Chance a Nebraskan? :)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I've made a couple chance threads before, but I have a few updates (test scores, awards). :)</p>

<p>I live on a ranch in Nebraska. I go to school in a town of 300 people No IB, AP, or Honors classes are offered. It doesn't offer Calc or Pre-Calc. In addition, it's somewhat hard to focus my extracurriculars.... I am in just about everything my school offers! </p>

<p>User Name: JustMae
Gender: F
Race/Ethnicity: Caucasian
Location: Nebraska
College Class Year: 2015
High School: Public
High School Type: A TINY K-12 school in a town of 300 people, Nebraska Never sends grads to top schools. My counselor has never even had anyone who has used the Common Application in 20+ years of counseling.
Will apply for financial aid: Yes... weird financial situation. $2.5 mil in assets, $1.25 mil in debt, last year's AGI was -100K, and the year before -400K. </p>

<p>Academics:</p>

<p>GPA - Unweighted: 4.0, 98.85 (School doesn't weight)
Class Rank: 1/19</p>

<p>Courses:</p>

<p>Freshman:Algebra I (98), American History (99), Art I (99), Band (97), English 9 (98), P.E. (95), Physical Science (99), Teen Living (99)</p>

<p>Sophomore: Band (98), Biology (99), English 10 (99), Geometry (97), Health (100), Journalism (100), Spanish I (99), World History (99)</p>

<p>Junior: Algebra II (99), American Government (99), Band (98), Computers I (99), English 11 (100), Physics (99), Psychology* (98), Spanish II (99), Sociology* (99)</p>

<p>Senior: European Civilizations<em>/Independent Living (FCS), English Composition 1</em>/English Comp 2<em>, Chemistry, Band, Art II, Consumer Economics, Independent Lit/Intro to Lit</em>, College Algebra (Trigonometry)*</p>

<p>*Dual-credit college courses through the local community college</p>

<p>Scores:</p>

<p>ACT: 34 (35 English, 33 Math, Science, and Reading, 9 Essay)</p>

<p>SAT: 2310 (800 Reading, 710 Math (ugh), 800 Writing, 11 Essay)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>FCCLA (9-12)
Volleyball- JV (9-11)
Quiz Bowl (9-12)
Band (9-12)
One-Act (9-12)
Speech (9-12)
Letterman's club (9-12)
Track (9-120)
Yearbook Staff (9-12)
4-H (9-12)
NHS (10-12)
Columnist for local newspaper (10)
Cross-Country (Co-op with another school let us have one for the first year, 12)</p>

<p>Leadership positions:</p>

<p>FCCLA State Officer (10-11)
FCCLA-Chapter Officer (09-10) Chapter President (10-11)
FCCLA-District President (10-11)</p>

<p>Letter Club-Secretary (11), President (12)
Journalism-Co-editor (10), Cover Designer (11)
Quiz Bowl-Co-captain (10) Captain for state-qualifying team (11)
Class President (9) Secretary (10), Vice-President (12)
NHS President (12)</p>

<p>Volunteer/Service Work: AWANA preschool teacher- 1 1/2 hours/week, September-April, (10-12)
Vacation Bible School Helper, about 16 hours each; 9-11
Concessions Stands for Various School Clubs, about 100 hours, 9-12
With other service projects, 300+ Service Hours</p>

<p>**Honors and Awards: **Freshman Year:
FCCLA STAR (speech competition) District Gold, State Qualifier; Silver medal at State
Math Contest 3rd Place Algebra I
Scholastic Contest 3rd Place Vocabulary
Scholastic Contest 1st Place Vocabulary
State 4-H Horse Show, Runner-Up Hippology Team</p>

<p>Sophomore Year:
FCCLA STAR District Gold/Champs, State Gold/Champs, National Gold/Top 10
Academic All-State Journalism, One-Act</p>

<p>Junior Year:
Scholastic Contest 1st Place Health, 2nd place English
Conference Principal's Academic Team
Conference Superintendent's Academic Team
Academic All State in Journalism and One-Act
Girls State Citizen</p>

<p>Senior Year:
Questbridge Finalist
National Merit Semifinalist</p>

<p>Numerous other school awards I don't feel like listing!</p>

<p>*Chance me for: *
Rice (<3), visited and interviewed
Washington University in St. Louis, visited and interviewed
University of Chicago
Yale
Creighton University, visited, met with physics and English professors</p>

<p>Already in at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and I may apply to a few more out of state public universities with later deadlines. Thanks!</p>

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<p>You’re gonna be just fine. ;)</p>

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<p>Haha… oh, I hope so! :slight_smile: Thanks for the chance!</p>

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<p>I think you have a really good chance at those colleges and you have amazing standardize test scores and a perfect gpa although lacking rigor but it’s not your fault your school doesn’t offer it lol. It must help that you are coming from Nebraska if they don’t get any apps from that area. Goodluck</p>

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<p>I think you have a great chance everywhere, your scores and EC’s are all solid.</p>

<p>Chance me back:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1058521-international-nc-will-chance-back.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1058521-international-nc-will-chance-back.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Yeah, not a lot of these schools have a whole lot of Nebraskans, so that will help. At some places, like Yale, even the top applicants get rejected, but you are more than qualified for all of these schools. Good luck!
Chance back @ <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1055573-i-know-its-early-but-chances-junior.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1055573-i-know-its-early-but-chances-junior.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Chanced back! Thanks, guys!</p>

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<p>Your geographic location and unusual life story is going to distinguish you among the other 4.0/top-scoring valedictorians. Have fun at Yale!</p>

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<p>I really doubt that, but thanks for the chance! :)</p>

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<p>I agree that your chances for every school are really high! Yale might be harder to get into but I think you’ve got a shot, especially since you probably stand out a lot from the majority of the applicants. Yale and the ivies look for special applicants so I think you have a really good shot.</p>

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<p>I doubt you’ll get any financial aid at all. EFC is calculated through ~10% of assets. 2.5 mil *.1 = 250k. Your EFC is really high, don’t bother applying for financial aid.</p>

<p>Edit: You can’t have a negative income, those are called costs.</p>

<p>Edit: NVM, your a questbridge finalist. So if you get into a school that has a good sholarship package your set.</p>

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<p>I think you’ve got extremely good chances. Your test scores and ECs are solid and it seems that you stand out a lot (which is really good). </p>

<p>You got a 2310 SAT going to a school in which people never even use to CommonApp for 20 years… typical Ivy material. I really wouldn’t be surprised if you got into all the schools you apply to – in fact, I would be surprised if you didn’t get in.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the chances! :)</p>

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<p>Don’t turn your ECs into a laundry list. Otherwise you should be fine.</p>

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<p>I would apply to a few more reaches just to be sure that you get into a good school, but I think you have great chances at all of those!</p>