Chance a poor ol' pleb for these schools.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>PROFILE
Race/Ethnicity: African American
General Income Bracket: lower middle class
Intended Major: Comp Sci or Software Engineering
Applying RD for all these schools.</p>

<p>STATS
GPA (UW) : 3.49
Rank: Top 17%
SAT: awaiting new scores (will probably be around 2000-2150 given my predicted raw scores)
ACT: 31 C (33 M, 34 E, 32 R, 25 S, 10 W)
Subject Tests inbound.
AP Scores: Mostly 4s (Total APs taken from freshman to junior year is 8; will have taken 15-16 by the end of senior year)</p>

<p>SENIOR SCHEDULE (all AP excluding debate which is honors)
Calc AB
Bio
Lit
Government
Stats
Enviro
Debate
Physics B (self study)</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULARS
A bullet point and a star means it's also community service.
:
• Debate (10, 11, 12). I did Congressional Debate, and our squad had the most national success this year of any debate team in the nation. I was a prominent member of Executive Board and functioned as my debate team's webmaster. Coached novices. One of top 5 debate teams in nation.
•<em>Co-Founder of Microfinancing Club (10, 11, 12). Acquired money through primarily donation; $5,000 donated to the Grameen Foundation to revitalize Indian economies through microloans
• Junior State of America (10, 11, 12). Co-Webmaster of the head JSA website (national organization with thousands of members across the US). Chief Technology Specialist of the Southeast Region (elected).
• *Mentoring Tomorrow's Leaders (11, 12). Founding member. We gathered kids in our school with GPAs below 2.0s, tutored them daily, and assumed the roles as counselors for them.
•</em> Key Club (10, 11, 12). Director of Social Media. Participated in program called "Horses for Handicapped" where we helped children with cerebral palsy and ALS ride horses for fun.
• National English Honor Society (12). Secretary and head of our school’s NEHS Tutoring Committee.
• National Science Honor Society (12). Webmaster.
• Study Group Founder (won't give you the name since it'll give away my school) (9, 10, 11, 12). Founder. Study group for Class of 2014 with over 180 members.
• Boy Scouts (7, 8, 9, 10, 11)</p>

<p>WORK EXPERIENCE
• Founder of Online SEO pseudo-firm (9, 10, 11, 12). I started up my own online business which revolved around freelance Search Engine Optimization and general Website Optimization. Essentially, I helped a myriad of businesses and companies move up in search engine ranking to facilitate sales for their businesses. I did so buy utilizing reputable web resources (in the eyes of search engine crawlers) to manipulate search engine algorithms into thinking that businesses were becoming more popular, which made the bots give more value to my clients' websites. I also worked directly with affiliate marketers on CPA and PPC campaigns by writing sales copies to help maximize their profits. I've worked with over 50 different business owners with a 100% approval rating on various internet marketing forums such as WF and DP.
• Server administrator for [Don'tWantToGiveClanNameHere]'s Counter Strike: Global Offensive servers (12) (more of a summer volunteer job for my gaming clan).
• Content Contributor for MyGamer (11, 12) Content writing about games and gaming news - provided articles for one of the oldest gaming domains on the web</p>

<p>HONORS/AWARDS
•AP Scholar with Distinction (June 2013)
•Junior State of America: Best Speaker Award at the Spring State convention for the (April 2013)
•National Forensic League -- Special Distinction
•Harvard National Debate Tournament Congress Sweepstakes (my event’s squad cumulatively got 1st place overall) (2013)
•lots of other local/regional/state debate awards that i didn't feel like listing lel
•National English Honor Society
•National Science Honor Society
•Mu Alpha Theta</p>

<p>COMMUNITY SERVICE (In addition to Key Club and Microfinance) AND VOLUNTEER WORK: In conjunction with one of my friend's Boy Scout Troops we organized a program in which we were donated refurbished computers and computer parts from a local computer parts provider, assembled the computers (and taught the younger kids in the troop how to do so), and donated them to local businesses and people
--Teacher assistant for my old AP Chem teacher
--Math tutoring done in conjunction with Mu Alpha Theta</p>

