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Colleges and Universities A-Z Duke University
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<p>heyyy wondering if i have a good shot at getting in RD and should make time to visit duke over the summer. thanks in advance for any input. :)</p>

<p>lets see white middle/upperclass girl from the burbs. <awesome. & my school is ranked as the 2nd best public school in MA.</p>

<p>GPA: 3.95+ i'd geuss by normal standards (we're on a weird 6.0 system) but all A's with a few A-'s and A+'s. and one B+ which was jr year in english </p>

<p>Courseload: most difficult I could take (I got that advice early) 9 APs altogether, everything else was honors (like frosh/soph years), debate, and an authentic science research class (do independent research etc.)</p>

<p>SAT: 2140 CR: 800 math: 660 writing: 680 </p>

<p>SAT2's: ushis:720, bioE: 670 taking lit, math2, and french in the fall. lets hope math2 especially is better than my sat1 score.</p>

<p>ACT: 35-eng 32-math 29-reading 30-science >> 32 composite</p>

<p>APs: Eng=5, Bio=5 (hoping this can make up for the sat2?), UShis=4, French=3</p>

<p>ECs: Debate (9,10,11,12) have superior distinction from NFL
Math Team (9,10,11,12) hoping/expecting sr yr leadership
Science League (10, 11,12) ldership here as well
NHS (11,12) (11, 12) <vice pres
Field Hockey (9,10) had to quit from surgery so joined a less contact sport... lol
Crosscountry (11,12)
PeerLeader (12) can only do this as a senior- youre elected by the faculty
Math & SciencePeerTutor(9,10,11,12)</p>

<p>Other:
*<em>summer going into my junior year went to russia and did an astrophysics based science research project/wrote a paper/got 9 college credits from university of moscow
*</em>this summer im interning at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in the high energy astrophysics division/ getting published with potential co-authorship for the work im doing</p>

<p>Awards: </p>

<p>Robert McCannon book prize in creative writing (9)
Science Achievement Award (9)
Double Ruby Award for Debate (10)
Triple Ruby Award (11)
Colby book prize (11) <random lol?
Herbert Hahn Memorial Book prize for excellence in english and creative writing(11) <(weird i got a B+ in english then eh??)
Junior Scholar (top 9 gpas- im #2) (11)
AP French Award (11)
5th in the nation for the National Young Astronomer Award(11) <(for my Russia stuff)
AP Scholar with Honors
20+ Debate awards, for speaking or breaking to elimination rounds that kind of thing (9,10,11)</p>

<p>thanks!!</p>

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<p>So I went through undergrad admissions too long ago to be helpful, but I was a debater, myself. Are you a Lexington kid?</p>

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<p>2nd best public...I believe that is Wellesley (according to the 2004 issue of Boston magazine).</p>

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<p>Yeah, but Lexington is the only debate program that comes to mind.</p>

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<p>manchester actually. lexington kids are our rivals though (as were like 2 seconds away from eachother and are at ALL the same tournaments) im glad to say we own them on a general basis lol. </p>

<p>and i was definitely told we were the best public in Mass after boston latin</p>

<p>edit: here's the link <a href="http://www.massnews.com/2006_editions/5_May/51606_mass_schools_do_poorly_newsweek.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.massnews.com/2006_editions/5_May/51606_mass_schools_do_poorly_newsweek.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>we're after boston Latin MA.</p>

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<p>Oh, Manchester... I do think I ran into a couple kids of yours once or twice. Were you a policy kid? (I was involved with lincoln-douglas).</p>

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<p>ha at manchester its a requirement to do policy as a frosh and then you can do what you want to afterwards. so yes, regrettably i had to debate how many different ways each side's plan could lead to nuclear war. <all policy comes down to lol/</p>

<p>i did mostly PFD my sophomore year( which is what i got to TOCs in, but gah surgery made me unable to go), which is what manchester generally specializes in. we sent 2 teams to nationals this year and one team got 58th the other got 6th. pretttty cool. lol yea and i did LD mostly this year which im sufficiently awful at for the most part. i break to like octofinals then lose lol. but anyyyyyway!!! chances anyone!?</p>

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<p>What's PFD?? They have a TOC (the TOC, right? In Lexington, Kentucky?) in it?</p>

<p>Haha - sorry I couldn't be more helpful about chances. But I really loved debate.</p>

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<p>pfd = public forum debate. it's only become really nationwide recently because of our coach (mr averill) gunning for it for the past 234567 years. and ya they have a TOC for it. and yes, in lexington kentucky lol. check victory briefs youll probably find me in there somewhere although it was for '05. what school did you debate for/ when'd you graduate? we might've crossed paths at some point as i did some ld as sophomore as well (doubled up at princeton and yale) and also did V at harvard</p>

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<p>Oh, Tim Averill. I feel like he might have judged me at some point.</p>

<p>I'm much too old to have crossed paths with you (Lincoln Douglas, CPS, class of 2002).</p>

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<p>yea our coach is kind of a household name-- except hes leaving us this year!! i wouldn't doubt that he judged you as hes been in the game for quite some time.</p>