<p>White male, Ohio
3.9-4.0 GPA (93 on a 100pt scale)
Rigorous Catholic College prep school
8 AP classes (AB Calc, AP Spanish Lang, AP Span. Lit, AP US, AP US Gov, AP Bio, AP Lit, AP Psych)
SAT- 2320 (800 reading, 760 math, 760 writing)
SAT Bio: 750
SAT US History: 750
SAT Math II- 710 (not my strongest subject...)
AP US history- 5
AP Bio- 5
National Merit Semifinalist, probably finalist (228 psat)
National Honor Society
National Spanish Honor Society
Extracurriculars:
Year-round swimming-3 years
Cross country- 2 years
Water Polo- 1 year
Member of the auditioned choir at my school- 2 years
Several community service clubs at school
Very involved in youth group at church
Planned and led a youth retreat for my entire diocese and was on staff for another
Led two 30 Hour Famine retreats for my church (if you don't know what that is, here's the website: 30 Hour Famine) and raised thousands of dollars
3 mission trips to Honduras
Essays: (writing is probably my greatest asset)
short essay (extracurricular essay) is about swimming and team spirit
essay is about meeting and essentially saving a depressed girl and how it changed me</p>
<p>So do you plan on swimming?You look good-water polo is a walk-on club.</p>
<p>No negatives-good luck!</p>
<p>In terms of swimming, I’m nothing special(1:52 200free at the beginning of the season (haven’t swam it since), but I hope to be a 1:47 by the end of the year. Also, I swim a :52 100 free, hope to go :49 low with taper), so I don’t think I’m good enough. You said that I had “no negatives,” but you didn’t mention my chances. Could you give me an estimated percent chance? I know, a bit pushy, but I’m extremely nervous! I applied RD and have already submitted my app.</p>
<p>Does your h.s. rank?</p>
<p>No, it does not. It’s quite strange, I know. Also, I did not mention this, but I was a founding member of my school’s water polo team. We didn’t have one until this year, so a few of my swimming friends and I decided to start one.</p>
<p>bump bump bump</p>
<p>I’d say better than 50%, which is 4x the average acceptance rate. Depends on your recs and essay. Express somewhere a wish to continue with water polo, can’t hurt, and to join the swim team. Fill out the recruiting form, with the change in coach and poor season we’re having, it may help, and can not hurt.</p>
<p>I haven’t looked at Midd’s male swim times but you might be surprised. You might show further potential later in the season. It can’t hurt to fill out the recruiting form and find out if your high school coach would support you by contacting the new Midd coach. At the very least, talk up the water polo angle.</p>
<p>BTW, many schools don’t rank.</p>
<p>Two years ago, 74 percent of enrolled students’ high schools * did not * report class rank.
Last year, Midd discontinued reporting rankings.</p>
<p>Ok, I really do want to play water polo in college. I don’t know how I could talk up my wish to continue polo since I already submitted the app and forgot to mark “desire to continue in college” on the common app. What should I do?</p>
<p>In less words 
: obviously I would fill out the recruiting form for swimming, but is there anything I can do now to indicate interest in water polo?</p>
<p>Waterpolo is a club sport, I do not know who coaches the team. If you are also really interested in participating on the swim team, then complete the swim recruit form and contact the coach.</p>
<p>You should go on the Midd site and search-men’s team is very well ranked nationally, just moved up to a harder division where they play Yale etc. Call the admissions office or email the athletic director. Be bold and don’t hang back, this may turn you from maybe to a Midd Kid-do not delay.
Also fill out the swimming recruiting form…[Water</a> Polo springs from Natatorium to Nationals | Middlebury Campus](<a href=“http://www.middleburycampus.com/node/6900]Water”>http://www.middleburycampus.com/node/6900) is an article on the team in the Middlebury Campus, or student newspaper.</p>
<p>There just aren’t that many kids that play water polo. I feel so strongly about this I am re-posting to really get you to DO SOMETHING NOW</p>
<p>Coach is Brian Goodwin and his e-mail address is in the Midd directory…</p>
<p>Thank you SO MUCH for the advice and for pushing me to email Coach Goodwin. I just sent an email to both him and the athletic director. I also sent a carbon copy to admissions. Hope it helps!</p>
<p>I would say you have an excellent chance of admission at both schools. You have very strong academics and SAT’s and your extracurriculars are extensive. I would be very surprised if you weren’t accepted to one of these schools.</p>
<p>It can’t hurt! Good luck to you!</p>
<p>Admittedly your stats are pretty impressive; however, I was recently talking to a good friend who happens to work in the admissions office of Middlebury College. She was telling me how the admissions process there is actually starting to change in a strange way. She was telling me how her and the other admissions people are “absolutely sick,” of students who seem too perfect, like they have so many AP courses, amazing SAT scores, amazing GPA, a lot of community service, and they just happen to go to a very rigorous private school. My point is that the goal of the admissions people is to fully understand the applicants, but when they are presented with applicants such as yourself who seem just too perfect, they can’t understand you. They feel that you have no faults, which is not what they are looking for. Trust me they’d rather take someone who maybe does not have such perfect SAT scores and AP scores, someone more relatable.</p>