Chance for Wharton, Ross, Sloan and Stern - Chance back!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm going to be a senior in a very competitive school in Australia. Would love a few chances, thanks!</p>

<p>College (LSA, engineering, etc.): Wharton, Ross, Sloan and Stern</p>

<p>SAT (one sitting): 2250</p>

<p>SAT IIs : 800 Maths II and 770 Chemistry (might do a third, physics or latin perhaps)</p>

<p>GPA: N/A</p>

<p>Course load: Most demanding</p>

<p>Rank: 60/180</p>

<p>Other stats: Predicted to be in top 2% of the state</p>

<p>ECs:
-Latin – 6 Years
-Sanskrit – 2 Years (only offered for 2)
- Latin Reading Competition – Twice – Commended first time and finals on the second (yet to compete)
-Spoken Latin Club (includes tutoring of Year 7/8)</p>

<p>-Library Monitor – 6 Years - Involves supervising younger children as they progress through the library monitor system
-Duke of Edinburgh – Bronze, Silver, Gold (all up 2 years and 3months)</p>

<p>-Rowing – 4 Summer Seasons – 2 Winter Seasons
-Rugby Union – 2 Seasons
-Cross Country - 2 Seasons
-Ran in Bridge Run (10km/6.2miles) 8 times and City2Surf (14km/8.7miles) 6 times</p>

<p>-Violin – 7 Years
-Flute – 4 Years
-Orchestra – Played as part of an orchestra in front of around 1300 people, toured New Zealand as a part of school to play for numerous schools</p>

<p>-Army Cadet Corps (2 years)
-First Aid Certificate
-40 Hour Famine (3 times, raised thousands)</p>

<p>-Philosophy Club (3 years) – selected to compete in a philosophy competition against numerous other schools twice
-Chemistry Olympiad - Involves covering Year 12 and uni material in year 11 for a competition to be selected in the Australian Chem Olympiad team</p>

<p>Essays: Good</p>

<p>Teacher Recs: Great</p>

<p>Counselor Rec: Good</p>

<p>Hook: From Australia, no financial aid [not really hooks i guess, but they might help]</p>

<p>State or Country: Australia </p>

<p>Thanks for reading this and if you could chance me that would be great and if you want me to chance you back then just link me! :)</p>

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<p>(1) Without knowing you’re GPA, that’s not really helpful. No one can really chance you without a GPA; for all we know you could be failing your classes. </p>

<p>(2) Your class rank is really going to hurt you for all of these schools; most accept students in the top 10% of their class; you’re in the top 33%.</p>

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<p>Can you tell us your exact course load and grades for each class? Your class rank is not acceptable for Wharton, Sloan, and maybe stern.</p>

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<p>I don’t have a GPA, coming from Australia. Very different system. But I’m doing reasonably well in all my classes, a bit worse in English and my course load is the most demanding; the hardest level of maths, english, latin chemistry and economics.</p>

<p>And yes, my class rank is my weakest part of my app because my school is very competitive. But I know people who went to Harvard for rowing (no scholarship) and had class ranks more like 130/180. But that is still top 10% of the state and their SAT was decent.</p>

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<p>Can you get recruited? Just post us you classes and specifically A, A-, etc. Reasonably well is relative.</p>

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<p>Well, my school doesn’t give grades just ranks, so for maths 50/130
Latin 20/30
Chemistry 40/130
Economics 35/110
Physics 50/120
English 100/175</p>

<p>And an aggregate of 60/180</p>

<p>And like i said that gives me a predicted year 12 score in the top 2% of the state</p>

<p>And no I’m not looking at getting recruited, just saying that people in the bottom quartile have gotten into Harvard from my school via sports</p>

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<p>bump? I know i’m a bit different to normal us applicants but could anyone comment on my ECs and SAT score at least?</p>

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<p>which school do you go to?</p>

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<p>Your ECs are fairly cookie-cutter for the schools you want to apply to. I would say that all the programs you are applying to are slight reaches to medium reaches.</p>

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<p>Sloan: Reach
Wharton: Reach
Stern: Reach
Ross: High match</p>

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<p>all low reaches expect for Ross which is a match</p>