Chance skeptic for ED next year!!

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<p>I live in Florida.
I'm a hispanic jew.
I want to major in Biology.
Duke is my dream school and I'm willing to apply ED.</p>

<p>What are my chances for getting into Duke University</p>

<p>GPA 3.4/3.8</p>

<p>Freshman year 6 honors, 6 Bs
Sophomore year 6 honors, 3 As 3 Bs
Junior year 4 honors 2 APs, 3As 3 Bs (Bio AP, APUSH)
Senior year 2 honors 4 APs... (AP French, AP Statistics, AP Government/AP
Macroeconomics, AT Microbiology)</p>

<p>^^^
I guess that shows an upward trend?</p>

<p>SAT: took twice got 1310/2030 E:11 Will take one more time
ACT: took once got a 30 E:10 Will take one more time</p>

<p>^^^
Which one should I send in? </p>

<p>Extra Curriculars:
-Volunteered at Memorial children's center for 20 weeks, 2 hours a week. (Sophomore) (Junior)
-Went 4 years in a row to Congres (French competition in Orlando)
-Part of Friends of FRAT, went to autistic child's house for 20 weeks, 2 hours a week. (Sophomore)
-Volunteered at Kesher, a program that provides a an education for children with learning disabilities from pre-school through high school. (Junior)
-Head of snack food drive for children at the respite shelter in Women in Distress of Broward County. Collected over 600 individual snacks. (Junior)
-Head of school supplies drive for children from low income families so they can do school work at an after school daycare. (Junior)
-Volunteered for a month in Fiji, heading various projects for rebuilding communities and the environment. (56 hours, 2009)
-President of HELP Club, for underprivileged children and battered women (Junior)
-Vice President of FRAT (Fostering Relationships with Autistic Teens and Children) (Junior)
-Treasurer of Green Team (Freshman)
-NHS Member
-National French Honors Society Member
-National Science Honors Society
-NFL (National Forensic League) Member</p>

<p>Is my URM status (hispanic) very beneficial?</p>

<p>Thanks!!</p>

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<p>three words: chances are slim (as it is to everyone who applies to duke). </p>

<p>duke wants to see that you challenged yourself, but at the same time they dont like to see multiple B’s on your transcript. an upward trend is 2B->1B->0B Straight A’s; your soph and junior year grades do not display an upward trend.</p>

<p>i see that you have a lot of volunteer jobs, but make sure to include in your common app that you made a difference as a leader. if it’s just membership, dont bother adding it onto the activities list. traveling to fiji can be a topic for your essay, but make sure its not cliche, general, or difficult to understand. try to write a story that happened there during the course of 2 hours, it has great potential, imo.</p>

<p>i strongly recommend that you stop using college confidential and start studying for the SAT/ or ACT. if you really want to go to Duke and ensure a good probability of acceptance, you need to get that 2200+ or 32+. I’m not saying that if you dont get that score you will not get in, but if you do get that score, your chances of acceptance will increase drastically. </p>

<p>most importantly,get your GPA up. its the second thing that adcoms look at after looking at your name and region.</p>

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<p>even for URM your stats need to be higher. :&lt;/p>