Chance and I will chance back!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey guys! I'm stressing about schools, so hopefully this will be somewhat cathartic. Kindly express your opinions concerning my shots at these fine institutions, and I will happily do the same for you. Good luck to all rising Seniors- things are going to be very stressful for us all. </p>

<p>Background:
White Male from rural North Georgia (outside Atlanta metro area)
Family committed to public service- Public Defenders, Public school teachers, Peace Corps, etc.</p>

<p>I live in a town with ~1000 people, no stop lights, cows in city limits, etc, while, due to my mother's employment in the system, I attend school 30 min away in a town of 30,000 people and fairly high levels of poverty.</p>

<p>I love my school, but academically it certainly is not up to par with many others.</p>

<p>Deep interest in utilizing medicine to aid people internationally
Fairly well traveled (I'm considering writing an essay about my trip to visit my sister in Lesotho)</p>

<p>Schools:
Harvard- 1st choice. My favorite teacher has a significant interview lined up for me with her well connected best friend, a very well renown doctor who graduated from Harvard.
Yale
Princeton( My brother's best friend was Early Phi Betta Kappa at Princeton and is now pursuing a doctorate at Berkeley. He will likely write my recommendation.)
Duke (My brother is a Duke grad- very involved with good grades)
Dartmouth (Childhood best friend's dad is a graduate from Dartmouth and is now a successful plastic surgeon. He will likely write my rec.)
Brown
Stanford
Berkeley
UVA (my sister graduated from UVA---- I am applying for the Jefferson Scholarship)
UNC
John's Hopkins
Northwestern
Emory (long line of Emory graduates in the family)
GA Tech (instate safety school. Honors program. A lovely state law provided free Honors Program tuition to all private high school valedictorian/saluditorians to all public universities in Georgia)</p>

<p>Academics/Tests
4.0 gpa UW, 4.85 W (1st in class of about 300)
SAT: 800 CR, 720 Math, 700 Writing; in one sitting (will possibly retake to bump up Writing score)
SAT 2's: I will take these in the Fall
AP's: 5's on all 7 AP exams: Environmental Science (this was online... unpleasant), U.S. History, World History, European History, American Government, Calc A.B., Language and Composition.
This year I am taking AP Bio, Macro, Calc B.C., Lit, Stat, and either 1 or 2 online courses, also perhaps Chinese Language and Culture. I will likely graduate with 12/13/14 AP's
Languages: 5 semesters of Chinese, 3 semesters of Latin (block schedule)
PSAT: 219 (this hopefully will qualify me for Semi-Finalist Merit Scholar)</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars/Honors, including Senior Year:
Student Government: 2 years Representative, Junior Vice President, Student Body Vice President (most work hours both years as Representative)
Eagle Scout (Assistant Senior Patrol Leader and Patrol Leader all of high school- also Order of the Arrow Ordeal member)
Governor's Honors: Communicative Arts (A fully state funded summer program for "gifted students")
Duke Tip Program
3 Years Track and Cross Country, 2 years Varsity (Most improved)
Likely Star Student and Valedictorian
Principal's Award Nominee for 3 years and one time Winner
Mock Trial Attorney: four years, 2 years lead attorney
Academic Bowl Team: Four years captain, 2nd in state, 3rd in state, and State Champions (we are even getting rings) for the last three years respectively
Beta Club Event Coordinator (creating a book drive and an extensive volunteer program)
National Honors Society: no leadership position, but very involved
Founder of our school's GSA
Lead member of the Youth Movement for our district's Democratic National House of Representatives candidate
Founding member of Young Democrats
2 years Monthly and 2 years Weekly volunteer at local Homeless Shelter
A summer volunteering at our town's free health clinic
AP Distinctive Scholar, likely AP national scholar by the end of Senior year
Chinese Club member: 4 years
Senior Year Essayist for Literary Bowl</p>

<p>Potential Essay Topics:
Deep involvement in Youth for Jody Cooley
Travels to South Africa, Swaziland, and Lesotho and the resultant religious/moral crises that arose
Two iconoclastic car crashes: my dad's crippling moped accident, and my very good pal's lethal crash.
Being a Liberal Democrat in the fourth most Conservative district in the nation
Governor's Honors Program</p>

<p>Thank ya'll for reading. I suspect that my geographical location (very rural North Georgia), my recommendations, and straight-up luck are the most distinctive qualities for any chance of getting into the most prestigious schools. Pessimism and optimism have balanced out into acceptance, and I recognize that I will be fortunate to attend anywhere that approves me. Good luck with all of yall's college endeavors!</p>

