<p>Hopefully, that's just arrogant enough to get some attention. </p>
<p>chance me please, ill help with an essay in return (not qualified to chance, obviously)</p>
<p>ED at Duke, I've decided it's my best shot at ED (PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong)</p>
<p>Other Schools I will be applying RD to:
- Reaches - Stanford, NU, NYU, Wash U, Notre Dame
- Safeties - UW Madison (legacy), Marquette and Tulane, small Christian colleges (Wheaton, Northcentral, etc)</p>
<p>Senior
Male, Caucasian
Location: Extremely small town, Wisconsin
School: Public, top students go to Madison, a few in the past have gone farther
Financial Aid: Yes</p>
<p>Academics - this is where uncertainty settles in my gut
- UW GPA - 3.86-3.9
- W GPA - Don't know, did max AP course offered at school and 12 credits at local university
- Rank: 5of100, will be better at the end of this year</p>
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<li>Noteworthy: Will have taken 2 UW Extensions courses (Latin, Hebrew) and 4 classes at local university (2 semesters of English and Philosophy)</li>
</ul>
<p>Scores - ugh
- ACT - 32(C), 36(R), 34(E), 31(S), 28(M) - retook this month, legendarily hard science, should improve though
- SAT II - Lit (730) and Math 2 (590), hahaha, i'm really very mad about this. Retaking in December (earliest). Ridiculously uncharacteristic enough to be ignored? Bad enough to avoid ED and wait for better scores?
- AP - US Hist - 4, Land and Comp - 4, Lit and Comp 3 (sophmore yr), Will take AP Calc test this June. Those are all of the AP classes offered, and my scores aren't even good.</p>
<p>EC's
- 4 year FBLA Member - held officer positions
- 4 year varsity soccer, 3 years competitive club soccer, 1 year wrestling
- 3 year Math team, 4 year Classics Club, International Club, Spanish Honor Society
- 2 year (max allowed) National Honor Society
- Also: City-wide Robotics team, Companion Program (needy kids), Youth group, significant mission trips, many hours of community service, started church ping pong club</p>
<p>Volunteer Experience: A lot, won't take up space with it though, sorry if that's not PC</p>
<p>Employment - hook?
- Own and maintain successful web design firm. Have gotten significant local recognition, plenty of commission. Life-altering commitment, I madly enjoy it.
- IT assistant at school, work during the school day, made website, etc</p>
<p>Honors and Awards - bit meager here
- Won State for FBLA Competitive event, Top 20 at Nationals, fully expect nationals again this year, hopefully in Top 5,
- Evan Baxter Creativity Award, sort of a big deal
- Dozens of stupid sports awards (letters, scholar award)
- School does department awards at the end of the year, bound to get at least one
- High Honor roll, school achievement awards
- Homecoming court? just kidding</p>
<p>Recs and Essays
- Recs should will be as good as possible, English teacher that is like family, History teacher that loves me
- Essays should be good, I've written competitively before and my dad will help with editing, he has lots of published work</p>
<p>Other - English is a second language (since 3 years old, does that even count?), fluent in Italian, spoken at home. Consider myself thoroughly Italian, often visit relatives in Northern Italy. Both my parents are methodist pastors, my faith is big part of me. Also, like I said, my dad publishes work, maintains a popular(among Hebrew scholars) blog, and is deeply ingratiated in the university community.</p>
<p>I've heard that Duke doesn't mind if omit SAT2 scores and possibly even AP scores. If this is true, I'll be doing that. </p>
<p>Thanks a million, and remember, I'll help with an essay in return</p>