Chance for Wash U, MIT, Yale, Duke, etc.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>The schools that I am very interested in include...
-Washington University in St. Louis
-MIT
-Yale
-Carneige Mellon
-Cal Tech
-Brown
-Duke </p>

<p>Middle class white male from the south and I attend a public school.</p>

<p>-----Tough competition from within my school
2000+ students, 40 something national merit semi finalists a year, 40 something 4.0 unweighted's, every few years someone passes 20+ APs</p>

<p>Academics:
-2250 SAT
-35 ACT
-PSAT 222</p>

<p>------4's/5's on 9 aps thus far
Bio - 5
Statistics - 4
Chemistry - 5
Macro - 5
Micro - 5
US - 5
World History - 5
Computer Sci A - 4
Calc AB - 4</p>

<p>-------in the process of taking another 4...
Calc BC
English Lit
Physics
Euro
....13 APs by the end of senior year if everything goes well
....my school offers almost all of them</p>

<p>-------3.98 unweighted GPA, above 4.3 weighted </p>

<p>-------SAT2: Bio - 800, US - 780, Math - 750</p>

<p>----------Awards/Extracurriculars/Community Service:
-National Merit Finalist
-Best in fair Junior Academy of Science sci fair (Not nearly as good as intel or siemens, but I did represent my state at nationals as a result of winning it, which might make it better).
-Placed at state science fair/Special Awards at state</p>

<p>-Member of Beta Club
-Member of NHS
-125 hours of service
-20 hour service project (Raising school supplies/uniforms for African refugee childent. The project raised enough to supply a class of 30 for a year)</p>

<p>-Member of FBLA, competed at nationals
-Elected by peers to student government (500 kids in my magnet and 5 government positions for my magnet)</p>

<p>-Varsity CC/Track for 3 years
-Cross Country/Track Captain 2 years, Academic All State, All State in 3200 in track and 5k in CC. Personal Bests: 9:43 3200 (basically 2 miles), 4:28 1600 (basically a mile), 16:06 5000 (about 5:10 mile pace for 3.1 miles)
-Varsity Tennis freshmen year, but dropped it to focus on running</p>

<p>-Can play drums and guitar.
-Helped organize/played in a show with some friends that raised $420 for a Haiti relief effort </p>

<p>-My passions in life are running, music, and school in that order. For my essays, I focused on overcoming injury problems as a runner and my "love" of science fair. I wrote that I want to attend ____ university so that I can gain a solid base in biology and later enter med school with a goal of becoming in orthopedic surgeon. </p>

<p>-Good teacher recs + a great rec from my coach
-Our counselors have so many kids that we don't get much individual attention</p>

<p>For personal reasons I want to attend Wash U the most. Second is a toss up between MIT and Duke. Thanks for your time, please be as honest as you can.</p>

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<p>I don’t know my class rank exactly, but I’m in the top 5%. Thankfully, my school ranks off of weighted gpa’s and not unweighted.</p>

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<p>Definitely in for WashU, unless they decide to waitlist you for being “overqualified”.</p>

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<p>Washington University in St. Louis: match/high match
MIT: reach (no huge math/sci ec’s)
Yale: reach/low reach
Carneige Mellon: high match/low reach
Cal Tech: reach
Brown: low reach (reach if you mean plme)
Duke: low reach/high match</p>

<p>hahah please dont think you’re overqualified or something. you’re very well qualified and have a good shot at most of these schools but being overqualified for top-tier schools like washu would involve being a triple gold medalist at ipho, imo, and the real olympics. </p>

<p>those are some impressive xc/track times…a true distance runner
out of curiousity, do you run sub-2 800’s? nbd jw</p>

<p>sorry if i came across as arrogant or cocky its 2 am and i cant fall asleep</p>

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<p>Thanks a lot for chancing me guys. Not that there’s ever any certainty in this sort of thing, but you all have given me some peace of mind. </p>

<p>I’ve never broken 2. I haven’t checked a Daniel’s chart, but I’m guessing that I “should” be able to break it based off of that. Due to competition within my team, I ran the 3200 at state, but because some really fast guys graduated last year, I can focus on the 16 this year (my relatively better event).</p>

<p>I have run an 800 once, at an indoor meet freshmen year. In my first ever track race, my coach placed me in the second heat of nine for “good competition”. I went 2:30 something and was 15 to 20 seconds behind second to last haha. </p>

<p>Haha, I didn’t think you came across as arrogant. I feel more diffident than over-confident. Thanks for the chance, I really appreciate it.</p>