chance me for Duke 2022

W GPA: 4.2
UW GPA: 3.8
Freshman year: 13 A’s, 1 B (one grade each semester, 7 classes, one honor class)
Sophomore year:8 A’s, 6 B’s (6 honors classes)
Junior Year: 11 A’s, 3 B’s (expected. IB)
Senior Year: 11 A’s, 3 B’s (hopeful, leaving room just in case. IB)
IB student course load: HL art, HL English, HL psychology,SL Spanish, SL envir. and societies, SL math studies
Rank: top 10%

EC:
Cheer (4 years, captain)
Council (Senior Class Pres.)
NHS (Vice President)
Link Crew
Italian (self-taught)
French (self- taught)
Track (junior and senior year)
Volunteer here and there (about 250 hrs now)
Student sounding board
summer internship “Cultivating the Youth”

Work Experience: Fast food job

Black Female (URM)
Colorado
family makes less than 45,000/year with 6 in family

Haven’t taken any ACT (june, 2017) or SAT (April, 2017)

I will apply ED. WHat do you think are my chances?

If SAT is 1450+… I wouldn’t really be surprised either way. Maybe 50/50

Thank you!

You need to knock the sat and act out of the park to have a chance, and you may want to take it earlier than this summer. It’s definitely a reach.

you have a weird dip in your sophomore year which isn’t great

also impossible with our ACT

Lol ok, anything thing helpful, anything I can work on?

You have a lot of good leadership roles, but to me they seem “get into college” focused. From what I know, it’s much better to have a particular interest that you are thriving in rather than spending your doing volunteer work, government , activity, etc. that doesn’t mean much to you as an individual.

I might be wrong presuming this about you though, and if I am, I’m sorry. I just wish for people to follow their interests rather than a career or college (even though it is important). There’s some misconception that colleges want kids who spend all their time doing volunteering, clubs and other activities, but from information I received from some of my relatives and friends in prestigious colleges, this isn’t true. Much better to be awesome at one thing than to be good at a bunch of things.

Show that you are different from other applicants. My friend got in ED and had 3.95 W gpa, 1260 SAT, 26 ACT but awesome EC’s and probably really amazing essays. This just shows that although stats are important, they are not everything. Try to make yourself stand out.

Thank you, I appreciate that! I plan to talk about culture and how it’s impacted me and so important to me.

Bump

I scored a 35 on ACT. Re-chance me?