Chance a very low GPA, very high ACT/SAT recruit?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Basics:
Gender--Male
From--Suburban Chicago public school
Financial aid--Yes
Ethnicity--Hispanic
LD/ADHD--Yes, not diagnosed/treated until end of junior year</p>

<p>Academics:
GPA--3.02 unweighted, 3.88 weighted <== :(
Class rigor--All honors/AP
AP schedule--English Lang., US His. (jun.); Calc. AB, Biology, US Gov't, English Lit., Economics (sen.)
Class Rank: Surprisingly enough, top 14% (class of ~650)</p>

<p>Scores:
SAT--2340 Blue Book (taking Oct. administration) <== :)
ACT--35 composite (36 R, E; 35 M; 33 S) <== :) only took the test once!
AP--English Lang. (5), US History (5)</p>

<p>Leadership/extracurricular activities:
Varsity scholastic bowl--Co-captain (9-12); MVP (9-11); top scorer (9-10, but only because my coach liked pulling me out of tournaments for falling asleep)
Jeopardy!--Finalist, invited to and completed audition in Kansas City. I'll hopefully be on the show in December
School newspaper--Copy editor (established position, 12); production editor (11); staff writer (10)
Blogger--I spend, and this is a pure guesstimation, about 15 hours per week researching, interviewing, and writing for two incredibly popular hip-hop/music/fashion blogs
Chicago Tribune--Staff writer for teen newspaper (11-12)
Varsity baseball--Hurt junior year, but came back during summer (LHP, 10-12)
Travel baseball--Co-captain/member (LHP/OF, 10-12)
Freshmen swim team--Member (9)
Wind symphony--1st chair, alto sax (9-10)
Jazz band--Alto sax (9-10)
Marching band--Alto sax (9-10)
Saxophone lessons--Alto/tenor sax (9-10)
Parish volunteer--Eucharistic minister/misc. volunteer (9-12)
Assistant teacher--Surprisingly selective program for a summer job (only 40 applicants were picked out of a pool of around 150, 11-12)
French Club--Member (9-10)
Italian Club--Council member (12); member (11)</p>

<p>Awards:
National Merit Semi-Finalist (223 PSAT)
National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholar
Tri-M Music Honors Society
Northwestern Midwest Academic Talent Search Award Winner (36 ACT R/E, presented freshman year)
Honor roll member every semester</p>

<p>Schools:
UChicago (baseball), Wash. U (baseball), Washington and Lee (baseball), Rochester (baseball), Denison (baseball), Vanderbilt, Duke, BC, Colby, Colgate, Illinois (in-state), Indiana</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>i think Duke is just one of those schools that won’t accept you, they do those preliminary eliminations and sadly i think yours would be eliminated from at least duke because of GPA</p>

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<p>^ I’ve never heard that about Duke, and in fact their admissions rep told me that there were no score/grade cut offs because they evaluate holistically, but I guess none of us can know for sure.</p>

<p>First, I’d like to congratulate you on stellar test scores. Those are very good, and with your hooks (baseball, URM) and ECs you should be at least competitive at most of the schools you listed. I’d say that Duke, WashU, UChicago, and Vandy are all reaches because of your GPA, and a couple others might be as well, but you have a good shot at the rest.</p>

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<p>Very good chances, your application draws the attention away from your gpa :D</p>

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<p>forgot a 760 US History and 800 Lit. do remember, when looking at my grades, that I’ve got an ld/adhd. thanks, guys!</p>

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<p>bump? bumpity?</p>

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<p>can some people respond!?</p>

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<p>question:</p>

<p>What is a “surburban” Chicago Public School?</p>

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<p>it’s a public school in the suburbs of chicago, not a CPS school in the suburbs!</p>

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<p>You have a very cool EC list. Duke, Chicago, and Washu are high reaches though, though maybe your minority status will help. Vanderbilt is reach too. You have a solid chance at the other schools though.</p>