Chance Me!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Student:</p>

<p>User Name: csmith27
Gender: M
Location: Northwest Indiana
College Class Year: 2014
High School: Public
High School Type: rarely sends grads to top schools (although one grad last year is currently at Princeton)
Will apply for financial aid: Yes</p>

<p>Academics:</p>

<p>GPA - Unweighted: 4.00
GPA - Weighted: 4.40
Class Rank: top 1% (Valedictorian)
Class Size: 580</p>

<p>Scores:</p>

<p>SAT I Math: 750
SAT I Critical Reading: 620
SAT I Writing: 730
ACT: 31
AP Biology: 5</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>Significant Extracurriculars: Work (35 hrs/week), Student Court, Student Council, National Honor Society, Science Olympiad, Spanish Club, Web Design for various local businesses
Leadership positions: Work (Crew Manager), Science Olympiad VP, Chaired events for Stuco
Volunteer/Service Work: Meals for Wheels, Beach Clean-up, Hospital Emergency Room Volunteer (4 hrs/week)
Honors and Awards: Trigonometry Scholarships and contests, Honors Honor Roll, ACES, Valedictorian
College Summer programs: Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Languages. 8-week long Spanish immersion courses in Ciudad Real, Spain</p>

<p>Colleges of Interest:</p>

<p>College: University of Notre Dame, Choice #: 1, ED/EA: Yes, Athlete: No, Legacy: No, Status: Applied/Pending
College: Duke University, Choice #: 2, ED/EA: No, Athlete: No, Legacy: No, Status: Applied/Pending
College: Brown University, Choice #: 3, ED/EA: No, Athlete: No, Legacy: No, Status: Applied/Pending
College: Yale University, Choice #: 4, ED/EA: No, Athlete: No, Legacy: No, Status: Applied/Pending
College: Vanderbilt University, Choice #: 5, ED/EA: No, Athlete: No, Legacy: No, Status: Applied/Pending
College: Purdue University-West Lafayette, Choice #: 6, ED/EA: No, Athlete: No, Legacy: No, Status: Accepted
College: Indiana University Bloomington, Choice #: 7, ED/EA: No, Athlete: No, Legacy: No, Status: Accepted
College: Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Choice #: 8, ED/EA: No, Athlete: No, Legacy: No, Status: Accepted
College: Valparaiso University, Choice #: 9, ED/EA: Yes, Athlete: No, Legacy: No, Status: Accepted</p>

<p>Senior Schedule: AP Calculus, AP Econ, AP Government, AP Physics 2 "C", AP Chemistry 2, AP Spanish 4, AP English 12</p>

<p>Essays were pretty decent, I've been told I'm an excellent writer. I wrote about my Study abroad trip and in the other one I wrote about my web programming skills and experiences</p>

<p>Recommendations are good, I have a few coming from a Biology teacher, a Physics teacher and an English teacher</p>

<p>Theres a few other ECs that I didn't list on here, but those were the most important ones I thought.</p>

<p>Chance for these schools:</p>

<p>Notre Dame
Duke
Yale
Brown
Vanderbilt</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>It’s impressive that you’re a valedictorian, have excellent standardized test scores, solid EC’s (although the lack of leadership might hurt), the transcript is strong, and essays/recs seem good</p>

<p>Notre Dame: Reasonable Reach
Duke: Reasonable-BIG Reach (the 31 is a little low for them)
Yale: MASSIVE REACH
Brown: MASSIVE REACH (Plz reconsider these two… replace with Northwestern, Michigan, UMaryland-College Park Honors, or UVirginia)
Vanderbilt: Low-Reasonable Reach</p>

<p>ND, Duke, and Vandy are fine. Yale and Brown are just too big of reaches for you w/ that ACT. I think the 4 schools above are good matches for you</p>

<p>Hope this helps!! Plz chance me back!!</p>

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<p>Thanks! Notre Dame is my first choice, so I wasn’t really planning on getting into Brown or Yale - just wanted to test the waters to see if I could :slight_smile: Then I can at least say I tried!</p>

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<p>ND/Duke-reach
Yale/Brown-high reach</p>

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<p>bump -> will chance back!</p>