Post...

<p>Please let me know what you all think</p>

<p>My Stats:
White male, Oregon state, Dartmouth legacy (father)</p>

<p>SAT I:2340 (800V, 750M, 790W)
SAT II: 740 Physics, 790 Writing
AP's: 5 Eng. Language, 5 World History, 4 Chemistry
PSAT: 230</p>

<p>GPA: 3.74
Extreme private high school--1/3 of class are national merit semifinalists and no 4.0's have been awarded</p>

<p>Sports:
4 year varsity, xc running
4 year varsity, xc skiing--national level results
2 year captain, xc skiing
1 year varsity, track</p>

<p>EC's:
230 hours community service logged for local ski club
Really into rock climbing and mountaineering--but those won't show too well on paper</p>

<p>Academic honors:
National merit semifinalist
4 years in literary magazine
Nominated to attend both National Youth Leadership Conference and National Young Leaders Conference
Have started two language independent studies.</p>

<p>Good essay writing skills. Unsure about quality of recommendations (but they'll be all right at very least). </p>

<p>I plan on applying ED. Any help would be greately appreciated. Thanks--</p>

<p>sf</p>

<p>Old SAT 1 1500 . 800 M 700 C
New SAT 1 2230. 800 M 720 C 710 W
SAT 2 Math 2c and Physics just given. Hoping for a ascore around 760-800 in both.</p>

<p>College:</p>

<p>11th Terms : 80% Finals :81%
12th Terms : 88%</p>

<p>In the top 2 percentile of my class (150) students. Top 3 of my class in Computer Science. Have done many projects in collaboration with my college Computer Science department to help the college.</p>

<p>Ive been captain of my college football team (during my junior and senior years). We we state level champions, also part of the basketball and chess teams of my college.</p>

<p>Been class representative of my class in both junior and senior years. Im the Secretary of the Rotaract club of my college, and I was on the Board of Directors last year as well. Taken active part in social service, organised many events for underpriveliged children, organised career fairs for muncipal students etc etc. Ive been Editor for the club since i joined it.</p>

<p>Im Editor of my college magazine. Regularly write articles for it and for newspapers in my city. Did an internship with Hindustan Times in the summer.</p>

<p>Leader of the Math and Science clubs. Won the Inter collegiate Math n Science quizzes. (113 colleges).</p>

<p>Selected from amongst all the colleges of my city (there were 20 other selected people) to be part of the Materials Camp -ASM International 'India chapter' held at IIT Bombay.</p>

<p>Presently doing a project in Solid State Physics at TIFR (tata Institute of Fundamental Research)</p>

<p>Selected by Cathay Pacific as one of the 3 delegates from India to represent India at the CXIWE-2005 (Cathay International Wilderness Experience Program) held in South Africa.</p>

<p>Chosen for the TATA Scholarship (awarded to 5 students of Bbay or summat like that) for displaying excellence in various fields (academic/non academic).</p>

<p>School:</p>

<p>9th Terms : 88% Finals: 87%
10thTerms :85% Prelims : 85%
Boards :96%</p>

<p>Top 3 ranks of my class in the 9th and 10th standards. (80 students)
Part of the school chess team. Captain of the football team.
Editor of my school magazine .
Appeared for various competitive examinations :
1. Achieved scholarship in the Maharashtra State Scholarship Exam.
2. High distinction in CS,English, Science,Math in years 9 and 10 for the ETS Exams held by the Univ. of NSW Australia.
3. Reached the Semifinal stage for the ESPN School Quiz in Bbay.</p>

<p>Part of my school debate team.
Appeared for the elementary and Intermediate examinations in Art. Passed both with a grade C. (:P)
Given Levels 1,2 and 3 of the Trinity College of London Examination for Elocution. Achieved Distinction in all three.</p>

<p>There are a few other things to add anyway .. These are all I can think of !</p>

<p>Dream :
MIT
Stanford
Princeton</p>

<p>Target :
Amherst
Northwestern
Yale
UPenn
Cornell
Dartmouth
Cal Tech</p>

<p>Backup :
Harvey Mudd
Brown
Williams College
Georgia Tech
Swarthmore</p>

<p>I need finaid.
If anyone could rank my chances .. itd be real nice !</p>

<p>thanks!</p>

<p>swordfish, ED there and you're in</p>

<p>Rishabh16, don't hijack another person's thread.
I think your chances are more like this</p>

<p>Dream:
MIT
Stanford
Princeton
Amherst
Northwestern
Yale
UPenn
Cornell
Dartmouth
Cal Tech
Brown
Williams College</p>

<p>Match:
Georgia Tech
Swarthmore
Harvey Mudd</p>

<p>You're way too full of yourself</p>

<p>Thanks, dooit. Dartmouth's been a dream of mine and I'm glad to hear it might be attainable.
Any other opinions on my chances?</p>

<p>(and rishabwhatever, no worries on the stolen thread)</p>

<p>If you think Brown is a safety for anyone, you're high.</p>

<p>the fact remains...you do have legacy status and have good test scores and god sports, thats basically getting in.</p>

<p>also, williams and brown are reaches for basically everyone</p>

<p>sorry for the stolen thread
but it would be a whole lot more convenient if people posted their biodata in one place and got replies in the same thread
sorry for being so full of myself .. i didnt mean to put 'i ....so n so' at the start of every sentence.</p>

<p>that aside how good are my chances ?</p>