Anyone's Guess

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I am a white male from New jersey. After reading that, most of you are probably shaking your heads and saying, "give up, you've said enough", because we NJ kids have it tough. At any rate:</p>

<p>Schools:
Georgetown (EA)
Holy Cross
Johns Hopkins
Bucknell?
Rutgers (safety)</p>

<p>SATs: Verbal: 800
Math: 710
Writing: 770
SAT IIs: Bio 700
Chem 700
Math IC 720
APs: Euro His: 5
Lang&Comp: 4 or 5
Will take: US His: probably 5
Stats: probably 4
Bio: probably 5
Spanish: probably 4, maybe 5</p>

<p>GPA (weighted) 3.85
Rank: 24th out of 180 (I know, it's bad).</p>

<p>EC: Sports: Varsity XC: 2 VL, 1 MIP award, 1 MVP award
Track: 2 VL
(Won't be recruited for either)
Arts: Spring Musical, 2 time lead
Madrigal choir (It's sort of varsity choir)
Wind Ensemble (Varsity band)
Varsity Jazz Band (2 time county festival winners, 1 time state festival winners)
Other: Mock Trial: 3-0 record as attorney, captain next year
Academic Bowl (Captain next year)
SGA Representative, vice-president next year
Student Representative to the Long-Range Education Plan, a body which the Board of Education in my town designates to establish goals for te next five years. (Will probably write essay on involvement and my observations on democracy in action).
Presidential Classroom
Global Young Leaders Conference
Georgetown Summer International Relations Program
National Merit Commended Scholar (PSATs were 80 Verbal, 72 Math, 80 Writing).
National Society of High School Scholars
National Honors Society
Spanish Honors Society
Who's Who of American High School Students
Intangibles:
I will probably interview well.
Double Legacy at Georgetown</p>

<p>i'm forgetting stuff but you get the picture.</p>

<p>Any thoughts would be nice. I'm not likely to advance much in class rank.</p>

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<p>The double legacy at G'town should help. Do your Rutgers app first so that the important one to G'twn is not the first one you do.</p>

<p>JHU is a big reach due to your GPA/rank. </p>

<p>I think you will have a decent shot at HC and Bucknell, but I think you should have at least one more match in the mix. How about Macalester?</p>

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<p>The only reason JHU is still on the list is because I've done a number of their summer and distance programs, and the alumni interviewer I would request would make me look like gold.
Can anyone offer any odds on my acceptance to Georgetown? If I don't get in, I've considered doing a semester at Rutgers and transferring.</p>

<p>Any thoughts are more than welcome.</p>

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<p>I don't think you can consider G'town a match - maybe a reasonable reach, though. If you are not requesting finaid it may help. Here is the 2004 class profile - they are pretty fond of val's. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.georgetown.edu/undergrad/admissions/Information1YRProfile1.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.georgetown.edu/undergrad/admissions/Information1YRProfile1.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>BTW, if you can figure how they are doing their math with val's and sal's, let me know.</p>

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<p>I think they're saying that 59% of Vals and 46% of Sals were accepted, not that 59% of their class is vals...gracious me if that were true.</p>