<p>Chances for: Yale(legacy), Dartmouth, Middlebury, Williams, Georgetown, Bucknell, William and Mary, Colby, and Franklin and Marshall</p>
<p>--Basics--
School: Large Public (sends about 25 of 750 to prestigious colleges)
GPA: 3.8/4.7
Rank: Top 5%
IB Candidate
SAT: 2260(780M, 750CR, 730W)
SAT IIs: Results in a week
-speculation-
US: 800
Bio M: 750
Math II: 670
APs: Results in two weeks
-speculation-
US:5
Art History:4
French Language:3
Human Geo: 5
Environmental Science:5
English Language:4
Bio:5</p>
<p>--EC's-- (school year)
Club Div 1 soccer 9-12 (intense:lots of awards including state+regionals)
Varsity CC+Track 9-12 (hopefully captain next year)
Varsity Debate 10-12 (school ranks #1 in country)
Young Dems 10-12 (President)
FNHS 10-12
Elected to Student Council 12 (only important b/c I transfered into a large school after freshman year, and I didn't know anybody at that time)</p>
<p>--EC's-- (summer)
Shumei International Institute (last summer+this summer)-volunteering
Assistant at a Psych practice (this summer)</p>
<p>--Non-athletic awards--
nothing special...
will be national merit semifinalist
national french contest awards
debate tournament awards</p>
<p>--Misc--
-transfered from a small private to a large public after freshman year
-close relatives in small country- will write about it in essay
-mom= Buddhist nun :)
-I take the hardest classes possible: my junior year i took AP US History, AP Art History, AP French IV, AP Human Geo, Pre-AP Pre-Cal, AP English III, AP Bio, Honors Debate, and TOK- and I made A's in all of them(i wanted to die all year), yey :)</p>
<p>Thanks, I've gotten the feeling that at the more well known places like Yale, Middlebury, Williams, and Georgetown, coming from Texas doesn't help much.</p>
<p>On the other hand, at places like Bucknell, Colby, and Franklin and Marshall, it does help.</p>
<p>How much do you think the legacy from Yale will help me? Is it merely a tie-breaker or does it really factor? Also, would uncles and aunts and cousins count? They are not legacies, but they are relatives...</p>
<p>Does your family give 7 figures to Yale on a regular basis? 6 figures? If not, legacy won't help a lot. Yale will be a reach with your GPA, but strong SATs will help. The others will be more achievable.</p>
<p>bandit_TX: Yeah, I doubt my family contribtes like that - Thanks for the feedback. I actually prefer dartmouth, middlebury, and williams to yale anyways, so i guess thats good.</p>
<p>siglio21: There is novice debate for first-years whether you are a freshman or a senior, then when you are ready, you may move up into the "champions" division. Then, after that step, since there are many teams in my school, sometimes the weaker ones have to be cut from tournaments. The teams that are rarely cut from tournaments and have seniority/are the best are understood to be "varsity".</p>
<p>Greens: Highland Park, is that in the Dallas area? I am in Houston. Invoyable was asking if there was an advantage to applicants applying from Texas to the northeast. However, Texas is kind of in a limbo because, although it is in the southwest (a generally underrepresented area), it is also a populous state with huge urban centers. So, to the smaller, less-well known schools it still helps, but at the others it doesn't.</p>
<p>You should definitely get into Bucknell. I got in there with a full merit scholarship (no financial aid was even needed) and your SATs are much higher than my 31 ACT!</p>