Chance at Ivies and others?!?!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>White Male
Junior</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 on 4.0 scale
School doesn't weight grades or do class rank.</p>

<p>ACT: Composite: 35; English 36, Math 36, Science 34, Reading 33
SAT: First time- 2250; CR:740 M:710 W:800 Essay:12
Second time- 2230; CR:680 M:760 W:790 Essay:12</p>

<p>SAT II's: Chemistry:780
Taking: Math II, Spanish, Physics</p>

<p>AP's: Env. Science (4)
US History (4)
Taking this year: Chemistry, Physics B, Physics C-Mech, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Psychology, US Government, Calc AB/BC, Spanish Lang.</p>

<p>EC: Football (9th-10th), Baseball (9th-10th), Cross-Country (11th-12th), Track(11th-12th), National Honor Society, Philosophy Club, Young Democrats, I have volunteered at a non-profit organization for two years since its beginning.</p>

<p>Planning on studying: philosophy, chemistry, spanish, greek, linguistics</p>

<p>Schools of interest:
Harvard
MIT
Stanford
Princeton
Yale
UPenn
Pomona
Claremont McKenna
Williams College
Amherst
UChicago
Northwestern
Berkeley
Columbia</p>

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<p>good gpa decent sats and (sorry) very weak ecs</p>

<p>i guess you’ll get into one of them but they’re all reaches due to the ecs</p>

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<p>Also, Close-Up trip to D.C. sophomore year, Educational trip to Spain this summer, and National Merit (219).</p>

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<p>Definitely get more passionate about ECs, quick! Or else you’ll be stuck on what to write about on essays.</p>

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<p>IMHO your EC’s are fine. They show a heavily sports orientated student that cares about his country. You should write an essay on how sports have effected you as a person.</p>

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<p>Well, here’s the thing. With sports three hours every day after school and a full AP course load, popular “intellectual” ECs are quite tough to fit in.</p>

<p>I am seriously considering writing some sort of treatise on aesthetics this summer. This is not to put on my transcript; this is a result of my passion for philosophy and truth.</p>

<p>Oh, and by the way, I don’t really care about my country. I think the political system we have is complete ******** and needs to be replaced. I would care about my country if we didn’t live in an economic system filled with hypocrisy and deceit.</p>