Chance me please!!!!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
1

<p>Hey, I'm a white junior male from South Carolina, and I was wondering if y'all could chance me for very selective schools (Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, Georgetown, and Amherst in particular) Thanks!</p>

<p>My GPA is 4.0 uw and 4.7 w
SAT- 800CR/780W/680M
9 APs at graduation (most offered at high school)
Only one grade back so far but it was a 5
EC's
Student Council 10
Student Body Rep 12
Spanish Club 9 10 11 12 (VP 10 President 11 On the Board 12)
Spanish National Honor Society (Secretary) 10 11 12
Upper School Vestry 11 12
Service Leader 11 (one of 20)
Service Head 12 (one of 5)
Varsity CC 9 10 11 12 (MVP 11, Coach's Cup 9, All region 9 10 11 12, All State 10 11 12, Region champion 11)
Varsity Track 9 10 11 12
Peer Leader 11 12
Co-Founder of Poetry Club
Youth in Government 9 10 11 12 (Outstanding Attorney 11)
School Play 9 10 12
Job at McDonalds 40 hrs/week 11 12</p>

<p>Awards
Europa Plate for Excellence in AP Euro 10
Excellence in Community Service Award 11
Sewannee Book Award for Creative Writing 11
Winner of School Short Fiction Contest 11
National Merit Commended, will be semifinalist (226 on PSAT)
3rd Place in IUPUI National Poetry Contest</p>

<p>Whoo... sorry that was a lot but I'm nervous out of my mind... Thanks!</p>

2

<p>Decent to good chances everywhere.</p>

3

<p>Thanks, do you want me to chance you back? Do you have a thread?</p>

4

<p>Georgetown- in and I’m also going to say Dartmouth
everywhere else you have a really good chance but I can’t say “in” just because of the selectivity</p>

5

<p>Thanks a ton those are my top choices! Do you want to be chanced back?</p>

6

<p>I should add that you may want to retake the SAT in order to get a higher math score. Granted, your total score is very good, but there is a psychological benefit to having at least a 700 in everything. It’d be a shame if 2-3 questions on the math portion tipped the mind of any admissions officer.</p>

<p>You can chance me back if you want to. The thread is from a few weeks ago. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/697463-interested-seeing-ways-improve-my-application.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/697463-interested-seeing-ways-improve-my-application.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Also, do you have any volunteering/community service?</p>

7

<p>Ok, I will.
Yeah I have the most community service of any junior at my school, 150+hours this year, about 100 every other year</p>

8

<p>bump bump bump</p>

9

<p>bump… please answer the nerves are getting to me!</p>

10

<p>I don’t see how you had time to sleep with a forty hour job and all those EC.
You have a good chance anywhere.</p>

11

<p>Haha thanks. Do you want me to chance you too?</p>

12

<ol>
<li>Calm Down – you still have 6 months before you apply early (if you choose to), and 7.5 for normal applications. Stressing out won’t help you, unless you have a psychological breakdown and an epiphany to write about in one of your essays.</li>
<li>Consider re-taking the SAT – I agree with silverturtle. It will help take off some of the stress (hopefully)</li>
<li>SAT IIs – Have you taken any SAT IIs yet? If you haven’t signed up for the ones in June, schedule them sometime early in the fall, so you have ample time for re-takes.</li>
</ol>

<p>You should be totally fine, so stop worrying. And if you don’t get into your top choice, it shouldn’t make any difference. You’ll get into an amazing school, and you’ll get just as good an education. Good Luck!</p>

13

<p>Your GPA and EC’s are amazing. But how do u work 40 hrs a week? Anyways you definitely have a great chance of getting in.</p>

14

<p>Hah in response to the 40 hrs/week I work a few hours a day during the week and long shifts on the weekends, adds up to ~40 hrs/week</p>

<p>Yeah I took the SAT II’s (Bio M, Literature, and US History) in May, but don’t have the scores back.</p>

<p>Yeah I’m taking math SAT classes and am retaking it in June, I really want a 2300.</p>

15

<p>bumpppppppp</p>

16

<p>dude u definitely look like the prospective student for Yale…
my dad’s friends son got into Yale and he had similar stats
if you wanted I could talk to him and ask him to tell u more bout his stats through college confidential?
but im pretty sure Yale is attainable</p>

17

<p>That would be awesome. Could he do this on this thread because I cannot work the PM thing to save my life. Hah notice none of the AP’s are in computer science…</p>

18

<p>Oh and thanks for the optimistic chancing. Hahaha :)</p>

19

<p>:O.
South Carolina? Another one? OSHT. Where do you go to school? JW.</p>

<p>As per your chances, I think you stand a decent chance at Georgetown. Brown is kinda reachy, and Yale is a high reach (for everyone >_>).
Not quite sure about Amherst. </p>

<p>The work will be pretty beneficial. What are you planning to major in? I see a lot of writing type awards, and that will work out well if you want to major in that direction.</p>

20

<p>I go to a small school in Charleston.</p>

<p>Yeah I love to write but I don’t know if I’ll choose to major in creative writing or if I’ll pursue a more “realistic” major in college, on apps I’ll probably put international relations. I hope that my Spanish stuff and Youth in Govenment will substantiate that.</p>