Chance me please??

Colleges and Universities A-Z Princeton University
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<p>Hey everyone, I'm sorry for how long this is but if you could give me your honest feedback I'd really appreciate it!! (My top school is Princeton!)</p>

<p>Gender: male</p>

<p>SAT: 2400 (one sitting)
ACT: 36 (one sitting)
SAT II: 800s in math I and II, physics, chem, spanish, bio, italian, greek, zulu, gaelic</p>

<p>APs: all APs taken during my 8th grade year before highschool, 5s on everything</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 unweighted, 4.75 weighted</p>

<p>Co-curriculars/clubs:
- Started six clubs at my school, president of 18 more
- Class president, VP, and secretary all four years
- Student body president
- NHS president
- President and lead monitor of school's chapter of the Hall Monitor Association of America
- Play violin, viola, cello, saxophone (tenor), piano, piccolo, flute, triangle, tambourine, french horn, maracas, kazoo, shakers, ocarina, and steel drums in school band
- Academic Super-bowl, -plate, -cup, and -napkin
- Science Olympiad (international champion in every field since 3rd grade)
- Debate Team captain all 4 years
- Theatre (wrote, produced, directed, starred in, and written complete original musical scores for 16 full-length plays so far)
- Chief editor for school newspaper and yearbook since freshman year</p>

<p>Extra-curriculars:
- Guiness Book of World Records record holder for solving the Rubik's Cube and playing "Flight of the Bumblebees" on the kazoo (normally and while blindfolded)
- Captain and varsity member for all four years of every sport that school offers except the women's JV Fencing team
- Started a hedgefund firm in 4th grade with a buddy and now manage roughly $19B
- Have gone on 918 service trips since 9th grade, all international
- tutoring at local elementary school (7,500+ volunteer hours....I usually stay overnight)
- Mensa International member and treasurer of United States chapter
- Have maintained a monthly scientific research periodical since September 1999 that discusses dynamic magnetism and quantum mechanics
- Transformed home into soup kitchen (my volunteer hours are approaching the millions)
- Ran for governor of my state (lost by a 2% voting margin)
- Attended Young Leadership Association camp (head counselor throughout high school)
- Spearheaded international movement to restore 25,000+ pieces of art in famous museums around the world
- Spent summers interning for Goldman Sachs (8th grade summer), Apple (freshman summer), United Nations Chief Executives Board (sophomore summer), and planning on circumnavigating the globe on own manpower for my junior summer
- Invented the "hovering cell phone" in late 90s, but success has been limited by prevalence of the Bluetooth headset
- Joined the Navy and served in Bulgaria during winter breaks in high school
- Head volunteer at local Exotic Animal hospital; have performed lifesaving cardio-thoracic surgery on over 40 species of rare Amazonian caterpillars, have delivered Siamese hyena triplets, etc.
- Successfully cloned my pet zebra "Clayton" and was written up in local newspaper
- Have touched the hand that touched the hand that touched the hand that touched the hand that touched the hand that touched the hand that touched the hand of Abraham Lincoln (...hook?)</p>

<p>Awards:
- 2002-2010 International Human award
- Won by unanimous decisions every single "most likely" award in student body voting at school
- National Merit Achievement Champion (2009 and 2010, hopefully 2011!!)
- 6-time winner of the Nobel Peace, Chemistry and Literature Prizes
- Literally thousands more that I don't feel like listing</p>

<p>Hooks:
- URM (I am an extraterrestrial being...could this be considered an anti-hook??)
- First generation college student
- School legacy
- The Abraham Lincoln thing (see ECs)
- I am blind and deaf (also have no legs)
- Know 116 different languages....still not completely proficient in Azerbaijani but I'm still counting it, is this okay??</p>

<p>Please give me your honest opinion....thanks for reading!</p>

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<p>No, Princeton only likes white kids</p>

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<p>I haven’t laughed this hard in years XD</p>

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<p>Iunno, admissions officers usually don’t like laziness.</p>

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<p>Yeah, but can you JUGGLE?</p>

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<p>hmm I don’t see NHS anywhere. Chances are slim.</p>

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<p>Too cliche. Try winning Intel and maybe you can transfer in after your sophomore year (though I wouldn’t hold your breath for that)…</p>

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<p>I’d say low reach/high match depending on your essays.</p>

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<p>Ha, nice try, but no college is going to take you if you’re dishonest…
Did you not think we’d be able to put two and two together? I mean, nobody’s stupid enough to believe that…
an extraterrestrial could win the International Human Award! Nine times! :-0
Hmph… Poser. ;)</p>

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<p>but have you cured cancer?</p>

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<p>Did you win American Idol?</p>

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<p>@jr5570 I’m PRESIDENT of NHS!!! </p>

<p>and I just won the NHS National Spirit of the Society Award. It’s given out once every century to only the most extraordinary NHS member. probs just gonna throw it in my trophy cellar with all that other garbage</p>

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<p>I laughed so hard when I read this. Glad to know people here have a sense of humor.</p>

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<p>Sorry, I don’t think you have anything in there that’s gonna be much different from the typical applicant. Then again, I only barely skimmed your condensed list and looked at GPA and test scores (nothing else really) but I feel that’s definitely enough for me to be a good judge of what the admissions committee is looking for. And it’s not you. Sorry.</p>

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<p>Don’t worry if you don’t get into Princeton, Harvard Loves, and I say LOVES perfectionists. You are a shoe-in at Harvard.</p>

<p>I love this thread!</p>

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<p>“Zulu SAT II… what?”</p>

<p>Then I continued reading, and proceeded to crack up. Thank you for making me smile.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1158539-chance-class-2016er-gt-princeton-stanford-public-ivys.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1158539-chance-class-2016er-gt-princeton-stanford-public-ivys.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>That’s a bit desperate. :stuck_out_tongue:
Visit someplace like My Chances (dot net) for a copious fix of stats and “chances reports” and bar graphs and crap to make you feel neurotic. Consult a magic 8-ball, that’ll get you nowhere and make you feel anxious too. :stuck_out_tongue:
But the crowd reading this thread (have you read it?) is probably not the best place to look for advice… ;)</p>

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<p>Hahahahahahahahaha</p>

<p>Never laughed this hard at CC
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<p>We need a “like” button on CC. :P</p>