Chance a Brother

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Male, Black
Location: Florida
Ethnicity: West African
High School: Fairly competitive public school (IB Program)</p>

<p>GPA: 3.34 UW / 4.1 W (Terrible freshman year...I had 3.357 WEIGHTED as a freshman... 4.7 as a junior)
Class Rank: Top 11%
SAT I: 800 CR, 790 M, 740 W
SAT II: 780-800 Math II (Projected), 750-800 Chemistry (Projected), 650-750 Physics (Projected)
PSAT: 214 Junior Year, 204 Junior Year (screwed up majorly...only got National Achievement)
College Courses: 9 APs already taken, 1 IB already taken, and 6 2-Yr IB Courses underway. I've taken the toughest courseload possible.</p>

<p>AP Scores</p>

<p>Freshman:
AP Stat (5)</p>

<p>Sophmore:
World History (5)
Eng Lang (4)
Env Science (5)
Comp Sci A (5)</p>

<p>Junior:
Chemistry(5)
Calc BC(5)
AB.Subscore(5)
Psych (4)
Lit (4)</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<p>Model UN: Won regional awards that probably mean nothing. My team got 1st place in the State though.
Mu Alpha Theta: Again, won regional awards. I've won a few state awards every year though, but never #1.
Academic Team/Brain Bowl: My team has won the regional tournament every year for quite some time now. This one is perhaps more significant because its a pretty large region (1/5 of the state?)
Environmental Club - VP
I've tutored younger high school kids in both science and math.</p>

<p>Burnett Honors College Summer Institute: A residential computer science program at UCF that lasted 3 weeks</p>

<p>FSU Young Scholars Program: Six week residential math and science program at FSU. Conducted research over that period of time regarding precision penning trap mass spectrometry, and wrote a paper for it. - "Selection is extremely competitive. In 2005, the mean PSAT math score was in the 98th percentile nationally. 11 of the 40 students were ranked first in their class, and the rest were all in the top 10% of their class. The average GPA of attendees in 2005 was 4.84." My Professor and advisor for the research said that I was the most productive YSP researcher he'd had in years. He will possibly write a supplementary rec.</p>

<p>50+ Hours of Volunteering
Volunteered for my local Church (we regularly go to the soup kitchen and voluneteer)
With 2 other people, built a series of benches for a Black Hammock preserve.</p>

<p>Recs
1st rec will probably be from my History teacher, who really likes me and takes an interest in my matriculation. He has written my previous ones (YSP, BHCSI) so it should be good.</p>

<p>2nd rec will be from either my chem teacher or my english teacher, both who like me quite a bit. My English teacher is a great writer and seems to like me bit more.</p>

<p>Awards/Distinction: Sadly a bit too sparse, but</p>

<p>National Achievement Semifinalist (not Merit Scholar for the reasons written above)
AP National Scholar
AP Scholar w./ Distinction
IB Diploma Candidate</p>

<p>Work Experience:</p>

<p>Clerk at a Pharmacy since January '07.</p>

<p>Misc:</p>

<p>If it doesn't stand out, my focus (and the thesis of most of my essays) is probably Economics/Economic Development & Mathematics. Also, if you chance me, please don't set too much in store with my race. My brother was rejected from HYPS and more, and he had a comparative resume.</p>

<p>Schools:
Stanford/Yale (EA) - Can't decide which yet.
UPenn<a href="If%20I%20don't%20get%20into%20my%20EA,%20this%20is%20my%20top%20pick">College of A&S</a>
Carnegie Mellon University
Duke University
MIT/Caltech (really undecided)
Columbia
Dartmouth
UChiacgo
UF
FSU</p>

<p>HYPS Reg Admission chances would be nice too.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>many colleges give less weight to freshman year. your essays will be your KEYS to IVYLEAGUEDOM. if you write good, human essays, colleges will find it hard to reject you.</p>

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<p>In at everywhere. URM. God I hate being asian :(</p>

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<p>i think you have good chances at all (i doubt you're "in everywhere" though).</p>

<p>btw, stanford and princeton don't look at freshman yr grades. i'd recommend stanford scea.</p>

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<p>stanford scea ftw</p>

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<p>Update: 800 Chem / 800 Math II / 700 Physics. I applied to Stanford SCEA, but after reading some other threads, I would like a few more opinions. How bad will my low GPA hurt me?</p>

<p>So chance me please? :D</p>

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<p>not at all, i think you have a very good shot. </p>

<p>i'm tired of everyone saying "oh god i hate being asian." this is immature, and makes it seem like you're going to get in just because of your URM status. you would have a good shot at HYPS regardless of race.</p>

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<p>In everywhere.</p>

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<p>I think you have a good chance everywhere if you write a good essay. You can imagine how many super-ap-2400-sat-350-hours-EC kids apply... So all that stuff is common, essay is what makes you stand out</p>

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<p>You're black. A kid in my school with a substantially lower SAT/Rank got into:
-MIT
-Duke
-JHU
-Cornell
-Brown
-Dartmouth</p>

<p>simply because he was black. With your stellar stats, you're in everywhere.</p>

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<p>^don't be a dick dude. i hate when people assume minorities only owe their success to their race and can't actually be hard-working or intelligent people. that kid could have written great essays, or he could have overcome unique circumstances or something. regardless of race, if he wasn't qualified, he wouldn't have gotten in.</p>

<p>coming from a URM, there's nothing more annoying than people who assume i'm unqualified for my position because of my race. i know you may not see it like that from your POV, but i'm just saying...</p>

<p>to the OP... i'm hoping you don't apply to Stanford, because your stats basically own mine, lol. trust me, the freshman GPA really isn't a big deal with everything else on your resume. some schools don't even look at freshman GPA.</p>

<p>i think you're in at all these schools:</p>

<p>UPenn<a href="If%20I%20don't%20get%20into%20my%20EA,%20this%20is%20my%20top%20pick">College of A&S</a>
Carnegie Mellon University
Duke University
MIT/Caltech (really undecided)
Columbia
Dartmouth
UChiacgo
UF
FSU</p>

<p>for HYPS... my brother had slightly better stats, got into Princeton and Stanford, waitlisted at Yale, rejected at Harvard. his GPA was slightly higher than yours, but still not great, so it looks like Harvard and Yale really place a lot of emphasis on top 10% status.</p>

<p>so based off of him, i'd say you're 60/40 for Stanford, 50/50 for Princeton, 40/60 for Yale, 30/70 for Harvard.</p>

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<p>From a fellow YSPer, I second what accented22 said, essays will be key.</p>

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^don't be a dick dude. i hate when people assume minorities only owe their success to their race and can't actually be hard-working or intelligent people.

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<p>I wasn't being a dick. I was merely stating a fact.</p>

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<p>You're black and you have a 1590. Just apply to Harvard and call it a day.</p>

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<p>if u get a rejection letter...the world will end...
dude ur nearly perfect for all those colleges. try harvard...who knows...</p>

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<p>how did you get such a vast improvement in junior year psat and senior year sat?</p>

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<p>Your GPA may hurt, even if you have taken such hard classes, but your standardized tests scores seems really good and you've taken a lot of APs with awesome grades on all of them. I think you have a pretty good shot. Not because your black but because your smart. You improved a lot too. If you were an affluent, white Joe Schmoe you'd have a shot at it though not a 100% guaranteed bet. Good luck!</p>