Chance the person before you thread game!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>This should be interesting. Since nobody is in front of me, I'll start with my stats and the person below me chances me, and the person after that the person who chanced me, etc. etc.</p>

<p>Enjoy guys! When I get my twin sister to join CC I will have her help us out too =P
Dan</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2360 SAT I single sitting
SAT II: 750 literature /740 biology SAT 2's (taking lit in jan hoping for 800)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): ~3.8/3.9
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): currently top 1.5% of ~1000 class, probably will go down
AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 5 5 5 5 3 4
Senior Year Course Load: all AP's except for yearbook and band (for art credit haha)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): two national awards for service (one was a big deal, other wasn't really), silver medal on French National Exam, NMSF, AP Scholar with Distinction
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Yearbook (editor in chief), political service club (founder), community service club (president), band (saxophone player), Young Democrats (treasurer), French National Honor Society
Job/Work Experience: summer job working for governor's office
Volunteer/Community service: see service clubs
Summer Activities: one prestigious summer program (leaving out specifics for anonymity)
Essays: good to great?
Teacher Recommendation: one great, one probably complimentary but nothing stellar
Counselor Rec: good, she and i are pretty close friends
Interview: i'd be okay.
Other
State (if domestic applicant): VA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: very competitive in VA
Ethnicity: whitewhitewhite
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: applying for FinAid
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
Reflection
Strengths: SAT 1, EC's (?), recs maybe
Weaknesses: SAT 2's, maybe essays in comparison to some of the applicants from my school, rank</p>

<p>Schools:
Yale Early Action'ed
Harvard
Rochester
UC Berkeley
Yale
Stanford
Duke
Amherst
Swarthmore
Georgetown</p>

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<p>BUMPbumpbump! lets get diz party started yeee</p>

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<p>I’ve chanced you before I think. Yale and Harvard are reaches of course, Rochester is a safety, Berkeley is a low match/safety, Stanford is a reach, Duke is a match, and I don’t know enough about small liberal arts colleges to chance the next two.
My stats i suppose?</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2280: 800 M, 800 R, 680 W single sitting
SAT II: 800 Math II/790 Chemistry/760 Physics/740 US History
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.93</p>

<p>Courseload/Grades (all courses are honors unless designated AP/post-AP
9th: Algebra 2 (A), Biology (A), English 9 (A), Design & Tech (A), Accelerated comp sci (A), French 2 (B+), Gym (A)
summer before 10th: Chemistry (B+)
10th: Precalc (A), AP Chemistry (B+), AP Computer Science AB (A), World History 2 (A), English 10 (A), French 3 (B+), gym (A)
11th: English 11 (A), AP US history (A), AP Physics C (A), French 4 (A), AP Calculus BC (A), post-AP Organic chemistry (A), post-AP Quantum physics and nanotech (A), post-AP Artificial intelligence 1 (A), post-AP Artificial intelligence 2 (A)
12th: Geosystems, post-AP Multivariable Calculus, post-AP Advanced Math Techniques for Scientists and Engineers (AMT), AP Literature, AP Government, AP statistics, Mentorship (research essentially), Economics, post-AP Matrix Algebra</p>

<p>AP (place score in parenthesis): Chem 5, CS 5, Calc 5, USH 5, Mech 5, E&M 4</p>

<p>Awards: AP scholar with distinction, National Merit Semifinalist, Scholastic Gold Key Writing Award, Presidential Service Award, AIME (American Invitational Math Exam) qualifier, Local Chemistry Olympiad Qualifier, National french exam bronze medal, Leadership award
Subjective:</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):Extracurriculars: Wrestling, 4 years, (co-captain senior year), Biotechnology club, 4 years, (treasurer junior and senior year), Bridge club, 4 years, (co-president senior year), Jewish Culture Club, 4 years, (VP junior year, co-president senior year), Teach 1st grade hebrew, 6 years, volunteer w/ over 300 hours of community service in past 4 years, Tutor hebrew, 2 years, volunteer, Chemistry Olympiad, 3 years, local qualifier, Varsity math team, 3 years, top 50 freshman year, top 35 sophomore year, Research assistant, summer before 12th grade and 12th grade, volunteering w/ over 500 hours community service, NHS, 2 years, Preschool counselor, 1 year (summer 09), paid, Crew 1 year, 2nd in states</p>

<p>Essays: ok, I’d say good, but everyone says good, so I won’t deign to claim to be better than others.
Teacher Recommendation: one really awesome with some really cool facts, another has a reputation for being a really great rec writer?
Counselor Rec: alright nothing special
Interview: very strong interviewer
Other
State (if domestic applicant): VA
School Type: fairly competitive in VA (#1 in USNWR for 3 years running)
Ethnicity: white
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: applying for FinAid</p>

<p>Schools:
MIT EA
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Chicago EA
Duke
Cornell
UVA
W&M</p>

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<p>What a failed thread, anybody gonna keep it going?</p>

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<p>UVA + W&M-in
Cornell-high match
Duke-high match
UChicago & MIT EA-high match/low reach
HYP-low reach (so random, but you are def qualified to get in. i would say higher chances, as you have major credentials, but tons of awesome kids don’t get in). </p>

<p>Thanks for the chance, good luck :)</p>