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<p>I think you have a solid chance at all of the schools on your list. There’s always some variability, but you certainly shouldn’t stress. </p>

<p>I think you may want to shorten your application list though. Completing all of the requirements for application for 14 schools may be unnecessarily stressful and expensive. Can you narrow your list down to your safety, 5 matches, and 4 reaches?</p>

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<p>Thank you! I’m working on weeding out some of the schools now based on Pre-med and Language programs (planning on minoring in Chinese). Do you have any advice, based on my stats not on these programs, on which schools would be matches/reaches? And does my brother being a Duke grad help my chances there?</p>

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<p>Bumpity bump bump</p>

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<p>Definitely shorten your list and have more safeties. You’re well qualified for all of these schools and I’d be surprised if you didn’t get into at least a few of them, but HYPS are always unpredictable, so it wouldn’t hurt to have some extra schools you know you’ll get into. </p>

<p>Chance back, please?</p>

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<p>Match: Emory, UVA, UNC, Berkeley, John’s Hopkins</p>

<p>Duke and Northwestern are on the bubble between match and reach. </p>

<p>The rest are reaches just because they’re ivies (plus Stanford), so you never know. :)</p>

<p>Chance back? </p>

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<p>Thanks guys!</p>

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<p>Bump Bump Bump</p>

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<p>Other people’s input would be appreciated- bump bump</p>

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<p>I dont really have any idea if these schools will accept you (though, my grandfather did make it into grad school at yale with a full ride and he wasnt the best student in highschool, he failed a class a two… but i think he was top in his class as ohio university, or ohio state). Anyways, I would shorten your list.</p>

<p>Look in depth at all the colleges. Really consider location/accademics etc and cut your list down. </p>

<p>Let me give you a few examples:</p>

<p>Not that any of these schools will teach you to be a better doctor (i dont know too much about the different programs) but Yale is humongous and has a huge hospital (Yale hospital) for a lot of its students to learn (and probably get jobs right off the bat) </p>

<p>Moving from a little small town to a big town in California (Stanford, Berkeley) is a big change. Not only with people but with climate and weather (California is really prone to fires and earthquakes)</p>

<p>Go one sites like princeton review and look up each college, maybe having a nice dorm is something important to you, or having generous financial aid or great food. Maybe you dont want to go to a partying school or a school thats too uptight (no drinking whatever) . Look into all these things and shorten your list. If you apply to all these places and get into Duke, UNC, Berkely, John Hopkins, Emory, UVA, and Northwestern lets say… which one are you going to choose? Thats a really hard choice to make .</p>

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<p>narrow it down to 6-10 schools. From what I’m looking at all Ivies will be reaches (as they are for everyone). berkeley is a match. UNC should be your safety, and I thik Stanford will be a reach. JHU, NW, Emory- matches. GA tech- safety. Good luck!
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Thanks :)</p>

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<p>Wow, that’s a good application. I think you have a chance at most - if not all - of the schools you listed. Ivies may vary, but the admission process is quite arbitrary. Chance me? My post should be in the chance me if you refresh the page.</p>

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<p>I think you’ll have a certain reach at most of the Ivies, but it’d be very dependent on your essay and possibly interview.(havent’ you heard this so many times already!)</p>

<p>You’d be a better match at</p>

<p>UVA (legacy)
UNC (chapel hill?)
John’s Hopkins (match to low reach)
Northwestern (no idea of that school)
Emory (immense legacy)
GA Tech (instate safety school. Honors program. A lovely state law provided free Honors Program tuition to all private high school valedictorian/saluditorians to all public universities in Georgia)</p>

<p>Now chance me back please</p>

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<p>Got my SAT up to a 2320 (800 Writing and Reading, 720 math). Got into Harvard SCEA!</p>

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<p>Agree w/ above solid shot at most schools on list but HYP is always hard (esp. b/c you are unhooked). However you have a good profile.</p>

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<p>I don’t really agree with any of these people. You shouldn’t shorten your list.
If you’re interested in linguistics, APPLY TO MIT. Chomsky teachers there…and his contributions to linguistics…amazing. I know MIT has a strong techie identity, but from what I’ve heard, they’re an overall amazing research school. You’d be able to thrive in pre-med/linguistics fantastically. Very much the best of both worlds. Okay. End rant of why you should apply to MIT.
You are a strong applicant for these schools. I would retake your SAT, but I wouldn’t really be fretting over it because the rest of your application is so strong. You are bound to get into one of these schools. No stress.
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<p>You got into Harvard? Impressive.</p>