Chance for Wash U, Vanderbilt, Harvard, Princeton, Yale - 100% Honesty Please

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<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, 5 people in my class of 500 so far have 36's</p>

<p>Academics:
-2220 SAT (M + R = 1520)
-34 ACT
-PSAT 222</p>

<p>------4's/5's on 7 aps thus far
Statistics - 4
Chemistry - 4
Macro - 5
Micro - 5
US - 4
World History - 5
Computer Sci A - 4</p>

<p>-------in the process of taking another 5...
Calc BC
English Lit
Physics
Comparative government
Bio
....12 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 4.2 weighted </p>

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

<p>----------Awards/Extracurriculars/Community Service:
-National Merit Finalist</p>

<p>Science Fair:
-Intel 2011
-Two Time Best in fair Junior Academy of Science state sci fair (Represented my State at the National American Academy of Science Meeting)
-Best in Fair Regional Science Fair
-Placed at state science fair/Special Awards at state a couple of time</p>

<p>Sports:
-Varsity CC/Track for 3 years
-Cross Country/Track Captain 2 years, Academic All State, MVP of the Track Team, All State in 3200 in track and 5k in CC. Personal Bests: 9:47 3200 (basically 2 miles), 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>Service:
-Member of Beta Club
-Member of NHS
-Roughly 125 hours of service + a 20 something hour service project (Raising school supplies/uniforms for African refugee children. The project raised enough to supply a class of 30 for a year)
-About 50 hours volunteering for a local charity. Worked with African Refugees adjusting to life in America most of the time. Tutoring, helping them move in, etc. Amazing experience, makes me feel blessed. </p>

<p>Other:
-Member of FBLA - competed at state</p>

<p>-Elected to student government senate by my peers Junior and Senior Year (500 kids in my magnet and 5 government positions for my magnet)</p>

<p>-I can play drums and guitar. The most "college significant" thing I've done with it is that one time some friends and I helped organize/played in a show that raised $420 for a Haiti relief effort after the disaster last year.
-I've been recording music for years, thinking about sending a cd with some songs </p>

<p>Recs:
-Good teacher recs + a great rec from my coach
-Although they try their best, our counselors have so many kids that we don't get much individual attention</p>

<p>Couple Random Things:
-Full Ride scholarship from a local University for Sci Fair Research
-Award from the faculty of my magnet program
-Elected Homecoming King by my class (not sure if this matters for college stuff)</p>

<p>Hooks:
-Being recruited at Wash U for Running
-Family connections at Princeton (Couple cousins went there)</p>

<p>Wash U is my number 1 choice, after that it depends on financial packages. Thanks so much for taking the time to chance me, please be completely honest with your chances.</p>

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<p>You will get into WashU. You would probably be in even without running, but running takes the element of chance out of the equation.</p>

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<p>Academics: You have a 3.98 gpa so (based on what you say) you’re already bumped out of the top 2%. And though your SAT scores are by no means bad, they’re probably not as competitive as other scores from people in your grade. Academically, HYP would rather choose someone from that top 1% - and they’ll probably have plenty of applicants to go through from your school. But then again you go to a competitive magnet so you don’t necessarily have to be in the top 1-2%.</p>

<p>ECs don’t make up for relatively weaker (not bad at all) academics. The main reason would be the lack of demonstrated leadership. You go to a huge schools so it is probably really tough and you’re probably busy with running, but they want those people who can show leadership. The rest is ok though. When I make my comments, I’m talking about HYP. In terms of WashU, with running recruitment is in your hands. Vandy, should also be within grasp.</p>

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<p>100% honesty ≠ 100% accuracy</p>

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<p>Thanks for the chances.</p>

<p>I should probably mention…</p>

<p>Class Rank:
Class ranks are assigned based off of weighted GPA’s thankfully. Consequently I’m in the 'top 5% of the class". They don’t partition beyond that to increase students chance in admissions.</p>

<p>Until a few years ago weighted grades weren’t used for ranking. Consequently, students with relatively lighter loads (frequently no ap’s) would have 4.0’s and would constitute most of the top 5% while a large group of students with the most ap’s possible (about 13), but one or more b’s would fall out of the top 5%. Now the new ranking system and weighted gpas are designed to correct that.</p>

<p>Test Scores:
I took the ACT a few weeks ago. I’m hoping for higher subscores that could produce a 36 superscore.</p>

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<p>Leadership: Track/CC Captain, Student Government, organized some charity events… that’s what I got ;/</p>

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<p>I guess I see your case a little better. I was a little thrown off by your lack of traditional club leadership positions and role in the charity events and by your ranking system. Hopefully you do get that high ACT score (I think I only noticed your SAT before). I presume you have a chance; I just can’t find that thing to latch on to and say “Yes!” WashU is your number 1 choice, so I don’t think you should worry about HYP.</p>

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<p>Will you be running at HYP? You have impressive times and you may want to contact the school if it is of relevance. You will get into Wash U and probably Vanderbilt. HYP are high reach without running but you might get it! It’s worth applying to and good luck! Please chance me [Chances</a> for Stanford / Wharton / few others - College Confidential](<a href=“http://■■■■■■/6OHy9]Chances”>http://■■■■■■/6OHy9)</p>

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<p>Thanks DBlazer. I think you’re right. Today I thought about the other kids from my school applying to HYP and I think the competition takes away any real chance. For example, there’s a kid - great guy I’d be really happy for him if he got it - who is an URM with a perfect SAT, 4.0, hard classes, some solid service work, and he’s a great guy to top it off. </p>

<p>The reason I was thinking about HYP is that at Wash U I’ll have to get merit aid to be able to go and I was thinking it might be easier to simply get in to HYP than to get one of the few merit scholarships at Wash U. I don’t think I’ll get financial aid to Wash U, but I was hoping that with their massive endowments I might get some to HYP. Actually today something great happened though. I thought I would need to get a full ride to Wash U to pay for it (I’m not willing to take loans on the whole thing) but now I just need to somehow get half. I’ll just keep praying.</p>

<p>Pleasechanceme, yeah If I got in I’d walk on at HYP, I’m not fast enough to get recruited status though. I might get fast enough in track next semester, but it’ll be too late anyways. Yeah, I’ll chance you.</p>

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<p>O, and I forgot to mention that that guy is low income</p>