Chance me. Today I had to explain to my Grandmother what the Ivy league is.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Common Application used when possible</p>

<p>GPA- 3.8/4.5 in other terms 93/96.5 (lowest grade ever being an 85)
DeathAT- CR: 740, M: 650, W: 670 E:8(boooo essay!) (1390, or 2060)
ACT- comp:30, M:29, R:32, E:29, S:28
DeathAT II: 650, 640, 640</p>

<p>Senior classes:
AP Physics
AP Calculus
AP Art History
AP Biology
H US Gov
H English
H Humanities
Spanish III (online)
Four additional art credits, and though not enrolled in the class, I'll get AP studio art credit.
I go to a (top 500 public) boarding school where nobody is allowed to have a life. All of these credits are possible. Trust me. I have class from 8:30AM to 8:30PM some days. Nooooo fun.</p>

<p>ECs:
Student Council, class president (4 years)
Cross Country/track, captain (4 years)
Knitting club, founding co-president (3 years)
Community service club, executive council (2 years)
10hrs work per week (on weekends, no time on week days)</p>

<p>Awards:
Ran a marathon in 2005 and won age division
National achievement semifinalist
College of Charleston Governor's Scholar
Arts and Humanities Governor's Scholar
Five atheletic letters
Two academic letters
Region winner National History Day competition
All-region in track</p>

<p>Essays:
Very well written. for common app, one talks of my mothers drug addiction and recovery,and for some schools, I used one about rascism I've encountered. My editor won the Scholastic art and writting awards last year for nonfiction, and all she suggested to change was word choice in a few instances.
I put a ton of time into my short answers. Essays are the strongest part of my app.</p>

<p>Recs:
Both are very strong. "stongly encourage you to admit...", and "most self-aware individual of his age..." are quotes. counselor loves me. Mostly "best in my career" checks.</p>

<p>Suspension:
I was suspended for three days winter of my junior year. This happened in a very stressful time in my home life. There was very legitimate stress caused by child support arguments; my father was going to be reincarcerated. I felt guilty and frustrated, but I ca't change it now. Also, my recomendations speak very favorably of growth I've displayed since this event.</p>

<p>Hook:
art! I sent (really good) slides, and I have 10 credits in everythhing from printmaking, painting, ceramics, art history and criticism, to photography, medals, sculpture, and visual language. In the spring I'll be writing a 50-100 pg. senior thesis on the Bauhuas under an art historian/former art librarian at UCLA, and The Getty. I also iddentified specific artist and art historians that teach at each school I applied to whom I'd enjoy working with.</p>

<p>I'm pretty well-read. The standards, such as Hemmingway, Vonnegut, and Faulkner are covered. But I've also encountered Tim O'Brien, Pynchon, Eugenides, McCarthy, Capote, Pamuk, Saramago, Mafouz, and Mukherjee, among others.</p>

<p>Summer fun!
College of Charleston Governor's School
58 hrs community service
Job at Burger King 20 hrs per week
attended week long family reunion (how sweet)</p>

<p>South Carolina
African American
Male
$40,000-50,000 per year income</p>

<p>Schools:
Columbia College, ED
American
Amherst
Bard
Emory
Middlebury
Oxford of Emory
Princeton
Vassar
Wesleyan
Whitman
William and Mary</p>

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<p>Your African American and you got good SAT scores and all those EC and honor classes your in to all of them...</p>

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<p>hopefully I'll only get into Columbia and then I'll have to withdraw all of my others. All of them, though? any other oppinions?</p>

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<p>ditto to what "EASE" said</p>

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<p>^ i agree with their agreement. by the way, you run marathons (very impressive), so do you run cross country too?</p>

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<p>yeah, cross country too.</p>

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<p>WOW MAN...u can run a marathon?! damnnnn...</p>

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<p>if you dont mind answering, whats your best 5k or 3 mile time? i look up to your marathon ability. im pretty decent at xc myself :), but ive never had the ***** to try a full marathon. maybe next year. by the way, how long did it take you to train?</p>

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<p>oh and great chances. id say your in at all</p>

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<p>5k: 18:56, mile: 5:03</p>

<p>Luckily nothing about a marathon is fast. I trained for 4 months. I started with a base of eight miles, and each Saturday morning I added a mile to my major training run. Halfway through training I ran a 20 K in order to get a more immediate reward for my work. I did 3 runs a week in addition to the one long run on each Saturday. If you would like help designing a training plan, I'd be happy to asist you. PM me if you'd like.</p>

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<p>It's a crap shot, lol, but I think you're in at all too.</p>

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<p>...in at all?</p>