Chance me please

Colleges and Universities A-Z Duke University
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<p>I love Duke and I know that its a reach, so I'm just wondering what other people think about my chances</p>

<p>SAT1 Crit reading: 690
Math: 670
Writing: 730 </p>

<p>GPA: 3.54 (unweighted, I am in 4 AP classes and 2 honors) also its about a 3.8 first quarter this year so i improved a lot </p>

<p>AP scores:
World History: 5
US history: 5
Environmental: 4
English Language: 4
Studio Art : 4</p>

<p>Awards won:
2 scholarships for Art
AP scholar with distinction</p>

<p>Extra curriculars:
-Piano for ten years
-Track and Cross Country (All league in both)
- Executive on youth council, a school community service group
- Academic Tutor for CitySquash, a program that helps economically challenged families send their kids to top boarding schools with squash scholarships and Academic tutoring
-freshman transition leader at school
-art and literary magazine art editor
-art club member
-christian youth organization volunteer</p>

<p>I am also sending a combined art and music supplement which I am extremely confident about that includes a movie of my best artwork in the past year with a recording of myself playing a difficult Mozart piece that lasts almost ten minutes. I also have great reccomendations from my AP art teacher and piano instructor. I know a lot relies on this supplement for me.</p>

<p>I am really interested in Visual Studies at Duke, and I know I would succeed and really enjoy it because it is well suited to my interests, but I'm not a straight A 2400 student. I challenge myself with lots of APS (im graduating with 9) but I do other things too like involve myself in a lot of extracurriculars and tons of art and music that I couldnt do if i focused more on academics. </p>

<p>What do you think??</p>

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<p>Pretty good, I would say. I had 9 ap classes, similar AP and SAT scores.</p>

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<ol>
<li>any sat IIs?</li>
<li>your gpa will hurt you.</li>
<li>your ECs look good and you have participated in community service and been consistent in your ECs which is good.
you also challenge yourself.</li>
<li>the arts supplement should boost your chances</li>
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<p>I say you have about a 65% chance of getting in, higher if you write strong essays.
good luck :)</p>

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<p>Thank you! i was totally expecting everyone to say that I should just give up now. I know my gpa is much lower than the 4.0 unweighted everyone else will have.
I took 3 sat 2s actually
world history:680
and the other two are math and lit, and i took them december fifth so im going to rush deliver them to colleges. I imagine i got in the high 600s in math and probably around a 700 in lit. I don’t know if i can choose to send only one of the two scores though for some reason i think they all show up.</p>