Chance For A Junior!!!!!!!!!!!! Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>My old thread didn't get attention so I tried to get an exciting Title :).</p>

<p>Location: South Florida (but middle class)</p>

<p>White Male</p>

<p>Rank: 7/340 at a very competitive high school (ranked 3 by Newsweek)</p>

<p>SATs: Not known yet, but going to a tutor so expecting at least a 2100 by the time I apply.</p>

<p>SAT IIs: Plan to take Math IC and IIC and Chemistry</p>

<p>APs: 5 sophomore year ( Calculus AB, Statistics, U.S. Government, English Language, Art History)</p>

<p>Freshman year: Semester 1: 4 As, 3 Bs
Semester 2: 6 As, 1 B
Very rough year. Plan to write an essay or something about it, but I don't think colleges really look at freshmen year grades. ( 4 Pre-IB classes, 2 honors classes, one regular class, which was my elective)</p>

<p>Sophomore year: All As both semesters ( 5 AP classes, 1 IB class, 2 Pre-IB classes)</p>

<p>IB diploma candidate</p>

<p>Junior year schedule:
AP English Literature
IB Chemistry 2
IB Computer Science
IB American History
IB French 4
IB Theory of Knowledge
IB Math Methods 2
Calculus 3 (community college)
Differential Equations (community college)
AP Microeconomics (online)</p>

<p>Projected Senior Year Schedule:
IB English HL
IB Chemistry HL
IB History of the Americas HL
IB French 5 SL
AP Environmental Science or AP Physics B
IB Math HL
IB TOK</p>

<p>Planned Major: Math</p>

<p>ECs:
- Group head in Freshmen Class Council: In charge of creating the float, which placed 3rd.
- Sophomore Class Council which I am the Sergeant-at-Arms
- Group head in Project Earth- Recycling Program. Currently creating a competition between classes to see who can receive the most amount of paper and then recycle the paper to earn money for my school.
- Delegate for Mu Alpha Theta.
- Envirothon Captain (11,12)
- Big Brother and Big Sister Program participant (10,11,12): purpose of program is to motivate potential drug abusers, potential gang members, etc. under the age of 12 to use the alternative path and encourage him or her to be a good student along with an all around good person.
- Varsity Swimmer (9,10,11,12): accomplishments: qualifier for district and county meets
- Varsity Water polo (10,11,12)
- Mu Alpha Theta (Math team/honor society) (9,10,11,12): accomplishments- attended state competition, received top score in the pre-calculus individual round at the state competition, qualified for team round at the state competition. Subjects competed in: 9th- Pre-calculus, 10th- Statistics and Calculus, 11th- Calculus, 12th- Calculus
- Volunteer Tutor (Algebra 1 (H), Geometry (H), Algebra 2 (H), Pre-Calculus, AP Calculus AB, Calculus H, AP Statistics, and Statistics H) (10,11,12)
- French Club (10,11,12)
- Project Earth (9,10,11,12)
- Florida Math League participant (9,10,11,12)
- AMC 10 participant (9,10)
- AMC 12 participant (11,12)
- Envirothon (10,11,12) – Won 5th place overall in 2008.
- Accepted to Law Week 2008 – Selected students were accepted to have a tour of the West Palm Beach court house and learn more about the way trials work.(10)
- Nominated for the National Honor Society (10,11)
- Created the club "Anti-Cheating Experiment" (ACE) (11)
- President of ACE (11,12)
-Volunteer/Intern at the Solid Waste Authority- Activities include painting people's houses with recycled paint, creating beautification programs, and helping around the office for administrative work. (11,12)
- Group leader of a beautification program - picking a spot which needs plenty of help and help clean up the area. Using composting for the soil.</p>

<p>Colleges:
Ivies, Northwestern, John Hopkins, NYU, MIT. Stanford, UChicago, Washington University in St. Louis</p>

<p>I do plan on applying to safeties.</p>

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<p>Oh and I'm not sure if these mean much, but...</p>

<p>Predicted AP Scores:
Calculus AB - 5
Statistics - 4
U.S. govt - 5
English - 4
Art History - 3</p>

<p>and I forgot to change I'm #6 not #7. I really don't think it makes much of a difference if at all.</p>

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<p>you're in.</p>

<p>only because im 6th weighted, 7th unweighted in my class and i found that amusing about you.</p>

<p>sorry that its not the answer you're looking for =(</p>

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<p>wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo yay!!!!!!!! lol :).</p>

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<p>bump.......</p>

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<p>Ivies- Big reach (They are for everyone, and your Bs hurt you a little)
Northwestern- Match (with a 2150+ on the SAT and a good rank)
John Hopkins- Match (with a 2150+ on the SAT and a good rank)
NYU- Match
MIT- Reach (if you do some research your chances of admission go way up)
Stanford- Reach
UChicago- Reach (it's all about the essays)
Washington University in St. Louis- Match (with a 2150+ on the SAT and a good rank)</p>

<p>Any safeties?</p>

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<p>I think your rank makes up for your grades. All it proves is that your school is competitive. But let me be clear:</p>

<p>YOU HAVE TOO MANY EC's</p>

<p>I highly doubt that you are actually committed to all of those clubs. It is typical laundry list syndrome, where you just have so many different EC's that are in so many different interests that it fails to show your passion for math. Tailor your focus, and you will be fine.</p>

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<p>To smart.cookie: My safety is UF. UF accepts almost everyone from my school. </p>

<p>To sevitagen: I know what your saying, but I honestly commit to all the clubs I'm in (except French Club lol). I love swimming and water polo. They're like a passion of mine(hence swim2daend :)). I'm also an Enviromentalist. I seriously help out as often as I can. Next year, I plan to go out of the country to South America and help save the rainforests. And, my last huge passion is MATH!!!!! I absolutely love math!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean, I prove formulas like the integral of ln(x) and integrals of trig functions for fun. :)</p>

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<p>Are you at Suncoast? I heard someone from there got into MIT a couple years back.</p>

<p>Funny to see another passionate swimmer here. Although I don't understand what the county level is--is it just regular swim meets? It begins at districts, goes to regionals, then to states (unfortunately I only make it to regionals).</p>

<p>In addition, I would say only take the SAT Math IIC (the higher level), not both. It's simply redundant to take both. Also study the format of the chemistry subject test--the true-false section is absurd.</p>

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<p>If you were devoted to math, sports, and the environmental causes, that would be fine.</p>

<p>But then you have things like Law Week, French Club, Anti-Cheating Club, Big Brothers/Sisters, student council. All of which are admirable, but somewhat beside the point of your main interests.</p>

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<p>bump...... need more than 1 real evaluation :)</p>

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<p>to give u a real sense of evaluation, here's what I think
Some of the posters are right: your B's are a little disappointing
and Ivies will be a reach (as it is for anyone)</p>

<p>Ivies look at competitions a lot, especially if you are willing to pursue math.
It is a little weak that u haven't actually qualified for AIME or USAMO
or have participated and won some competitions such as
David Essner (I live in South Florida too, so I know the math climate here.)</p>

<p>Another weak spot is ur SAT scores.
If you really want a top IV, such as HYP, you will need at least a 2200 (at the very very least).
Another deciding factor is ur ethnic background.</p>

<p>If you are an asian male, then I am sorry to say that you will be competing with a lot of people in your area with better numbers than you have (not to say that that will deter you from getting in whereever you want to go)</p>

<p>If you are white/hispanic, then you have a better chance
If you happen to be black, you will have an amazing chance of getting in, noting South Florida's demographics.
Even being hispanic will help tremendously.</p>

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<p>Ya i'm white, but unfortunately not hispanic or black lol.</p>