blind 11 year old applying to Harvard

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>sorry!! not true!!
good public high school, sends kids to good schools, except i don't know how i look so far; i've been in contact with bates and hc, my top choices, and they both invited me to a diversity overnight stay; i went to the bates one and it was wicked awesome. i'm going to hocro soon too. great interviews at bates and hc as well.</p>

<p><strong>Aiming for premed</strong></p>

<p>Race: Asian/Indian
GPA: 3.5 ( i think this should go up by RD app time)
Rank: 34/235 ( again, i think this should go up by RD app time)
ACT: 28
AP Hist score: 4
taken most challenging courses offered, aced only a few, B/B+ in most...good or bad?
Senior Year Courses (grades so far):
AP Bio: B+/A-
AP Calc: B+
H1 Physics with Calc: A-
H2 Brit Lit: A-/A
Cit Gov: Second semester
<strong>really good essay all done</strong></p>

<p>Comm. Service: over 120+ hours in ER at local hospital
Sports: soccer since four (not vars/jv, extra curricular, indoor, etc)
baseball one year (summer league)
tennis (jv)
Academics: science team, math team, yearbook (all 4 yrs)
Music: private drum lessons, perc ensemble, jazz band (all 4 yrs)</p>

<p>College related:
-invited to and attended multicultural recruitment prologue program at Bates College; they gave me an app fee waiver
-accepted into Holy Cross diversity overnight stay
-EXCELLENT teach reccs; one alumni recc for Holy Cross (it's really good)</p>

<p>SCHOOLS (1st choice to least interested)
Bates
Holy Cross
Trinity(CT)
UMASS Amherst (EA)
Northeastern (EA)
Brandeis
Fordham (EA)
Rens. Polytechnic Institute (7 yr accel. med program)
Drew (EA)</p>

<p>Thanks!!!</p>

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<p>In the past week, you've posted over 20 chance threads. A little excessive, don't you think?</p>

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<p>I dont think that you posting "Blind 11 year old applying to Harvard" is NOT FUNNY at all! Why would you even think of doing that??? I agree with walt99 about your binge on chance threads....</p>

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<p>You must be getting really stressed out. Your last ten posts are all "Chance me"s. Chill out, xirtan. </p>

<p>I'm not going to chance you, because I know a blind person, and kidding about it is offensive.</p>

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<p>To be honest, I don't think you have much of a chance. Your rank doesn't even put you in the top 10%. =/ Your GPA isn't impressive since mostly everyone has at least a 3.75 and I'd say at least a 30 on the ACT would be a lot better than a 28...</p>

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<p>hey i'm really sorry!!! that title was overboard, really sorry! i didn't mean to offend anyone at all! please don't be mad!
sorry again!!!!</p>

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<p>no you wont get in, u suck.....period</p>

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<p>i think thats a little harsh lol but i say you have a teeny weeny chance</p>

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<p>oh no! my title was deceiving-and offensive. i'm not really applying to harvard! just to the listed LACs near the bottom of my post!
sorry again about that title :-/</p>

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i think thats a little harsh lol but i say you have a teeny weeny chance

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<p>LOL @ "teeny weeny chance". I think you have better than that!</p>

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<p>ur right..i guess i let my anger get the better of me....im sorry.... :(</p>

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<p>Yeah, your title isn't a good one. =/ I don't know much about those other schools...but you definitely don't have a shot at Harvard. ^_^</p>

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<p>"really good essay all done"</p>

<p>Why does EVERYONE say this? I doubt that everyone who says this actually has a good essay. It is so weird. Also, I don't understand why everyone insists that their gpa's will rise. If EVERYONE thinks that, everyone tries harder, and no GPA's go up (or maybe minimally when some try harder than others). </p>

<p>/rant.</p>

<p>I won't say "reject," because I don't know and clearly I am not the adcom, but, for convenience, I will say "maybe" or "probably."</p>

<p>Bates: maybe
Holy Cross: no clue
Trinity(CT): maybe; however, the indian thing will help you here. My bro got in and it probably helped because his GPA was around a 90 and SATs around mid 600's for each section. Trinity is frighteningly homogeneous, so they really want diverse students.
UMASS Amherst (EA): reaaallly maybe
Northeastern (EA): no clue
Brandeis: maybe
Fordham (EA): maybe
Rens. Polytechnic Institute (7 yr accel. med program): probably
Drew (EA): probably</p>

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<p>Trinity isn't FRIGHTENINGLY homogeneous. Our diversity is just suffering because of The Achievement Gap. As an African-American student, believe me, the issue has been recognized, but it is not debilitating or detrimental to student relations in any way.</p>

<p>I'd say the only schools that you'll definitely get into are: UMass Amherst, Drew and Fordham. If you really like Bates and Holy Cross, keep up your correspondence with them, and put a lot of effort into their applications.</p>

<p>You have great credentials, though I'm not sure your race will help you too much. Is Affirmative Action really geared towards Asians?</p>

<p>Either way, I wish you all the luck in the world with your applications. It's great that you have such a definitive list this early. I wasn't done until December 31st, 24 minutes before my first application was due.</p>

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<p>BantamBoy-
How do you like trinity so far? how are the academics and social life? i was a little scared by the surrounding area, but loved the campus...and the girls! it's like a model school haha.</p>