another lame what are my chances post

Colleges and Universities A-Z Claremont McKenna College
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<p>I'm an Indian-born Canadian citizen living in California. I attend the 9th best school in the State, it's very competitive, we're a feeder school for UC Berkeley, a ton of UCs and we had 5 kids already accepted early to Stanford this year, amongst earlies to Brown, Cornell, 2 to Harvard, etc.</p>

<p>Sat1: M690 V720 Total 1410
Sat2: 2c: 640 Bio: 640 Writing: 800
Unweighted ~3.8 with 6 APs, 2 Honors</p>

<p>AP Bio 4
AP US 5
AP Euro 4
AP Calc AB 3
AP Calc BC TBD
AP Chem TBD</p>

<p>I'm a competitive speaker and debater. Amongst many many many top three finishes at league tournaments in Student Congress, International/National Extemporaneous, Original Advocacy, Parli Debate, Cross Ex Debate I have the following notable accomplishments:</p>

<p>Ranked 3rd in the State of CA in International Extemp last year</p>

<p>Ranked 8th in the State of CA in International Extemp my soph year</p>

<p>National Finalist at the 2004 NFL National Championships in Student Congress (top 20 in the nation)</p>

<p>I have a crapload of finalist finishes at tourneys like Stanford, Cal, i'll be flying to Emory to compete at the Barkley Forum tournament later this month, hopefully I can schedule an on-campus interview. I'm Captain of the Extemp team (the best team in the State), I'm an officer on the speech team. Was cofounder and treasurer of Conservative Club, co-founder and secretary of Indian club, Tech Editor and Assistant EIC of a indepedent student news magazine (much like the economist), I'm a Defense Attorney and Pretrial Attorney on my schools highly competitive mock trial team. I've been a youth group leader in my local temple every week for the past four years. Played volleyball soph year, got a couple of meaningless awards like scholar athlete and mvp.</p>

<p>My slight hook: my parents moved our fam from Canada 4 years ago and they own a few UPS Stores. I've worked at the stores every day for four years, I have like 5000 hours of work experience. Through work, I got in contact with the CEO of a large Indian airline and I've been given an internship for the summer after my senior year.</p>

<p>My essays were decent I guess, I dunno, im a pretty good writer. My recs are impeccable because i've had my eng teacher for two years and my speech coach/teacher also wrote me a letter.</p>

<p>Im not applying for financial aid and im applying undeclared arts and sciences, but my app has a STRONG business/econ theme because of work and the whole "immigrants American Dream thing"</p>

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<p>It sounds like you have a great shot but of course it is impossible to predict at a school like CMC. Best of luck to you. April seems so far away doesn't it?</p>

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<p>The worst thing is that the day after decisions come in, I have the qualifier tournament for nationals....im gonna be soooo sick to my stomach that day.</p>

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<p>I think you will be celebrating. Here's hoping!</p>

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<p>i am 90% confident you will get in LoL, u have very very strong credentials.</p>

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<p>oh cool you're leader of the Conservative Club =)!</p>

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<p>I think you have a good shot.</p>

<p>So you do OA and Parli? For what school? I do OA and Parli for Lynbrook.</p>

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<p>Haha, sweet, a Lynbrooker. umm, i did OA my freshman year and then concentrated on extemp and congress, as you can see. Our school doesn't really do debate, but we've started doing Parli this year. I'm not amazing at it, at least not as good as I am at extemp. I go to Miramonte.</p>

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<p>Awesome. Do you attend Logan or anything like that? Hopefully you get into CMC and I'll see ya at states! Actually, I'll be at stanford and berkeley as well.</p>

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<p>Our team stopped going to the MLK tournament my freshman year. Man, that's been my absolute favorite tournament throughout my career. Umm, let's see. I'm going to Emory in a couple of weeks, I'll be at Stanford and Cal, our team usually goes to UOP at the beginning of the year. Maybe I'll see you at Stanford or Cal. That would be cool.</p>

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<p>you should contact the people in the debate program at CMC. I go to school (hs) in claremont. Your stats in speech and congress are pretty impressive. My brother went to CMC bc of debate and the coaches are pretty sweet and have connections. You should talk to them and see if they can put a good word in. The admissions committee and overall atmosphere at CMC is pretty small (dean vos makes most of the decisions and he knows all the faculty on a first name basis) and so the debate people should be able to help you get in.</p>