<p>ESSAYS -- great. Had my AP Lang teacher go over them. Lot's of humor and they're pretty eloquent and representative of my aspirations and myself as a student</p>

<p>Rec Letters -- Great. Lang teacher loved me. Calc teacher likes me a lot and referred to me as one of the brightest students he's ever had -- we joke around a lot during class. US History teacher loves me. Chem teacher is like another mother to me.</p>

<p>Other Activities:
Guitar
Music (dubstep/house) production
Programming
Eating food
Weaving baskets whilst underwater</p>

<p>Chance me for:
University of Florida
Georgia Tech
Florida State
Purdue
MIT
Northwestern
University of Miami
UChicago
Carnegie Mellon
Cornell</p>

<p>I know the academic side of my application is VERY weak compared to everyone else's on here, which is the only reason why I feel doubtful enough to post. I'll chance you back if you chance me and I really appreciate any and all feedback from you guys. Thanks!</p>

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<p>Haha, calling yourself a pleb might instill fear in others with an application of this caliber, my friend. It’s funny that you mentioned your SEO business, I also did something pretty similar to that in my neck of the woods. Anyway, I wouldn’t worry about your academics. At the level of school your applying to, the admissions process is largely holistic and they take into consideration your other components, like EC’s. What you have going for you is individuality, something that not everyone can claim. So, here is my two cents:</p>

<p>U of F = Safety
Georgia Tech = Low match
FS = Safety
Purdue = Safety
MIT = Medium Reach (It is for everyone)
Northwestern = Medium match
U of M = Safety
U of C = High match
CMU = Medium match
Cornell = Low reach</p>

<p>Also, chance me back if you would!</p>

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<p>That makes me feel a lot better. Thanks, man!</p>

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<p>Bump
10 char</p>

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<p>WOW that is a very impressive resume! You are seriously downgrading yourself by calling you a pleb lol. For public schools ur gpa may hurt you, but you are a stellar applicant for the privates, who take a more hollistic approach on you evaluation.
University of Florida: Low Match
Georgia Tech: Low Match
Florida State: Match
Purdue: Match
MIT: Safety
Northwestern: High Match
University of Miami: Saftey
UChicago: Reach
Carnegie Mellon: Match
Cornell: High match</p>

<p>Chance me back?
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<p>Thanks. Chanced ya back, man! </p>

<p>Bumparooni.</p>

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<p>I second (or third, I guess) what the other two posters said regarding your chances. Your ECs are amazing, dude. You should be very proud of yourself!</p>

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<p>Thanks. :D</p>

<p>Final bump of the night.</p>

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<p>Other posts seem to have covered your chances very well. Instead of repeating what everyone else says I want to ask, Are there any specific questions you have that I can answer?
Good Luck!</p>

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<p>Thanks. Chanced. :)</p>

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<p>I pretty much agree with the above posters. You have a very impressive application.</p>

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<p>Thanks. Final bumparooni.</p>

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<p>okay I lied.</p>

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<p>I’m less optimistic than the others yet I still love your application and profile.
There is definitely a lot that you offer and you are without a doubt taking a rigorous courseload.</p>

<p>U of F = Safety
Georgia Tech = Match
FS = Safety
Purdue = Safety
MIT = Reach
Northwestern = Reach
UMiami = Match
UChicago = Reach
CMU = Low reach/high match
Cornell = Low reach</p>

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<p>I appreciate the candidness. :)</p>

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<p>I think you definitely have great shots at all of the Universities you listed, and I wouldn’t be surprised if you were admitted into all of them. </p>

<p>The only places that will be a little difficult would be: MIT, Chicago, and Northwestern (in order of difficulty). Having said that, I think you will be an extremely competitive applicant for all three of those places, and I would say you will probably get into them.</p>

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<p>Thanks for all the input guys. Still looking for a little more though.</p>

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<p>You will get into all of them.</p>

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<p>Only reaches might be MIT and UChicago, which will both look down on the grades and test scores. Otherwise all match or safety. Chance me for Notre Dame?</p>

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<p>Will you be doing any EAs/ED? If not, I recommend that you take another ACT and get that science section up.</p>