<p>That’s quite interesting, I’ll definitely look into Brown and Chicago! Thanks for the advice! =)</p>
<p>Excellent stats, I’d say that you are easily in at at least 3/5 of HYPSM as a sophomore!</p>
<p>When do you have time to sleep?</p>
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<p>How are you President of Harvard Model Congress? That’s a Harvard-run conference.</p>
<p>Also, how do you lead three clubs during swimming season? Aren’t you swimming after school every day?</p>
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<p>I was elected President of the club at my school that sends delegations to Harvard’s Model Congresses. Well, first of all I lead 5 clubs (Student Council, HMC, Math, MEC, and MUN (although I’m VP I do the exact same work as the President and will most likely be President next year)) and I have sports after school the entire year (I play three seasons of Water Polo and one season of Swimming every year). I don’t see how these activities have any bearing on each other though, as sports are immediately after school and clubs are during school and in the evenings.</p>
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<p>Roughly 1:30 AM- 5:30 AM every night.</p>
<p>Mm. DataBox, are you a sophomore? Just wondering.</p>
<p>And also, looking at the rest of your ECs, I’d recommend doing NFL debate. You’d probably excel, and it looks really great to be able to actually say ‘8th in the nation at congressional debate’ or what have you.</p>
<p>But anyways, if you’re a sophomore, you have me beat. :P.</p>
<p>How are your clubs DURING school? And at night? I WISH our school had that. Every one of our clubs is immediately after school.</p>
<p>dude, 4 hours of sleep isn’t healthy.</p>
<p>about chicago: If you are applying there for the reason that they are a top 10 school, you don’t belong there.
If you are applying there because you think their acceptance rate is high, you don’t belong there.</p>
<p>I honestly can’t imagine you NOT getting into a school…
If someone with your scores, grades, and outstanding extracurriculars doesn’t get into any of those schools on your list, then I can’t imagine who does.</p>
<p>Ive met atleast 3-4 people that have similar stats to him in my state that I know and that are rising juniors. </p>
<p>I saw a couple of people here on CC that got rejected from MIT with stats like that and tons that got admitted with lesser stats. Its all about how you express yourself.</p>
<p>Oh but Thomas Jefferson may be a bad example^.</p>
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<p>There are 3-4 multiple time USAMO qualifying juniors that are class presidents, varsity athletes, and congressional award winners? That’s quite amazing considering that the state that has the most USAMO qualifiers in the Class of 2011 (California w/ 16 qualifiers) has only one USAMO qualifier with as diversified interests as mine, me. Furthermore, I’ve read through the MIT decisions and the USAMO qualifiers who were rejected had low class rank or no EC’s other than math. I really don’t understand why you are discounting my chances. Enlighten me.</p>
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<p>I feel like I’m being cross examined…All club meetings are held at lunch at my school, all practices/events for clubs are held after athletic practices and weekends.</p>
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<p>Yes, I’m a sophomore, I’ve looked into NFL in the past but was unable to find any interested advisors. I would love to do it, but I’m not sure if it would fit in with my schedule well. Thanks for the advice</p>
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Trust me, I wouldn’t apply to a school because of prestige or rank. Although I may consider applying to a school with a higher acceptance rate, since that would mean I would be more likely to get in. Does that automatically make me the * wrong * personality for UofC?</p>
<p>Umm the guy from TJ had like physics, research, and computer.</p>
<p>some other guy had varsity tennis to go along with like 5 different olympids</p>
<p>Similar stats as in consider this:
One person that I know has Blue MOP this year, USACO gold, possible Siemens National Finalist next year (yea nationals his projects gonna be like totally pwnage)</p>
<p>My point was that if you are looking at chicago because it’s a top-10 school that’s “easy” to get in to, you’re looking at the wrong place.</p>
<p>this doesn’t appear to be you, however, so you may well be a good fit :)</p>
<p>and i am not saying you have no chance!!</p>
<p>I am saying that your chacnes are far greater than most other people, but dont get overconfident and do be so mad when they reject you because people of your caliber do get rejected too.</p>
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<p>I don’t even understand what this guy is trying to say…it’s like “I know these awesome people, yup, and I’m proving a lot by saying this”</p>
<p>I was responding to multiple people who were like “you are the best 2011 applicant”, and I was simply saying that there are plenty of good people out there, so dont just assume you are going to get in.</p>
<p>“I am saying that your chacnes are far greater than most other people, but dont get overconfident and do be so mad when they reject you because people of your caliber do get rejected too.”</p>
<p>I somewhat agree with him. You do seem a bit overconfident/ cocky. </p>
<p>“There are 3-4 multiple time USAMO qualifying juniors that are class presidents, varsity athletes, and congressional award winners?”
The way you state this somewhat turns me off. It’s like your defending yourself or questioning our judgment, while we’re all simply trying to help you out. If you’re posting this to brag about yourself or get an ego boost, it’s pointless. Don’t bother. I and almost everybody else have seen similar or better.</p>
<p>I’m sure there are many who are equivalent to you or even better. At my school itself, there are kids who are ranked nationally at tennis, who are nationally competitive in debate, get straight As, have amazing schedules, and do tons of community service. I know kids who’ve been to RSI, SuMac, Red MOP, have multiple math awards (higher than yours), and have projects that were semi-finalists and even finalists at Intel. On top of that they’re state ranked athletes. Ok, at this point I’m speaking about one kid in particular, haha, but my point, and I’m sure his ( ^) too, is that after a point, your stats, your ECs, everything doesn’t matter. It’s all about whether your personality, or the person who shines through your application is appealing to the adcom. </p>
<p>The only major <em>flaw</em> I see in your application is that it’s too focused on you yourself. I don’t see community service, no volunteering, no tutoring, no concern about any other students than yourself. It’s definitely not too late to rectify this. but either way, I think you’re an incredible dude, and I’m sure you’ll end up at great colleges. I just felt like I needed to put this across.</p>
<p>I don’t think the OP ever said he was going to get in, he was simply asking for opinions regarding multiple passions. He wasn’t even asking for chances for college admissions…</p>
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<p>And Valient are you blind? Did you even read his initial post?</p>
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<p>IMHO designing a three week program to educate orphans in rural villages in India and over 300 hours of volunteering is definitely community service…</p>
<p>^well you havent seen his other posts, he kinda does seem a bit wanting to display his great awards…which i guess its not a bad thing, considering he actually does have those awards (unlike me)</p>
<p>But it doesnt even matter, as I was trying to help the OP. NOtice that in my first response (on end of page 2), I said "Its all about how you express yourself. " So I was telling him that his awards/ECs are great, but getting into college is far more than that…write great essays and have a great interview.</p>