chance me

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I will be applying to
Cornell ED
The following regular decision to:</p>

<p>Johns Hopkins
Northwestern
Carnegie Mellon
Tufts
Brandies
Columbia
Boston University
a couple of safeties</p>

<p>I'm white, male, born in Russia ( came here when I was 1).
Live in a Boston suburb. Class size 450, school doesn't rank. Very good public school sent 4 kids to Harvard last year, and a bunch to other ivies.</p>

<p>SAT I
800 math
710 writing
680 reading</p>

<p>SAT II
800 math level II
630 US History
Physics took in October probably 800.</p>

<p>AP US history score: 4</p>

<p>3.33 GPA weighted 3.8 (took only honors and AP classes, plus electives)</p>

<p>Currently taking: AP Calc BC, AP STAT, AP physics C, Honors English, Honors Engineering, computer programming C++.
EC:</p>

<p>Internship over the summer for consulting company. Will be co-author in the published report of the project.</p>

<p>Work at a publishing company doing office work. couple hours a week</p>

<p>Volunteered for two summers at a school for blind kids.</p>

<p>Varsity Crew team 4 years (won't be doing it in college, not very good at it)
Math team 4 years (did pretty good, took AIME)
chess team 4 years
School's Judiciary (part of school government), second in command.
Track team JV 1 year</p>

<p>I'm deciding between engineering or economics.</p>

<p>Please let me know what you think about my chances for each college</p>

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<p>Your GPA is very low; that's the only glaring weakness in your application.</p>

<p>I doubt that you're in the top 10%, even though your school does not rank. The universities can guess your rank based on the profile your high school supplies.</p>

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<p>anyone else...</p>

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<p>i agree with gaffe. your gpa is way too low to be applying to ivy league schools. northwestern in some cases is harder to get in to than many of the top schools in the country. all of those schools are reaches for you (except maybe for BU).....</p>

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<p>any other opinions?</p>

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<p>bump.........</p>

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<p>Even though yur GPA may be low your SAT scores are great.. in my opinion you have a chance at some great schools you've taken some challenging courses and have a broad range of EC's. I've known people to get into Brandeis and tufts with lower SAT scores and your GPA. So go for it!</p>

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<p>...................bump</p>

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<p>Okay, so I'm sure your school offers a ton of AP's considering you live in suburban Boston with 450 kids in your class. But, you've only taken 1 AP prior to Senior year, so obviously, you're not challenging yourself. I'd say no to all except Tufts, and you're in at BU.</p>

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<p>what wuz your physics sat ii?</p>

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<p>very few people take more than 1 Ap class junior year because the school doesn't allow it, unless its a language.</p>

<p>Physics turned out to be a 700 :(</p>

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<p>some more chances...?</p>

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<p>can you translate that gpa to a 100 point scale? Then I might have something to say...</p>

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<p>I have a b+ average. Is that like a 87/88 on the 100 point scale?</p>