Chance me for Ivies and others

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Ok I am a senior at a public school in Georgia. A pretty good one, not great, but pretty competitive. Here are my stats</p>

<p>Graduating in May 2010
I am a male indian, born in america</p>

<p>Top 5% in my class, around 19 out of 500
GPA is 3.9 unweighted and my school doesn't weight GPA
Taken 6 AP classes, and currently taking 4 this year
5's on all of them except for AP Lang, and AP World which were 4's</p>

<p>SAT scores
Best one was 730 on CR, 800 on Math, and 740 on Writing
Total was 2270
I am retaking it again to improve my CR and Writing scores
SAT2 scores were 790 in Biology, 780 in Math, and 790 in Chemistry</p>

<p>Courses
Freshman: Honors Bio, Government, Spanish 2, Lit, PE, Honors Algebra 1
Sophomore: Spanish 3, Honors Lit, AP Biology, Honors Algebra 2, AP World, Honors Chem
Junior: APUSH, AP Chem, AP Stat, Trig, AP Lang, Honors Physics
Senior: AP euro, AP Lit, AP Physics, AP Calc, Econ, Film Appreciation (what I need one fun class)</p>

<p>EC's
Varsity Tennis team for 4 years. Captain in 12th grade
Varsity Soccer team for 1 year
Red Cross 9-12th grades, went to India during summer of 2009 to help victims of floods
Science Olympiad, team went to regional finals
NHS 11-12th grade, vice-pres during senior year
National Chemistry Olympiad, I was chosen by local section
Beta Club officer, its like NHS
Siemens Science and Math Competition Regional Finalist
Treasurer of Spanish Honor Society in 10th grade</p>

<p>Volunteering
Red Cross for 40 hours
Local Veterans Affairs Hospital, every summer for a total of 250 hours
NHS for 20 hours
Local Outreach Program for 50 hours
Tutoring for 20 hours</p>

<p>Awards
Siemens Science and Math Regional Finalist
National Merit Scholarship Finalist
2nd Place in Local Museum Writing Competition</p>

<p>Jobs
Worked for 2 summers to teach and coach tennis to 6-10 year olds</p>

<p>Applying to Ivy league schools, Stanford, Duke, Ga tech, UGA</p>

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<p>I’d say you are pretty competitive. There are 3 weaknesses that can point out if you want to get nitty-gritty.</p>

<ol>
<li>Rank of 19 is not great</li>
<li>SATs COULD be better. I’d say that 750+ on every section is a must</li>
<li>Great Science EC’s. However I don’t see that manifested in many awards?</li>
</ol>

<p>UGA and Ga tech are yours. Duke is probably yours and Stanford is gonna be tough</p>

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<p>Greeeeeeeat stats</p>

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<p>Chance me please.
Mixed race (white + hispanic)
4.0 GPA
5’s on 5 AP’s, plan on taking 3 more this year
National Merit Scholarship Finalist
National Honor Society
33 ACT
2260 SAT
Cross Country and Track Captain, All-state in both
Class rank of 5 out of 500
What are my chances for Stanford, U of Chicago, and the ivies?</p>

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<p>likely rejection from stanford, likely acceptance to everywhere else</p>

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<p>Thanks guys for the input, I just retook the SAT, waiting to get my scores back. Im still in contention for many awards and will find out how i did soon</p>

<p>Ill get some good letters of rec from English and Chem teachers</p>

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<p>how can you be a NM Finalist? Those aren’t announced yet
but, I’d say you get into 1 Ivy, No to Stanford, yes to everything else
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/795478-new-chances-brown-smith-yale-scea.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/795478-new-chances-brown-smith-yale-scea.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Im a NMSQT semifinalist right now but im 99% sure ill be a finalist</p>

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<p>I think you are definitely competitive. You will probably get into most of those and maybe even Stanford:) Do you plan on applying ED anywhere?</p>

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<p>Yeah I applied Early Action to UGA, I might apply SCEA to Stanford</p>

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<p>Definitely apply SCEA to Stanford if you really want to go there. The more that you do to increase your chances, the more likely you’ll be admitted. Best of luck!</p>