Chance my genius friend

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>White Male </p>

<p>-GPA Unweighted: 3.4
-GPA Weighted: 4.1
-rank (unknown)
-SAT: 2400
-ACT-35(he's retaking)
-SAT IIs: Math II: 800, Chem: 800, Bio E - 800, Physics - 800 Math I- 800 </p>

<p>-APs: Calc AB (5), Bio (5), USH (5), Chem (5), English Lit (5), Calc BC (5), Physics B- 5 </p>

<p>Senior Schedule:
Multivariable Calc and Differential
AP Physics C Mechanics
AP Gov
AP Psych
AP Latin
AP Micro</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars:
FIRST Robotics - president 3 years
Knowledge Bowl- Captain
Math Team- Treasurer
SNHS
NHS
MNHS
History Fair- 1st in state
Science Fair- 1st regional, 2nd state</p>

<p>Other:
Essays: Great
Recs: Great</p>

<p>Awards: National Merit Semifinalist, Summa Cum Laude on all Latin Exams so far, Harvard Book Award, MIT Math award</p>

<p>Chance him for MIT/UChicago/CMU/CalTech/Princeton/Yale.</p>

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<p>Very good chances.</p>

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<p>He’s an idiot to retake a 35 ACT</p>

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<p>certainly not bad, and I retook a 35 too! (albeit got the same score back)
are the National merit semifinalists announced for this year? sorry I wasn’t aware.
Perfect Standardized test scores. Those large schools, especially ones with a ton of applicants, are particularly reliant on them I’ve heard.</p>

<p>Question: why did he take both Math I and II???
GPA is bit low, but it depends on the school’s grading system, so meh.</p>

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<p>3.4 unweighted is really poor. That’s a lot of B’s scattered throughout the transcript. Without knowing rank, I think that will hurt him despite the wonderful scores… should have a chance at caltech/MIT but none really at princeton/yale.</p>

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<p>Truly amazing, if he brings up that GPA he is golden…all I can say is WOW!</p>

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<p>No schools will take this guy. His low GPA and high SAT scores shows that he’s not a very hardworking person or he might have ADD.</p>

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<p>Is that 3.4 GPA at a top private school? A 3.4 at say, Exeter, is a lot better then at your average public high school. And why the hell is he retaking the ACT? With a 2400 SAT, a 36 wouldn’t increase his chances. He’d just be wasting money sending both to all his colleges.</p>

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<p>His GPA is too low for him to have even decent chances at top schools. He may be a genius, but schools won’t like the contradiction between his GPA and SAT scores.</p>

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<p>fake, who re-takes a 35 ACT, especially when they’re sitting on a 2400</p>

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<p>He goes to Deerfield Academy and he is a perfectionist. A 35 is far from perfect (to him at least)</p>

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<p>i think the top universities greatly value potential. he has a great potential, thereby a good chance</p>

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<p>I would think a perfectionist would have higher grades.</p>

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<p>MIT-probably a bit of a reach, but w/ his focus in math and science as well as leadership, shouldn’t be too much of a reach
UChicago-high chance
CMU-high chance
CalTech-reach mainly b/c they accept such a low number of freshmen each year
Princeton-reach but good chance
Yale-same chance as at Princeton</p>

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<p>“I would think a perfectionist would have higher grades.”</p>

<p>Deerfield is harder than your school.</p>

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<p>wait how did he win the Harvard Book Award with such a low average</p>

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<p>You’re doing it wrong. He couldn’t have won the Harvard Book Award with a 3.4 GPA.</p>

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<p>I think they go by weighted. And it’s probably based off of teacher recommendations and feelings towards his work in class, not by Harvard recommendations. It’s plausible, not impossible.</p>

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<p>"“I would think a perfectionist would have higher grades.”</p>

<p>Deerfield is harder than your school."</p>

<p>Raincoat- deerfield may indeed be a hard school, but this kid having a 3.4 doesn’t make any sense. Deerfield’s average SAT according to numerous sources is a 2040. A 2400 is, according to the collegeboard’s data, more than a standard deveation above deerfield’s norm. now i would assume with this kid being both a perfectionist that he is at least somewhat sedulous in his study habits, meaning he could probably outwork a good portion of his peers. with these facts in mind I contend that unless deerfield has anomalously low average GPA, something is certainly up here.</p>

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<p>why isn’t he taking an English course in his senior year?</p>