<p>^Emphasize the scouting. And why you think Columbia is a good fi</p>
<p>*I have gone on several vacations to foreign countries (Canada, Mexico, U.K.) and become "cultured" over the summer. </p>
<p>Entering 2nd year of National Honor Society, member.
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<p>Go on vacations is nothing. If it was, I'd be in everywhere lmfao (I've been to over 20 countries including my birth in Italy).</p>
<p>NHS member is nothing at all, I wouldn't put that down unless you have nothing else.</p>
<p>just curious wat is NFL?</p>
<p>You wouldn't even include NHS? I've heard some schools really look down on you if your HS has it and you don't include it...</p>
<p>NFL is the National Forensics League. It's actually been around longer than the national football league and manages speech and debate activities for high school students.</p>
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ur muslim? lol
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Errr ethnicity: White...</p>
<p>How do you get muslim out of that?
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Aargh, they're lyrics from Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", one of the greatest songs ever!</p>
<p>Just wanted to clear that up for the Queen-deprived, I don't have anything to contribute to the thread.</p>
<p>That is all.</p>
<p>National Forensics League. It's the national speech and debate league for high school kids.</p>
<p>*You wouldn't even include NHS? I've heard some schools really look down on you if your HS has it and you don't include it...
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<p>I've never heard that, and you would only put NHS on your app if the rest of your ECs are horrible...yours are ok so don't put it.</p>
<p>Yeah I wouldn't put NHS either.</p>
<p>under honors and awards, though</p>
<p>There's nothing wrong with putting NHS as long as it's not the only thing you've got. Nearly everyone who applies will have NHS.</p>
<p>To the OP...your test scores and grades are both good, and though your ECs are a bit ordinary it shouldn't be so detrimental to the point where you'll have no chance at any of those schools. Some of the schools on your list will be reaches (HYPS are reaches for almost everyone though), but I think that you have a good shot at places like Georgetown.</p>
<p>Chance me back?
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=372096%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=372096</a></p>
<p>NHS means nothing. So does Spanish NHS.
Spanish Club...same thing.</p>
<p>Vacations in foreign countries only show that you're rich.</p>
<p>National Merit Commended Scholar doesn't mean anything.</p>
<p>Stanford: REJECT
Harvard: REJECT
Princeton: REJECT
Yale: REJECT
Columbia: Maybe
Williams: Maybe
Amherst: Maybe
Rice: Likely
Dartmouth: Maybe
Pomona: Maybe
Duke: Maybe
U of Chicago: Maybe
Swarthmore: Maybe
Georgetown: Maybe
Bowdoin: Likely
Claremont McKenna: Likely</p>
<p>Why do Honors Societies mean nothing?</p>
<p>Because pretty much %98 of the applicants that apply to teh schools the OP is applying to have the same honor societies under their belt.</p>