Chance a nice boy for Middlebury RD?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Middlebury College
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<p>Hello!</p>

<p>Asian Male
Midwest
Competetive Public
GPA: W: 3.74 UW: 3.6</p>

<p>SAT: 750 CR 720 M 630 W (1470/2100)
ACT: 31 (33/31/31/30) (6 essay. ha) may retake later, projecting 33-34</p>

<p>SAT II:
710 Biology
700 Literature</p>

<p>APs:
5 Literature
4 Composition
3 Biology (long story, power went out in middle, riot ensued in hallway.)
- Physics B
- Calc AB
- Macro
- Chinese</p>

<p>Essays: good to very good
Recs: Very good to outstanding</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>Swimming, year round, 2 hours a day 6 days a week
Varsity Swimming, section qualifier 3 years in the 100 breast stroke
2 years in the 50 free</p>

<p>Piano 6 years, nothing outstanding
Violin 6 years, nothing outstanding
National Honor Society</p>

<p>Research:</p>

<p>I guess this is where I spent most of my time and energy.
Massive hours in the lab, doing mostly cell culture and a lot of mouse surgeries, competetive repopulation, data analysis etc.
co-authored paper on creatine phosphate concentration in the ischemic heart, published in spring 2008
Summer science program, comparable to RSI, SSP. began a new extremely significant project on proposed regeneration of cardiac tissue, created a model (patent pending), possible co-author.
Certified by ACLU in a few different mouse surgeries.</p>

<p>Volunteering:
Helped kids with homework, 100 hours
Hospital, 200+ hours
Random YMCA, local community, 100 + hours</p>

<p>Presidential award, silver
AP Scholar
Some research scholarships</p>

<p>Senior Year Grades:</p>

<p>Semester: (our school runs on block scheduling)
AP Calc AB: B-
AP Physics: B-
Philosophy: A+</p>

<p>Do I have a chance at Middlebury RD?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>i'm simply envious that your school offers a course in philosophy.</p>

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<p>I would have said in, except for your current grades: can you bring up those B-s?</p>

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<p>yeah! my philosophy in lit class is amazing, and the teacher is awesome. I could seriously talk all day about philosophy, and I secretly want to major in it. but i can't.</p>

<p>yeah I know my senior grades aren't the best. our classes go twice as fast because of our block scheduling, so those are considered "semester" grades too. grrr...i guess this is just sort of a hectic time right now, with all these college apps, and i had to finish my research project in time for siemens and intel, as well as swimming 2 hours a day, and i guess my grades sort of took a toll. i'm not trying to make excuses though, my grades were never really that great, and i'm not the best engineer either. AND, now my physics is starting E&M, which I believe will be near impossible. whoops sorry for the rant, i needed somewhere to unwind.</p>

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<p>being from the midwest will help. SATs are pretty run of the mill for Midd. OK SAT 2s. OK grades. OK chances. I definitely wouldn't feel confident saying you're in or that you'll get rejected. (That sucks about Bio, but at least it's a funny story to tell.)</p>

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<p>thanks! yeah it was pretty funny. we were moved like 6 times.</p>

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<p>Funny that ACLU is certifying people in mouse surgeries these days! They must have solved the civil liberties thing.</p>

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<p>Your spelling errors make you less competetive. People judge you by the words you use, how you use them and whether you spell them correctly.</p>

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<p>sorry, not aclu, iacuc. haha i don't know where that came from.</p>

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<p>
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SATs are pretty run of the mill for Midd.

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<p>1470 SAT is still in the top 25% of enrolled students at Middlebury. You are in the gray area where it wouldn't be surprising if you were accepted and wouldn't be surprising if you were rejected. No one is going to be able to predict your chances more precisely than that.</p>

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<p>"Your spelling errors make you less competetive. People judge you by the words you use, how you use them and whether you spell them correctly."</p>

<p>I'm assuming he put more effort into his application than he did into this chance thread.
Speaking of judging people by their spelling: you might want to look at your spelling of "competitive."</p>