Chance me please!! I'll chance back. Looking at MIT EA

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey guys,</p>

<p>Thanks for any input you give me, and if you have any suggestions for matches where I could receive a full ride or a near full ride they would be greatly appreciated.</p>

<p>So here it does</p>

<p>Male Hispanic
Income: was +120k...now probably like 60,000 - 70,000
Rank - 257/909 (extremely competitive school, my friend with a 4.7 W and 3.9 UW is not even top 5%)
Grades - A's and B's pretty much.
Ap classes-
European (4)
US (5)
Stats(4)
English Lang(5)
Spanish lang (5)
Senior year -
Micro
Macro
US gov
English Lit
Enviro
Human Geo
Comp Sci
Calc AB</p>

<p>Dual Enrollment Classes-
Business Ethics - A
World Religions - A
College Algebra - A
Taking next year
Ethics -
Accounting -
Psychology - </p>

<p>GPA - 3.4 UW , 4.22 W</p>

<p>SAT - V-760 M-780 W- 710
ACT - Taking in the fall... expecting a 34/35
SAT II - taking in september- Spanish / US History / Math II expecting high 700's</p>

<p>Extra-Curricular -
DECA
freshman year - went to the international conference and participated in the Leadership Development Academy.</p>

<p>sophomore year - ran a service project that promotes entrepreneurship, competed with it, regional place, 5th in the state, competed in hospitality written event and got second place in region, Also, I was director of DLC (officer)</p>

<p>Junior - competed in entrepreneurship and placed in the region(there is no 1st,2nd in regionals), 1st in the state, international competitor</p>

<p>Senior Year- school wide service project on anorexia. Also CEO of DECA.( that's over president)</p>

<p>Academy of Finance - I was Executive VP of the Academy of Finance
Rho Kappa - Current Executive VP of Rho Kappa ( social studies honor society)
NHS - (extremely involved junior year 80+ blue hours), also a current senator
Cross Country - Sophomore, Junior, and Senior year (Varsity sophomore and junior)
Track - sophomore year, senior
Guitar/Piano - self-taught. since im in like 6th grade piano. 9th grade starred guitar</p>

<p>Programming - I made an iPhone application for my school (no one has ever done that before anywhere) to enhance communication between clubs and organizations and our 4000+ students. </p>

<p>Jobs-
Summer Sophomore- 35 hours a week, counselor at summer camp
Summer Junior - 35 hours a week, counselor at summer camp; for some of it
other half is 40 hours a week in my dads company as a sales rep. (so
exiting)</p>

<p>Volunteering -
Through NHS a lot, about 100+ hours with the white hours
Summer of freshman year - total of 230 hours at a sumer camp
Random things through out the years - about 600 hours
TRYING TO HIT 1000!!!</p>

<p>Notes- Well I tried to be well rounded. I played a sport, did my service, studied, partied, and had a good time my whole HS career. With that said, that is probably why I dont have straight A's and whatever else I am missing.</p>

<p>OK now my college list- Oh ya looking for an accounting degree
Reaches-
MIT - EA applicant
Stanford
Notre Dame
Upenn</p>

<p>Match - correct me if im wrong
NYU
UNC
USC
Berkeley</p>

<p>Safety- correct me if im wrong
UF
FSU
Indiana (the good business one)</p>

<p>thanks once again guys!!</p>

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<p>sorry, did you say what state you’re from? That will affect your chances at the public schools you’re applying to.</p>

<p>You also seem a bit TOO well-rounded… which of those ECs are your passions? focus on those in your essays/application. I suppose/suggest that would be entrepreneurship, which seems to me like it’s pretty impressive. :slight_smile: It’s also good that you’re in NHS/active in it despite what appears to be weak class rank… shows that the school is competitive and that you’re not necessarily bad.</p>

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<p>I am from florida. extremely competitive public school.</p>

<p>And to my passions were DECA because it is applying what ive learned, the programming thing because its so unique, and NHS because its my service to the community</p>

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<p>bump???</p>

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<p>Berkeley won’t give you the aid you need, so I’d just take that one off the list.</p>

<p>Who knows with MIT, your scores suggest you can do the work but the GPA says you’re not a hard worker. A kid with a 3.9 not being top 5% speaks to outrageous grade inflation at your school, not to extreme competition.</p>

<p>Honestly, you’re a very interesting case-few Hispanic candidates have your scores but most successful ones at top schools have a much higher rank. I’ll be looking for your results!</p>

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<p>What high school in Florida?</p>

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<p>Cypress bay , and ya I know about my low rank. But what are you going to do. I’ve taken 6 business courses, all of them regular, and Ive gotten b’s on classes. </p>

<p>To be honest, it’s not grade inflation. The truth is that our graduating class is an anomaly. Everyone takes AP’s, top 20% of kids are taking 3+ AP’s per year. It’s absurd. And it becomes a race at my school to see who has the most night dual enrollment classes to boost their GPA to get a better rank.</p>

<p>I’m curious as to my results as well hehe.</p>

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<p>Just as a side note, my school has a core GPA, and that is the core curriculum GPA. Mine is 3.7-3.8</p>

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<p>I go to cypress, too. Our school is ridiculous. It’s like the Harvard of high schools.</p>

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<p>GPA is a very big problem especially,if it is junior/sophomore year that brought it down. Everything else looks solid.</p>

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<p>oh well then you probably know me, theres not too many involved sebastian’s, but it really is. It is elitist. It is cut throat for officer positions. It is brutal with academics (Highest AP scores in the nation).
There is ZERO grade inflation. Teachers give you the work, and if you cant keep up, drop it, theres another 120 kids taking that AP so why do they care.
Teachers do care about YOU though so thats nice.</p>

<p>But like Yosorios93 explained, it is the Harvard of High Schools</p>

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<p>and the reason it is not highly ranked is because it is Weston, Florida.</p>

<p>There is the percentage of kids who care about college like they will go to hell forever if they dont get into a top university.</p>

<p>Then theres the majority of the kids. The problem with them is that that they flat out dont care about school at all. one of the kids in my DECA class had a .3 GPA. ya, .3.</p>

<p>But the sad part is that LOTS of kids have those grades.</p>

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<p>Lmao, I agree with everything you said. No grade inflation, dropping an ap doesn’t matter since there are hundreds of other kids, and the teachers really do care. I’m going into junior year, and also an MIT hopeful, but it’s crazy hard coming out from cypress.</p>

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<p>ya agreed, its vicious man. So many kids, the caliber so high… you should join DECA and join our cookieopoly</p>

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<p>Haha, 1. I’m a girl 2. I swear I have DECA cookies like everyday, haha.</p>

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<p>legal crack, im telling you… but any one else want to chance me?!</p>

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<p>Bump for more opinions?!</p>

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<p>any thought on my chances for U of Illionis</p>

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<p>Community service hours mean little in context.
It is what you do, rather than how many hours you are trying to achieve.</p>

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<p>

You have a factual source proving that? I highly doubt the highest AP scores in the nation come from a high school in Florida.

Or because it’s not as good as a school as you believe it to be. In any case, with that GPA/rank, your chance of acceptance at any of your reaches is extremely small.</p>